Sex

Is Porn Okay?

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In this Real Romance Q&A, Pastor Mark and Grace answer your questions on sex, marriage, and family. This question comes from a man wanting to know is it okay to watch porn in his marriage and how to become more intimate with his wife.

Is Sex God, Gross, or Gift? Part 3

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Song of Songs 1:2b – For your love is better than wine… This is an excerpt from the new book “Real Romance: Sex in the Song of Songs”. To purchase the book, click here, and to access the sermon series that accompanies these devos and this book, click here.  God uniquely and intentionally created our bodies for … Read more

Is Sex God, Gross, or Gift? Part 2

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Song of Songs 1:4 – Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. This is an excerpt from the new book “Real Romance: Sex in the Song of Songs”. To purchase the book, click here, and to access the sermon series that accompanies these devos and this book, click here.  … Read more

Is Sex God, Gross, or Gift? Part 1

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Song of Songs 1:16a – Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful.  This is an excerpt from the new book “Real Romance: Sex in the Song of Songs”. To purchase the book, click here, and to access the sermon series that accompanies these devos and this book, click here.  Who or what sets your identity, demands … Read more

What Hope Does God Have for Assault Victims? Part 3

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Genesis 34:30-31 – Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. My numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.” But they said, “Should he treat … Read more

What Hope Does God Have for Assault Victims? Part 2

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Genesis 34:13 – The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah. After Dinah was defiled, her brothers told the unsuspecting men of Shechem a strategic lie, that they would happily intermarry with them and share all of their great wealth. However, the Shechemites would first … Read more

Polygamy is Misery Part 2

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Genesis 30:3 – Then she said, “Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.” Yesterday, we started looking at how polygamy started in the days of Genesis but how it continues in new and creative ways in today’s time through … Read more

Polygamy is Misery Part 1

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Genesis 30:3 – Then she said, “Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.”  Many times throughout Scripture, we see a great difference between what the Word instructs of us and what the world portrays. We see this all throughout … Read more

God Saves Us from Ourselves

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Genesis 20:17 – Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children. In the last devo, we saw in Genesis 20 how Abraham made the same foolish mistake as earlier in the book by, once again, trying to give his wife Sarah away. … Read more