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Are we using the test in the book of Acts as the basis for church membership? How did the earliest Christians approach the idea of inclusiveness? Read More →

The New Testament confronts us with our inclination to judge others and moves us to see that we are all sinners in need of God’s grace. Read More →

The creation story says that we are all created in God’s image and that what God creates is good. It also indicates that “it is not good to be alone” and that we are created for one another. This can relate both to marriage and to the church community. Read More →

This episode examines the call to Philip to evangelize and baptize an Ethiopian eunuch, a sexually altered foreigner. Read More →

A discussion of the apparent condemnation of homosexual practice in Leviticus, and how the central issue in the Leviticus laws is actually resisting the idolatry of the surrounding culture. Read More →

The real sin of Sodom and Gomorrah according to the Scriptures – Ezekiel 16:49 “This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.” Read More →

This sermon introduces the United Methodist debate on homosexuality and the need to rightly understand the Scripture. It also focuses on the Biblical call for respectful dialogue and spiritual unity. Read More →