Midtown Podcast | Final Q+A

During our Embodied series, we had over 70 questions texted in. To cover these questions more fully, we’re releasing a handful of extra podcast episodes to further equip you.

Timestamps:

1:28 - How do you parent a child with gender identity questions or who experiences SSA?

16:58 - Are you living in sin if you don’t have sex as an older married couple?

19:44 - Why do people elevate sexual desires above all else? What desires should we have?

23:20 - Would you officiate a LGBTQIA+ wedding?

30:15 - How do we think through when churches deny a biblical sexual ethic?

37:13 - Are people who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community and saved Christians still a child of God?

41:18 - My workplace encourages using pronouns to introduce ourselves. As a Christian, how should I think about this?

46:44 - What do we mean when we refer to “culture”?

51:10 - If you were born to a single-parent does that mean you were born into sin and less worth saving?

Resources

BOOKS:

• The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory by Abigail Favale

• 10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (and Answer) about Christianity by Rebecca McLaughlin

• Intended for Pleasure: Sex Technique and Sexual Fulfillment in Christian Marriage by Ed Wheat M.D. and Gaye Wheat 

• The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to the Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman

• Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• American Experience: Kinsey (2005) 

• Does the Bible Support Same-Sex Marriage? 21 Conversations from a Historically Christian View by Preston Sprinkle

• A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today’s World by John Stonestreet and Brett Knuckle

• The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith by Tim Keller

SERMONS:

• “Incarnation/Agape” sermon by Midtown Fellowship Lexington | Downtown | Two Notch

• “Theology of Sex” sermon series by Midtown Fellowship Lexington | Downtown | Two Notch

• “Mountains, Molehills, and Which Ones to Die On” sermon by Midtown Fellowship Lexington | Downtown | Two Notch

• “Q+A” sermon by Midtown Fellowship Lexington | Downtown | Two Notch

Music by Levvy and Midtown Music

Find out more at Weird Tower Collective

Midtown Podcast | Marriage Q+A

During our Embodied series, we had over 70 questions texted in. To cover these questions more fully, we’re releasing a handful of extra podcast episodes to further equip you.

Timestamps:

0:27 - When did it become a sin in the Bible to have multiple wives?

6:42 - Why does Paul say it’s better to be single if God says it’s not good to be alone?

13:02 - Where’s the hope for Christian singles?

21:10 - Is God’s design for marriage intended to be for one man and one woman?

Resources

• “Union” sermon by Midtown Fellowship Lexington | Downtown

• “Deconstructing Defeater Beliefs” by Tim Keller

• When the Church was a Family: Recapturing Jesus’ Vision for Authentic Christian Community by Joseph Hellerman

Music by Levvy and Midtown Music

Find out more at Weird Tower Collective

Midtown Podcast | Gender Q+A

During our Embodied series, we had over 70 questions texted in. To cover these questions more fully, we’re releasing a handful of extra podcast episodes to further equip you.

Timestamps:

4:40 - Does God have a gender?

10:05 - What does it look like for women to depend on men outside of marriage? 

17:35 - How do we address the wage gap?

22:36 - What does the Bible have to say about those who are intersex?

25:58 - If someone is on their death bed and accepts Jesus as Lord and Savior does it make a difference? What if they don’t believe their sexuality was a sin worth repenting of?

Resources

• “Ish and Ishah” sermon by Midtown Fellowship Lexington | Downtown

• The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory by Abigail Favale

• When the Church was a Family: Recapturing Jesus’ Vision for Authentic Christian Community by Joseph Hellerman

• “Mountains, Molehills, and Which Ones to Die On” sermon by Midtown Fellowship Lexington | Downtown

Music by Levvy and Midtown Music

Find out more at Weird Tower Collective

Midtown Podcast | Body Q+A

During our Embodied series, we had over 70 questions texted in. To cover these questions more fully, we’re releasing a handful of extra podcast episodes to further equip you.

Disclaimer: Please use caution when listening as some of these questions cover heavier topics. To help, please view the timestamps below.

Timestamps:

1:51 - Does God care what I do with my body (how I eat, sleep, etc)?

13:09 - Do the gender/sex arguments fall apart if Adam and Eve are not historical?

16:43 - Is there any theological significance between being buried versus being cremated?

21:15 - What does the Bible say about miscarriage?

26:12 - How do I know my body matters after multiple rapes?

Resources

• “Telos” sermon by Midtown Fellowship Lexington | Downtown

• Unbreakable: What the Son of God Said about the Word of God by Andrew Wilson

• Four Views on the Historical Adam by Denis Lamoureux, John Walton, John Collins, and William Barrick

• “Christians and Their Dead” by Jeremiah Mutie, PhD, Southern California Seminary

• Walking with God through Pain and Suffering by Tim Keller

• Rid of My Disgrace: Hope and Healing for Victims of Sexual Assault by Justin and Lindsey Holcomb

Music by Levvy and Midtown Music

Find out more at Weird Tower Collective

Embodied | Q & A | November 12

Sermon by Adam Gibson on November 12, 2023.

In the final week of this series, we've chosen a few of the texts we've received throughout these seven weeks to discuss and answer from a biblical perspective.

Embodied | Agape | November 5

Sermon by Jon Ludovina on November 5, 2023.

Last week, we unpacked the whole chapter of 1 Corinthians 15, looking at how the reality of bodily resurrection fills us with great strength, empathy, and hope. This week, we anchor in one verse as we focus on the question, “How do we walk faithfully in love in the cultural moment we find ourselves in?”

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

BOOKS

• The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory by Abigail Favale

• What God Has to Say about Our Bodies: How the Gospel Is Good News for Our Physical Selves by Sam Alberry

• Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert by Rosario Butterfield

• Washed and Waiting by Wesley Hill

• Is God Anti-Gay? by Sam Alberry

• Does the Bible Support Same-Sex Marriage? 21 Conversations from a Historically Christian View by Preston Sprinkle

• Gay Girl, Good God by Jackie Hill Perry

• People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality is not Just an Issue by Preston Sprinkle

PODCASTS

• Peace in Sexual Identity - Rosaria Butterfield

• With the Perrys - Does the Bible Support Same-Sex Marriage? (iTunes / Spotify)

• The Gospel and Homosexuality - Midtown Fellowship

• Wisdom with Words - Midtown Fellowship

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Embodied | Resurrection | October 29

Sermon by Jon Ludovina on October 29, 2023.

Last week, we talked about Genesis 3 and how, because of the fall, we experience breakdown and pain at all levels, including in our bodies. In 1 Corinthians 15, we flash forward to look at the end of the story for our bodies, connecting how knowing the end of the story for our bodies shapes how we live here and now.

Embodied | Epithumia | October 22

Sermon by Jon Ludovina on October 22, 2023.

For the last few weeks, we’ve camped in Genesis 1-2 and painted this beautiful picture of God’s design, His intent for humanity, and what reality should look like. And yet, these ideals are not the reality of our lived existence. Genesis 3 goes on to tell us why that is.

Embodied | Eros | October 15

Sermon by Adam Gibson on October 15, 2023.

So far, we looked at Genesis 1-2 and what it means to be embodied and gendered. Last week, we discussed joining those two genders in marriage. This week, we examine Genesis 2 further to discuss the sexual expression of embodied gendered humans inside a covenant union.

Embodied | Union | October 8

Sermon by Jake Blair on October 8, 2023.

This week, we look at Genesis 2 and discuss the origin story of marriage. What’s marriage for? That word, or idea, has been around since the dawn of time. And based on your cultural context, you will get different answers about what that word means. So what’s marriage for? Who or what gets to define marriage? Is it me, my feelings, or is it based on biology or something else?

Embodied | Ish and Ishah | October 1

Sermon by Jon Ludovina on October 1, 2023.

Last week, we began our new series discussing what it means to be an embodied person. This week, we continue that discussion as we talk about gender. Where does gender come from? Why did God create male and female? What is the ideal relationship between men and women supposed to be? How should men and women treat and think about each other?

Embodied | Telos | September 24

Sermon by Adam Gibson on September 24, 2023.

Oversimplified narratives about our bodies surround us. Through conversations and airwaves, we are constantly told what we should pursue with our bodies, how we should think about them, and what dangers follow disagreement with the cultural ethos of desire, gender, sexuality, and marriage.

But these messages skip over some very essential questions–questions like: what is your body, exactly? What is your body for? Who created it, and with what purpose? What is the eternal destiny of our bodies, and how does that inform what we do on a normal week? 

Join us for an eight-week series unpacking God’s plan for the human body–a majestic story from beginning to end.