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    Sacred Sex: Embracing Your Sexuality as God Designed it
    Sacred Sex: Embracing Your Sexuality as God Designed it
    Sacred Sex: Embracing Your Sexuality as God Designed it
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    Sacred Sex: Embracing Your Sexuality as God Designed it

    By Tony Evans

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    Morality. Relativity. Right and Wrong. The issues we face are complicated and everyone has an opinion. But who has the answer when it comes to sexual issues?

    Sex dominates our popular culture to a degree we’ve never seen before and unrestricted sex is being touted as a shortcut to personal fulfillment and satisfaction – but it’s a counterfeited and cheapened imitation of the real thing. Respected pastor Tony Evans refuses to let the voice of God be drowned out amidst the clamor of the crowd. Discover what God says in His word regarding why your sexuality is important and why sexual immorality is devastating. Discover how to maintain purity and enjoy true intimacy in marriage – the real fulfillment and satisfaction that God intended.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateDec 19, 2013
    ISBN9780802490148
    Sacred Sex: Embracing Your Sexuality as God Designed it
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    Tony Evans

    Dr. Tony Evans is founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative, and author of The Power of God’s Names, Victory in Spiritual Warfare, and many other books. Dr. Evans is the first African American to earn a doctorate of theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, as well as the first African American to author both a study Bible and full Bible commentary. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on more than 2,000 US outlets daily and in more than 130 countries. Learn more at TonyEvans.org.

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      A small guide aimed at describing what it means to be a 21st century, sexually pure, Christian. Author Tony Evans, breaks this small work into three sections: Sex as God intended it, the value of sexual purity, and keeping sex sacred. In short, keep it in your pants and out of your mind. Ignore Hollywood and the loose immoral ideas of our society. Stay pure or you will suffer scarring emotional damage that can be forgiven, but never fixed (that especially means you women, with all your crazy emotional baggage!). This tiny guide (under 80 pages) is intended for single men and women as well married couples. As for parents, just give this book to your kids when they turn 12 and you'll never have to give "the talk." It's a win, win for everyone! That is unless you're not a virgin... then you're in big, big trouble (God is watching you, even when you masturbate. Might want to rethink that vibrator, and don't say I didn't try to warn you, this is only your soul we're talking about).I received this book for free from Moody Publishing in return for my honest, unbiased opinion.

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    Sacred Sex - Tony Evans

    Team

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    SEX AS GOD

    INTENDED IT

    The December air greeted us with a chilly embrace as we made our way out of the house, down the hill in the backyard, and across the field. Having grown up in urban Baltimore where concrete was far more prevalent than trees, I had definitely stepped into a foreign environment.

    Lois and I were in the middle of enjoying a Christmas getaway with some close friends who lived in a rural area. But on this Christmas, we got much more than the normal holiday brunch and shared conversations. On this trip, I got a lesson in skeet shooting as well.

    Now, anyone who knows me knows that skeet shooting and Tony Evans aren’t exactly best friends. In fact, prior to this event, I can’t recall ever even picking up a gun. I’m a sports man. As the chaplain for both the NBA Mavericks and the NFL Cowboys, I get to regularly witness competitive sports that involve hand-to-hand contact—or at least body to body from time to time. As a former football player myself, I like my recreational activities to include sweat, guts, and sheer force.

    The idea of holding a gun, pulling a trigger, and watching a clay target possibly break apart into pieces didn’t do much for me. But as the polite and grateful guest that I am, I went along for the supposed adventure. Anyhow, who doesn’t love a challenge? Certainly I could knock those clay birds out of the sky like the best of them.

    Wrong.

    The first clay bird flew. I aimed. Shot. Got nothing.

    Then the next one flew, and I aimed again. Still nothing.

    And again. Nothing.

    Again. Nothing.

    Now, even though the years may have matured me, my vision is still 20/20. And my hands are still steady. I had seen the object in the air. I had aimed. I had pulled the trigger. Yet the clay birds just kept flying.

    After a few too many flew away and my friend no doubt saw the perplexity come over my face, he walked over to me and said, Tony. Placing his hand on my shoulder, he proceeded to explain both the art and science of skeet shooting. Tony, he said my name again. I think he wanted me to make sure and listen closely. The clay object is like a bird. When it’s released, it is flying across the sky just like a bird. It’s moving. So if you want to shoot it out of the sky, you can’t aim at it. If you aim at it, by the time your pellets get there, it will be long gone. In order to shoot the skeet out of the sky, you have to get in front of it. You have to be ahead of it. Your aim must always go before it.

    I took my friend’s advice and decided to apply it. He made sense. So I regrouped and called out, Pull.

    Up flew the clay bird.

    This time I squeezed the trigger while aiming out in front of it.

    BAM!

    That bird was destroyed! Obliterated. Toast. Pieces of it rained down from the sky.

    WHAT WE VIEW AFFECTS WHAT WE DO. GUARD YOUR EYES AND YOU WILL GUARD YOUR ACTIONS.

    Now you may be wondering whether this is a book on skeet shooting or sacred sex. Or what could skeet shooting have to do with sex at all. But if you picked up this book looking for a heart-to-heart on God’s view on sexual purity, you’ve done the right thing. Because that’s exactly what it’s about.

    But before we begin looking into the sacredness of sex, I want you to realize the power and pull of sex itself. No other activity consumes us as humans more than sexuality—for good or for bad. And, sadly, it is mostly for bad. Sex is a strong force—a force as we will see that is often driven by physiological and chemical reactions that have the potential to place it in a position of dictating to you what you will do rather than you dictating to it what you will do.

    How you handle yourself, or fail to handle yourself sexually will have everything to do with where you aim. You must get out in front of it. If you think that it is something you can decide on in the heat of the moment, that bird will fly. If you think that you can make up your mind where that so-called invisible line is that you won’t cross when you reach it, that bird will fly. If you choose to dabble here or dabble there in sexually explicit television shows, music, movies, or even porn—that bird is going to fly. A recent study showed that teens who watched a high level of programming with sexual content were twice as likely to get pregnant over the next three years as those who didn’t.¹ What we view affects what we do. Guard your eyes and you will guard your actions.

    The only way to successfully handle the power and force of this dynamism called sex is to go out before it. You must draw your boundaries ahead of having to use them. You must choose to outwit it and out

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