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Sex According to God

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I love this book. The christian community sometimes differs on this subject, if they want to discuss it at all. Kay's studies have a way of wiping the muck from our eyes to clearly see the Lord. This book is wonderful for anyone, married or single, teenagers (perhaps with parental guidance) to elderly. I particularly think this is a great book for sexual abuse survivors who may view the subject of sex through fracture glasses.

Very good book! For anyone in any marrital status. A must read for anyone desiring a closer walk with our LORD and Savior.

I got this audiobook because I was so impressed with Kay Arthur's insight, compassion and wisdom in her segments of the DivorceCare New Edition volume on sexual purity outside of marriage. Sadly those qualities are notably missing here.

Her presentation style here is dry and boring. Her exegesis and exposition pedestrian, uninspired and uninspiring. Kay Arthur drones on and on and on using a preaching style that (thankfully) died around 1964. Especially annoying to this listener is her overuse of the term "my beloved" to refer to the listener. What worked so well for J. Vernon McGee and others simply falls flat here. Imagine your mother lecturing you with a shaking finger in your face and then backing off, smiling and saying, "My beloved!" and you've got the picture - it feels incongruous and insincere.

Blatantly missing here is that Ms. Arthurs says NOTHING about her poor sexual decisions after her divorce and where they took her. Thus an wonderful opportunity to connect with the listener with experience based empathy and, "Trust me I've been there!" wisdom is lost. Instead the listener is left with yet another one of these dry, boring, legalistic sounding, "No! No! No!" lectures on sex that we old Christians have now endured to the point of numbing brain death.

This material has been said better, more completely and more systematically elsewhere. This book adds NOTHING to the lexicon of Christian literature on sex and simply did NOT need to be written at all. This reviewer would recommend that the reader look to . . .

The Triumphant Marriage

Successful Singlehood: God's Blueprint for the Christian Family, Featuring Tony Evans, Moody Contemporary Issues, NTSC Format 1VHS, 50 Minutes, No Books

Covenant Marriage: Building Communication & Intimacy

Intended for Pleasure: Sex Technique and Sexual Fulfillment in Christian Marriage, Third Edition

Forever My Love: A Celebration of Marriage

The Act of Marriage

What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do: Sex & Intimacy (What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do)

. . . for sound exegesis and practical guidance in understanding and adhering to the Biblical view of sex and sexual practice.

Buy this book ONLY if you want a good "church lady" Bible thumping. I normally find much to like in Kay Arthur's work but this one was a disappointment!

Kay is the primary teacher of the inductive method of studying the Bible. This book helps you discover everything that the Bible has to say about sex. You will find what honors God and what dishonors God. It shows that God has designed us to enjoy sex but that it must be enjoyed within certain guidelines that God has established.

This is great for couples preparing for marriage, and for those who have made mistakes and want to get back on track in this area of their lives.

This wonderful book not only gives you very valid reasons for staying pure in a time when this is unheard of, it bases everything on the Bible and is an awesome interactive study in that respect as well. Here's the verse sighted at the end of the Chapter called "Consider the Cost".

Jerusalem sinned greatly,
Therefore she has become an unclean thing.
All who honored her despise her
Because they have seen her nakedness;
Even she herself groans and turns away.
Her uncleanness was in her skirts;
She did not consider her future.
Therefore she has fallen astonishingly.
(Lamentations 1:8-9)

I found this book to be interesting and an in-depth study of sex as God made it. I think it relates more to a younger person just starting their adult life rather than an old married woman like me...

Kay writes on this vital topic about sex, not to shock or offend, but to boldly equip you to experience God's absolute best for your life whether you are married or single - by understanding and obeying His will regarding sex. Listen in for biblical guidance to the questions you or someone you know is most likely struggling with.

Having never read Kay Arthur before, I don't know if it's her common practice to draw so heavily from the Old Testament. But in the case of this book, a lot of the content seems to fall well on the "judgement" side (multiple excerpts about stoning people to death who have failed sexually, etc.), rather than the more grace-oriented side. The grace is there--mostly in the latter stages of the book--but you really have to read through a lot of boring and seemingly pointless retellings of OT sexual laws and stories.

The counsel offered is mostly biblical and reasoned,... Her heart's in the right place...