Sodom and Sexual Ethics | Paul Twiss and Jonny Ardavanis
Dial In with Jonny Ardavanis
Jonny Ardavanis
4.9 • 901 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful conversation, Dr. Paul Twiss explores what the Bible teaches about sexuality, marriage, and God's design for intimate relationships. We discuss the biblical response to sexual sin, pornography, homosexuality, and how the church should address these challenging topics with both truth and grace.
Key Topics Covered:
• Biblical view of marriage and sexuality
• Understanding sexual sin and its consequences
• How to talk about sex in the church appropriately
• The gospel's power to heal sexual brokenness
• Genesis and God's design for relationships
• Responding to the sexual revolution with truth
• Freedom from shame through Christ's forgiveness
Whether you're struggling with sexual sin, seeking to understand biblical sexuality, or looking for wisdom on how to discuss these topics, this episode offers hope, healing, and biblical guidance.
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| 0:00.0 | We find ourselves at this moment in history in the middle of a sexual revolution, and the church has to respond. |
| 0:07.1 | And I don't think we serve our people well by simply reissuing a series of prohibitions. |
| 0:14.4 | It's almost a secret subject in the church, and then it's the only subject in the world. |
| 0:20.0 | That's right. |
| 0:20.8 | Why is this the subject in the world that's right like why is this the |
| 0:21.9 | subject where the world butts heads with the church if you're pursuing a sexual ethic that is |
| 0:29.3 | not honoring to god it is going to bring so much pain and suffering into your life that you do not |
| 0:37.0 | want and so you know my encouragement someone listening who is and suffering into your life that you do not want. |
| 0:38.3 | And so, you know, my encouragement, someone listening, |
| 0:41.3 | who is perhaps wracked by guilt, |
| 0:44.3 | or can't seem to get beyond something that's happened in their past. |
| 0:47.3 | There is no sin that you have done in the past |
| 0:50.3 | that is beyond the grace of the gospel. |
| 0:52.3 | Bring it to the Lord, acknowledge it to be sin, |
| 0:54.7 | and Christ will cover your sins, and the wonder of the gospel is that he can heal you. |
| 1:08.9 | Well, welcome back to the Dialen Ministries podcast. |
| 1:11.5 | I'm sitting here once again with Dr. Paul Twist. |
| 1:14.2 | Paul, we've been talking for the last couple episodes on just how understanding the book |
| 1:18.8 | of Genesis is so pivotal to our understanding not only of what it means to be an image bearer, |
| 1:24.1 | but recently we just looked at with our understanding of marriage and children |
| 1:28.3 | and how that's a part of God's design. It's the grace of life. And because this is an institution |
| 1:33.9 | that God loves, it's an institution that the world and Satan are constantly going to attack. And we |
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