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Live Free with Josh Howerton

The Bible NEVER Mentions Homosexuality!?... Is that True? | Live Free with Josh Howerton

Live Free with Josh Howerton

Lakepointe Church

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Can Christians stand for truth without becoming angry, harsh, or compromising? In a culture where conversations about identity, sexuality, personal freedom, and truth dominate headlines and social media feeds, many believers find themselves pulled between two extremes: conviction without compassion or compassion without conviction. In this episode, Carlos Erazo and Paul Cunningham tackle some of today's most challenging cultural questions while exploring one of the most misunderstood emotions in the Christian life—anger. Through Scripture and practical wisdom, they discuss God's design for sexuality, why truth and love must remain together, the difference between righteous and sinful anger, and how followers of Jesus can engage difficult conversations without being controlled by outrage, fear, or cultural pressure. If you've ever wondered how to stand firmly on God's Word while reflecting the grace and character of Christ, this conversation is for you. In This Episode: The difference between righteous anger and sinful anger Why human anger rarely produces God's righteousness How to respond to controversial cultural issues biblically God's design for sexuality and identity Did Jesus affirm same-sex relationships? How Christians can engage culture without compromising conviction Practical ways to reflect the character of Christ in difficult conversations Truth without love becomes harsh. Love without truth becomes compromise. Jesus calls us to both. Stand firm. Think biblically. Live free. 💬 This week’s giveaway: Comment HAT 🧢 Want a Live Free hat of your own? Visit LiveFree.shop 📲 Looking to grow deeper in your faith? Check out the Lakepointe App to access our Discipleship Guide, daily Bible reading plan, and more. Text APP to 20411 to download

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0:00.0

Every show is a sermon. Every show is literally whether you like it or not, discipling your kids.

0:05.4

World says I was born this way. Christ says you can be born again another way.

0:10.6

Righteous anger is something you possess. Sinful anger is something that it possesses you.

0:16.5

Well, hey, welcome back to another episode of the Live Free Podcast. My name is Carlos Arrasa, and today I'm here with the one and only, Pastor Paul Cunningham, the expert tattoo whisperer and more Greek-speaking theologian. Wow, you're really setting me up big for a big letdown. I feel like in a little bit, yeah. Man, this is gonna be a good episode. How are you, man? Oh, I'm doing awesome, man. Pastor Josh is on vacation. Hope he's having a good time. Okay. But man, I'm so good

0:40.9

to be with you. And I was actually thinking about you yesterday, man. What? Okay, tell me about it. Yeah, it was the first game of the NBA finals was on there. And so I don't know if you know, but like when people come and visit and they haven't seen us before,

0:50.7

I know you're going to show us a few people who have been visiting us.

0:53.8

They're always like, man, Carlos is really tall.

0:56.6

He's like Victor Wimonyama. And so I don't know. Oh, Wemby? Yeah, do you know who Wimby is? I do. My fellow French brother. I was like, man, I thought like Carlos is the Wimby of our church. And so if you are just joining us on Spotify or something, you don't have video, I may want

1:11.3

to go over there and look, but yeah, the wonders of AI. I thought you were gonna pull a Tim Duncan over here. I mean, Tim Duncan is awesome too, but I'm just saying you tower over everybody else in the lobby the way Wimby towers over everybody on the court, man. You know, that's kind of how I feel sometimes, especially when I travel, like, overseas, I genuinely feel like, you know, just two heads taller.

1:29.4

Yeah, man.

1:30.1

That's hilarious. sometimes, especially when I travel, like overseas, I genuinely feel like, you know, just two heads taller.

1:29.3

Yeah, man.

1:29.9

That's hilarious.

1:31.6

Man, it's a last weekend or this last week, Pastor Mike Bro started us off with a brand new sermon series and Fuego.

1:41.3

We're going to talk about that in just a little bit, but we're excited because today we're

1:44.4

going to be addressing a couple different topics.

1:46.2

James chapter 1 verse 19 talking about anger, especially unresolved anger.

1:50.4

We're going to go today in this episode Pride Month, responding to some of the most common

1:55.3

arguments people have that people use towards Christians basically to say, hey, actually,

2:00.6

you're wrong and I'm right regarding

2:02.7

LGBTQ ideology.

2:04.5

We're going to be debunking questions such as the word homosexuality, Paul, wasn't in the Bible

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