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The Sword & The Trowel

TS&TT: Michael Clary | God's Good Design: A Biblical & Practical Guide to Human Sexuality

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9794 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today on The Sword and The Trowel, Tom Ascol and Graham Gunden talk with Pastor Michael Clary, author of God's Good Design: A Biblical, Theological, and Practical Guide to Human Sexuality. They discuss the beauty of God's design in our sexually confused and distorted culture. How do Christian men and women live faithfully in a world confused over sexuality and gender? Is singleness a gift or a trial? They talk through all this and more. SHOW NOTES: Get your copy of God's Good Design: http://dmichaelclary.com/books/ggd/ Michael Clary: http://dmichaelclary.com Pre-Order: Just Thinking: About Ethnicity - https://press.founders.org/shop/just-thinking-about-ethnicity/ 2024 National Founders Conference: Remember Jesus Christ | https://founders.org/conference/ Find out more about The Institute of Public Theology: https://www.instituteofpublictheology.org Support Founders Ministries and become a part of the F.A.M: https://press.founders.org/fam/ Founders Church Search: https://church.founders.org Founders Sermon Podcast Stream: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sermons-by-founders-ministries/id1613963681 Shop the Founders Press Store: https://press.founders.org/ Follow Founders Ministries: Website: https://founders.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FoundersMin/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoundersMin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foundersministries/ All Founders Ministries resources are copyrighted and any use and distribution must be approved by Founders Ministries.

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0:00.0

Thank you for joining us on the Sword and Trial today.

0:02.5

Today, Graham and I have the opportunity of talking with Michael Cleary.

0:06.3

He is a church planter from Cincinnati, Ohio, and he has written a wonderful book.

0:11.2

In fact, I would say it's the best book that I have read on God's Good Design for Human Sexuality.

0:18.4

And so we're going to talk to him about his book, about his ministry.

0:20.6

There are some insights that Michael has expressed in this book in ways that I've not seen

0:26.9

expressed anywhere else. So let other people know about this, and I hope that you will enjoy

0:32.0

listening in on the conversation.

0:41.4

Welcome to the Sword and Trial.

0:44.7

The Sword and Trial is a podcast of Founders Ministries and Founders Exists for the Recovery of the Gospel and the Reformation of Local Churches.

0:48.6

I'm Tom Askell.

0:49.7

And I'm Graham Gundon.

0:50.4

We're delighted to have you join us today for what we believe is a vitally important

0:54.7

conversation that is so relevant to what's going on in our broad culture here in the West,

1:00.3

in America particularly, but also within evangelical churches. And to help us with this conversation,

1:06.1

we have Michael Clary joining us from Cincinnati, Ohio. Michael, thank you for being on the

1:11.9

sword and trial today. Thank you for having me. Well, Michael came across my radar with this book,

1:19.1

and I think you sent it to me, or someone from your team sent it to me called God's Good

1:24.3

Design, a biblical, theological, and practical guide to human sexuality.

1:28.8

This book is hot off the press. It's a 2023 imprint. And this is a topic. We talk about a lot here.

1:37.3

Once a quarter at our church, we do a biblical manhood, biblical womanhood teaching for men and women.

1:44.0

Isn't that a red flag for a church?

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