Dr. Jacqueline Olds and Dr. Richard Schwartz are both psychiatrists at Harvard Medical School, they also happen to be married.  They co-authored a book that was published in 2009 entitled, The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-first Century.  It summarizes research conducted over the course of ten years at Harvard University, the University of Chicago and the University of California, San Diego. 

I got my first Global Positioning System (GPS) as a gift about four years ago – a small handheld unit for wilderness navigation.  It’s been handy for hiking, canoeing and marking fishing hotspots.  Then Deb got a GPS for her car as a birthday present last October.  I got a GPS for my car as a Christmas present and this past week; Deb upgraded her cell phone which we discovered comes with a GPS as well.  I guess we’re either lost souls, or maybe we just enjoy being told where to go!  Seriously, they are handy tools, but they are also part of the cacophony of external devices and desires and demands in our life that can pull us in multiple directions at the same time.  So this Lenten Season, these forty days before Easter, Good Samaritan invites all of us to

“When Good Scriptures Go Bad: Homosexuality” 

Grow, Pray, Study 1/24/10

Introduction

• Why do we talk about this issue?
• Barna Research Data
• Otis Young Memorial Service

Biblical Overview

1. Gang Rape and Inhospitable Behavior Kindles God’s Wrath

• Genesis 19:1-29
• Judges 19-21
• Jude 1:7
• 2 Peter 2:6

2.   Canaanite Fertility Rites Infiltrate Jewish Worship

• Deuteronomy 23:17-18

3.   Promiscuity and Prostitution

• 1 Corinthians 6:9
• 1 Timothy 1:10

4.   Procreative and Class Abomination