Central Community Church | Sermon Audio
Aug 23, 2026 · 44 min · 8 segments
Song of Solomon 4:1-5:1 Song of Solomon contains the unfiltered, romantic, sexual language of a book often seen as too steamy for church and churchgoers. But it’s inclusion in the Bible reminds us…
I'm sure at some point this summer, you've either spent time by or in a river.
And every time I see it, I'm still just amazed at how beautiful it is.
It's such a stunning place.
Rivers are so beautiful.
But here's the thing about rivers.
They're beautiful.
Rivers can be dangerous.
Why? Because of the current.
The current carries all kinds of debris.
And then if you're carried down by that current, it can just be really dangerous for you.
You start in one place on the river and you wind up somewhere that maybe you never even intended to go.
And I tell you that because as a preacher, as your pastor, I'm always sort of trying to be aware of the cultural currents in our days.
There's this good thing, but the cultural current, sometimes without us even noticing, has taken us a long way from the God's ideal for the thing.
One of the paramount cultural currents in our moment has to do with sex and sexuality.
And there's this cultural current that has taken it to such a vastly different place that in its wake is a whole lot of brokenness, and if we're not careful, danger.
And so we wanna look in at what is God ultimately saying here? And what are we to learn from scripture's alternative vision? Okay, so unapologetically talking about sex this morning, talking about marriage, talking about passion, talking about intimacy.
And so I am, if you have parents of children that are in the room, I know grades one to five just left, but grade six, seven, eight are in the room.
I'm aware of that.
I'm gonna try and teach appropriately for that wisely around that parents.
I'm also aware of something going on at the same time.
Data in Canada shows that the average age of explicit exposure to images, to video, is 12 years old in our nation.
The average age.
Bunch of 10-year-olds, bunch of 14-year-olds, average age is 12 years old.
I'm sure at some point this summer, you've either spent time by or in a river.
And every time I see it, I'm still just amazed at how beautiful it is.
It's such a stunning place.
Rivers are so beautiful.
But here's the thing about rivers.
They're beautiful.
Rivers can be dangerous.
Why? Because of the current.
The current carries all kinds of debris.
And then if you're carried down by that current, it can just be really dangerous for you.
You start in one place on the river and you wind up somewhere that maybe you never even intended to go.
And I tell you that because as a preacher, as your pastor, I'm always sort of trying to be aware of the cultural currents in our days.
There's this good thing, but the cultural current, sometimes without us even noticing, has taken us a long way from the God's ideal for the thing.
One of the paramount cultural currents in our moment has to do with sex and sexuality.
And there's this cultural current that has taken it to such a vastly different place that in its wake is a whole lot of brokenness, and if we're not careful, danger.
And so we wanna look in at what is God ultimately saying here? And what are we to learn from scripture's alternative vision? Okay, so unapologetically talking about sex this morning, talking about marriage, talking about passion, talking about intimacy.
And so I am, if you have parents of children that are in the room, I know grades one to five just left, but grade six, seven, eight are in the room.
I'm aware of that.
I'm gonna try and teach appropriately for that wisely around that parents.
I'm also aware of something going on at the same time.
Data in Canada shows that the average age of explicit exposure to images, to video, is 12 years old in our nation.
The average age.
Bunch of 10-year-olds, bunch of 14-year-olds, average age is 12 years old.
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