{"id":5080,"date":"2014-04-04T02:03:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T08:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=5080"},"modified":"2014-04-04T02:03:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T08:03:25","slug":"help-for-helping-people-who-struggle-with-same-sex-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/help-for-helping-people-who-struggle-with-same-sex-attraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Help for Helping People who Struggle with Same Sex Attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/adobeformscentral.com\/?f=BJkG%2As9Qk4yqqcWbs57uqg\">On Saturday<\/a> we will spend three hours together considering the topic of homosexual marriage and numerous related issues. It&#8217;s from 9:00 AM-12:00 PM. <a href=\"https:\/\/adobeformscentral.com\/?f=BJkG%2As9Qk4yqqcWbs57uqg\">Click here<\/a> to register if you haven&#8217;t already.<\/p>\n<p>To give you a running start on the topic, here&#8217;s an immensely helpful one-hour lecture by Sam Williams from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, titled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/30850212\">A Christian Psychology of and Response to Homosexuality<\/a>.&#8221; This is a thoughtful reflection and analysis of the personal and historical dynamics involved in same-sex attraction, its causes, the nature of change, and how the gospel intersects with these issues.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/30850212?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[RSS and email readers, <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/30850212\">click here<\/a> to view this video]<\/p>\n<p>For a summary paper of the social-science research by Mark Yarhouse, whom Sam cites several times, read Yarhouse&#8217;s paper, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.henrycenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Yarhouse-Homosexuality.pdf\">At the Intersection of Religious and Sexual Identities: A Christian Perspective on Homosexuality<\/a>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>At Saturday&#8217;s seminar we will explore these issues across the morning and with particular focus in the third hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday we will spend three hours together considering the topic of homosexual marriage and numerous related issues&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/help-for-helping-people-who-struggle-with-same-sex-attraction\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}