Category: Following Jesus
-
One of the most common assumptions in our culture is that freedom means having no boundaries. If no one tells me what I can or cannot do, then I must be free. But Jesus seems to suggest something very different.…
-
Spend five minutes paying attention to our world and one thing becomes obvious: human beings are not indifferent toward sex. We build industries around it. We market with it. We joke about it, avoid talking about it, argue about it,…
-
A lot of people hear “sexual wholeness” and think it means: Nope. Sexual wholeness isn’t perfection. It’s alignment. Alignment with God’s design.Alignment with covenant love.Alignment under the lordship of Jesus. Four Lenses That Help Us Make Sense of This When…
-
If you hang around me for more than five minutes, you’re going to hear me say this a lot: Truth and grace.Always both. Because in conversations about sexuality, our posture matters as much as our convictions. What Is Truth? Truth…
-
My mom loved the holiday season. Thanksgiving, Christmas—all of it. She was really good at celebrating, hosting, and savoring that whole stretch of the year. And as soon as Thanksgiving dishes were put away, she’d pull out the Advent calendar…
-
Walking with Jesus through Same-Sex Attraction, Loneliness, and the Longing for Home I used to think that clarity would come with time. That eventually, all the questions about identity and desire and faith would just settle down into something simple—tidy,…
-
Let’s just call it out: the world acts like if you’re single, you’re basically living in some kind of pre-game lobby, just waiting for your real life to start. Like marriage is the big prize and everyone else is just……
-
By Cassie Jacobs Was I Invited? No. Did I Bring Snacks and Opinions? Absolutely. Years later, after babies, moving across the country to the mountains, and wrestling with God concerning new questions of my own beliefs, a friend welcomed me…
-
By Cassie Jacobs Coffee Shop Theology (Unsolicited) The next part of my story finds me working at a bar in the window of one of my favorite coffee shops. What’s about to happen ends up marking me deeply… A conversation…
-
By Cassie Jacobs The first time I heard about Sally Jo (the magical unicorn that is SJ and the founder of Christ Centered Sexuality, CCS for short), I was suspicious. I was suspicious—but not in an I’ve got to watch…
The Christ Centered Sexuality blog 