Rick McKinley Talks Good Sense; In Related News, It Gets Dark When the Sun Goes Down

I just finished listening to the second sermon in Pastor (Dr.) Rick McKinley's latest sermon series, "Love. Sex. God" Predictably, it is awesome. But it's not awesome because it's predictable. His advie is counter-cultural, especially counter to the culture of Portland, Oregon. Portland is a very "progressive" city and prides itself on its tolerance, its diversity of ways of living, and being weird. Truly, there are bumper stickers that say "Keep Portland Weird." But in Portland, what would REALLY be weird would be to be a person who believes in (and practices!) reserving sex only for the covenantal marriage of one man and one woman. Such people would likely be seen as quaint (at best) and more likely as regressively puritanical and out of touch with reality.
And here's his even WEIRDER idea: Christian parents are actually doing their children a disservice when they encourage them to put off early marriages. To paraphrase Rick, i…
And here's his even WEIRDER idea: Christian parents are actually doing their children a disservice when they encourage them to put off early marriages. To paraphrase Rick, i…