This week I began reading Sex and the Supremacy of Christ. I’m using this as my morning study book. I’m about a quarter of the way though and I can already say “You should read this!”
The authors (including Piper, David Powlison, Al Mohler, C.J. Mahaney Mark Dever, and others) take neither the shock route (a la www.xxxchurch.com) nor the “we don’t talk about that” route.
What you’ll find in this book is frank and up-front writing about Biblical sexuality, the goodness of sex, sexual sin, and sexual restoration.
A couple of quotes from chapters one and two by John Piper:
“If the Scripture teaches that truly knowing God – truly knowing Christ – guards and guides and governs our sexuality in purity and love, then we may be sure that a pastor, or anyone else, whose sexuality is not governed and guarded and guided in purity and love does not know God – at least not as he ought.“
Echoes of C.S. Lewis: “My conviction is that one of the main reasons the world and the church are awash in lust and pornography is that our lives are intellectually and emotionally disconnected from the infinite, soul-staggering grandeur for which we were made. Inside and outside the church Western culture is drowning in a sea of triviality, pettiness, banality, and silliness.“
“It is inevitable that the human heart, which was made to be staggered with the supremacy of Christ, but instead is drowning in a sea of banal entertainment, will reach for the best natural buzz that life can give: sex.“
Order Sex and the Supremacy of Christ here.




