Suggested Sermon Themes on Sexuality
Taking Care of Our Sexuality
Love and the Divine
Honoring Sexuality as Sacred
Youth and Sexuality
Sexuality in Sacred Texts
To Do Justice—Sexual Abuse/Violence Prevention
Honoring Our Bodies as Part of Creation
Respect: Caring for Self and Others
Dignity and Justice: Creating Equal Partnerships
Scripture Readings on Sexuality (Partial List)
Genesis 1:1-2:4a (Creation)
Genesis 1:27-28 (Creation, Gender, Reproduction)
Genesis 1:31 (Creation as “good”)
Genesis 2:18-24 (Partnership, Gender)
Genesis 2:25 (Bodies)
Genesis 17:11-13 (Culture and Embodiment)
Genesis 29 (Marriage, Pregnancy, Infertility)
Genesis 30 (Infertility, Sexual Consent, Surrogacy)
Leviticus 17-26 (Culture and Sexuality, Sexual Morality)
Leviticus 18:20 (Sexual Morality) Deuteronomy 24:5 (Marriage and Sexuality)
Judges 11:37-39 (Singleness, Virginity)
Ruth 1:1-18 (LGBT Love, Partnership, and Sexuality)
1 Samuel 18:1 (LGBT Sexuality)
2 Samuel 1:26 (LGBT Sexuality)
Song of Solomon (Sexual Pleasure, Marriage)
Isaiah 62: 4-5 (Love and the Divine)
Proverbs 5:7-19 (Marriage, Pleasure, Fidelity)
Ecclesiastes 3:5 (Sexual Morality) Matthew 19:12 (Sexual Minorities)
Matthew 22: 37-39 (Divine Love, Love for and One Another)
Mark 3: 31-34 (Family) Luke 7 (Sexual Mores, Expressions of Love)
John 4:16-30 (Marriage, Sexual Boundaries)
John 8 (Culture and Sexual Morality)
1 Corinthians 7, 13 (Marriage, Sexual Fulfillment, Embodiment, Love)
Ephesians 5 (Sexual Morality, Gender Roles, Marriage)
1 John 2-4 (Divine Love, Love for One Another)