Promises, Promises, Promises Author: Eugene H. Peterson

PROMISES, PROMISES, PROMISES. Don't be fooled by this petite paperback. Remember the saying “you can’t judge a book by it’s cover”. Although this little book does have some similarities to promise boxes stuffed with uplifting scriptures, - don’t be mislead by the title. Loaded with scriptures covering a wide range of topics, this paperback features bible verses in contemporary and easy to understand language - ‘the MESSAGE’ version of the bible by Eugene Peterson. Covering ‘ambition’ to ‘depression’, ‘sex’ to ‘violence’, and many more, this compact book spans 81 topics. Recommended for those that want quick access to topic sensitive scripture.

Check out a few of the scripture verses on SEX below, excerpted from the book:

S E X

Bless your fresh-flowing fountain!

Enjoy the wife you married as a young man!
Lovely as an angel, beautiful as a rose -
Don’t ever quit taking delight in her body.
Never take her love for granted! - PROVERBS 5:1 8 - 1 9

There’s more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As written in Scripture, "The two become one." Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever - the kind of sex that can never “become one.” There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for "becoming one" with another. Or didn’t you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don't you see that you can’t live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body.
- 1 CORINTHIAN S 6:16 - 20

Is it a good thing to have sexual relations?

Certainly - but only within a certain context. It's good for a man to have a wife, and for a woman to have a husband. Sexual drives are strong, but marriage is strong enough to contain them and provide for a balanced and fulfilling sexual life in a world of sexual disorder. The marriage bed must be a place of mutuality -the husband seeking to satisfy his wife, the wife seeking to satisfy her husband. Marriage is not a place to "stand up for your rights:' Marriage is a decision to serve the other, whether in bed or out. Abstaining from sex is permissible for a period of time if you both agree to it, and if it's for the purposes of prayer and fasting -but only for such times. Then come back together again. Satan has an ingenious way of tempting us when we least expect it. - 1 CORINTHIAN S 7: 1 - 5

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