Seen on Amazon.com–this review of William Young’s not-exactly-orthodox book, The Shack:
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
The Shack is no Shaq!, February 10, 2009“I thought this was a horrible book, as I thought it was a biography about Shaquille O’Neil. He will go down as one of the greatest centers in the history of the nba. From his time in Orlando, through his current team, the Phoenix Suns, he continues to dominate.”
Paul admonishes us in 1 Corinthians 10:31, “…whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
Including, within the bounds of marriage, have sex? Absolutely!
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ is edited by John Piper and Justin Taylor, published by Crossway Books (for whom Taylor is the ESV Bible Project Manager). It is an anthology, with the various chapters written by a number of different authors. The book is broken into five sections: God and Sex, Sin and Sex, Men and Sex, Women and Sex, and History and Sex.
All the chapters are good (authors include Mark Dever, Al Mohler, and Carolyn Mahaney, and others) but I had a few favorites: David Powlison’s “Making All Things New: Restoring Pure Joy to the Sexually Broken” (a chapter alone worth the price of the book), C. J. Mahaney’s “Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God: What Every Christian Husband Needs to Know,” (practical lessons from The Song of Solomon; a companion chapter for wives is written by his wife Carolyn), and Justin Taylor’s, “Martin Luther’s Reform of Marriage” (in which a former monk and former nun set the pattern for centuries of Protestant marriages).
This book provides a needed antidote for Christians who should know better but deep down suspect sex, even in marriage, is somehow less than pleasing to God. Better yet, it unfolds a robust Biblical theology of sex and human sexuality for Christians both married and single (it includes a chapter for single men and one for single women).
Christians must do more than wring our hands over our culture’s (and sometimes the church’s) perversion and degradation of God’s good gift of sex. We need to demonstrate a better way through our own marriages and families. A Biblical understanding and practice of sex is important for enjoying strong marriages and equipping our children. Sex and the Supremacy of Christ is a helpful resource to that end.