Description
Your congregation and community needs biblical clarity on sexuality and gender. Every day they’re bombarded with theology from social media, entertainment, schools, and workplaces that completely contradict God’s design, wrapped in a “toxic compassion” that weaponizes empathy to make God’s design seem outdated at best and unloving at worst.
In place of God’s clear design for sexuality and gender, these voices create a fog of confusion where absolute truth becomes impossible to discern and is replaced by an incoherent mantra of “my truth” — as if reality itself bends to individual feelings rather than God’s perfect and unchanging design. While the world deliberately complicates sexuality and gender with endless identities and contradicting ideologies, God’s Word offers the clear, simple truth people are actually craving. What appears as complexity in our culture is often an intentional obscuring of the good boundaries our Creator established for human flourishing.
In a world where confusion abounds, you have the opportunity — and responsibility — to preach God’s truth with confidence, clarity, and compassion. The stakes couldn’t be higher: families wrestling with these issues, young people forming their identities, marriages navigating intimacy, and individual carrying wounds from sexual brokenness are all searching for explanations that simply make sense of their experiences.
Make no mistake — in the absence of clear, compelling biblical teaching, your people will gravitate towards whatever framework offers cohereance, even if it contradicts God’s design. Your calling is to demonstrate that God’s design isn’t just morally right — it’s refreshingly straightforward, intuitively sensible, and ultimately the only framework that truly accounts for human experience in all of its complexity and beauty.
Preaching Biblical Sexuality and Gender equips you with a proven framework to transform these challenging conversations into compelling teaching. This isn’t about telling you what to say — it’s about empowering you to craft sermons with compelling argumentation that will cut through cultural confusion with biblical clarity while maintaining pastoral sensitivity.
Here’s what we cover in this course:
Humanity Before Sexuality (Why Bodies Matter)
Establish a biblical foundation that places human dignity before sexuality identity. When you frame sexuality and gender within the larger story of being made in God’s image, you’ll see defensive postures soften and receptivity increase.
This section will equip you to set the right emotional temperature before diving into theological truth — acknowledging pain and confusion without compromising clarity. When you apply the principles in this section you’ll create an atmosphere where truth can be heard because you’ve first honored the image of God in every person.
Following Jesus on Sexuality (Jesus’ Methodology)
Jesus never avoided difficult topics, yet people flocked to hear Him speak. We will peel back his rhetorical strategies for addressing sensitive issues with unwavering truth and disarming grace. You’ll learn to construct messages that engage both emotion and intellect, speaking to believers and skeptics alike.
When you implement these teaching patterns, you’ll notice something remarkable — people who would normally resist difficult teaching leaning in, following your reasoning and considering God’s design with fresh eyes.
The Oppressive Spirit of the Age (Contextualization)
The cultural narratives around sexuality and gender appear liberating but actually enslave. This section is designed to equip you to name and expose myths like “sex is just physical” or “your body lies to you,” replacing them with genuine freedom of biblical truth.
You will develop language that resonates with lived experience while elevating God’s way as best, allowing people to recognize the emptiness of cultural promises. After preaching with these insights as part of your argumentation, expect conversations where people communicate, “You’ve put to words what I’ve felt but couldn’t express.”
Build a Sermon Series (Strategies / Framing)
Transform complex theological concepts into clear, compelling sermon structures. You’ll gain valuable experience in building arguments that acknowledge real struggles while revealing God’s design as genuinely good news. This module provides practical frameworks for addressing hot-button issues without triggering unnecessary defensiveness.
These framing techniques will create a learning environment where you can witness the transformation on people’s faces — from resistance to consideration, from confusion to clarity.
Handling Sexuality in Regular Exposition
Scripture addresses sexuality throughout its pages, often when readers might least expect it. Develop confidence for those moments when your regular preaching text suddenly touches on gender or sexuality. This portion of the course provides tactical approaches for maintaining your pastoral posture while teaching with conviction.
When applied, these frameworks will empower you to handle previously dreaded passages with a steady hand and clear voice — seamlessly integrating these topics in your normal preaching rhythm.
Designing Follow-up Environments for Care and Discipleship
Your impact through the sermon and the church extends beyond Sunday morning. Create “Flee and Cleave” discipleship pathways that give your people concrete next steps for both avoiding sexual sin and embracing their identity in Christ.
This final section of the course gives you tools to build ministry structure where healing and growth continue long after the sermon ends.
Your small group leaders and counseling team will thank you for providing language and approaches that make these conversations possible in their contexts.
What You Can Expect
This is not just another theological resource — you already know what Scripture teaches. This is about equipping you with exact rhetorical and pastoral tools to deliver truth in ways that penetrate hearts and transform lives.
Completing this course won’t just help you deliver better sermons — you’ll be trained and equipped to confidently lead your congregation through one of today’s most confusion landscapes with conviction and compassion, using God’s Word as a the guiding light. There is peace and satisfaction in knowing you’ve faithfully addressed these topics without compromise or unnecessary offense. Just imagine the testimonies that will emerge as people embrace God’s design and find healing from sexual brokenness.
Your people need you to lead these conversations with biblical wisdom and pastoral care. They’re waiting for someone to show them why God’s design for sexuality and gender is beautiful good news. This course will equip you to be that pastor.
Andy –
This course was exactly what I needed as a pastor preaching on sexuality.
Seth provides such a fantastic blend of historical insight, biblical teaching, and contemporary application throughout the whole course. Because I live in a much more progressive environment, I felt like his movement from anthropology and ontology to biology, sociology, and theology gave me a clear framework that cut through cultural confusion and helped me preach with both clarity and compassion.
The content carried real depth, but — at the same time — never felt overly academic. It was accessible, reproducible, and immediately preachable. I drew from it constantly while preparing my God and Sexuality sermon series—quoting Seth directly, leaning on his categories, and utilizing many of the resources he recommended. The sections on dismantling cultural myths and structuring sermons were especially impactful.
If you’re a pastor navigating conversations around sexuality and gender, I can’t recommend this course enough. It equips you not just with content, but with tools and language to lead your church with confidence, clarity, and grace as you navigate (and preach!) challenging topics.