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“Teach Us To Pray”: What Is Worship & Where Does Corporate Worship Fit? (Humphrey, 2011)
Chapter One of Grand Entrance: Worship On Earth As In Heaven
Listening to God, Shaped by the Word (Humphrey, 2007)
Marriage – A Treasure To Be Kept: Gender, Sexuality and Communion in the Bible and Christian Tradition (Humphrey, 2010)
If we muddle our thinking about human beings, it is quite likely we will be muddled about God, and vice versa. Adam, man and woman, the Church are creatures of God and also potent pictures given to us by God to point to Himself. Thinking carefully about sexual matters means to think carefully about the nature of humanity, of the world’s fallen condition, of the Church, and of God, as shown to us in the Son.
The New Testament Speaks on Same-Sex Eroticism (Humphrey, 2003)
Same-Sex Unions (4): What Would It Mean for the Church to Bless Same-Sex Unions? (Humphrey)
To presume that God blesses such arrangements and to ask the Church to echo such a presumed blessing is perilous to those involved, and to the unity of the Church.
Same-Sex Unions (3): How Is Homosexuality Understood in Scripture, Tradition, and Contemporary Theology? (Humphrey)
The story of Sodom, the “Holiness Code” of Leviticus, the lists of dark behaviours in the epistles, and the more extensive illustration of Romans 1 all register disapproval. The biblical teaching is not unconsciously coloured by cultural norms; rather, it adopts a decisive counter-cultural stand for its time.
Same-Sex Unions (2): What Is Disordered Sexuality? (Humphrey)
Sexual disorder is at once, then, profoundly personal and clearly communal in its effects.
Same-Sex Unions (1): What Constitutes A Faithful Reading of Scripture? (Humphrey)
In summary, the Bible presents sexuality as a divinely-prescribed mode of being for human beings, valuable in itself and in its iconic representation of divine-human relations. From the beginning, sexuality entailed interdependence, companionship and procreation; the distortion and strained fulfilment of these good things, subsequent to the Fall, has not completely thwarted the original intent (the celebration of human love in the Song of Solomon, and the explicit blessing of marriage in the New Testament).
Atonement: New Testament Perspectives (Humphrey, 2000)
The grand story of the atonement, like a huge symphony, with an overall shape, and various themes that lend themselves to it, sounds in our ears, compels us to gaze at it like a spectacle, and moves into the depths of our heart.