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This past weekend, I invited Ricky Chelette of Living Hope Ministries to talk about homosexuality, which has become an increasingly large Elephant in the Pew that few churches have addressed effectively until recently. I felt it was important to have someone speak who had come out of that lifestyle and now has a powerful ministry to others. I was incredibly grateful to him adn the message he brought. Apparently, so were hundreds of others based on the overwhelmingly positive response we’ve had since then.

His message was enlightening and full of hope, highlighting the amazing, transformative power of the Gospel. He opened our eyes to the ways in which same gender attraction gets a foothold in the lives of young boys, arising primarily in those who are more sensitive and who lack healthy male affirmation, attention and affection. His description of this process was easy to understand and right on, coming from both his ministry to thousands of others who have struggled in this area and his own struggles earlier in life.

There’s really no way I can do justice to his message here, other than to strongly urge you to watch this message online, even if you were there this weekend, and especially if this is an area in which you struggle. Even if this isn’t your issue, most, if not all of us, have someone in our lives that struggle in this area and would benefit from his words of wisdom, hope and life.

As I mentioned this weekend, we are in the process of starting up a ministry to deal specifically with this issue, as well as other sexual brokenness issues. You’ll be hearing more about that later. For now, we want you to know that Ricky also has a lot of other resources available, again for both men and women, at his ministry’s website: livehope.org. Know this: God’s power to transform is much greater than ANYTHING we struggle with in our live. Through the power of Christ, anyone can find freedom, wholeness and salvation!