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Home/Biblical and Theological/The Sermons the Church Refuses to Preach

The Sermons the Church Refuses to Preach

Today’s pulpits tiptoe around the very sins tearing families, churches, and nations apart.

Written by Virgil Walker | Thursday, August 28, 2025

The Church today is weak because it refuses to thunder where God thunders. Our age doesn’t need clever talks or therapeutic advice—it needs sermons with scars.

 

Every generation has sins it refuses to name.
Ours is no different.

The early Church named idolatry.
The Reformers named indulgences.
The Puritans named hypocrisy.

But today’s pulpits?
They name “stress,” “self-care,” and “feeling stuck.” Meanwhile, they tiptoe around the very sins tearing families, churches, and nations apart—sexual perversion, feminism’s assault on the family, men abandoning their posts, and false gospels paraded as “justice.”

So let’s not just talk about the sermons that aren’t preached.
Let’s open the Bible and hear them.

Sexual Perversion: The Sermon Against Lust

Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:3–5—“For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.”

God’s will is clear—He calls us to holiness in our bodies. Every form of sexual immorality is rebellion against His design:

  • Homosexuality (Romans 1:26–27)—“For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.”
  • Transgenderism (Genesis 1:27)—“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
  • Pornography (Matthew 5:28)—“But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
  • Fornication (1 Corinthians 6:18)—“Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.”
  • Adultery (Exodus 20:14)—“You shall not commit adultery.” and (Hebrews 13:4)—“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”

Yet pulpits rarely name these sins. They substitute softer categories: “struggles,” “brokenness,” “complicated relationships.” But Paul declared, “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality” (1 Corinthians 6:9). To withhold God’s words on this is not compassion—it is complicity.

Feminism’s Assault on the Family: The Sermon on Womanhood

Text: Titus 2:3–5—“Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.”

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