God’s Plan for Sex and Gender: 10 Teaching Points for Home and Church
Our children and teens are being educated on matters of sex and gender by a current cultural narrative that engages in 24/7 messaging, even to children as young as pre-school age. This education – or more accurately mis-education – takes…
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Episode 162: “Theology of the Body” with Timothy Tennent
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Parents and a Stable Home Life
I recently sat with a small group of a dozen adults who shared the stories of growing up in a home without a father. In each case, the adult shared the negative consequences and difficulties of navigating growing up without…
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Facing the Epidemic of Porn 4
All this week we’re looking at Tim Chester’s book, “Closing the Window: Steps To Living Porn Free” – and his list of reasons for why we should give up porn. In a world where the family is already in decline,…
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Needed – A Sexual Counter Revolution
Boise State University political science professor Scott Yenor wrote a powerful piece calling for a sexual counter-revolution in last November’s edition of First Things magazine. Yenor says that in the past, people believed that sexual modesty and chastity were virtues.…
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Episode 146: “The Right to Happiness” with Crystal Kirgiss and Duffy Robbins
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here. RSS FEED – click here. Access from iTunes. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: Crystal Kirgiss Duffy Robbins “We Have No Right To Happiness” –…
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Episode 145: “Choosing a Godly Husband” with Tom Stein
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Love is a Decision
I love C.S. Lewis’s corrective to our culture’s mis-definition and misunderstanding of “love”: “Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; the state of the will…
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What Christian Kids Think About Marriage
In today’s rapidly evolving cultural climate, it’s important that we pay attention to the beliefs and behaviors being embraced by our professing Christian children and teens. We want to know how well we are doing at training our kids to…
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Dealing with Porn 3
All this week we’re looking at how to talk to our kids about the issue of pornography. My friend Nicholas Black, who helps people deal with sexual brokenness through his ministry at Harvest USA, offers some suggestions on what to…
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What Is Marriage?
In his classic book, Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis penned words almost seventy years ago that are incredibly timely and relevant today. Listen to what Lewis says about the biblical design for marriage and family. “Chastity is the most unpopular of…
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