Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 7 of 7) Drawing Boundary Lines It’s important for a couple to be honest with one another about their sexual history (particularly a history that involves sexual abuse, addictions, sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancies, and/or abortions). However, certain boundary lines need to be […]
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 6 of 7)
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 6 of 7)
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 6 of 7) Questions to Explore in Pre-Marital Counseling As spiritual leaders, we must boldly take pre-marital counseling sessions into regions that may cause some discomfort, but the discomfort of an awkward pre-marital conversation is much preferred over the discomfort of […]
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 5 of 7)
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 5 of 7)
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 5 of 7) Forbidden Fruit vs. Not-So-Guilty Pleasures When teaching young people about boundaries in dating or courtship relationships, it’s easy to focus on all the things they shouldn’t do. NO touching below the neck… NO getting horizontal… NO… NO… NO! There’s […]
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 4 of 7)
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 4 of 7)
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 4 of 7) Striking a Healthy Balance The purpose of marriage is to reflect to the world Christ’s unwavering commitment to His (unfaithful) bride, the Church. Therefore we want to encourage both men and women to reflect that level of commitment to […]
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 3 of 7)
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 3 of 7)
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 3 of 7) Although I believe wholeheartedly in the inerrancy of scripture, I must say that I’m often tempted to interject a parenthetical phrase into Hosea 4:6. Its meaning would be clearer if we were to expound slightly and say that […]
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 2 of 7)
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 2 of 7)
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 2 of 7) When the Pendulum Swings to the Left If anyone had asked me in the sixth grade if I wanted to remain a virgin until marriage, I would have said, “Of course I do!” In the seventh grade, I would […]
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 1 of 7)
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 1 of 7)
Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 1 of 7) (This article originally appeared in Enrichment Journal, 03/2011) I’ll never forget the day one of my best childhood friends got a new swing set for her birthday. Why? Because the scar on my forehead won’t let me forget. […]
Susie Magazine on the Shelf
Susie Magazine on the Shelf
My dear friend and ministry colleague Susie Shellenberger (founder and former editor of Focus on the Family’s Brio Magazine) recently started a NEW magazine for young women called Susie. Like Brio, Susie Magazine assumes its reader is smart, world-conscious, creative and passionate about making an impact. There are loads of great articles about relationships, fashion, […]
This Hurts My Heart…
This Hurts My Heart…
In light of my last blog about inviting your husband into your healing process when you’ve been sexually abused, I was incredibly saddened to read this article about a young woman who’s choosing to abuse herself… Student auctions off virginity for offers of more than £2.5 million A student who is auctioning her virginity […]