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Empowered to Speak TruthTalking to your children about gender, sexuality, and marriage can be challenging. But the difference between what the Bible and the world have to say about these topics can be a gateway to teaching them to love and cherish God's sacred truth. This helpful study guide companion to Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality will prepare you to turn these tricky conversations into amazing opportunities for kingdom discipleship.Inside this workbook, you will findactive reading notes highlighting vocabulary, themes, and questions that further your study of each chapter from Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexualityhighlighted verses from Scripture that illuminate the tender heart behind God's design for sex and genderdiscipleship activities to help you engage your kids in age-appropriate dialogue about sensitive issues like homosexuality, transgenderism, pornography, and morePerfect for individual and small group study, this workbook is the resource every Mama Bear needs to advocate for God's truth with wisdom and confidence while equipping her children to understand His perfect plan for human sexuality.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers
Date de parution	06 septembre 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736986014
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality Discipleship Workbook
Copyright 2022 by Hillary Morgan Ferrer
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97408
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CONTENTS
Welcome, and How to Use This Study Guide
Part One: Things I Probably Already Knew But Kinda Forgot
1. Sexually Set Apart: How Sexual Holiness Is a Nonnegotiable for Disciples of Jesus
2. Sex Is Spelled W-O-R-L-D-V-I-E-W: Wait, What s a Worldview?
3. A Pretty Great Design, When Followed: How Gender, Marriage, Sex, and Family Show Us the God We Can t See
4. Demolishing Arguments, Not People: Releasing Ideological Captives
Part Two: Wait, My Kids Are Being Taught What?!
5. Are You Sex Smarter than a Fifth Grader? Understanding the New National Sexual Education Standards
6. The Enemy s New Playbook: The Language and Morality of the Sexual Agenda
7. The Genderbread Person: The New Definitions of Identity, Expression, Sex, and Attraction
8. Sex-Positivity: Anything Goes if It s Consensual
Part Three: Things That Are Tripping Everyone Up
9. Pornography: It s Not Technically Sex if You re by Yourself, Right?
10. Same-Sex Attraction: Hurting People to Be Loved
11. Gender Identity: When Birds Identify as Bees
12. Purity Culture: When Our Best Efforts Went Kablooey
13. Taking Up Your Sexual Cross: Because We re All Born That Way
About the Authors
Mama Bear Apologetics
About the Publisher
WELCOME, AND HOW TO USE THIS STUDY GUIDE

W elcome! We at Mama Bear Apologetics are so excited to introduce you to the first-ever study and discipleship guide. Our sincere desire is that as you work through it, you will be gently challenged but not at all overwhelmed.
WHAT THE HECK IS A DISCIPLESHIP GUIDE?
We love our study guides. They help us better sift through the material and digest it so we can integrate it into our everyday lives. And in Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality , we give a lot of practical tips for how to address these ideas with your kids. But what if we could have even more practical tips? More is better, right? (Unless you have something like scabies, and then less is generally better.)
As you read through this guide, you ll notice this icon: , which symbolizes a discipleship opportunity . With each discipleship opportunity comes an activity or conversation that will translate abstract ideas into a more concrete form so that little minds can better understand the concepts. We don t have specific ages attached to each opportunity, though we sometimes specify if the activity is for your older cubs.
Something we want everyone to keep in mind: The questions at the end of each chapter in your main book and the questions in this discipleship guide are all applicable for dinnertime discussions! Don t think that since you are going through these questions as an adult (or in a group of adults) that they can t be used for kids. Children from middle school on up should be able to track with the ideas presented here. So if at some point you want to grab another study guide and go through the process again with your middle schooler or high schooler, you can. And we encourage you to do so! It doesn t have to be labeled teen guide to still be applicable for teens.
Challenges to identity-both through gender and sexuality-are confusing, and we cannot underestimate the impact they are having on our children. It s time to take back some ground, Mama Bears! And as we do so, remember: We don t stand before God accountable for our successes. We stand before Him accountable for our faithfulness . So let s be faithful in stewarding these precious boys and girls under our care.
With that in mind, we want to share some tips on how to make the most of your reading and this guide.
Before you read a chapter in Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality :
We would love for you to have a four-color retractable click pen (flashback to high school!) on hand, but if you don t, grab four different colored pencils, pens, or highlighters and use a system similar to the one we recommend below.
Have a dictionary or dictionary app ready for reference.
Skim through the chapter s title and bold-print subheads to get an idea of what you re going to read. (This pre-reading strategy helps you get excited to dig in.)
Think of a question or two you hope will be answered in the chapter.
Pray and ask the Holy Spirit to guide you into all truth.
Lord God, our world is so broken. There is so much sexual confusion everywhere. Who am I? What can one person do? Open my eyes like the servant of Elisha, Lord. Let me see Your angels who are with me in the battle. I pray that You would remove any fear I have regarding this topic and plant my feet firm in Your truth. I pray that as You shepherd me into a biblical understanding of sex, that I would understand Your commandments for sex. And as I understand Your commandments, Lord, help me lead my children to understand the beauty of Your magnificent design .
While you read the chapter:
I have used this multicolor note-taking system for almost a decade. It has helped me to actively read and organize material so that, even years later, I can go back and glance through a book for its main points and my favorite quotes. The strategy suggested here is a simplified version of my system, so you can tweak it to what works best for you. I find that color-coding is helpful for future reference purposes:
Black ink-draw a box around unfamiliar words and draw a squiggly line under the definition if it appears within the text. (Squiggly lines will help you distinguish definitions from general notes.) If the word is not defined, record definitions in the margins or at the back of the book. We recommend looking up the definitions right away!
Blue ink-underline helpful passages for easy skimming. This will help you when you search through the book later for the main ideas.
Green ink-use this color for content you have questions about. (I also draw a question mark in the margin.)
Red ink or highlight-save this for the true Aha! moments or ideas you want to remember. (This is especially helpful for finding key quotes and thoughts in the future.)
After you read the chapter:
Quickly skim through the chapter to review all the words you ve underlined, highlighted, and written in the margins. (Look at all those colors. This is your pat on the back for being an active reader!)
Jump into the study guide material for that chapter.
In each chapter of the study guide you will find an introductory thought followed by seven major sections. We want you to set your own pace, so we haven t divided the lessons or sections into specific days, but you could choose to work through one section a day. Here are the types of sections:
Active Reading Notes: Here you will be encouraged to record a few pre-, mid-, and post-reading thoughts, including vocabulary. Here s an example.
READING FOCUS
MY RESPONSE
Before You Read:

After skimming the chapter title and subheads, what is one question you would like to have answered in the chapter?
My question:
Why does sex matter?
While You Read:

Vocabulary
List three words you found in the chapter, and we will add a few more words we hope you will find and look up in the dictionary.
My words:
Here, write down words that are unfamiliar to you, and make your best attempt to briefly record the definitions.
Book words:
Here, you ll find words that are defined in the book. Page numbers are given so that you can fill in the definitions in this space.
After You Read:

Answer
Did you find an answer to your pre-reading question? (We hope so.) If yes, write it down.
My answer:
Sex matters because it helps us see and know God accurately.
Aha! moments
List three things you highlighted or underlined in the chapter. This can be new information you learned, encouraging reinforcements of things you already knew, or just plain anything that popped out at you.
My Aha! moments:
Pick a Question: As you re using this study guide, it s easy to forget that there are already study questions in the main book. Use this t