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Raise Them to Value God's Design Starting at a young age, kids are being fed damaging misinformation about sexuality, gender identity, and human biology. As a parent, it's up to you to help your children understand God's truth about these integral concepts in the face of the candy-coated lies that saturate today's world. In the footsteps of the bestselling Mama Bear Apologetics comes this invaluable guide to training your kids to know and respect God's design in a world that has rejected it. This book will equip you to understand God's design for gender, sex, marriage, and family as a beautiful portrait that reveals the nature of God Himselfidentify the tactics being used to trick children into adopting an unbiblical view of sexuality under the guise of Christian-sounding words like love, identity, tolerance, and justiceteach your kids to treat those who hold different beliefs with gentle, Christlike compassion without compromising biblical values As society continues to blur the lines of what is good, true, and acceptable, God's standards remain clear and unchanging. This book will give you the wisdom to confidently raise your children to understand sex and gender through a biblical lens.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers
Date de parution	05 octobre 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736983822
Langue	English

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With compassion, empathy, and an unwavering commitment to Scripture, Ferrer and Davison equip parents and children to defend the biblical sexual worldview. And they do not mince words when it comes to the political agenda that is pushing sexuality on kids. Through Christlike love, this book is a call to arms to defend those held captive to sex-education curricula and its damaging ideas.
Josh D. McDowell,
bestselling author and speaker
As is typical for the Mama Bear team, the Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality transforms confusion into clarity, anxiety into action steps, and polarization into Christ-centered partnership. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to equip kids to biblically navigate gender, sexuality, and the cost of discipleship.
Elizabeth Urbanowicz,
founder of Foundation Worldview
The Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality is a timely and helpful book. Hillary tackles some of the thorniest issues of sex and identity today, and yet she does so with compassion, insight, and biblical clarity. And she also offers some practical steps for communicating these ideas to kids. I hope you will get a copy and start implementing these ideas today.
Sean McDowell,
PhD, associate professor of apologetics at Biola University and the author of Chasing Love
Sex is never just about sex. Teens and young adults often cite biblical sexuality for the reason behind their rejection of Christianity. That is why Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality is a crucial resource for every parent. Hillary and Amy address the most relevant and confusing aspects of parenting in the shifting sands of sexual morality in our culture, giving examples from research, media, and education. They present foundational and complicated truths in a format that is easy to understand and apply. This book will equip you to navigate the discipleship journey with your kids with grace and truth.
Dr. Juli Slattery,
author of Rethinking Sexuality and founder of sexualdiscipleship.com
As mothers and avid readers, we can t recommend this book enough. The culture is poisoning the hearts and minds of our children with a twisted vision of human sexuality and identity. Ferrer and Davison not only expose these lies, but they also replace them with a wonderful vision of the beautiful and breathtaking design God intends for human sexuality. This book will help you become the wise and trusted guide your kids need, leading them to the life-giving truths about love, sex, and identity that God has for His image bearers.
Erin Kunkle and Sarah Stonestreet,
cohosts of The Strong Women Podcast by the Colson Center
Hillary s book is an important parent resource to identify, deconstruct, and offer clarity to today s distorted views of sexuality. God has already created an ideal for humanity and sexual integrity, and this book reminds us to stay faithful to His truth.
Monica Leal Cline,
founder of It Takes a Family
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This book is dedicated to all those who have been willing to take up their sexual crosses and still follow Christ, even when it hurts.
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Cover design and illustration by Amanda Hudson, Faceout Studio
Interior design by KUHN Design Group
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Italics in quoted Scriptures indicates emphasis added by the author.
Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality
Copyright 2021 by Hillary Morgan Ferrer with Amy Davison
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97408
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-8381-5 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-8382-2 (eBook)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021935208
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Introduction: My Kid s Cartoon Showed What ?- Why I Needed This Book Yesterday
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 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
Afterword: Things to Repeat to Your Kids Until They Want to Gag- The Lasting Effects of a Good Maxim
A Final Word
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Other Books by the Author
About the Publisher
Introduction
My Kid s Cartoon Showed What ?
Why I Needed This Book Yesterday
H ILLARY AND A MY
O nce upon a time, the sex talk was simple. It was still mortifying for both parties, but it was simple. For the little ones, you talked about the anatomical differences between boys and girls. Where do babies come from? I m so horrified glad you asked! You discussed how those anatomical differences allowed the mommy and the daddy to make a baby, praying that the kids didn t ask for more details. As they got older, you discussed God s design for marriage and God s purpose for sex within a marriage. You read some verses from Ephesians, gave a very (very) light study from Song of Solomon about the goodness of sex (but only within marriage-DON T DO IT OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE!!!!). And then you turned these fully prepared (*cough*) youngsters over to the youth pastor, who taught them who-knows-what out of a study guide on purity. Phew! Glad that s over.
One question though: How s that been working out for us? How d that work out for you ? Does it feel like we re winning the culture war on this one? Because it doesn t to us. We are losing so badly that many people have just given up and opted for the safe sex talk because any discussion of abstinence is just laughed at. Like, How cute! As if you can convince teenagers not to have sex you re funny!
To paraphrase legendary fighter Mike Tyson, everyone has a plan until they ve been hit. The church, unfortunately, is no different. Between hyper-fundamentalism, the fallout of purity culture, and the at-times graceless response to LGBTQ issues, the church has taken more than its share of hits. As Dr. Juli Slattery points out, the problem isn t that the spiritual battle defending biblical sexuality isn t worth having. The problem is that the church doesn t know how to fight . 1 And the fallout isn t pretty.
Pew Research Journal conducted a survey on views regarding sexuality and found that 57 percent of Christians believed premarital sex in a committed relationship was fine, while 50 percent said that hookups (sleeping with someone you aren t committed to) were no biggie! 2 According to one study, upward of 80 percent of unmarried evangelicals between the ages of 18 and 29 have had sex. 3
We parents aren t doing much better. Many of us grew up in a don t ask-don t tell household when it came to discussing sex, and we ve happily carried on the tradition with our kids. For some of us, the silence is rooted in fear. We re afraid that if we talk about sex, then our kids will want sex. Or perhaps you are only now shaking off the weight of toxic sexual messages that were piled upon your teenage shoulders. The last thing you want is to make your children feel the same guilt and shame you did. And others just don t know what to say. Heck, we don t even understand how the biblical sexual worldview is a critical aspect in our own walk with Jesus, let alone how to explain it to our kids. 4 Instead, we rely on middle school health class, our kids friends, and social apps to do the legwork for us.
Church, can we come together for a moment and acknowledge a hard truth? This isn t working. Our kids want us to talk to them about sex. No really, they do. When the Power to Decide campaign surveyed thousands of students, do you know who teens ages 12 to 15 overwhelmingly said had the most influence on their sexual decisions? Parents. Do you know who also won the