I read several years ago that Lifeway Christian Research conducted a study of 2,000 Protestant and non-denominational parents. The parents were questioned on 40 different points and then gave their observations on nearly 4,000 adult children. The premise? The top practices of parents whose children were still actively pursuing a relationship with Christ and involved in their local church as adults.

“Oh, honey,” I said. “God made you perfect just the way you are.” My very-verbal 3-year-old daughter in the back seat had just proclaimed she didn’t like something about herself and my (well-meant) reassurance just rolled off my tongue.

Someone once told me that marriage is a lot like riding a wave, you just brace yourself on the board, and eventually the wave will come to shore. Riding a wave on a calm day is a heck of a lot easier than riding one in the midst of a hurricane, but the end result is the same...the wave eventually does come to shore.

But the more you dig into this journey with us, you will find that every single one of us is sexually broken, because we are human and because of the world we live in.

As we discuss love, sex, and relationships as God designed them, we hope to bring truth to any of the surrounding topics. Because social media is such a prominent way that we can be influenced in these areas, we cannot avoid this important topic!

How can you be ready to take the discipleship walk alongside an LGBTQ+ person? After years of walking alongside LGBTQ+ friends, I offer you the first six steps I take.

As we try to navigate this sex-saturated culture and have open-ended conversations about love, sex, and relationships, within God’s design, we cannot ignore the topic of pornography.

To so many of us, dating can feel like a lot of pressure, because of our high-stakes dating culture today.

We have found that there are really two major reasons that parents stay quiet and avoid these conversations about sex, and those are fear and shame.

I so fondly (ahem, or not so fondly) remember while I was single, people in other stages of life telling me things like “This is the best time of your life!”

But we believe that today, this is a conversation that should begin with parents, in order to raise up your children to be able to fight cultures lies about sex, love, and relationships

We want to help equip and encourage you as you have conversations about love, sex and relationships as God intended them to be.