The Harvest USA Podcast

The Harvest USA Podcast

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Parenting Boys and Girls in a Gender Confused World: Standing Firm on a Biblical Foundation by Ellen Dykas
Do you find it challenging to help your kids understand the Bible’s teaching about gender and sexuality? Especially when your kids peers, teachers, guidance school counselors, along with online conversations, media, and more promote ideas about our bodies, identity, personhood, sex, or gender that don’t line up with biblical faith? On today’s episode of the podcast, we’re sharing session one of our video course titled “Parenting Boys and Girls in a Gender Confused World”. This course was designed to help parents like you disciple your children to think biblically about gender and grow in their ability to understand and courageously defend the goodness of our Creator’s intent. This session from Ellen Mary Dykas helps us the biblical roots of our current cultural moment. She walks us through several theological truths that give us a biblical perspective on how our secular culture’s ideas about sexuality, gender, and identity came to be, while encouraging us to stand firm in God’s eternal truth. Click here to register for free and watch the entire series: https://harvestusa.org/courses/parenting-boys-and-girls-in-a-gender-confused-world/
12 giu 2026
27:40
Wisdom to Address Difficult Questions After Your Husband’s Sexual Betrayal by Caitlin McCaffrey
Can I share my husband’s sexual sin struggle and our marriage situation with others? Should I pursue separation or divorce? How do I rebuild trust in my husband after his sin? These are some of the questions that commonly swirl around in the heart of a wife after her husband’s sexual sin has come into the light. Since painful betrayal also brings shame and confusion along with it, most wives wrestle with these questions in isolation, not knowing if there’s anybody they can talk about these things with. On today’s episode of The Harvest USA Podcast we’re pleased to share a session titled Difficult Questions Facing Wives: Principles for the Journey Ahead from our free video series Hope in Your Heartbreak: First Steps for Sexually Betrayed Wives. In this session, Women’s Ministry Director Caitlin McCaffrey shares some of the common questions you might be asking if you’re facing sexual betrayal. She then offer five wisdom principles to help you start addressing these questions as you walk the road towards hope. We hope you find clarity hope, and strength for the journey as you listen to today’s episode. You can watch the entire six session series for free at https://harvestusa.org/courses/hope-in-your-heartbreak/
9 giu 2026
28:30
Prayer: Finding Peace by Joan McConnell
Where can I find peace when my son or daughter has come out as LGBTQ+? Many Christian parents in this situation wrestle with a torrent of emotions and questions. In such tumultuous waters, peace might feel impossible, especially when there’s no obvious path to “fixing” the situation ourselves. Yet the Bible offers an alternative path to peace. The tried and true habit of prayer before the face of God. Today’s episode from Joan McConnell explores why prayer is powerful to producing peace in the heart of a believer, even when their circumstances don’t change. She shares why prayer matters so much to God, what He is seeking to teach us through prayer, and how prayer not only produces peace, but also strength and comfort in the believer’s continued walk with the Lord. If you’re feeling anything but peace in your situation, this article will comfort, challenge, and encourage you. Read along → https://harvestusa.org/prayer-finding-peace/
5 giu 2026
9:58
The Pain of Repentance Can Lead You to Jesus by Ellen Mary Dykas
Repentance and obedience is beautiful in God’s sight, but it’s often painful. You broke up with your unbelieving boyfriend or pressed pause on an unhealthy relationship. You confessed your porn addiction to your boss, and now you’re out of a job. You admitted your emotional affair, and not only is your spouse a tornado of emotions, but you’re in excruciating sadness from cutting ties with your “secret person.” Today’s episode from Ellen Mary Dykas offers comfort and hope for those feeling the pain of their repentance, reminding them that though God’s pruning mercy is pain, it leads to growth and good in our lives. Read along → https://harvestusa.org/the-pain-of-repentance-can-lead-you-to-jesus/
2 giu 2026
8:56
The Magician’s Book in Your Pocket: Breaking the Spell of AI Beauty Tools by Stephen Moss
If you’re wrestling with your body image, AI tools along with a host of companies and products, offer you a powerful temptation: you can alter your appearance in ways that almost feel like magic, while still remaining and looking like you. How do we resist the temptation to sacrifice our real selves or health to achieve the impossible beauty we crave? Today’s episode from Stephen Moss explores the nearly magic-like power of AI beauty tools, how they’re temptation and power were illustrated in the writings of C.S. Lewis, and why beholding the beauty and glory of Christ frees us from self obsession and the temptation to pursue an unattainable standard of beauty. Read along → https://harvestusa.org/breaking-the-spell-of-ai-beauty-tools/
29 mag 2026
13:52
Help God! I’m Addicted to a Person and Can’t Stop by Ellen Mary Dykas
Are you caught in a friendship or relationship that feels like an unhealthy addiction? Intoxication, entrapment, love, hate, fear, romance, addiction—it’s a garbled mess that once felt wonderful, like life itself. But now this friendship, “bromance,” or “you’re my person” connection isn’t feeling so great. You’re neck-deep, attached, and dependent on someone’s affection, attention, touch, and need for you. You want out, yet you can’t let go. Maybe this relationship started with Jesus in the mix, but he’s not the one filling, fueling, or guiding it anymore. For those stuck in this kind of addictive relationship, today’s episode from Ellen Mary Dykas offers a prayer of encouragement and three very practical steps to help you wisely walk away from sinful dynamics in your relationships. Read along → https://harvestusa.org/help-god-im-addicted-to-a-person-and-cant-stop/
26 mag 2026
8:26
A Case Study on Christian Conscience: Navigating Convictions about Marrying a Virgin by Keith Seary
You’re discipling a young couple who hopes to be married. In conversations about their sexual past, you learn that while he’s faithfully saved himself for marriage, she has a messy history of pre-marital sex and other sexual sins. She’s repented and has been pursuing holiness in the power of the gospel for several years, yet he now wrestles with his conscience as he thinks about her sexual past and their prospect of a future together. How would you counsel this couple? Today’s episode from Keith Seary offers five principles for church leaders to consider as they disciple young couples thinking through the issue of virginity, each other’s sexual past, and the prospect of marriage. Keith will help you think through caring well for tender consciences and how to ground these conversations in the Bible. Considering that waiting until marriage has been declining even for Christians, this article will help you care for young dating couples in your church well. Read along → https://harvestusa.org/a-case-study-on-christian-conscience-navigating-convictions-about-marrying-a-virgin/
22 mag 2026
16:37
What Jonah Missed: How to Stop Being Judgmental by Keith Seary
How do you see your sin? How do you see your salvation? The answer to these questions is critical to how we understand God, ourselves, and others. Today’s episode from Keith Seary contrasts the attitudes of Jonah and David as they were confronted with God’s mercy for sinners. He teaches us that refusing to bring our sin before God for grace opens us up to bitterness and judgment towards God and others. But when our own sin and God’s salvation are clearly seen, we are freed from these attitudes to become men and women who are filled with praise toward God, whose mercy is abundant for sinners. Read along → https://harvestusa.org/what-jonah-missed-how-to-stop-being-judgmental/
19 mag 2026
9:16
AI Dating and Chatfishing: Are You Dating a Robot? by Caitlin McCaffrey
Is it okay to use AI tools to assist me in online dating? What is chatfishing? How should Christians think about these things? Today’s episode from Caitlin McCaffrey explores the potentially harmful ways AI tools are being used in the pursuit of online dating, including the trend known as “chatfishing”. She shares biblical principles to help you think practically about how to honor God and love your neighbor in your pursuit of online dating. If you’re tempted to use AI to enhance yourself as a dating prospect, this article will point you to a more solid foundation in Christ. Read along → https://harvestusa.org/ai-dating-and-chatfishing-are-you-dating-a-robot/
15 mag 2026
14:01
Am I Asexual? by Caitlin McCaffrey
Certain sexual desires are explicitly forbidden in the Bible, but what if I don’t have any sexual desires at all? Is it okay for a Christian to identify as asexual? Today’s episode from Caitlin McCaffrey will help you think through potential causes of your lack of desires, whether the lack of these desires is sinful, and why sexual orientation labels like asexual can distract us from our true identity in Christ. Read along → https://harvestusa.org/am-i-asexual-harvest-usa/
12 mag 2026
9:37
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