“How can I find freedom from masturbation?” Feeling isolated, condemned, stuck, and without help is common for women struggling with masturbation. They’ve picked up on messages that masturbation is a man’s struggle and they’ve never heard women’s struggles discussed in a women’s gathering or small group. Freedom is possible! Today’s episode from Women’s Ministry Director Caitlin McCaffrey outlines practical steps to guide your pursuit of Christ and freedom from masturbation. Know and name your suffering. Believe freedom is possible. Know your pattern and develop a plan. Think rightly about yourself. Read along with today’s episode → https://harvestusa.org/im-a-woman-struggling-with-masturbation-how-do-i-find-freedom/
A lot of ink has been spilled about Gen Z. They’re one of the most open and curious generations the church has the opportunity to disciple, even though they face unique challenges as they navigate the world’s dogmas and teachings concerning sex and sexuality. How does the church disciple and care for this up-and-coming generation well? Today’s episode from Caitlin McCaffrey offers six practical considerations for discipling and declaring the beauty of the gospel and biblical sexuality to Gen Z. Read along with today’s episode → https://harvestusa.org/gen-z-sexuality-gender-and-the-beauty-of-christ/
If you’re a parent, you’ve likely read the biblical accounts of the patriarchs to your children. If they were paying attention, perhaps they asked you an awkward question that you didn’t know how to answer… “Mom, Dad, was God okay with Abraham and Jacob having more than one wife?” How do we understand polygamy in the Bible? On today’s episode, Mark Sanders makes a biblical case from the whole counsel of scripture that polygamy is sinful and fails to live up to God’s intention and design for marriage. He also addresses the thorny questions and situations modern Christian’s may need to navigate in context’s where polygamy is commonly practiced. Read along →https://harvestusa.org/polygamy-in-the-bible-is-it-allowed/
If we’re honest, more of our suffering than we’d prefer to admit is the result of our own unwise and sinful choices. While God surely uses suffering to sanctify us, 1 Peter 2:20 and 4:15 call us to avoid self-inflicted suffering because of unrighteous choices. Since suffering is a common context for sexual temptation, it’s important to examine the source and nature of our suffering. In today’s episode, Mark Sanders explores common causes of our unnecessary suffering such as lifestyle choices, boredom, and unbelief toward God as our generous heavenly Father. He offers simple steps to you can take reduce the amount of this suffering in your life. If your sexual temptations are marked by a desire to escape the suffering you experience, this article will help you identify the practical changes you can make while encouraging you to believe that are real blessings that come on the other side of obedience to God’s commands. Read along → https://harvestusa.org/avoid-unnecessary-suffering/
Today’s teenagers aren’t the first to desire real connection. But they are the first to hold technology that meets those desires without resistance. AI Chatbots offer teens the attention, affirmation, and emotional closeness they crave, delivered without interruption, awkwardness, or risk. The result? The illusion of human connection while quietly reshaping what teen’s expect real love to be. Today’s episode from Stephen Moss paints a vivid picture of this interaction between the desire for human connections and AI chatbot technologies while offering parents a vision for helping their teens that goes beyond merely guarding them from the technology. Read along → https://harvestusa.org/chatrooms-and-chatbots-longing-for-real-connection/
Does the battle against sexual sin ever get any easier? Have you ever asked this question? Perhaps you’ve been giving in to sexual sin for years. Failing over and over again to say no to temptation to the point that you’re now questioning whether victory is possible at all. The simple answer to this question is “Yes, the battle against sexual sin does get easier.” However, as Mark Sanders shows us in today’s episode, in order to understand what that really looks like, we need to wade through the complex depths of the human experience. Read along → https://harvestusa.org/does-the-battle-ever-get-any-easier/
Waiting on the Lord is hard. Especially when you watch year after year pass and your child or loved one is still making destructive choices against their Creator. “What I want for my wandering child is good Lord, why aren’t you bringing it about?” Have you felt this frustration? Yet, as today’s episode from Joan McConnell teaches us, God is more interested in timing than in time. And as we learn to trust our heavenly Father’s timing, we will find peace as we pray for our children and discover that seasons of waiting are often fruitful and useful gifts from God. Read along → https://harvestusa.org/thinking-through-the-time-vs-timing-tangle/
What if my son marries his partner? What if I’m the only one in the family who says this is wrong? What if my daughter decides to do hormones or surgery? God gave us the ability to be creative and imagine. The trouble is that we tend to misuse our creativity, twisted by our fallenness, to anxiously ask “what-if” as we attempt to gaze into the future. This can be all the more agonizing for parents and families of sexual strugglers. Today’s episode from Joan McConnell looks at this tendency to ask “what-if” from a biblical lens, examining the motivations that drive it while encouraging us toward faith in the sovereignty of God, the antidote for our worry and despair. Read along → https://harvestusa.org/escaping-from-the-land-of-what-if/
“Sorrows arise in my heart as I contemplate how sexual sin continues to destroy lives. So many seasons have passed, but no matter how often I seek your face for hope, lament after lament has followed my footsteps as I hear a knocking on the door of my office and know that a particular kind of pain will break the room’s quiet. I tried to fill this space with good books, well-sung melodies, and beautiful pictures that would remind me of you, hoping to find solace and to give each traveling soul a path to walk in the light. I tried to understand evil and how to lead people in repentance, hoping that the theology I master can be enough to quench the burning coals of sexual immorality. But this grief, often unspoken, is a burden that I still struggle to bear well in suffering. Why, Father, have you placed a broken man like me in a ministry where I am incapable?” On today’s episode, Yohan Huh Prudente offers a prayer of lament and hope to the Lord amid ministry to the sexually broken. If you’re walking with someone struggling with sexual sin and feeling the heaviness of that ministry, we encourage to pause, and seek the grace of your heavenly Father as you pray with Yohan. Read along → https://harvestusa.org/a-prayer-of-lament-and-hope-for-ministry-to-the-sexually-broken/
Husband, is your heart wounded because of your wife’s sexual betrayal? We hope that today’s episode from Yohan Huh Prudente will help you find hope as you face the pain of your situation. Yohan brings to remembrance the call of Hosea to marry an adulteress woman, a vivid picture of God’s love for his own wayward and idolatrous people, to demonstrate that God is well acquainted with your pain and is able to sympathize with you in your suffering. Read along here → https://harvestusa.org/betrayed-husband-christs-peace-given-for-you/