In her article “Women Are Struggling Too: The Sobering Statistics and How to Respond”, Caitlin McCaffrey writes “Single evangelical women are potentially the demographic most rapidly abandoning a biblical sexual ethic in churches today.”

In today’s episode, Keith Seary shares why these truths are challenging and how men also share some of the blame. He then offers four key truths to encourage single evangelical women to remain steadfast to the Lord and four charges to evangelical men to better serve and encourage the single women God has placed in their lives.

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Have you been in a dating relationship that made you ask, “How far is too far?”

When it comes to physical affection, this can be a loaded question and we are tempted toward extremes: shame and conscience-binding directives on one hand and vague “anything goes” counsel on the other.

We need the Bible’s wisdom as it addresses sex and relationships. Today, Ellen Dykas shares three biblical truths that unpack what loving physical affection might look like when you’re romantically involved with someone but not married to them.

Check out our resources on singleness and dating.

Explore the profound mystery of God’s design for sex: God, You & Sex: A Profound Mystery by David White

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When sexual infidelity crashes into a marriage, hurting wives need the gospel too. Something is off when a repentant or unrepentant husband receives 90% of the pastoral energy, care, and attention, while a devastated, often traumatized wife is left on her own to navigate world-rocking circumstances.

In today’s episode, Ellen Mary Dykas shares a case study that illustrates the challenge betrayed wives face as the church responds to her husband’s sexual sin. She then offers several ways pastors can live out the gospel with hurting wives without sacrificing the worthy time and energy that husbands need in their battle against sexual sin.

Is your heart breaking over the revelation of your husband’s sexual sin? We want to help. Alongside the resources available on our website, Harvest USA offers one-on-one discipleship and support group ministry to wives navigating sexual betrayal.

Help and resources for spousal unfaithfulness.

(Curriculum) Jesus and Your Unwanted Journey: Wives Finding Comfort After Sexual Betrayal

(Book) When Your Husband Is Addicted to Pornography: Healing Your Wounded Heart

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When cultural stereotypes are packaged, baptized, and sold as biblical masculinity, it creates a whole world of confusion, pressure, and pain for boys who don’t fit that mold. These boys may feel alienated in Christian circles, eventually seeking community and belonging outside the community of faith. The culture stands ready to tell them they might be gay—or maybe even girls.

Whether you are a father, minister, or mentor, what does faithful discipleship look like for a boy who doesn’t fit the mold? What does he need from you?

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Are you single and struggling with sexual temptation? In today’s episode, Ellen Dykas shares an important tool for men and women engaged in the battle against sexual temptation: identifying triggers. Living as both single and sexually faithful might feel impossible, but Jesus stands ready to help when we turn to him.

Seeking further help for your battle with sexual sin? Check out our resources below.

Resources on pornography.

Resources on Sexual Addiction

Curriculum for Men Pursuing Sexual Integrity

Curriculum for Women Pursuing Sexual Integrity

Get Help For Yourself

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How do we disciple girls who seem to act, think, dress, or develop affinities in ways that don’t match our picture of biblical womanhood? What are we seeking to cultivate when we encourage biblical womanhood? In today’s episode, Caitlin McCaffrey explores the difference between cultural tropes and biblical roles, and shares practical advice to help parents and church leaders navigate conversations and discipleship of girls who don't fit the mold.

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If you’re a ministry leader or pastor, roughly one-in-ten to one-in-five of your female teen and young adult weekly attendees have pursued same-sex sexual activity. Single evangelical women are potentially the demographic most rapidly abandoning a biblical sexual ethic in churches today. God’s daughters are in great need.

In today’s episode, Caitlin McCaffrey offers practical help to ministry leaders as they seek to respond to these sobering statistics and disciple struggling women in their church.

Are you a woman struggling with sexual sin? Harvest USA has many resources for you:

1. Sexual Sanity for Women: Healing from Sexual & Relational Brokenness
2. Sex and the Single Girl: Smart Ways to Care for Your Heart
3. Sexual Faithfulness: Gospel-Infused, Practical Discipleship for Women
4. (Coming March 21, 2025) Transforming Love: Women, Sexual Struggles, and Help in Christ
5. Seek help from our women’s ministry.

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The idea that “men will be men” is tragically used to excuse, minimize, or outright approve of sexual sin and selfishness. How, then, has it become common, even among professing believers, that we expect men’s sexual desires to rule them?

Today, Ellen Mary Dykas shows us that “men will be men” often excuses selfish behaviors and attitudes, the harm this brings to women, and how a gospel lens gives us higher expectations for Christian men and women.

This article originally appeared in the 2024 edition of the Harvest USA Magazine: Discipling Men & Women in Our Modern Age

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Unexpected turbulence hits our lives in all kinds of ways. It can prompt temptations and emotional knee jerk reactions—and it can lead to sin. Even amid long stretches of resisting sexual temptation’s pull toward things like porn, an unholy relationship, and various sexual behaviors, a surprise jostling can threaten our resolve if we’re not prepared.

How do we prepare for or respond to the sudden storms that hit our lives? Ellen Mary Dykas offers four practical ways to seek our Savior and resist sexual temptation.

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How do we reflect and defend God’s truth as it speaks to Transgenderism and Artificial Intelligence? How can followers of Christ answer the world “with gentleness and respect”?

In today’s episode, Yohan Huh Prudente shares a framework for engaging these conversations as Christians and applies it to the topics of Transgenderism and Artificial Intelligence.

Explore more resources on the topic of Transgenderism: https://harvestusa.org/how-we-help/transgenderism/

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