RESOURCES

Proverbs 2:6
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding

God’s Design of Gender Identity and Sexuality

Children
  • Gods Design for Sex  This series helps parents establish a biblical view of sexuality in the home. The four age-appropriate books enable families to develop a healthy dialogue about sexuality. They provide children the foundation of truth and knowledge they need for when they are inevitably bombarded with confusing and potentially harmful messages about sex.
  • Parenting Boys and Girls in a Gender-Confused World Training Resource for Parents This eight-session video course aims to give parents practical guidance, equipping you as you seek to disciple sons and daughters about what it means to be a boy or girl—a person created in love to bear God’s image.
  • Talking to Children about God’s Design for Sexuality A 3-minute read on speaking with our children about matters of sexuality
Teens
  • Understanding Sexual Identity: A Resource for Youth Ministry. Primarily directed toward counseling adolescents who experience same-sex attraction. Presents in layman’s terms a sexual identity therapy (SIT) framework, employing secular psychological categories. Yarhouse’s strength, as a social scientist, lies in his observation of empirical phenomena. This book contains helpful insights when approached with appropriate Biblical discernment.
  • Helping Teens Navigate a Sexualized Culture A quick read emphasizing the importance of parents proactively teaching their children God's design for sexuality, engaging in ongoing conversations, and using cultural prompts to guide teens through the pervasive and often misleading messages about sex in today's society.

Adults
  • Why Does God Care Who I Sleep With? In this accessible and short book, Allberry treats sexuality in general, and in so doing provides helpful guidance for all members of the church. That guidance is rooted in a Biblical anthropology and Biblical sexual ethics, with human sexuality pointing ultimately toward the design and love of the Creator. 
  • Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey into Christian Faith. Butterfield offers a compelling account of God’s grace at work in the life of a former lesbian professor of gender studies. She gives credit where credit is due— to Jesus Christ, who drew her to Himself using an obedient pastor and his wife, who loved her for years before she came to faith. Gets to the heart of the need of all sinners for redemption and then reveals the Redeemer in the person of Jesus (not in heterosexuality).
  • The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics. Gagnon’s work is the most comprehensive treatment of the exegesis of individual texts on the subject of homosexuality. His scholarship is solid, though his tone is at times less than pastoral.
  • Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing. An insightful book on how to respond to sexual acting-out through pornography and adultery. Offers an alternative to the typical pressured and constrictive approach most Christian “purity” books have to offer. Celebrates healthy, Biblical sexuality and encourages us to enter into stories of sexual shame for insight to healing. Stringer, a minister and therapist, offers remedies to shame inducing behaviors, bringing the gospel to bear on deep wounds. Stringer’s broad manner of dealing with sexual sin is applicable to all the sexually broken in the church