Don’t Awaken Love
Most would likely agree that we live in a culture intent on promoting sensuality. An ancient love song that speaks to the daughters, implores them not to arouse or awaken love until it’s the right time. Our purpose is not to squash a person’s sexuality but to be very careful with it, giving them every reason to do well and choose well.
Nappies to Nuptials
If we want to see young people equipped to manage their whole lives… including their sexuality… with purity andpurpose we must move beyond our fears and begin to empower our children. Silence won’t do it. Silence isn’t silent anyway – it’s the hole into which any and all other voices can fall.
Regret to Grace to Hope
Purity is not yet another avenue for condemnation but the place where we can be healed and move forward. It is a place where we can reset our mistakes and regrets as motivation to make it better for the generations to follow.
Purity: Helps and Hindrances
We will never able to stop all the negatives of life. As parents our job includes preparing our kids to meet their futures - and to do what we can to minimise the negative effects of whatever culture we’re in. It’s not enough to give them the prohibitions. We need to give them the positive instruction and the equipping to live it.
Of Sandbags and Swords
For too long the topic of purity has been left in the physical arena alone. Impurity does not begin in the body... that is just the final symptom. Impurity and purity both begin in the heart - in desire. If we're going to be serious about purity we need to see that and how we are to apply Protection, Preparation, Provision and Empowerment across the Heart, Soul, Mind and Strength.
Marks of a Purity Outcome
This booklet presents the results of reading hundreds of studies into adolescent sexual behaviour specifically looking for predictors and inhibitors of the onset of activity. Presented here are the five areas are almost universal in those who wait, with some practical applications.
Family Identity
“The shared acceptance of who we are as a team” Gary Ezzo.
The cornerstone of Family Identity is trust. For children to place trust in us we must be trustworthy - living authentic lives before them. So relax a bit – authentic is attainable. Perfect is not.
Who’s Setting Your Values?
TV, movies, advertising, ratings, classification and strategies. How do our values affect these areas of parenting? Who is really shaping what we think and what we choose? Includes website links to current relevant classifications.
Strangers, Signals, Safety and Strategy