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Dont Believe The Swipe
$16.99Add to cartModern dating is not for the faint of heart. Texting, online dating, dating apps, ghosting, social media, and cancel culture have made what was already an emotionally fraught endeavor even more complicated. It can take a toll on your self-esteem and self-worth.
But the good news is, you can learn to date with dignity, to refuse to let the “swipe” rule your life, and to stand confident and not settle for less than what you deserve. In this funny, in-your-face, and self-affirming book, Mandy Hale gets honest about common frustrations, fears, foibles, and anxieties about modern dating. She offers life-tested advice about how to flip the script on dating, showing you how learning to love yourself first makes all the difference.
Dating isn’t just about finding someone you can be happy with in the future, it’s about discovering the amazing, dynamic, whole person you are right now, today. So don’t believe the swipe. Let Mandy help you find love without losing yourself.
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Outdated : Find Love That Lasts When Dating Has Changed
$17.99Add to cartEveryone wants to be loved–to find someone who will stick with them through all of life’s ups and downs, someone who is in it for the long haul. But in a world where dating is increasingly based on split-second decisions and geared toward casual relationships rather than marriage, it’s easy for single people to feel discouraged, used, or unworthy of true love and lasting affection. Reality just never seems to match up with our (often wildly unrealistic) expectations.
Jonathan “JP” Pokluda has counseled thousands of young singles through the pain and heartbreak of dating the world’s way. Now he wants to dispel the myths, misconceptions, and fairy tales you’ve believed about dating and replace them with the truth from the One who invented marriage, created you to crave relationship, and is the very embodiment of true love. With plenty of true stories about relationships healed and love found, this practical book explains God’s purposes for singleness, dating, and marriage and covers why you should date, who you should date, and how you should date.
If you’re ready to trade the world’s way of dating for the way that actually works, it’s time to begin dating well.
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Love That Lasts
$17.99Add to cartIn Love That Lasts, New York Times bestselling author of Jesus > Religion Jefferson Bethke and his wife, Alyssa, expose the distorted views of love that permeate our culture and damage our hearts, minds, and souls.
Drawing from Jeff’s “prodigal son” personal history and from Alyssa’s “True Love Waits” experience, the Bethkes point to a third and better way. Blending personal storytelling with biblical teaching, they offer readers an inspiring, realistic vision of love, dating, marriage, and sex.
Young people today enter adulthood with expectations of blissful dating followed by a romantic, fulfilling marriage only to discover they’ve been duped. They learned about love and sexuality from social media, their friends, Disney fairy tales, pornography, or even their own rocky past, and they have no idea what healthy, lifelong love is supposed to be like. The results are often disastrous, with this generation becoming one of the most relationally sick, sexually addicted, and divorce ridden in history.
Looking to God’s design while drawing lessons from their own successes and failures, the Bethkes explode the fictions and falsehoods of our current moment. One by one, they peel back the lies, such as the belief that every person has only one soul mate, that marriage will complete you, or that pornography and hook-ups are harmless.
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Dare To Date
$14.99Add to cart“It’s Complicated’Matters of the heart always seem to be. But dating in the church? It can be even worse. Relationships can be difficult to define, intentions hard to discern. But with singles making up a third of the total church congregation in the UK, there is a real need to demystify the dating process and return to dating in its simplest form.Rediscover how to date.In this brand new handbook, couples psychologist and dating course leader Aukelien van Abbema offers guidance on how to understand yourself and your own dating patterns, how to rely on your network of friends, and how to bring God into the whole process. Filled with wisdom, stories and practical advice, this book is a freeing reassessment of the dating scene. Begin a whole new romantic adventure filled with hope, joy and a lot of laughter. Go on, dare to date.
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Single Dating Engaged Married
$18.99Add to cartNavigating the Four Critical Seasons of Relationship
The vast majority of young people will still pass through the key phases of singleness, dating, engagement and marriage in their twenties. Yet they are delaying marriage longer than any generation in human history. Why?
For the first time in history, the average age for an American woman having her first child, 26, is younger than the average age of her first marriage, 27. More children than ever are growing up in fatherless homes, despite the overwhelming evidence that in every measurable way this is bad for the child. The Center for Disease Control also recently reported a dramatic rise in sexually transmitted disease nationwide. In Rhode Island alone, since the onset of online dating, reported cases of Syphilis has risen 79%, and HIV has increased by 33%. Though many young people can avoid early pregnancy and STDS, most cannot dodge the depression and feelings of isolation that characterize this modern generation. Studies show a dramatic rise in self-reported loneliness among the young. All of our technological connectivity has not made us feel more connected. In many ways, the very screens that are meant to link us to others have become shields blocking us from the deep intimacy we crave. Many have discovered that where there is a lack of intimacy,addiction often rises to take its place. How can a young person navigate such troubled waters? Is there hope out there?
Like a sailor on turbulent seas, we need to look up and see the North Star: the fixed points in the sky whereby we might navigate the objective realities in life. We need the skill-set to know how to journey through life and how to select the right people to journey alongside. In this book we will chart a course through the four relational phases that the vast majority of human beings on the planet will pass through in their twenties: singleness, dating, engaged and married. In each of these phases, we will look at what eternal purposes should be pursued in each stage, and how to pursue them.
SINGLENESS: DEVOTION
DATING: EVALUATION
ENGAGED: UNIFICATION
MARRIED: MISSION
Our desires for intimacy are powerful. This power can be constructive or destructive. Our satisfaction and our safety will be ensured if we can aim these powerful desires toward divine purposes.
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Steps To Online Dating Success
$9.99Add to cartWhat You Need to Know About Online Dating… First! Online dating is not all fun and games and there are a lot of things that a person has to know about online dating before one gets into the intricacies of it. Online dating may seem to be the simplest thing in the world but it is not.
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Yes Only To The Right Person
$16.99Add to cart“Yes only to the Right Person: A guide to Choosing the Right Partner” answers these questions by guiding you in making an honest appraisal of a person/relationship before handing over your heart. After reading this book; you can only be in a romantic relationship with the wrong person, by choice.
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Mastering Life Before Its Too Late
$18.99Add to cartPastor Rob Morgan provides ten biblical laws for pleasantly productive people by answering the question: How do I gain mastery of my life before it’s too late?
A lifelong student of the Bible, Rob Morgan has spent forty years reading thousands of pages about maximizing each day and becoming purposeful and productive. Now he has found a simple plan that works-featuring ten biblical principles that transcend human wisdom. These life patterns can be implemented today whether you’re a student or a senior adult, a novice or an executive. They can help anyone, anytime, anywhere develop a perpetually effective life.
1. Listen to a twelve-year-old: Jesus’ first statement was: Be about your Father’s business.
2. Redeem the time: Wasted hours can never be regained.
3. Clear the decks: God isn’t disorganized; why should we be?
4. Maximize the morning: Schedule a standing appointment with God.
5. Pull off at rest stops: Routinely replenish your inner resources.
6. Operate on yourself: Diagnose and treat yourself spiritually.
7. Live “As If”: Act by faith even when your emotions aren’t cooperating.
8. Bathe in the Dead Sea: Experience the buoyancy of biblical joy.
9. Practice the power of plodding: Effectively complete major tasks by persistently working in small increments.
10. Remember there are two of you: It’s Christ in you Who’s achieving significance.Based on actual Scriptures, this simple, hope-filled plan for mastering life before it’s too late will put you on the path toward a lifetime of success.
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Sex And The Single Christian Girl
$18.00Add to cartStraight Talk on Sexual Temptation and the Tools to Overcome It
True love waits…but then what? Many Christian women pledged as teenagers to remain pure for marriage, but the rhetoric falls short as they enter adulthood and encounter more serious romantic relationships. Bombarded with images of Hollywood’s version of romance, women facing real-world temptation may be wondering what they’re missing and if the wait is really worth it.
Marian Jordan Ellis has been there. She struggled with the same temptations, the same questions, the same challenges of being a single Christian adult in today’s anything-goes culture. Now she wants to share what she learned. Emphasizing that women are cherished by God and their purity is worth fighting for, Marian offers much-needed advice on triumphing over the sexual pitfalls of dating and romance.
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Sex Plus Faith
$21.00Add to cartTalking with your child about sex can be scary! Sex + Faith helps parents incorporate their faith values with sexual information so they can answer questions, discuss sexuality at each stage of childhood, and show support of sexual differences. Section one explains how faith relates to sexuality and the essential role parents play in forming healthy, faithful, sexual children . The second section designates a chapter for four age groupings of children from infancy through high school. Each chapter explains the biological and developmental issues of the age, answers questions children tend to have, provides relevant Biblical and faith stories helpful to discuss with children of that age, and lists five to ten key educational issues for parents to keep in mind. Shaded text boxes are interspersed throughout the book with real life, practical questions that parents and children ask. Expertly written by Kate Ott, Sex + Faith is an easy to use reference guide for parents of kids of all ages.
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Passion And Purity (Reprinted)
$17.99Add to cartWe know we need to commit daily to Christ all matters of the heart and to wait upon Him. But so often it is a painful, lonely process that takes longer than we want it to.
In her classic book, Passion and Purity, Elisabeth Elliot candidly shares with you her love story with Jim Elliot as evidence that she has been there. Through letters, diary entries, and memories, she shares the temptations, difficulties, victories, and sacrifices of two young people whose commitment to Christ took priority over their love for each other. These revealing personal glimpses, combined with relevant biblical teaching, will remind you that only by putting your human passion and desire through His fire can God purify your love.
Includes honest, biblical direction on these important matters of the heart
*loving passionately while remaining sexually pure
*whether or not to marry, and who is the right one
*the man’s and woman’s role in relationships
*putting God’s desires ahead of personal desires
*how far is too far, physicallyIn a culture obsessed with dating, sex, and intimacy, the need for Elliot’s freeing message is greater than ever.
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Bare Naked Truth
$16.99Add to cartThe Truth About Sex and Waiting … Uncovered and Revealed Purity. Sex. Boys. Waiting. Something about those words makes everything complex in a heartbeat. Is there something wrong with me if I don’t kiss a boy after a date? Or am I doomed if I did? Is waiting a one-way trip to life as a crazy cat woman? And what if I, um, think about a certain boy a certain way? It seems the lady at church and your friends have two very different opinions on the subject. And the purity talks aren’t always cutting it. Bekah Hamrick Martin knows the waiting game isn’t easy or straight-forward. In The Bare Naked Truth, she lays everything on the table—including some embarrassing moments—as she explores the honest, naked truth behind what God means by purity. With additional entries from popular authors, you’ll see the bare naked approach to waiting isn’t always easy, but it’s worth the risk.
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Truth About Breaking Up Making Up And Moving On
$14.99Add to cartBreaking up is hard to do, and it affects almost every teen at some point. This third addition to Chad Eastman’s bestselling series will be a great resource for teens.
Ending a relationship, or being broken up with, is a common experience for teenagers, but they don’t always know how to deal with those situations in a healthy way. Using humor, Scripture, and practical advice, this book will give girls the tools they need to handle these events in their life and give them some fresh perspective as well. This is also a great resource for parents, youth leaders, school counselors, and anyone working with youth to equip them to walk with the teens who are experiencing heartache and tough decisions about relationships.
The way people handle relationships as teenagers can set a precedent for how they relate with others for the rest of their lives; this book will give teens a foundation for a lifetime of healthy relationships.
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20 First Dates
$24.99Add to cartHumorous accounts of the author’s search for Mr Right with practical advice and encouragement for fellow seekers.
Rebecca K. Maddox is 30 years old. After many years as a single Christian woman, she embarked on a dating experiment – to go on twenty first dates, with twenty men, met in twenty different ways.
Over the course of a year, Rebecca was almost compromised on the dance floor, stranded in a muddy village and the catcher of a bouquet. She sheltered under a cupcake box, waited nervously in line for results and spent hours trawling profiles on the Internet. She was driven in a rusty car with no floor and chased by an angry granny. She narrowly escaped a squirting tiger and a falling pigeon, attempted to eat a variety of foodstuffs while trying to look attractive, and struggled in and out of her glad rags in the toilets of approximately ten trains to London. She was confused, amused, frustrated and dazzled in equal measure.
This is the true story of one woman’s determined search for the man of her dreams, with plenty of practical advice on the world of Christian dating.
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Truth About Guys
$14.99Add to cartOkay, it’s a fact. God made guys and girls different in more ways than just the physical.
But how different could we really be? After all, we are all made in His image, right? Well, yes, but let’s just say that guys and girls view the world in such different ways, that it’s a miracle we communicate at all. What’s worse is that girls this age often think they know what makes guys tick. That couldn’t be more wrong!
Chad Eastham tells it like it is . . . to girls . . . from a guy’s perspective. As a popular presenter at Revolve conferences, he is known for his ability to speak truth and to give girls clearer perspective about guys and themselves as well as understand their own value. Chad explains, “You are incredibly valuable and worthy simply because God created you.”
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GLAM Girls Guide To Sex
$15.55Add to cartSex is everywhere.You can turn off the television, never buy another magazine, and keep your children home until their grown, but we absolutely cannot keep them from learning about sexuality…and it would be wrong if we tried. Often people still grasping at some form of morality over-react to our sex saturated society and stick their heads in the sand, letting people make God’s gift to a man and his wife, dirty. Our young people want to learn about this subject, and if their mentors zip their mouths and make it uncomfortable, they will go to other sources. The G.L.A.M. Girl’s Guide To Sex is a book to teach young ladies that they need to prepare their hearts for purity so when they are faced with (and they will be at some point) the temptation to yield to the lust of the flesh, they will instead stand up for Christ.
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What Is He Thinking
$19.99Add to cartIn WHAT IS HE THINKING??, Rebecca interviews a range of men from high-profile types to the guys next door, men that every woman can relate to. Although the interviews focus on single guys ages 20-35, Rebecca also includes words of wisdom from older mentors she respects who have been successfully married for years, people like her dad, life coach, and pastor.
The men share their thoughts on topics like how women can respect themselves and the men in their lives, modesty, purity, taking it slow, friendship, letting guys lead, and more. This book gives them the floor to say what they would really like women to know.
The men respond candidly to questions such as:
*What is the most attractive quality to you in a woman?
*Is modesty truly attractive?
*Is neediness a turn-off?
*What do you find beautiful?
*How can we be dependent on God for our identity, not on you?
*How can we help you with boundaries physically?Rebecca also discusses her own dating life, speaking openly about the single life, her struggle with loneliness, and her hope for the future. She challenges women to see the men in their lives as brothers in Christ and to trust God with their dating lives.
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Bare Facts : 39 Questions Your Parents Hope You Never Ask About Sex
$10.99Add to cartSex is everywhere. And misunderstandings about it are even more pervasive.
Whether you have questions of your own and don’t know who to ask, or you are being asked questions and don’t know where to turn-this small book has the answers.
Bestselling author and speaker, Josh McDowell believes that no question is off limits and that knowledge, not ignorance, is the key to youthful purity and a fulfilling marriage and family. This book builds on that approach with relevant, pertinent statistics, entertaining anecdotes, and real stories.
This little book will be a very practical tool in the hands of anyone who is struggling, anyone who is curious, anyone who is nervous about asking a “dumb question,” and most importantly, anyone who desires to learn how to honor God with his or her body. The Bible is clear on a lot of these issues and Josh’s candor (and respect for young people) shines through as he shares these truths about sex.
Much like Josh’s apologetics books, this book will help equip a skeptical generation with the facts they are sorely missing.
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Truth About Dating Love And Just Being Friends
$14.99Add to cartChad Eastham, with his typical wit and wisdom for teens, brings much sought after advice on girls’ favorite topics including dating, love, friendship, and other important stuff.
Chad shines some much-needed light on these major issues for teens. Rather than let their feelings navigate them blindly through their tumultuous adolescence, Chad offers clarity, some surprising revelations, and answers to some of their biggest questions: How do I know who to date? When should I start dating? How should I start dating? Is this really love? And, Why do guys I like just want to be friends?
Packed with humor that adds to the sound advice, this book will help teens make better decisions, have healthier relationships, and be more prepared for their futures. Just a few things girls will learn include: Five things you need to know about love; Eight dumb dating things even smart people do; Ten reasons why teens are unhappy; and Ten things happy teens do.
Any teen can live a happier, healthier life: they just need to hear The Truth.
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Making Sense Of Sex
$23.00Add to cartHaving sex can be a loving and delightful experience, but it can also be emotionally, physically, and spiritually devastating. Many singles struggle to sort out how to make their own sexual experiences physically and emotionally healthy ones. This book can help. Duffy offers a thoughtful guide to sexual decision-making for single twentysomethings, exploring ten issues readers should consider when deciding whether and when to have sex. Appropriate for non-Christians and Christians alike, Duffy’s work is as relevant to those who have already had sex as it is to those who are considering it for the first time.
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Good Man Is Hard To Find
$13.49Add to cartThank you for your interest in A Good Man is Hard to Find, Even in the Church. I believe this book will help you with the task of finding a suitable mate and the wait that comes along with it. This book takes a few-holds-barred approach in sharing the perks and quirks of dating and will help people avoid unnecessary drama in their spouse-finding/keeping efforts. What makes this book unique is its approach – pure honesty! Things I did not want to include, I included just to make my point clear through example. Experience is a good teacher, but I don’t believe we have to learn from our own experiences. We can also learn from the experiences of others. Why burn yourself on the stove when Momma can already tell you that the stove is hot? I dare to expose the truth since it’s the truth that sets us free!
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Intimate Issues : 21 Questions Christian Women Ask About Sex
$14.99Add to cartIntimate Issues answers the twenty-one questions about sex most frequently asked by Christian wives, as determined by a nationwide poll of over one thousand women. Written from the perspective of two mature Christian wives and Bible teachers-women who you’ll come to know as teachers and friends-Intimate Issues is biblical and informative: sometimes humorous, other times practical, but always honest. Through its solid teaching warm testimonials, scriptural insights, and experts’ advise, you’ll find resolution for your questions and fears, surprising insights about God’s perspective on sex, and a variety of practical and creative ideas for enhancing your physical relationship with the husband you love.
With warmth and wisdom, authors Linda Dillow and Lorraine Pintus speak woman to woman: examining the teachings of Scripture, exposing the lies of the world, and offering real hope that every woman’s marriage relationship can become all it was intended to be in God’s design.
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Guys Like Girls Who
$14.99Add to cartEvery girl has wondered how they need to act or what they need to do to get a certain boy’s attention. Now they can know! Chad Eastham will encourage girls to be confident in who they are and Whose they are. Girls need to know that they are treasures to be adored and that how she feels about herself is how guys will treat her. Chapter titles add fun and interest to this life-altering message. Guys Like Girls Who . . .
Wear Jeans (comfortable with who they are and Whose they are)
Know the Future (understand there is a 96% chance this is not the boy they will marry so don’t act like they are)
Leave Us Alone (have their own hobbies)
Can Spell (can say “no”)
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Wait For Me
$14.99Add to cartA call to young people to remain sexually pure until marriage.
Everyone longs to be loved deeply by someone, and Rebecca St. James is no different, as demonstrated by her hit song “Wait for Me.” In this revised and updated version of the 2002 release, Rebecca shares the same desires as other young people as her resolve to remain sexually pure until marriage is not common in our society.
Using Scripture, pop culture, and her own experience as a point of reference, Rebecca paints a relevant and appealing picture of the value of waiting. But Rebecca also reaches out with compassion to those who have already made mistakes and reveals the mercy and healing that God brings.
The new editon of this bestseller includes: a fresh design (inside and out) with eye-catching graphics; a new introduction from Rebecca; journaling sections throughout the book; and a study guide for personal or group use.
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Before You Get Engaged
$18.99Add to cartHelps couples who are thinking about getting engaged know if they are ready to offer or accept a marriage proposal. In Before You Get Engaged, authors David Gudgel, his son Brent, and Brent’s girlfriend Danielle interact in a discussion that not only reveals twelve relational indicators indispensable to a healthy, lasting marriage, but fleshes them out with dialogue and insight straight from Brent and Danielle’s journals. Designed to help daters know if engagement is truly the best next step in their relationship, the book is divided into four sections:
Part 1: Are You Sure You’re Ready?
Part 2: Do You Make a Good Couple?
Part 3: What Do Others Think?
Part 4: Now What Should You Do?Before You Get Engaged will help readers know if they are ready to ask the all important question, if they should date a little longer, or end the relationship and move on.
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10 Commandments Of Dating
$18.99Add to cartThe Ten Commandments of Dating, completely revised and updated, offers hope and sanity to singles who are sick and tired of the dating scene.
Many people are tired of pouring time, energy, and money into relationships that start off great and end with heartache. Because of that, they need The Ten Commandments of Dating to give them the hard-hitting, black-and-white, practical guidelines that will address their questions and frustrations about dating.
Revised and updated for a new generation of daters, this guide will help men and women keep their head as they search for the desires of their hearts. The Ten Commandments of Dating isn’t more relationship advice; it’s relationship common sense.
If people keep the ten commandments of dating, their relationships will run more smoothly, they will be protected from the pain of contemporary dating pitfalls, and they’ll be on their way to building living, lasting relationships.
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Doing Things Right In Matters Of The Heart
$16.99Add to cartThere is a radical, biblical alternative to much of what is taught and practiced today regarding relationships. Doing Things Right in Matters of the Heart presents a bold plan for escaping the swift currents of contemporary patterns of hooking up, shacking up, and breaking up. It draws a compelling vision of complementarity between the sexes. It instructs men on what to do and informs women on what to look for in their mutual pursuit of a healthy, tender, long-term relationship.
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Your Knight In Shining Armor
$13.99Add to cartP.B. Wilson’s Knight in Shining Armor (more than 150,000 copies sold) lets women know that if they desire true love, they need to prepare themselves mentally, physically, and emotionally…and God will bring their knight in shining armor to them. Readers will discover what they need to change and what should stay the same to make themselves attractive to godly men. Principles taught include-
*emotionally healthy women attract emotionally healthy men
*dating someone in hopes he’ll change later is asking for trouble
*a potential knight’s past reveals how he’ll act in the futurePractical and realistic, this book helps women break free from ineffective behaviors and attitudes to discover God’s design for waiting, dating, and choosing a mate.
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Falling In Love For All The Right Reasons
$19.99Add to cartWhether you have never been married or are single again after a death or divorce, you can meet a wonderful person who wants to share your life at the deepest levels. This eye-opening guide explains the essential rules for finding true love. Falling in Love for all the Right Reasons helps you avoid wasting years on the wrong person and the pain of a broken heart. Instead, it opens the door to finding a love that you can relish for a lifetime and, what’s more, shows you how to begin a successful search right now!
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Ending Violence In Teen Dating Relationships
$19.00Add to cartForeword By Dr. Jill Murray
Acknowledgments1.Hell On Earth: Violence In The Dating Relationships Of Christian Teens
2.How Christian Teachings And Popular Culture Contribute To Teen Dating Violence
3.Unique Challenges: Dating Violence Among Urban African Ameridcan Teens
4.How Clergy, Youth Ministers, Christian Educators, And Parents Can Help
5.Healthy Teen Dating Relationships: Why Teamwork Is EssentialAppendix A: Qualities Of A Healthy Christian Marriage: A Sermon On Domestic Violence Awareness
Appendix B: Selected Resources
NotesAdditional Info
Miles, a nationally recognized expert in the field of domestic violence and teen relationship violence, explores the complex issue of teen dating violence. Through interviews and other research, he provides critical information that parents, caregivers, clergy, and educators can use to protect teens and help them foster healthy dating relationships.Miles offers thoughtful advice and answers to such questions as: What constitutes violence in teen dating relationships? Why is the problem so pervasive? What are the warning signs that parents and other caring adults can watch for that may indicate a teen is being either abused or abusive? And what can the church do to help?
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How To Get A Date Worth Keeping
$19.99Add to cartIn How to Get a Date Worth Keeping, Dr. Henry Cloud gets to the heart of the issues dating raises for many readers and gets them on the road to fun and fulfillment in the single life. He explains both stagnant dating (it’s virtually nonexistent) and unfruitful dating (you keep attracting the wrong types or have other unhealthy patterns). But Dr. Cloud doesn’t leave you after giving you explanations; he offers you a program designed to solve your dating woes. If you are single and dating is not working for you, it’s time you find success. Get ready for lots of growth, healing, stretching, and dates!
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Gift Wrapped By God
$18.00Add to cartWomen who have maintained their sexual purity often ask, Is it really that important for me to wait until I get married? Meanwhile, single women who have been sexually active mourn the loss of their innocence, wishing they could somehow start again.
Women want to protect the purity that is God’s gift to them, and they also long to be loved. This volatile combination makes them vulnerable to temptation. That is why it is vital that women know not only that God wants them to wait, but why God wants them to do so. They need solid reasons, conviction, and a strategy that will prepare them to live out their sexual purity as God intends.
Filled with powerful true stories of hope and healing, Gift-Wrapped by God provides compelling emotional and spiritual reasons for choosing God’s path of sexual purity, as well as practical help for following it. Whether women have held onto their sexual innocence, have become prematurely sexually active, or have had their purity taken by force, they can express and fulfill their desire to come to their wedding day–and live out every day-sexually pure and whole.
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You Didnt Complete Me
$18.99Add to cartYou finally meet “the one” and plan to remain his forever. But what if Mr. Right turns into Mr. Wrong? Sharing the pain of her broken engagement, Harris asks, “Who am I without him?”—and discovers that in Christ she is made whole. Her story will encourage you in your own journey from heartbreak to healing.
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10 Commandments Of Dating
$14.99Add to cartThe 10 Commandments of Dating Student Edition provides you with ten time-tested relationship laws that protect you from the pitfalls of modern dating and will help you practice good relationship habits for the future. This book gives you practical, no-nonsense advice on how to build positive relationships with the opposite sex. If you keep the Tten commandments, you will be on the road to making wise dating decisions! Sales of Author’s Previous Books: The 10 Commandments of Dating, 116,000 STATUS:N CPCCATEGORY:YCKYTIDSX
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In Search Of The Proverbs 31 Man
$15.99Add to cart224 Pages
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We’ve heard much about the virtuous Proverbs 31 wife. But what godly characteristics should Christian women be seeking or nurturing in a man? Hammond digs into God’s Word for thought-provoking examples of traits that distinguish a husband (or potential husband) “of noble character.” Essential reading for dating singles of either sex! -
Before You Live Together
$17.00Add to cartWill living together bring you closer or drive you apart? You are about to make a decision that will take your life in a totally new direction, one that will have a lasting impact on you and someone you love. If you are wrestling with that decision, now is the time to stop and set your emotions gently aside and take time to sort through your own feelings, as well as other people’s opinions about what is best for you. Candid, caring, and thoughtful, Before You Live Together is uses true stories to illustrate different living-together situations and their outcomes. It also addresses the basic questions and issues you may have asked yourself, including:Is this the best way to find out if we are compatible?Why do we need a piece of paper to tell us we are committed to each other?Is it so much cheaper than paying two rents?While this book presents biblical values in a compelling and loving way, it never lectures, but instead seeks to help you decide what is best for both of you. Read it for yourself. Read it with the one you love. Read it to make the right decision at the time when it matters most.
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Finding Mr Right
$18.99Add to cartIn discussions about finding a marriage partner, we often hear the cliche, “you’ll just know.” Unfortunately, this conjecture can be dangerous, as love is blind to many faults. When those words have faded, the heartache of an ailing or broken marriage will still be sharp.
In Finding Mr. Right, the authors offer a list of ten characteristics to look for in Mr. Right — physical attraction is NOT one of then — along with ten principles on how to choose well. They dispel the “one perfect person” myth, encouraging women to abandon the search for Mr. Perfect and become comfortable with Mr. Right. Additionally, they share steps to becoming Mrs. Right. Among other attributes, readers will learn to look for men who: Are responsible men of integrity Communicate effectively Are not misers with emotions, time, or money
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Too Close To The Flame
$17.95Add to cart(When placing your order, please mention that this is a Lightining Source book.)
“Our world is aflame with sex,” warns counselor and author Dr. Gregg Jantz. We live in a society where sex is practiced openly, talked about freely, engaged in creatively, and flaunted shamelessly. Cultural stigmas that once kept sex within definable boundaries have all but disappeared.
Anyone can fall prey to sexual temptation or become the target of a sexual aggressor. Any man or woman who has contact with the opposite sex – whether at church, in the workplace, or at play – needs the vital information contained in these pages.
Would you recognize a sexually charged relationship soon enough to avoid falling into an affair? Would you be able to help a friend, loved one, or someone you’re counseling avoid such a relationship? Basing each section on gripping case studies, this must-read book for the new millennium will help you recognize the danger signs of a sexualized relationship and show you how to keep your future with your family, your friends, your coworkers, and your God secure
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1st Class Single
$14.99Add to cart1st Class Single shows women how to date God’s way. God will help you go down the right road that leads to meeting and marrying the right mate. For a woman, dating with the hopes of reaching the altar can be very risky. Your journey toward the right mate may experience air pockets and stormy weather! That is why 1st Class Single was written. Read 1st Class Single and you will discover: Consider it a Bad Sign If You are the Only One Happy about the Relationship Don’t Marry Potential Don’t Try to Make, Force, or Buy a Relationship Develop the Qualities you Seek in a Mate Don’t Go Down the Aisle If You aren’t at Perfect Peace Know Your Worth! Cultivate ‘Sister’ Friendships Look at the Signs Then Wonder! 1st Class Single gives you the benefit of learning from someone else’s personal experiences. Chock-full of biblical references and spiritual analyses, 1st Class Single is a reliable road map that will help any single woman navigate the often-dangerous course toward holy matrimony.
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Devotions For Dating Couples
$28.00Add to cartToday, there is a great deal of emphasis on the mystical and intangible nature of relationships but very little emphasis on the real, practical steps involved in building an enduring love. In contrast, authors Ben Young and Sam Adams place great importance on the value of spiritual compatibility in Devotions for Dating Couples.Designed especially for highly committed or engaged couples, it helps readers: Understand and avoid the most common barriers to spiritual growth Have an increased desire for fellowship with God Share and explore spiritual issues together Pursue godliness, personal relational health, and wholenessEach of the eight sections includes Scripture quotations, suggested meditation passages, and discussion questions, as well as anecdotes from real people including the authors. Intended as an eight-week study, weekday devotions are to be completed by both individuals, and each weekend study is to be completed together as a couple.
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Too Close Too Soon
$18.99Add to cartJim Talley and Bobbie Reed outline simple yet effective methods of building quality relationships while curtailing premature intimacy in this plain-spoken and experience-tested manual. A study guide at the end of the book features discussion questions and creative assignments for each chapter.
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Forget Me Not
$16.00Add to cartExtreme Wisdom for Some of Life’s Most Extraordinary Relationships
If you’ve ever had a crush on someone, or if you’ve ever gone on a date, you know that the guy-girl relationship is one of the most exciting, complicated, and distracting relationships there are in life. When you’ve got your eye on someone special, it’s easy to lose sight of other things that really matter to you-friends, family, schoolwork, goals and dreams… even God. But God doesn’t want to be kept on the outside. He cares about you and your relationships. In this 31-day devotional–complete with stories about teens like you, questions to make you think, key Scriptures, and room to journal–you’ll learn how to make God an important part of your dating experiences and keep him first place in your life, no matter who turns your head or captures your heart.
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Dating Intimacy And The Teenage Years
$17.99Add to cart1A Daughter’s Vision
2A Boy’s Desire
3God’s Likeness
4The Bonding Of Women To Men
5Male Bonding To Women
6More About God’s Design Of People
7Our Weakness: How Man Fell
8Comparing Girls And Boys
9Attributes Given To Boys And Girls
10Sovereignty: Who’s The Head?
11Setting The Stage For The Lie
12Believing The Big Lie
13Fruit Of The Big Lie
14Boaz: A Man’s Man
15Boys: Setting The Stage For The Lie
16Boys: Believing The Big Lie
17More Fruit Of The Lie
18The Destruction Of Men And Women-Part One
19The Destruction Of Men And Women-Part Two
20Role Reversal
21Strongholds
22Strongholds In Girls
23Strongholds In Boys
24Warfare Between Strongholds
25Making A Man
26Making Men: Joseph
27Making Men: Judah
28More About God’s Design
29Patterns Of Truth
30A Summary Of Lies That Destroy Teens
31A Summary Of Truth And Life For Teens
32A Final Review Of A Girl’s Vision
33A Final Review Of A Boy’s Desire
34Restoration
35Eyes And EarsAdditional Info
The dreams and visions of young hearts are part of God’s plan for our lives-including our dreams of the perfect mate. In Dating, Intimacy & the Teenage Years, Karl Duff explains God’s design for the sexes and warns of the ways it can be distorted and ruined. The short chapters in this book make it ideal for individual and group study by families and youth groups. -
7 Secrets Of A Healthy Dating Relationship (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cart1. Guess What-Its No Secret!
2. Being A Wise Guy
3. The Hot-water Test
4. A Fool For Love
5. Party Animals
6. Making Music
7. The Attitude Of Gratitude
8. No, Please-You First
Conclusion: Finding True Love
102 PagesAdditional Info
Choosing whom to date -and ultimately finding true love – is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. It can be done by impulse, driven by misinformation from others. Or it can be done through a thoughtful process, guided by proven principles. This book will help you do just that. It identifies some of the most important Biblical principles for building loving relationships with members of the opposite sex.7 Secrets To Healthy Dating Relationships is for anyone interested in building close relationships. Whether you’re looking for someone to date, already in a relationship, or even considering marriage, 7 Secrets reveals seven powerful ways for both becoming and finding people with whom you can build healthy relationships.
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Hes Hot Shes Hot
$14.99Add to cart“He’s the boy of my dreams—Holy, Outrageous, and Trustworthy!” Focusing on the most crucial aspect of healthy dating and marriage, the Clarks offer a practical and biblical guide to choosing a godly companion. Young adults will appreciate this fresh approach to applying God’s wisdom to one of the most challenging areas of their lives.
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Should I Get Married (Revised)
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Are your ready for marriage? Are you physically, spiritually and emotionally compatible? What if making such a big commitment scares you? How do you find God’s will in all this? These are crucial questions that evey man or woman asks. And they deserve our best thinking. In this revised edition M. Blaine Smith draws from his own experience and his years of counceling singles and couples and takes a refreshingly candid, open-hearted look at these issues, helping men and women think through the important disisions concerning marriage.
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Boundaries In Dating Workbooks (Workbook)
$14.99Add to cartBetween singleness and marriage lies the journey of dating. Want to make your road as smooth as possible? Set and maintain healthy boundaries that will help you grow in freedom, honesty, and self control. If many of your dating experiences have been difficult, Boundaries in dating will revolutionize the way you handle relationships. Even if you’re happily dating, the insights you’ll gain from this much needed book will help you fine tune important areas of your dating life. Designed to accompany Boundaries in Dating, this workbook is your map for traveling the dating road. It’s filled with pointed assessments, insights, questions for thought and discussion, and principles for you to put into practice in your relationships with the opposite sex. The Boundaries in Dating Workbook helps you deal with four critical concerns you face as a single person: you and your boundaries; whom should I date? solving dating problems when you’re part of the problem; solving dating problems when your date is the problem. Written by authors of the best selling book Boundaries, this workbook can help you enjoy the kind of smart, rewarding dating that can take you from weekends alone to a lifetime with the soul mate you’ve longed for.
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Her Hand In Marriage
$12.00Add to cart1. The Authority Of Parents
2. Preparing Sons For Courtship
3. Preparing Daughters For Courtship
4. Culmination Of Courtship
5. Details Of CourtshipAdditional Info
The modern dating system is bankrupt. It does not train young people to form a relationship but rather to form a series of relationships, hardening themselves to all but the current one. Recreational dating encourages emotional attachments without convenantal fences and makes a joke of a father’s authority. The disrespect children have for their fathers in this area is an echo of the disrespect fathers have for their own office.Biblical courtship provides a wonderful freedom. It involves familial wisdom and godly protection. Grounded upon the involved authority of the father, courtship delights in its public connection to the lives of families. Sexual purity is a great inheritance for a marriage, and part of the fathers job is to guarantee to protect that heritage.
Biblical courtship is a humble affront to the sterility of modern relationships. And as a new generation rejoices in this ancient wisdom, the current waves of broken relationships will begin to recede.
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I Gave Dating A Chance
$14.99Add to cartIn recent years, “dating” has become a dirty word in many Christian circles. So dirty, in fact, that young believers are now encouraged simply not to date. This position has provoked an open debate among teens, their parents and youth workers, and single adults. For a great number of them, many questions remain unanswered.
-“Lord, what do I do with this desire to date?”
-“Can dating be an option for young adults who love the Lord and long to please Him?”Is not dating really the only acceptable option in God’s eyes? The answer, assures author and youth pastor Jeramy Clark, is a resounding “No!”
The time has come for a sound, biblical, and practical approach that balances out the extreme perspectives: dating without responsibility versus a complete withdrawal from the dating process. Learn how you can confidently pursue healthy dating relationships that are characterized by holiness and integrity–and ultimately bring glory and honor to God–in I Gave Dating a Chance.
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Eros Defiled : The Christian And Sexual Sin
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With tough-minded compassion, seasoned wisdom, and an awareness of sin’s destructiveness, White offers forgiveness and a way out for Christians struggling with premarital and extramarital sex, homosexuality, and masturbation. He concludes with a telling chapter on how your church can help strugglers in a context of love and forgiveness.
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Black Christian Singles Guide To Dating And Sexuality
$19.99Add to cart1. Singleness: Burden, Blessing, Or Both?
2. Male And Female: Appreciating The Differences
3. No Condom For The Mind
4. Sanctified Sex
5. Beyond Dinner And A Movie
6. Common Questions, Uncommon Answers
7. Solo Sex
8. Date Rape
9. Homosexuality
10. Breaking Up Without Breaking Down
11. How To Recognize Mr. Or Ms. Right
12. Who’s Loving You?160 Pages
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1. Singleness: Burden, Blessing, Or Both?
2. Male And Female: Appreciating The Differences
3. No Condom For The Mind
4. Sanctified Sex
5. Beyond Dinner And A Movie
6. Common Questions, Uncommon Answers
7. Solo Sex
8. Date Rape
9. Homosexuality
10. Breaking Up Without Breaking Down
11. How To Recognize Mr. Or Ms. Right
12. Who’s Loving You?160 Pages
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Preparing Your Child For Dating
$19.99Add to cart17 Chapters
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No other significant area of a child’s life is so unsupervised today as dating. But this important subject doesn’t have to be left to chance. Dr. Bob Barnes insists that it’s never too early to begin planning for the dating years_and with a reasonable game plan, both parents and adolescents can come out winners. Preparing Your Child for Dating empowers parents to prepare their children for the challenges of making dating choices. It answers questions such as: What is the purpose of dating? When should a child date? Who should he or she date? Where should they go and what should they do on a date? Preparing Your Child for Dating offers a template for successful dating and moving into responsible adulthood. -
Starting Out Together (Reprinted)
$13.00Add to cartHow can a young couple start off on the right foot, helping to ensure that their marriage remains strong and vibrant? This dynamic sixty-day devotional from well-known Christian counselor H. Norman Wright is written expressly for pre-engaged, engaged, or dating couples. The Starting Out Together devotional allows engaged couples to spend quality time together, learning what God says about marriage success. This beautifully designed devotional is a practical, inspirational tool that will help prepare couples of all ages for the wonder and mystery of marriage.
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Purity Under Pressure
$16.99Add to cartHarvest House Publishers Print On Demand Title
Does anything last in a sex-crazed world? In this book, you’ll find out the difference between being friends, dating, and having a relationship. You’ll see how the physical stuff fits in. And you’ll get answers to imporant questions like: “What is real love?” “How can you keep a good relationship from going bad?” “What does God say about sex?” “How far is too far?” “What if you’re trapped?” “Can you ever be free?” “Can you ever start over?” Yes. You can be free … in Christ. No hype. No big lectures. Just straightforward talk to help you figure out what to do when your purity’s under pressure.
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Sexual Man : Masculinity Without Guilt
$18.99Add to cartContents
List Of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction1. Male Sexuality-The Untold Story
2. Am I Normal?
3. Why Male Sexuality Goes Wrong
4. How Men Think About Sex
5. What Men Really Want From Sex
6. Why Men Love/Hate Pornography
7. Teenage Sexuality
8. Sex And The Married Man
9. Men, Sex, And The Workplace
10. Religion And Sex
11. Creating A Healthy SexualityPostscript
Appendix 1: Survey: The Heterosexual Male Experience
Appendix 2: Where To Get Help For Sexual Problems
Notes P. 219Additional Info
What “good men” think about sex:“Am I oversexed?” “Why do I think such X-rated thoughts?” “What is ‘normal’ when it comes to sex?” “Do other men struggle the way I do?”
Dr. Archibald Hart, eminent psychologist and highly acclaimed author and lecturer, addresses these and other questions men face daily in The Sexual Man: Masculinity Without Guilt. The result of research gained form confidentially surveying more than 600 men, this book de-mystifies what men secretly think and feel about male sexuality. In it, Dr. Hart reveals:
*What satisfies men sexually and what the limits should be.
*Sexual fears, fetishes, and failures that haunt males.
*How to ensure healthy sexual development-from boyhood to manhood.
*Keys to a fulfilled and guilt-free sex life.Based on the author’s groundbreaking nationwide research, the book refutes the current myths surrounding male sexuality and provides a psychologically sound view of what men secretly feel about:
*love and lust
*frequency of sex
*sexual harassment
*pornography, fantasy, and masturbation
*oral sex
*sex and aging
*making sexual dreams come true
*sex and religion
*sex and the workplace
*sex and affection
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52 Ways To Have Fun Fantastic Sex
$14.99Add to cartContents
142 pages/52 chapters
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As married couples, we all desire passion in our relationship, but with the pressures of careers, kids, and day-to-day commitments, who has the time or energy to create it?! Well-known sexual therapists, Dr. Clifford and Joyce Penner do! And they provide you with a host of inventive and exciting ideas to help you rekindle passion in your marriage.Addressing both “cautious types” and “risk takers,” the Penners offer a new, creative idea to try each week so that within 52 weeks you will be experiencing a sex life that blazes with variety and intimacy!
Move beyond your everyday routine-learn to have fun, fantastic sex-and you will discover renewed excitement and passion with one another!