Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality: Empowering Your Kids to Understand and Live Out God's Design

by Hillary Morgan Ferrer, Amy Davison (Contribution by)

Overview

Raise Them to Value God’s Design

Starting at a young age, kids are being fed damaging misinformation about sexuality, gender identity, and human biology. As a parent, it’s up to you to help your children understand God’s truth about these integral concepts in the face of the candy-coated lies that saturate today’s world.

In the footsteps of the bestselling Mama Bear Apologetics comes this invaluable guide to training your kids to know and respect God’s design in a world that has rejected it. This book will equip you to…

• understand God’s design for gender, sex, marriage, and family as a beautiful portrait that reveals the nature of God Himself
• identify the tactics being used to trick children into adopting an unbiblical view of sexuality under the guise of Christian-sounding words like love, identity, tolerance, and justice
• teach your kids to treat those who hold different beliefs with gentle, Christlike compassion without compromising biblical values

As society continues to blur the lines of what is good, true, and acceptable, God’s standards remain clear and unchanging. This book will give you the wisdom to confidently raise your children to understand sex and gender through a biblical lens.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780736983815
Publisher:	Harvest House Publishers
Publication date:	10/05/2021
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	124,225
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Hillary Morgan Ferrer, founder of Mama Bear Apologetics®, has a burden for providing accessible apologetics resources for busy moms. She has a master’s in biology, and her specialties are in cultural apologetics, the relationship between science and faith, and understanding the root causes of doubt. Hillary and her husband, John, have been married for more than 16 years and minister together as an apologetics team in Iowa.

Amy Davison is a former Air Force veteran-turned-writer and podcast cohost for Mama Bear Apologetics®. She received her BS in religion from Liberty University and MA in Christian apologetics from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. She speaks at conferences, and her work has been published by the Evangelical Philosophical Society and The Stream.

Table of Contents

Introduction: My Kid's Cartoon Showed What?-Why I Needed This Book Yesterday 7

Part 1 Things I Probably Already Knew…But Kinda Forgot

1 Sexually Set Apart-How Sexual Holiness Is a Nonnegotiable for Disciples of Jesus 21

2 Sex Is Spelled W-O-R-L-D-V-I-E-W-Wait, What's a Worldview? 35

3 A Pretty Great Design, When Followed-How Gender, Marriage, Sex, and Family Show Us the God We Can't See 49

4 Demolishing Arguments, Not People-Releasing Ideological Captives 67

Part 2 Wait, My Kids Are Being Taught What?!

5 Are You Sex Smarter than a Fifth Grader?-Understanding the New Sexual Education Standards 83

6 The Enemy's New Playbook-The Language and Morality of the Sexual Agenda 101

7 The Genderbread Person-The New Definitions of Identity, Expression, Sex, and Attraction 115

8 Sex-Positivity-Anything Goes if It's Consensual 131

Part 3 Things That Are Tripping Everyone Up

9 Pornography-It's Not Technically Sex if You're By Yourself, Right? 149

10 Same-Sex Attraction-Hurting People to Be Loved 171

11 Gender Identity-When Birds Identify as Bees 191

12 Purity Culture-When Our Best Efforts Went Kablooey 213

13 Taking Up Your Sexual Cross-Because We're All Born That Way 231

Afterword: Things to Repeat to Your Kids Until They Want to Gag-The Lasting Effects of a Good Maxim 245

A Final Word 255

Notes 257

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“With compassion, empathy, and an unwavering commitment to Scripture, Ferrer and Davison equip parents and children to defend the biblical sexual worldview. And they do not mince words when it comes to the political agenda that is pushing sexuality on kids. Through Christlike love, this book is a call to arms to defend those held captive to sex-education curricula and its damaging ideas.”
—Josh D. McDowell, bestselling author and speaker

“As is typical for the Mama Bear team, the Mama Bear Apologetics® Guide to Sexuality transforms confusion into clarity, anxiety into action steps, and polarization into Christ-centered partnership. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to equip kids to biblically navigate gender, sexuality, and the cost of discipleship.”
—Elizabeth Urbanowicz, founder of Foundation Worldview

“The Mama Bear Apologetics® Guide to Sexuality is a timely and helpful book. Hillary tackles some of the thorniest issues of sex and identity today, and yet she does so with compassion, insight, and biblical clarity. And she also offers some practical steps for communicating these ideas to kids. I hope you will get a copy and start implementing these ideas today.”
—Sean McDowell, PhD, associate professor of apologetics at Biola University and the author of Chasing Love

“Sex is never just about sex. Teens and young adults often site biblical sexuality for the reason behind their rejection of Christianity. That is why Mama Bear Apologetics® Guide to Sexuality is a crucial resource for every parent. Hillary and Amy address the most relevant and confusing aspects of parenting in the shifting sands of sexual morality in our culture, giving examples from research, media, and education. They present foundational and complicated truths in a format that is easy to understand and apply. This book will equip you to navigate the discipleship journey with your kids with grace and truth.”
—Dr. Juli Slattery, author of Rethinking Sexuality and founder of sexualdiscipleship.com

“As mothers and avid readers, we can’t recommend this book enough. The culture is poisoning the hearts and minds of our children with a twisted vision of human sexuality and identity. Ferrer and Davison not only expose these lies, but they also replace them with a wonderful vision of the beautiful and breathtaking design God intends for human sexuality. This book will help you become the wise and trusted guide your kids need, leading them to the life-giving truths about love, sex, and identity that God has for His image bearers.”
—Erin Kunkle and Sarah  Stonestreet, cohosts of The Strong Women Podcast by the Colson Center

“Hillary’s book is an important parent resource to identify, deconstruct, and offer clarity to today’s distorted views of sexuality. God has already created an ideal for humanity and sexual integrity, and this book reminds us to stay faithful to His truth.”
—Monica Leal Cline, founder of It Takes a Family

Editorial Reviews

With compassion, empathy, and an unwavering commitment to Scripture, Ferrer and Davison equip parents and children to defend the biblical sexual worldview. And they do not mince words when it comes to the political agenda that is pushing sexuality on kids. Through Christlike love, this book is a call to arms to defend those held captive to sex-education curricula and its damaging ideas.”
—Josh D. McDowell, bestselling author and speaker

“As is typical for the Mama Bear team, the Mama Bear Apologetics® Guide to Sexuality transforms confusion into clarity, anxiety into action steps, and polarization into Christ-centered partnership. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to equip kids to biblically navigate gender, sexuality, and the cost of discipleship.”
—Elizabeth Urbanowicz, founder of Foundation Worldview

“The Mama Bear Apologetics® Guide to Sexuality is a timely and helpful book. Hillary tackles some of the thorniest issues of sex and identity today, and yet she does so with compassion, insight, and biblical clarity. And she also offers some practical steps for communicating these ideas to kids. I hope you will get a copy and start implementing these ideas today.”
—Sean McDowell, PhD, associate professor of apologetics at Biola University and the author of Chasing Love

“Sex is never just about sex. Teens and young adults often site biblical sexuality for the reason behind their rejection of Christianity. That is why Mama Bear Apologetics® Guide to Sexuality is a crucial resource for every parent. Hillary and Amy address the most relevant and confusing aspects of parenting in the shifting sands of sexual morality in our culture, giving examples from research, media, and education. They present foundational and complicated truths in a format that is easy to understand and apply. This book will equip you to navigate the discipleship journey with your kids with grace and truth.”
—Dr. Juli Slattery, author of Rethinking Sexuality and founder of sexualdiscipleship.com

“As mothers and avid readers, we can’t recommend this book enough. The culture is poisoning the hearts and minds of our children with a twisted vision of human sexuality and identity. Ferrer and Davison not only expose these lies, but they also replace them with a wonderful vision of the beautiful and breathtaking design God intends for human sexuality. This book will help you become the wise and trusted guide your kids need, leading them to the life-giving truths about love, sex, and identity that God has for His image bearers.”
—Erin Kunkle and Sarah  Stonestreet, cohosts of The Strong Women Podcast by the Colson Center

“Hillary’s book is an important parent resource to identify, deconstruct, and offer clarity to today’s distorted views of sexuality. God has already created an ideal for humanity and sexual integrity, and this book reminds us to stay faithful to His truth.”
—Monica Leal Cline, founder of It Takes a Family

From the Publisher