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How do you reach youth and young adults

with a message of sexual purity and integrity?

 

You've taught them all the "thou shalt nots" and they've even made various pledges, but somehow none of it seems to work very well. So how do you convince them that "God knows best" when the culture so loudly tells them otherwise?

 

Let us introduce you to the work of Leslie and Eric Ludy, a young couple from Windsor, Colorado, who are passionate about transforming the lives of their generation. Their best-selling books are:

  • When God Writes Your Love Story: The Ultimate Approach to Guy/Girl Relationships (For youth and young adults)

  • Meet Mr. Smith: Revolutionize the Way You Think about Sex, Purity and Romance (For older youth and young adults)

  • When Dreams Come True: A Love Story Only God Could Write (The Ludy's personal testimony)

  • God's Gift to Women: Discovering the Lost Greatness of Masculinity (By Eric for guys)

  • Authentic Beauty (By Leslie for gals)

  • Teaching True Love to a Sex-at-13 Generation (For parents and youth leaders)

Instead of hammering young people with judgmental Bible passages or scaring them with statistics about sexually transmitted diseases, the Ludys invite them to discover how beautiful their love stories and lives can be when God (the Author of Romance) takes care of every detail.  In contrast, the culture's "imposter sex" is exposed for the fraud and disappointment it really is. And because Eric and Leslie are brutally honest about their own lives - both their personal successes and failures - their writing has an authenticity that is hard to dismiss.

 

You can find out more about the Ludys, including how to schedule them for teaching events, by checking out their website at www.setapartlife.com

 

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Books

General Sexual Purity

  • Real Sex: The Naked Truth About Chastity by Lauren Winner

  • Why Sex Sins Are Worse Than Others by Jack Hayford

  • Strength in Weakness: Healing Sexual and Relational Brokenness by Andrew Comiskey

  • The Purity Principle: God's Guardrails on Life's Dangerous Roads by Randy Alcorn

  • Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control by Elisabeth Elliot

  • Pornified: How Pornography is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families by Pamela Paul

  • Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy? by Gary Thomas

Sexual Purity for Women

  • Kissed the Girls and Made Them Cry: Why Women Lose When They Give In by Lisa Bever (book, workbook and video/DVD small group curriculum)

  • The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On by Dawn Eden

  • Every Woman's Battle series by Shannon Ethridge

Sexual Purity for Men

  • The Every Man and Every Young Man's Battle by Arterburn and Stoeker

  • The Game Plan by Joe Dallas  

  • At the Altar of Sexual Idolatry by Steve Gallagher

Prayer/Deliverance/Healing

  • Breaking Free: Understanding Sexual Addiction and the Healing Power of Jesus by Russell Willingham

  • Sexual Healing: A Biblical Guide to Finding Freedom from Sexual Sin and Brokenness by David Kyle Foster (through Mastering Life Ministries)

  • Ministering Freedom to the Sexually Broken by Doris Wagner (through Global Harvest Ministries)

Accountability and Restoration

 

  • Restoring the Fallen by Wilson, Friesen and Paulson

  • The Stain That Remains by John Armstong

  • Restoration Manual: A Workbook for Restoring Fallen Ministers and Religious Leaders, available from Winning Edge Minstries.

Books about Homosexuality

Bible and Theology

  • The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics by Robert Gagnon

  • A Strong Delusion by Joe Dallas

  • Straight and Narrow? by Thomas E. Schmidt

  • Staying the Course: Supporting the Church's Position on Homosexuality by Dunnam and Maloney

Testimonies of Transformation

  • Desires in Conflict: Hope for Men Who Struggle with Sexual Identity by Joe Dallas

  • Restoring Sexual Identity: Hope for Women Who Struggle with Same-Sex Attraction by Anne Paulk

  • Portraits of Freedom by Bob Davies and Lela Gilbert

 

Family Issues

  • When Homosexuality Hits Home by Joe Dallas

  • Someone I Love is Gay by Anita Worthen and Bob Davies

  • Like Mother, Like Daughter?: The Effects of Growing Up in a Homosexual Home by Jakii Edwards

 

Ministry

  • God's Grace and the Homosexual Next Door: Reaching the Heart of the Gay Men and Women in Your World by Alan Chambers 

  • Sexual Identity: A Guide for Living in the Time Between the Times by Mark Yarhouse and Lori Burkett

  • The Broken Image; Healing the Homosexual and Crisis in Masculinity by Leanne Payne

  • Unwanted Harvest? by Brad Sargent and Mona Riley (out of print)

  • Welcoming But Not Affirming by Stanley Grenz (out of print)

  • Crisis in Ministry: A Wesleyan Response to the Gay Rights Movement by Robert Kuyper

Behavioral Sciences and Public Policy

  • Ex-Gays? A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation by Mark A. Yarhouse and Stanton L. Jones

  • Homosexuality: The Use of Scientific Research in the Church's Moral Debate by Yarhouse and Jones

  • Homosexuality and American Public Life by Christopher Wolfe

  • Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth by Jeffrey Satinover

  • After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90s by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen. Written by two pro-gay activists, this book spells out the self-acknowledged propaganda campaign that was launched during the 90s. (Out of print)

 

Where to Buy

Books in print can be found at Cokesbury online and at discounted prices at Christian Book Distributors.

Out of print books can be found at Amazon or through an online search at Advanced Book Exchange.  

 

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Revised: August 27, 2008