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A great sex life isn’t just something you find, it’s something you make. But many Christian couples are feeling stuck in this very intimate and important area of their relationship, not sure where to turn for help or who to ask for advice. Other Christian couples have deeply enjoyable and passionate times of intimacy, but are always up for encouragement and advice as to how to keep making this wonderful part of marriage even better.

The Wonderful Way Babies Are Made will help you teach your children about families, babies, and sexual intimacy from a joyful Christian perspective. Uniquely set against the backdrop of God’s creation and our role in it, this book is an excellent place to begin presenting the information, feelings, and attitudes you would like to share with your children about the truly wonderful way babies›and families›are made.

God gave humankind the gift of sex. But many couples don’t experience that kind of joy and fulfillment that God intended. If you’ve ever been frustrated with a lack of intimacy in your marriage, or if you just want to know more about how you can get the most out of your relationship, this book is for you.

Only very recently has our culture begun to realize and address the damaging effects of porn – how destructive it is to relationships and families, how it harms the brain, how it negatively impacts emotional well-being, and how it’s affected our society as a whole.

While it’s good that the level of awareness for this issue is increasing, those who struggle with porn are still left with trying to figure out how to get help in this difficult area.

That’s why Brendon Byrne wrote Take Back Your Life: Overcome Pornography While Building the Life You Want.

Brendon struggled with an addiction to porn for 12 years of his life and experienced many of its damaging effects first-hand, especially in his marriage. This led him to make an unwavering decision to begin the journey of finally get free from pornography.

With disarming transparency and vulnerability, Take Back Your Life will give you an in-depth look into Brendon’s journey of overcoming porn addiction where you will gain truths, insights and practical steps on how to step out of a lifestyle of porn and into a life full of adventure, freedom and purpose.

Sex. In a world overwhelmingly obsessed with it, why is the church so silent about it? While our secular culture twists, perverts, cheapens, and idolizes sex, there are gaping holes in the church's guidance of young people. The result is generations of sexually illiterate people drowning in the repercussions of overwhelming sin struggles.

SEX. LOVE. VIRGINITY? In the dating game, the V-word has become as strange and complicated as the L-word, with purity as outdated as pay phones. What is an ex-athiest, post-porn addict, unorthodox Christian girl to do these days? How can she create boundaries without scaring off every available guy? Is purity even possible without being puritanical? In this candid, humorous account of the true-life trials of Christian dating, the author shares the wisdom she's gleaned in her quest for love in a modern world. She guides with grace and honesty through the often hush-hush topics of sex, porn, shame, female competition, misconceptions about purity, and those dreaded "waiting till marriage" conversations.Meet Carrie Lloyd.

Sex is powerful! Just saying the word “sex” can stir up all kinds of emotions inside people. Maybe it’s a positive emotion for you, or a hurtful, shameful, confusing one. It’s no wonder we humans struggle to understand its meaning and purpose. It can be difficult to talk about and even worse if we have experienced unwanted shame or grew up in a home where sex was a taboo topic.

This teaching will equip you to be victorious in the combat zone of your own sex drive, overcome the power of peer pressure and confront distorted cultural values.

In this powerful teaching, Kris Vallotton answers these age-old questions: Why do I have a sex drive years before God wants me to have sex in marriage? Why should I wait to have sex? What do I do if I have already lost my virginity? This message will help you navigate the minefield of your sexuality and establish a solid foundation for your marriage.

Many couples put more planning into the wedding ceremony than they do for what comes after the wedding. Intelligent, deliberate preparation for a lifetime of sexual leisure is a worthy investment you won’t regret.

Breakthroughs in the field of neuroscience explain the impact having sex has on the developing brains of adolescents and young adults. This book contains the facts needed to help steer young people away from making life-changing mistakes and lead them toward reaching their full potential.

There is a crisis today among Christian men in the area of sexual sin. Wives, girlfriends, and mothers know this and want to help – they just don’t know how. Mary Farrar illuminates to women men’s innermost feelings, exposes the dichotomy in male/female communication, and shows that women can play an active role in this ongoing battle. There’s also advice for single women who want to relate to single men, and mothers of boys will find a strong chapter about the role they play in the healthy sexual development of their sons. With up-to-date psychological research, Reading Your Male is an indispensable resource, equipping a woman to fight wisely and effectively alongside her man in the ongoing struggle against sexual sin.

Want satisfying sex? All it takes is practice … and the right attitude! This book will expand and challenge your thinking, help you start your marriage off right, or go from humdrum to exciting if you’re already married.

Clifford and Joyce Penner, clinical therapist and nurse have written a sensitive and forthright guide to understanding sexuality and how it fits into God’s design for marriage. With the latest information on sexuality and intimacy, this best-selling book is ideal whether you are newlyweds or have been married for many years.

“Are you who the person you are looking for is looking for?” – Andy Stanley

Single? Looking for the “right person?” Thinking that if you met the “right person” everything would turn out “right?” Think again. In The New Rules for Love, Sex, and Dating, Andy Stanley explores the challenges, assumptions, and land mines associated with dating in the twenty-first century. Best of all, he offers the most practical and uncensored advice you will ever hear on this topic. Not for the faint of heart, The New Rules for Love, Sex, and Dating challenges single Christ followers to step up and set a new standard for this generation! “If you don’t want a marriage like the majority of marriages,” says Stanley, “then stop dating like the majority of daters!”

In our pornified culture, pornography disrupts how men interact with women. Countless Christian men struggle with the addictive power of porn. And often our prayer and accountability groups are of limited help. By better understanding the biological realities of our sexual development, we can cultivate healthier sexual perspectives and interpersonal relationships. This book offers hope for freedom and transformation.

In this message, Jason will take you through lessons from his personal journey of Working Through Pain. He releases truths regarding mourning and how to look at pain productively, as opposed to living in a prison of denial. Jason unpacks powerful ways to identify and process through your pain, thus uprooting the lies that have kept you from walking in wholeness.

Through the healing steps in this Bible study you will be able to: receive and experience God’s forgiveness as well as forgive others and yourself, repair the wounds that you’ve been scarred with by past relationships, reverse the lies you’ve ingrained about sex and yourself with God’s truth, grieve what you’ve lost because of your past, and break the ungodly soul ties you’ve forged outside marriage, enabling you to to rebound in a present or future marriage.

The world is awash in sex. We are bombarded with it everywhere we turn. When this ever-present temptation mixes with human weaknesses and unmet needs, many get pulled into addiction to sexually sinful behavior. This book spells out the essentials in practical steps that can help people begin to break free.

With today’s rampant availability of Internet pornography, sexual addiction has become a national epidemic that affects up to 10 percent of Christians. As devastating as any drug habit, it brings heartbreak and despair to those it entangles. But there is help for men and women caught in sexual addiction’s downward spiral.Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction

For Parents: This book will help you establish a biblical view of sexuality for your kids. Learn how and when to talk with your children about sexual curiosity, physical changes of puberty, dating, chastity, and more.

When it comes to seeking advice about relationships, marriage, and sex, we tend to look in all the wrong places. Everywhere we turn, we’re promised pleasure and happiness, but we’re left feeling hurt and empty. The world claims to have the answers, but maybe we’ve been asking the wrong questions all along. In our series Meant to Be, we’ll have open conversations and uncover the Bible’s best kept secrets about sex, marriage, and being single.

If you’ve ever wondered if there’s more to intimacy than you and your spouse are experiencing, you’ve taken the first step toward finding it. Accept the challenge of affirming and following your wife’s needs and desires. The authors reveal what every man must know about a woman – and what every woman wishes her spouse knew as well!

When your partner betrays, how can you pick up the pieces of your shattered heart? What do you do when you wake up one day to discover that your loved one has been living a life of lies and deceit because they suffer from a disease called sex addiction? Consider this your go-to-guide on what to do if you discover your partner is a sex addict.

Sex is at the core of our identities. And when it becomes a compulsion, it can unravel our lives. With practical wisdom and spiritual clarity, it points the way out of the shadows of sexual compulsion and back into the light and fullness of life.

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The pain endured from sexual betrayal can break your heart, but it does not need to break your life. Whether an isolated incident or a long-term pattern of addiction – you need to know you don’t have to live as a victim. Learn how to make wise and empowering decisions with the help of this book.

It may be hard to see emotional wounds as redeemable when they still hurt so deeply, this book will help you discover that God can not only heal your wounds, but He can also use the healing process to equip you for a whole, fulfilled and powerful life.

You’re trapped. You don’t know how you ended up in such a sinful mess. You’re a Christian and this sort of thing doesn’t happen to Christians … or so you’ve been told. Don’t wait any longer to discover that your most important defense against a life of bondage is recognizing the enemy and knowing how to defeat him.

The Bible is well-known for its wisdom on spiritual concerns and righteous living. But did you know it can also guide you in matters of dating, courtship, and marriage? Wise and engaging, The Book of Romance digs deep into the Song of Solomon and what it says about the Bible’s most passionate lovers. As you learn about their relationship, you’ll discover how you, too, can experience the deep emotional, sexual, and spiritual satisfaction that God created to be enjoyed in marriage.

Barbara Wilson, the author, combines scientific research with scripture to offer striking new insights about what sexual bonding is, why it is harmful and how to move freely into your future. It comes with a study guide and is a hands-on tool for changing not your past … but your life.

A book for Christian husbands and wives that blends the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and relational aspects of marriage with the sexual. Much more than a ‘how to’ book on better sex, this practical, detailed resource offers a vision of lovemaking that facilitates a deeper experience of intimacy on all planes of marriage.