Where is your teen in relation to dating? Not yet interested? Wants to? Just beginning to date? Can think of nothing else but being with their boyfriend or girlfriend? Thinks dating is passé? What do you think about your teens dating? … Continue reading
BARBARA'S
Body Beautiful
“You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger,” the angel said to the shepherds on that first Christmas night (Luke 2:12). God had come to earth, as the baby Jesus. With a body like … Continue reading →
I Need Someone
“The need to be connected intimately to others is as central to our well-being as food and shelter. If we don’t get it right, we’re probably not going to get anything else in life right,” wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning … Continue reading →
Why This Web Site?
If our teenagers are to be light and salt in their own environment, someone must help them make sense of sexuality. Lewis Penhall Bird For just a moment, let’s turn back the clock: A young man and a young woman … Continue reading →
The Pastor and Teen Sex Education
by Barbara M. Kohl, D. Min. Originally published in Portuguese under the title “O pastor e a educação sexual de adolescents,” Chapter 8 in Manfred Waldemar Kohl and Antonio Carlos Barro (eds), Aconselhamento Cristão Transformador (Londrina, Brazil: Descoberta, 2006). Note: The … Continue reading →
The Role of the Church in Sex Education
2006 by Barbara M. Kohl, D. Min. “Scripture speaks of virgins and a Virgin Birth, of the erotic and the carnal, of heterosexual and homosexual behaviors, of the body and the flesh. Does the youth group your son or daughter … Continue reading →