Resource Highlight: Minibooks

Hi everybody. Today I’d like to highlight four of our minibooks that provide helpful discipleship wisdom for singles. If that’s you, or if you want to help your unmarried friends in light of sexual sin struggles that they’ve shared with you, consider buying one or all of these minibooks.

But please, if you’re buying it for someone else, don’t mail it to them anonymously. Don’t give it to them on Sunday when everybody’s clustered around the coffee table. And please don’t just simply slide it across the dinner table and say, “I think you might need to read this.” No. Pick up one of these books. Maybe offer to read it together and to discuss it as a way to encourage your friend who is unmarried.

So the four books are Sex and the Single Girl: Smart Ways to Care for Your Heart. Next one is What’s Wrong with a Little Porn When You’re Single? How to Say No When Your Body Says Yes. And then finally, a book I wrote after many years of ministry to wives impacted by their husbands’ sexual sin. It’s called Your Dating Relationship and Your Sexual Past: How Much to Share.

Now, the titles really tell you what these minibooks are about. As single women, what are unique things for us to consider to grow as women of sexual and relational faithfulness? And for those men and women who are entangled in pornography, perhaps you feel addicted to it and you’ve made peace with it because, I mean, after all, you’re a sexual being as well, and God knows that. So what are you supposed to do? No, friend. The way of Christ is so much better than surrendering to desires that enslave you. You can walk a different way.

And you know, I mentioned that I wrote this book about your dating relationships after a lot of years of hearing heartbreaking stories from couples that received sometimes horrible counsel before they got married. Or let’s be honest, sometimes a lot of married men and women have hidden things from each other before their wedding day. There’s great hope for you, my friends, to live differently.

If you’re struggling with sexual sin, as well as unholy relationships, it starts with a few steps: humbly admitting you need help and then reaching out for help. Psalm 103 assures you that your Father in heaven is compassionate towards you. He’s mindful that you’re weak and unable to change on your own, and you don’t have to remain alone. Reach out to a trustworthy friend. Consider buying one of these minibooks. And you can also reach out to Harvest USA to meet with somebody in our women’s ministry or men’s ministry. We care and we’re here.