A Student's Guide to Sexual Integrity: God's Plan for Sex and Your Body

by Jim Burns, Erin Mashaw

In today's hyper-sexualized culture, most children receive conflicting, even damaging, messages about sex, their bodies, and sexuality before they're twelve years old. As they enter the hormonally-charged adolescent stage, it's vital they receive compassionate, biblically-grounded answers to their most embarrassing and confusing questions.

In this must-have resource for preteens, teens, and parents, trusted parenting and relationship expert Jim Burns tackles the tough, sensitive issues of sexuality for today's kids. With honest, biblical, age-appropriate information, he lovingly and

- answers both their delicate and taboo questions
- helps them navigate a sexually-confused culture
- reveals God's beautiful plan for sex and sexuality
- equips them to make decisions that honor God and their bodies

Complete with discussion questions to spark open conversations between you and your child, this book is a powerful tool that will help your child live a life of sexual integrity.

Genres: Parenting

176 pages, Paperback

Published August 6, 2024

About the author

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Jim Burns, Ph.D., President of HomeWord is the host of the HomeWord with Jim Burns daily half-hour, daily one-minute, and weekly half-hour radio programs. His passion is communicating to adults and young people practical truths to help them live out their Christian lives.

Jim is the author of many resources including his latest books The Purity Code: God’s Plan for Sex and Your Body, Teaching Your Children Healthy Sexuality and Accept Nothing Less: God’s Best for Your Body, Mind and Heart. In recent years, he has also written Confident Parenting and Creating an Intimate Marriage which are available in audio CDs, books, and small group curriculum kits; The 10 Building Blocks for a Happy Family; Devotions on the Run; and Parenting Teenagers for Positive Results kit. Since 1985, HomeWord has been assisting parents and churches worldwide through radio, resources, seminars, and the web at www.homeword.com. Jim writes monthly columns for Ignite Your Faith magazine and Simply Youth Ministry newsletter and website.

Reviews

[Debbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was used to teach my child’s seventh and eighth grade sexual education class in private school. I decided to read it before to confirm that I wanted my child to participate in the class. I found the book extremely informative and a great resource for teaching about sexual integrity. This book promotes having an integrity code where you save yourself for marriage. It gives a beautiful Christian perspective of being made in Gods image and the importance of families. It talks about the beauty of our bodies and respecting and taking care of them. It also goes into important topics like choosing correct friends, respecting the opposite sex, refraining from alcohol and drug abuse. It goes in depth on the destructiveness of pornography. The book provided great resources and ways to help if someone experiences pornography, abuse, confusion, or other issues with sexuality. The author was great af making an awkward topic easy to digest for both youth and parents.

[Mary Frances · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great resource written for teens that gives a biblical foundation for their sexuality- not just out of morality but out of a pursuit for holiness. Relatable, relevant and written with a teen in mind.