Recommendations Resources to Listen to, Read, and Watch—August 2021
August 2021: Re-Committing to Critical Conversations
We are sharing resources that will support you in recommitting to critical conversations with your kids and spouse on pornography and sexual health and wholeness, how to keep the “main thing the main thing,” discussions in your CG group and recommitting for another year, and considering yearly rhythms with God.
Resources to READ this month:
Parenting Prayer Journal (A Resource for a Daily Rhythm of Committing to Praying for Children) This journal aids you in praying for your child on a daily basis. Praying consistently and with focused intention for our kids is a real challenge in the midst of family and work pressure, social media, and busy schedules. This prayer journal will provide a framework for praying a specific word over our children each week of the school year. Supplies are limited so be sure to grab your copy of the Parenting Prayer Journal: Joyful, Patient, Faithful
Treading Boldly through a Pornographic World (Daniel Weiss and Joshua Glaser)
Authors Daniel Weiss and Joshua Glaser connect with parents in Treading Boldly through a Pornographic World as the first generation to raise kids in a digitally connected, porn-saturated world. Porn can be accessed in locker rooms, buses, cafeterias, classrooms, bedrooms—anywhere kids have access to digital devices. Worse yet, fringe pornography is increasingly mainstream. This is misshaping our children’s understanding of sexuality, stunting their capacity to process emotions, and crippling their ability to form healthy long-term relationships
.Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn Proofing Today’s Young Kidsand Good Pictures Bad Pictures Jr.: A Simple Plan to Protect Young Minds (Kristen A Jenson)
This newly revised edition of the original bestseller from Defend Young Minds makes the daunting discussion of pornography with your kids easy! Good Pictures Bad Pictures is a read-aloud story about a mom and dad who explain what pornography is, why it’s dangerous, and how to reject it. Featuring easy-to-understand science and simple analogies, this internationally acclaimed book engages young kids to porn-proof their own brains.
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World (John Mark Comer)
John Mark Comer writes on the subject of slowing down in a world that propels us to do the exact opposite...we would highly recommend carving out space and time to lean into the biblical wisdom, principles, and truths shared in these pages. To live like Jesus requires us to rethink the speed our lives are operating under.
Necessary Endings (Dr. Henry Cloud)
Henry Cloud, the bestselling author of Integrity, The One-Life Solution, and co-author of Boundaries, offers this mindset-altering method for proactively correcting the bad and the broken in our businesses and our lives. Cloud challenges readers to achieve the personal and professional growth they both desire and deserve—and gives crucial insight on how to make those tough decisions that are standing in the way of a more successful business and, ultimately, a better life.
Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing (Jay Stringer)
Jay uses the foundations of his ground-breaking research of over 3,800 men and women to address the key drivers of unwanted sexual behavior, including use of pornography, infidelity, or buying sex. Jay helps us discover the core of the struggles and key practical steps toward healing.
Resources to WATCH this month:
Common Sense Media: online resource to check for content of movies or shows for your family
Covenant Eyes: filtering to help protect your family from pornography
Resources to LISTEN to this month:
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Keep an eye out for the Living Wholehearted’s Podcast Episode #92 on August 17th with Joshua Glaser, author of Treading Boldly through a Pornographic World.
Episode #33 of the Living Wholehearted Podcast with Jay Stringer author of Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing