Fighting Lust with the Power of Gratitude
When I was a teen girl, I remember having moments where I viewed God’s boundaries for sexual purity as a bit…well — annoying. Striving for purity in my heart and mind wasn’t easy, and I struggled to keep my thoughts pure. I would find myself grumbling in my heart about how tough the single life […]
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How to Not Have an Abortion Some Day
Rachel was a Christian girl from a conservative family. She grew up in church and went to all the Christian conferences. As she grew older, she decided she didn’t like the straight and narrow path of the Christian life, so she ventured out to try some worldly “fun.” After several bad friendships, parties, and guys, […]
Getting Married Is Still a Good Thing
Little girls are no longer growing up and being pushed towards marriage and motherhood. In fact, girls are looked down upon if marriage and motherhood is anywhere in the top 10 on their priority list. How do I know this? Because it’s happened to me and it’s happened to almost every young woman I interact […]
4 Ways our Raunch Culture is Lying to You
It was Christmas morning when 6-year-old Kelly was exposed to our raunch culture for the first time. She excitedly opened one of her presents and pulled out a small doll. It wasn’t the type of doll you might imagine a little girl playing with though. No, this was a new kind of doll. This was […]
The Secret that Tormented Me
Long long ago when Kristen and I were just young girls, living at home, enjoying life and building tree forts, we stumbled upon a secret that kept us tormented for weeks. Kristen asked my mom to type in the internet passcode on our big old desktop computer (laptops weren’t really a thing back in those […]
3 Side Effects of Loving Yourself
I was driving down the road the other day when I suddenly hit a bunch of traffic. I was in a hurry and not in the mood to be generous to any intruding cars trying to merge into my lane. As one car tried to squeeze their way in front of me, I reluctantly slowed […]
Brave Girls Needed! Will You Share the Gospel?
I walked down to the school bus stop and waited to pick up the kids I was nannying. I noticed there was a new girl waiting to pick up kids as well. I introduced myself and found out she was from Europe and worked directly across the street from me also as a nanny. Sara […]
Mind-Virgin: Saving More than Just Your Body
I walked down the long aisle in my beautiful silk dress. My heart pounded with excitement as I locked eyes with my handsome husband-to-be. He beamed from ear to ear as I slowly approached him. This was the day, the moment we had been anticipating for the past eight months. We were both raised in […]
