Category Archives: Young Adult Sexuality

Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 7 of 7)

Posted on April 30, 2012 by shannonethridge

Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 7 of 7) Drawing Boundary Lines It’s important for a couple to be honest with one another about their sexual history (particularly a history that involves sexual … Continue reading →

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Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 6 of 7)

Posted on April 25, 2012 by shannonethridge

Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 6 of 7)   Questions to Explore in Pre-Marital Counseling As spiritual leaders, we must boldly take pre-marital counseling sessions into regions that may cause some discomfort, … Continue reading →

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Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 5 of 7)

Posted on April 20, 2012 by shannonethridge

Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 5 of 7) Forbidden Fruit vs. Not-So-Guilty Pleasures When teaching young people about boundaries in dating or courtship relationships, it’s easy to focus on all the things … Continue reading →

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Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 4 of 7)

Posted on April 15, 2012 by shannonethridge

Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 4 of 7) Striking a Healthy Balance The purpose of marriage is to reflect to the world Christ’s unwavering commitment to His (unfaithful) bride, the Church.  Therefore … Continue reading →

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Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 3 of 7)

Posted on April 10, 2012 by shannonethridge

Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 3 of 7)   Although I believe wholeheartedly in the inerrancy of scripture, I must say that I’m often tempted to interject a parenthetical phrase into Hosea … Continue reading →

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Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 2 of 7)

Posted on April 5, 2012 by shannonethridge

Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 2 of 7) When the Pendulum Swings to the Left If anyone had asked me in the sixth grade if I wanted to remain a virgin until … Continue reading →

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Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 1 of 7)

Posted on April 1, 2012 by shannonethridge

Hooking Up vs. Holding Out: Helping Singles Find a Healthy Sexual Balance (Part 1 of 7)   (This article originally appeared in Enrichment Journal, 03/2011) I’ll never forget the day one of my best childhood friends got a new swing … Continue reading →

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Susie Magazine on the Shelf

Posted on March 14, 2012 by shannonethridge

My dear friend and ministry colleague Susie Shellenberger (founder and former editor of Focus on the Family’s Brio Magazine) recently started a NEW magazine for young women called Susie. Like Brio, Susie Magazine assumes its reader is smart, world-conscious, creative … Continue reading →

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This Hurts My Heart…

Posted on January 14, 2009 by shannonethridge

In light of my last blog about inviting your husband into your healing process when you’ve been sexually abused, I was incredibly saddened to read this article about a young woman who’s choosing to abuse herself…   Student auctions off … Continue reading →

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Raising Sexually Healthy Kids

Posted on December 6, 2008 by shannonethridge

I heard a lady exclaim the other day, “Parents shouldn’t talk so openly with children about sex or else it will awaken their desires!” Sorry, but I couldn’t disagree more. Ask any teen, “The last time your parents tried to … Continue reading →

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