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article | January 9, 2013

A recent study on the sexual behaviors of teenagers revealed a bittersweet trend. According to the study's findings, American teenagers seem to be waiting longer to have sex. In fact, over a ten-year period the percentage of twelfth-grade students who reported having …

article | January 2, 2013

Many of you have written that your beauty is an area where you are prone to believing lies. Molly wrote, "Okay, well I'm tall, and I get made fun of for it and I hate it. I have to keep telling me …

article | November 10, 2009

What are some of your favorite beauty regimens? Painting your nails? Shaving your legs? Coloring your hair? Getting a massage? How about choosing—and overflowing—with gratitude? (Hmmm . . . which one of these things doesn't seem to fit?) In her most recent …

article | March 9, 2011

Last month we focused our posts on love and romance. Many of you wrote to us to tell us that you've messed up in the area of purity. When it comes to being physically and emotionally pure, clearly many of you feel …

article | September 3, 2012

May I ask you something? Do you ever feel as if you've totally missed the mark? Like you've messed up the perfection that God started with when you were born? Like you have contaminated the goodness He created in you? Maybe it …

article | April 9, 2018

If we were looking for someone to impact history in amazing ways, most of us would never choose her. Why would God use her, a prostitute, when there were so many other, better women around? We don’t know all of the details …

article | February 19, 2020

I’ve been staring at the ring on my finger a lot lately. Although I received the most beautiful engagement ring a couple months ago (and I definitely have been staring at it!), the ring I’m referring to is the one I’ve worn …

article | May 13, 2019

I was that girl. The girl who grew up in church, saved sex for marriage, wrote letters to her future husband, and tried to do all of the “right” things a good church girl should do. Check. Check. Check. I was marking …

article | May 8, 2019

I crawled into my bed and turned on the lamp. It was late. I was tired. But that didn’t keep me from reading a book in my favorite genre, Christian romance novels. I justified my actions and convinced myself that these books …

article | March 8, 2018

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths (Prov. 3:5–6). A young girl enrolled in a Christian middle school gave voice …