Parenting Boys and Girls in a Gender-Confused World

This eight-session video course aims to give parents practical guidance, equipping you as you seek to disciple sons and daughters about what it means to be a boy or girl—a person created in love to bear God’s image.

We want to help you help them grow in understanding God’s design so they can think biblically about gender and have the knowledge and courage to explain and defend the goodness of our Creator’s intent. And, of course, we want to guide you in how to offer compassionate help if your child is struggling in this area.

Teaching videos, participant guides, discussion questions, and recommended resources combine to give parents a biblical foundation and practical guidance to engage these topics with their kids.

This course explores:

What’s happening culturally regarding gender? How did we get to this place, where it’s now accepted as truth that “boys can be girls and girls can be boys?”
A biblical foundation for the impact of deception and false teaching as connected to current gender ideology
A brief history of the development of gender ideology and how understanding it can help you with your kids
A biblical map to explain how desires, sin, suffering, and our beliefs converge to produce a worldview from which we take action, develop a self-identity, and respond to life in this world
How to talk to your kids in biblical, compassionate, and age-appropriate ways about gender
Encouraging your kids to stand firm on biblical truth when others oppose or mock them
How to walk with kids who are struggling with gender-related issues

About this course

8 Lessons
4.25 hours of video content
Participant Outlines
Discussion Questions
Additional Recommended Resources

Endorsements

These days, those navigating our current trans-culture for their children themselves need direction. A book can help, but Harvest comes through with more fine-grained support.

Scripture-based, nuanced, and direct, this course informs and encourages. We understand the trans-phenomena. Their tree model guides us to heart issues. And helpful exhortations about technology, time, and tenacity team us up with our child to live in the Bible’s truth of who we are.

Dr. Sam A. Andreades

Pastor

Christian parents are raising their children under pressures that they likely never experienced themselves. In a world increasingly rebelling against God’s design, our calling as parents is vital.

Whether our children’s teachers or friends are suggesting the possibilities of life beyond the constraints of sex and gender, or whether they themselves express confusion and disappointment over the body God has given them, our children need biblical clarity and parental compassion to navigate the chaos. Harvest’s course is a valuable resource for parents (and churches!) seeking to help young people understand and embrace who God has made them to be. These videos provide biblical truths to help parents understand the issues and practical tools to help them guide their often-struggling children. We highly recommend this series.

Rob and Megan Hill

Pastor and pastor’s wife, West Springfield Covenant Community Church, Parents of four children

In our cultural moment, there aren’t many topics more important to discuss with our children than issues of gender.

This course offers clear and practical guidance for how a parent can think biblically and relationally, and then intervene with both grace and truth, into the life of a gender-confused child.

Randy Hicks

Clinical Psychologist, PsyD

Who would have imagined that every parent would need to have conversations about transgenderism with our children?

But such is the time in which we live, and we ignore these topics to our own shame and our children’s peril. u003cemu003eParenting Boys and Girls in a Gender Confused World u003c/emu003eis the very best material I’ve seen to help parents understand the worldview of our age and give your kids the biblical information and gospel motivation they will need to resist the cultural pressure they face, renounce the lies they are tempted to believe and embrace God’s loving plan for their sexuality. My very highest recommendation!

Dale A. Van Dyke

Pastor

Course Content

Unit 1 - Standing Firm on a Biblical Foundation

Standing Firm on a Biblical Foundation (Part 1)

Standing Firm on a Biblical Foundation (Part 2)

Unit 2 - The Tree Model Applied to a Gender Confused Generation

The Tree Model Applied to a Gender Confused Generation (Part 1)

The Tree Model Applied to a Gender Confused Generation (Part 2)

Unit 3 - Talking With Your Kids About Gender Issues

Talking With Your Kids About Gender Issues (Part 1)

Talking With Your Kids About Gender Issues (Part 2)

Unit 4 - Helping your Hurting Child with Gender Confusion and Struggles

Helping your Hurting Child with Gender Confusion and Struggles (Part 1)

Helping your Hurting Child with Gender Confusion and Struggles (Part 2)

About Instructor

Mark Sanders

Mark is President of Harvest USA. He was appointed to this position in October 2022. Prior to this Mark served as Director of Discipleship for Harvest USA’s teaching staff. After finishing internships at both CCEF and Harvest USA, Mark Sanders joined Harvest USA’s Men’s Ministry in July 2015. Mark holds an M.A. in Counseling from Westminster Theological Seminary, Glenside, PA, and a B.A. in Communications & Integrated Media from Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA. He also taught English in South Korea for five years, where he met his lovely wife.

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