The Harvest USA Podcast

Have you ever fought to resist lust at the beach? The beach sounds like the perfect place to let our shoulders down and enjoy needed rest, but for Christians battling lust, the beach looks more like a war zone than a vacation. It requires discernment, alertness, self-control, and ruthless intentionality with our eyes and hearts to honor Christ at the beach. Today’s episode from Keith Seary helps y...

Men are racing to objectify themselves. Whether they’re looking for affirmation, clout, sexual gratification, or an extra buck, young men see the opportunity to objectify themselves on social media or platforms like OnlyFans as too good to pass up. Today’s episode from Stephen Moss calls young men to understand the purpose and dignity of their bodies. After exploring the temptations of our cultura...

Harvest USA is a unique place. The topics of discussion, the raw honesty of sharing, and the incredible sense of safety are not always what people experience walking into their local churches. If you’re struggling with sexual sin and looking to join a local church, what should you look for? Today’s episode from Mark Sanders offers five points to consider as you evaluate churches for their approach...

How do I talk to my kids about gender issues? On today’s episode of the podcast, we’re sharing session six of our video course titled “Parenting Boys and Girls in a Gender Confused World”. This course was designed to help parents like you disciple your children to think biblically about gender and grow in their ability to understand and courageously defend the goodness of our Creator’s intent. In...

How do I talk to my kids about gender issues? On today’s episode of the podcast, we’re sharing session five of our video course titled “Parenting Boys and Girls in a Gender Confused World”. This course was designed to help parents like you disciple your children to think biblically about gender and grow in their ability to understand and courageously defend the goodness of our Creator’s intent. In...

On October 14, 2025, Matt Walsh posted on X, “Transgenderism is effectively over. We destroyed it. Clearest and most decisive cultural win that conservatives have ever achieved.” But does the data really show that young people are rapidly abandoning these labels and identities? On today’s episode Harvest USA President Mark Sanders takes a closer look at the cultural moment. He challenges us to loo...

Confessing sexual sin in a marriage is a frightening prospect for many spouses, and therefore, most avoid it. Yet, an ongoing commitment to confessing sexual sin to your spouse can help save your marriage. To give you a healthy approach to confessing your sins, Mark Sanders offers a framework we call “The 24-Hour Rule” in today’s episode. He describes how, when, and what you should share with your...

Do you find it challenging to help your kids understand the Bible’s teaching about gender and sexuality? Especially when your kids peers, teachers, guidance school counselors, along with online conversations, media, and more promote ideas about our bodies, identity, personhood, sex, or gender that don’t line up with biblical faith? On today’s episode of the podcast, we’re sharing session one of ou...

Can I share my husband’s sexual sin struggle and our marriage situation with others? Should I pursue separation or divorce? How do I rebuild trust in my husband after his sin? These are some of the questions that commonly swirl around in the heart of a wife after her husband’s sexual sin has come into the light. Since painful betrayal also brings shame and confusion along with it, most wives wrest...

Where can I find peace when my son or daughter has come out as LGBTQ+? Many Christian parents in this situation wrestle with a torrent of emotions and questions. In such tumultuous waters, peace might feel impossible, especially when there’s no obvious path to “fixing” the situation ourselves. Yet the Bible offers an alternative path to peace. The tried and true habit of prayer before the face of...

Repentance and obedience is beautiful in God’s sight, but it’s often painful. You broke up with your unbelieving boyfriend or pressed pause on an unhealthy relationship. You confessed your porn addiction to your boss, and now you’re out of a job. You admitted your emotional affair, and not only is your spouse a tornado of emotions, but you’re in excruciating sadness from cutting ties with your “se...

If you’re wrestling with your body image, AI tools along with a host of companies and products, offer you a powerful temptation: you can alter your appearance in ways that almost feel like magic, while still remaining and looking like you. How do we resist the temptation to sacrifice our real selves or health to achieve the impossible beauty we crave? Today’s episode from Stephen Moss explores the...

Are you caught in a friendship or relationship that feels like an unhealthy addiction? Intoxication, entrapment, love, hate, fear, romance, addiction—it’s a garbled mess that once felt wonderful, like life itself. But now this friendship, “bromance,” or “you’re my person” connection isn’t feeling so great. You’re neck-deep, attached, and dependent on someone’s affection, attention, touch, and need...

You’re discipling a young couple who hopes to be married. In conversations about their sexual past, you learn that while he’s faithfully saved himself for marriage, she has a messy history of pre-marital sex and other sexual sins. She’s repented and has been pursuing holiness in the power of the gospel for several years, yet he now wrestles with his conscience as he thinks about her sexual past an...

How do you see your sin? How do you see your salvation? The answer to these questions is critical to how we understand God, ourselves, and others. Today’s episode from Keith Seary contrasts the attitudes of Jonah and David as they were confronted with God’s mercy for sinners. He teaches us that refusing to bring our sin before God for grace opens us up to bitterness and judgment towards God and ot...

Is it okay to use AI tools to assist me in online dating? What is chatfishing? How should Christians think about these things? Today’s episode from Caitlin McCaffrey explores the potentially harmful ways AI tools are being used in the pursuit of online dating, including the trend known as “chatfishing”. She shares biblical principles to help you think practically about how to honor God and love yo...

Certain sexual desires are explicitly forbidden in the Bible, but what if I don’t have any sexual desires at all? Is it okay for a Christian to identify as asexual? Today’s episode from Caitlin McCaffrey will help you think through potential causes of your lack of desires, whether the lack of these desires is sinful, and why sexual orientation labels like asexual can distract us from our true iden...

How do I talk to my kids about infidelity? If you’re a parent who has experienced sexual sin in your marriage, you may already have experience with talking to your kids about infidelity. This may have gone okay, it may have been extremely painful, or you may be left with questions about whether it was enough, too much, or just plain confusing. To help you think through these difficult conversation...

Have you ever enjoyed something pleasurable, only to find yourself indulging in it to the point that it starts to feel like something you need? The problem isn’t pleasure, even sexual pleasure, which is a good gift from God. The problem is our sinful hearts, which easily turn pleasurable experiences into idols. Today’s episode from Mark Sanders explores how cultivating a heart of thankfulness, pur...

Illicit sex and death are close companions. Yet, it doesn’t always seem that way. Our hearts our deceitful, our pride continually whispers that we’re okay, and the immediate rush of sexual pleasure dampens our sense of danger. But over time, illicit sex brings deep ruin to one’s body and spirit. The internal chaos of spiritual decay will eventually be revealed in one’s demise. Today’s episode from...

If you’re a woman, I’m guessing you’ve been unhappy with your appearance at some point in your life. From wanting to lose a few pounds to feeling deep dissatisfaction and even disgust with how we look, body image issues bother many women like mosquitoes on a camping trip at best and can become utterly debilitating—even overlapping with and feeding sexual sin. Where can a woman go to find freedom f...

Why do we find dating and commitment so hard? Even if you’re a Christian woman dating a Christian man, you love his friendship, respect his character, and find him attractive, fears and paralysis can set in as we weigh the future and the serious commitment that comes with marriage. Today’s episode from Amy Tyson will help you overcome the fear of commitment with a greater fear: the fear of the Lor...

Pastors and other church leadership play a crucial role in their flock’s growth and sanctification, especially regarding their sexual sanctification. Today’s episode from Harvest USA founder John Freeman offers three crucial steps pastors can take to better care for their flock in this area. He emphasizes the importance for leaders to recognize the prevalence of the problem and lead the way to cre...

The parents sitting before me had tears streaming down their faces. They knew the importance of remaining faithful, but their 22-year-old daughter was now married to another woman. “It’s not just the pain over our daughter that’s so difficult—it’s the fact that grandparents and many of our friends have embraced it all, they see us as the problem; we’re what’s wrong with the situation.” This couple...

“How can I find freedom from masturbation?” Feeling isolated, condemned, stuck, and without help is common for women struggling with masturbation. They’ve picked up on messages that masturbation is a man’s struggle and they’ve never heard women’s struggles discussed in a women’s gathering or small group. Freedom is possible! Today’s episode from Women’s Ministry Director Caitlin McCaffrey outlines...