The Harvest USA Podcast

A sense of hypocrisy is a major experience for Christian husbands and fathers who struggle with sexual sin. In today’s article, Keith Seary has us consider the following five principles regarding the Christian life that are vital in the process of turning away from hypocrisy. We’re called to be holy. We are dependent and relational. Christ is faithful. We will suffer as Christians. We need to rely...

Do your past sexual sins continue to burden you in your marriage? How can you move forward in godly intimacy with your spouse when your sexual history continues to impact your heart with guilt and shame? In today’s episode, Men’s Ministry Director Keith Seary offers hope for those burdened by their premarital sexual sins by unpacking how our new identity in Christ and how the common vows made duri...

If your child has chosen to pursue an LGBTQ+ lifestyle, it may feel like everything suddenly changed. For many Christian parents, a sense of isolation kicks in. You feel isolated from your wandering child. You feel isolated from others. You feel isolated from God. It appears there’s no one to lean on, no one who understands, and no one who cares. In today’s episode, Joan McConnell (Director of Par...

A child choosing an LGBTQ+ lifestyle can bring with it concern and heartbreak for your child and family. But for Pastors and church leaders, it can also bring a swirl of questions about your ministry. In today’s episode, Parents and Family Ministry Director Joan McConnell addresses a series of questions pastors and church leaders may be wrestling with. How could this happen? What did I do to cause...

How do we change as Christians? What does “change” even mean? In today’s episode, Caitlin McCaffrey discusses what change looks like in the Christian life and how beholding or looking at Jesus, his righteousness, his perfections, and his perfect work on the cross begins to transform us from the inside out. Today’s content features session 5 of our latest video resource “Transforming Love: Women, S...

We know that sin displeases our Father. So how does God look upon us when we wrestle daily, and frequently throughout the day, with desires, thoughts, and temptations that we know are not pure, good, or pleasing to God? Do these weaknesses count as temptation or sin? Is God always frustrated and dishonored by our lives? Our sin is sobering and pervasive, but as Mark Sanders shows us in today’s epi...

Does God care about whether a married couple uses birth control or contraception? Is the possibility of creating life a necessary component of God-glorifying sex? Should Christians use contraception? To help us think biblically and practically, Mark Sanders presents three questions that, a married couple or someone considering marriage, can use to prayerfully discern the Lord’s calling for them. R...

Living by faith is difficult. We all struggle every day to remember, believe, and make choices based on God’s Word and his promises to us in Christ. Words on a page can feel meaningless when painful circumstances don’t change. What helps us nurture belief in these hard moments, days, and years? In today’s episode, Mark Sanders helps us understand the nature of unbelief, how isolation nurtures unbe...

If you are currently engaging in any form of sexual sin, think back to the last time you gave in. Now try to remember one hour before you gave way to that temptation. What were you feeling, experiencing, desiring? What about twelve hours before? Our desires serve as a GPS for our hearts. Today on the podcast, Ellen Mary Dykas shows us how our desires point us in a direction: either towards God wit...

Our imaginations are a gift from the Lord, intended to help us worship him. However, because of the fall, our imaginations are deeply and profoundly affected by sin, which includes sexual fantasies. Our imaginations can lead us into temptation, cause us to sin, and bring significant distress and suffering into our lives. Yet there is hope! In today’s episode, Catherine Krasinski walks us through 7...

If you’re a Christian, you’re probably familiar with the story of Lazarus being raised from the tomb. Have you ever stopped and considered that we’re a lot more like Lazarus than we tend to think? Though the grave cloths differ in size and color, we all have them - persistent sins that cling hard, vestiges of the old man in us (Romans 7:21-25). Like Lazarus in the tomb, your sins feel inescapable....

How can we respond this June when Pride Month once again confronts our families with lots of questions? In todays article, Stephen Moss, explains how parents praying with their kids during Pride Month is an important way to shepherd the hearts of both child and parent as Christian families together seek to engage with their lost neighbors.

The data is showing us how the overwhelming majority of people identifying as LGBTQ+ are young. In this article, Harvest USA President, Mark Sanders, gives insight into the question, what is happening to our millennial, Gen Z, and alpha generations? Mark explains how for many youth the deck has been stacked against them. They’ve been fed language, narratives, and parameters that prohibit any bibli...

Are you a single man considering pursuing a dating relationship? In today's episode Keith Seary lays out a uniquely biblical thought process for dating. He then gives 4 character questions for you to consider as you look to start dating. While you listen, may these questions challenge you and encourage you to be a single man of Christian character even as you look to date. You can read the full ar...

How can you as a Christian endure sexual temptation victoriously? In today's article, Keith Seary establishes a biblical roadmap for engaging in such endurance. Follow along as he lays out 6 steps for victoriously enduring sexual temptation straight from the gospel of Luke chapter 18. You can read the full article on our website.

"Sexual choking" has recently become a public health concern. Where can we begin in thinking about this disturbing trend? Can Christian couples mutually consent to this activity with integrity? Does God's Word speak into this subject with any clarity? In today's episode Caitlin McCaffrey (Director of Women's Ministry at Harvest USA) addresses this weighty topic and these challenging questions with...

Men and women walking away from sinful patterns often lament the loss associated with leaving their sin behind. This makes sense because that choice sin feels vital. What our sin provides often feels like life to us; through it we experience comfort and pleasure. We feel loved, significant, in control. What happens when we give those things up? Does Jesus provide the comfort and pleasure sin once...

When we think about sex in marriage and the boundaries God sets for our lives, we often start by asking, “What am I allowed to do?” While that’s not a bad question, an even better question would be, “Does this glorify God?” In today’s episode, Mark Sanders walks us through four questions to help us think more deeply about sex in marriage and how God’s purposes lead to flourishing in marriage. You...

Should Christians attend a same-sex wedding? Every generation of the church faces unique challenges in applying scriptural principles to modern questions that the Bible doesn’t directly address. Perhaps one of the most difficult issues of our day is how to respond to an invitation to a same-sex wedding. More and more Christians are facing this dilemma in their family, workplace, or neighborhood. O...

How do you, as a wise Christian, practically navigate desiring marriage without idolizing it? In today’s article, Keith Seary explores the difference between desiring marriage and idolizing marriage. He then offers biblical wisdom for single Christians and their mentors to help them navigate their desires with faith in Jesus as our sustainer, creator, and Lord. You can read the full article on our...

In a world of Tiktok, Snapchat, and Instagram, you may feel that your voice as a parent is very dim in your child’s life. Especially when it comes to talking to them about sex. Yet, as Christian parents, we are called to proclaim the gospel and fight boldly against Christ-opposing lies, which includes having loving, clear, and regular sex talks with them. Today, Yohan Huh Prudente encourages paren...

Modern psychology tells us—and, indeed, our entire culture seeks to convince us—that it’s harmful to resist or deny sexual desires and urges. Yet, God has clearly defined purposes and boundaries for sex, sexual desires, and sexuality. So what should we do if our sexual desires fall outside of those boundaries? In today’s episode, Harvest USA founder John Freeman shows us that resisting our desires...

When a 14-year-old daughter adopts a non-binary identity or a 22-year-old son comes out as gay and invites you to his wedding, most parents will say they never envisioned walking with an LGBTQ+-identified child in their family. Though more Christian families than ever are struggling through scenarios like these, many don’t have the resources to deal with it. In today’s episode, John Freeman shares...

Does hope feel impossible when your child has made ungodly choices? The swirling thoughts and emotions we experience when our children rebel against the Lord can lead us to doubt that hope is possible, even when scripture is full of hope for believing parents. In today’s episode, Joan McConnell walks us through a series of questions aimed at helping parents examine their hearts and building hope i...

Is your church ready to respond to LGBTQ+? Any member of a local congregation can choose to participate to some extent in the LGBTQ+ mindset and culture. When this comes to light, the leadership of many churches realize that they are (or have been) unprepared to address either the issues, the strugglers, or their families. In today’s episode, Joan McConnell offers the puzzle pieces for building a...