From Involuntary Celibacy to Thriving

Singleness, especially when unchosen, can feel isolating. But it can also be an invitation to flourish. Pieter Valk to explores practical insights for embracing singleness with purpose and hope.

This webinar covers:
-Navigating the challenges of involuntary celibacy
-Discerning God’s call to vocational singleness
-Cultivating joy, intimacy, and purpose outside of romance
-Unique considerations for LGBT+ Christians

Whether you’re single or supporting someone who is, this session will equip you to thrive in any season of life.

5 Before 5: Must-Have Conversations About Sexuality

Why do parents need to begin conversations related to sexuality at such a young age? Won't they pick up God's wisdom from sermons, Bible studies, and the church youth group when they're teens?

The truth is, your kids won’t learn the best way to steward their sexuality unless you teach them. And if you don’t disciple your kids when they're young, Disney, YouTube, their school, their friends, and pornography are eager to step in for you. And what they teach your kids will not offer them the best path to thriving.

Amber Carroll teaches viewers how to lead kids to trust God’s wisdom for sexuality and how to have these five foundational conversations in age-appropriate ways before age five:
1. Body parts, privacy, and consent
2. Screen safety
3. God’s intention for family
4. Sin and brokenness
5. God's narrative for sexual stewardship

Reflecting Christ's Love & Wisdom in the Trans Political Debate

Discussion about bathroom bills, parent rights to a child's gender identity disclosure, and trans athletes have increasingly dominated the news cycle and dinner table. As the US Supreme Court prepares to hear a case about access to hormonal and surgical transition for minors in 2025, the cultural conversation about trans people may reach its pinnacle in the coming months. Learning from the successes and failures of how Christians engaged in cultural conversation about same-sex marriage in the 2000s and 2010s, Pieter Valk explores how Christians can prepare to engage in upcoming conversation by reflecting Christ's love and wisdom for trans people, including how to maintain relationship with relatives and friends who passionately disagree.

Should Parents Censor Shows With Queer Characters?

LGBTQ+ characters seem to be showing up more and more in kids’ media. Bluey’s friend has two moms, the Buzz Lightyear movie includes a same-sex kiss, and the local school book fair features books about Pride, same-sex relationships, and transition.

How can Christian parents respond to queer representation in kids’ media? What’s the best approach to protecting our kids while living in a world where gay and trans characters are impossible to avoid? Amber Carroll discusses these questions and more.

Is Giving Up Gay Romance a Sacrifice?

Some Christians are theologically convinced that gay romance/sex are sins, but deep down they still feel like people need romance to be happy. Deep down, it doesn't feel fair that celibacy often seems like the only option God offers to gay people. Some earnestly wonder whether God is asking gay people to sacrifice more than other Christians and wonder whether that's good. Pieter Valk explores these honest questions and more!

Should Christians Attend Gay Weddings?

If Christians attend a gay wedding, what are they unavoidably communicating to the couple? to God? to those who witness their attendance? If Christians invited to a gay wedding choose not to attend, what does that unavoidably communicate? How is an invitation to a gay non-Christian wedding different than an invitation to a straight non-Christian wedding? Pieter Valk explores these complex questions and more.

When Your Daughter Crushes on a Boy...or a Girl

How can parents and caregivers navigate kids' crushes (same-sex or opposite sex), help kids avoid the idol of romance, and guide kids toward God's wisdom for relationships? Amber Carroll discusses these questions and more.

Discerning Marriage and Singleness

How can Christian young adults discern their relational vocation? Pieter Valk discusses the keys to discerning which gift God wants to give them.

Lifesaving Advice for Parents of Gay Teens

Your teen/young adult child has come out, and you feel like you're starting from behind, like you're in a race to save your kid. What do you do?? Amber Carroll shares practical advice on how to love your gay child well without losing your theological foundation or giving up on your child.

Sexual Stewardship for All

Our capacity for connection and need for community are gifts from God, and He's offered us all wisdom for the best ways to steward our sexualities. Instead of intending to minimize the joy and satisfaction we experience from our sexualities, God has intentionally designed our relational vocations to lead to fullness of life. During this webinar, Pieter Valk explores how God invites everyone to steward their sexualities in God-honoring and life-giving ways.

Discipling Your Kids Before Disney Does

Our kids' capacity for connection and need for community are gifts from God, and He's offered us all wisdom for the best ways to steward our sexualities. But when parents shrink from passing God's wisdom on to their kids, the "wisdom" of culture is eager to disciple our kids for us -- from TikTok to the sex-ed curriculum at school, from Netflix to friends on the playground. In this webinar Amber Carroll explores ways parents and caregivers can effectively (and winsomely) counter culture's narrative with God's life-giving wisdom for sexual stewardship.

Responding to Revisionist Sexual Ethics

Pieter Valk explores how pastors and parents respond can respond with compassion and wisdom to the most convincing arguments to revisionist sexual ethics.

God's Heart for His Daughters

Lindsey Snyder guides pastors and Christian leaders to care well for LGB Christian women according to historic sexual ethics.

Christ's Sex Ethic: Still True

It’s not enough to reject the harms of ex-gay theology or resist the pull of revisionist sexual ethics. The Church cannot just react to bad teaching. We need to offer a compelling, beautiful alternative.
In this webinar, we explore the positive case for Christ’s vision of sexuality: why vocational singleness and Christian marriage lead to joy, why God’s boundaries are a gift, and why the historic Christian sex ethic is still true and still good.

How Should Christians Respond to Gay Pride and Coming Out?

As followers of Jesus, we want to be saturated with the grace of the gospel and the love of Christ, including our response to coming out and gay pride.
In this training, we invite Christians to think deeply and have healthy conversation about these topics.

Recognizing & Responding to Romance Idolatry

What does idolatry of romance look like? How can Christians respond by right-sizing expectations of marriage, raising expectations of friendship, investing in thicker family in the body of Christ, and offering greater support for vocational singleness?

Naming & Caring for Male Body Shame

Why is body shame more common among gay men? What lies is body shame telling? How can gay men defang those lies with self-awareness and healthy connection?

Building Committed Christian Community

Discover how early Christians called to vocational singleness built committed Christian community.

Leveraging Christian Singleness

What is vocational singleness? Why does God call people to vocational singleness? How can single people and the Church as a whole do this better? Deepen your vision for how God wants to use your singleness, whether temporary or lifetime.

God's Good for Gay People

What is God's good news for gay people? How can gay and straight people build a better Church together?

Top 10 Qs for Pastoral Care to Gay People

Check out this video of the most common questions Equip gets about ministering to gay people according to a historic Christian sexual ethic.

Does the Holy Spirit Promise Healing?

How has God invited gay people to steward their sexualities, and what is the Holy Spirit’s role in that stewardship? Perhaps even more importantly: How has God called the Church to love gay people? And how will the Holy Spirit help the Church become a place where gay people can belong and thrive according to orthodox Christian sexual ethic? We will explore answers to these questions and more in this 3-video series.

From Confusion to Clarity: The Trans Talk Your Kids Desperately Need

Our kids are growing up in a culture where gender is treated like a DIY project—and they’re hearing those messages everywhere: schools, screens, even their peers. Christian parents are left wondering: How do I respond with both conviction and compassion? In this timely webinar, we explore a faithful, practical framework for navigating gender and gender incongruence with your children.

Gain tools to:
-Talk to your kids before culture does
-Explain God’s design for biological sex and gender in age-appropriate ways
-Counter confusing messages from media, school, and peers
-Disciple kids to stand firm in truth and love their peers well

Better to Marry than Burn with Desire?

Many Christians have been taught that if abstinence feels difficult, it must mean God is calling them to marriage. Paul's words in 1 Corinthians 7, "better to marry than to burn," are often misunderstood as permission to treat marriage as a remedy for sexual struggle. But what if that’s not what Paul meant?

10 Crucial Conversations by Age 10

By age 10, most kids have already encountered confusing cultural messages about the best path to follow when it comes to sex and gender. Christian parents are called to be the first and most trusted voice in their child’s life, teaching them God's wisdom for stewarding their bodies and relationships.

This webinar equips parents and caregivers with the biblical wisdom and practical language they need to engage in 10 crucial conversations with kids before age 10—age-appropriate talks that lay a foundation of truth, compassion, and trust.

Learn how to talk about:
-What sex is for and where it belongs
-How to prepare your child for encounters with pornography
-The dangers of romance idolatry
-God’s creation of male and female—and what that means for your child
-The difference between sin and brokenness—and how to be a safe place when your child struggles
-How to talk about same-sex attraction and gender incongruence

Can I Believe in Social Justice and Still Say No to Gay Marriage?

Many Christians today are eager to pursue biblical justice—standing against racial inequality and advocating for female leadership. But when it comes to sexuality, that same passion for justice often feels at odds with historic Christian sexual ethics. In this webinar, we wrestle honestly with that tension and explore how Scripture invites us to seek justice for LGBT+ people—not by abandoning biblical convictions but by embodying them in ways that are radically compassionate and life-bringing.

Gen A: Why Are All the Kids Gay?

More and more Gen Alpha kids are coming out, and Christian parents are left feeling confused, concerned, or even skeptical. Parents wonder: Is this real? Is my child just going through a phase? Is this influence from social media or something deeper?

It’s tempting to brush it off or tell your child they’re just confused or faking it, but that response is likely to backfire, leading to damaged trust and lost opportunities for meaningful discipleship. There’s a better way.

In this training, Amber explores the following and more:
-Why so many Gen Alpha kids are identifying as LGBT+
-How culture, media, and social platforms shape your child’s view of sexuality and gender
-How to respond in ways that protect your relationship and open doors for deeper spiritual conversations
-What it looks like to model and teach faithful sexual stewardship in today’s world

Culture will continue to shift—God’s wisdom won’t. This webinar will equip you to approach your child’s use of identifiers with curiosity, compassion, and conviction so you can stay engaged and influential in their lives, no matter what labels they use.

Exposing the New "Ex-Gay" Movement

The ex-gay movement may have collapsed a decade ago, but its logic and harm are quietly resurfacing in new forms. Today’s versions look subtler, more clinical, and more “pastoral,” but they offer the same false hope that once devastated a generation of LGBT+ Christians, leaving many with deep shame, broken families, lost faith, and even lost lives.

In this webinar, we expose the three modern expressions of the new ex-gay movement:
1. Reintegrative Therapy – a rebranded, trademarked form of conversion therapy promising “healing” through opposite-sex marriage prep while repeating the same harmful dynamics as the 90s and 00s.
2. The Concupiscence Debate – a fringe teaching that treats the experience of same-sex attraction as sin itself, pressuring believers into endless self-fixing and spiritual despair.
3. Trans Whataboutism – a fear-based diversion that shifts any honest discussion about gender into panic about trans issues to avoid accountability for past harm.

We look at why these trends are growing, how they damage faith and mental health, and how churches and parents can identify, resist, and replace these destructive teachings with discipleship that reflects Christ’s actual love and wisdom.

When Kids' Preferences Don't Match Gender Expectations

For many kids, Valentine’s Day was about candy and cute cards from their classmates. But what if your son wanted to send pink Barbie valentines instead of superheroes or race cars?

This webinar recording explores
> Why many Christian parents feel pressure to tightly control gender expression
> How overprescribing gender rules and roles can create confusion or shame rather than clarity
> What Scripture actually expects of boys and girls
> How to lead kids with wisdom, confidence, and Christ-centered love

Parents, instead of erasing gender distinctions or overprescribing them, let's lead our kids toward God-honoring gender expression.

Is Gay Sex a Salvation Issue?

Many Christians assume disagreement about sexual ethics is automatically a heaven-or-hell issue. Others react by treating sexual ethics like it doesn’t matter at all. Both mistakes miss the gospel.

In this webinar, we’ll clarify why same-sex sexual behavior (and our theological disagreements about it) isn’t a salvation issue, and we'll explore why that doesn’t make God’s wisdom optional. We’ll explore the difference between receiving salvation and learning wisdom, why shame and fear can’t sustain discipleship long-term, and how refusing repentance can still harden a heart over time.

Most importantly, we’ll name what the Church must offer if we want to be credible and extend a lived alternative that’s undeniably better than gay marriage: spiritual friendship, real family in the body of Christ, and a viable path to thriving for gay Christians who want to follow historic Christian sexual ethics.

Eliminating Closet Wounds: Children's Ministries

In many churches, children who wrestle with questions about their sexuality learn very early to keep those struggles hidden. They don’t know if it’s safe to be honest about their attractions. So they process their fears and questions alone, often for years, which deepens loneliness, anxiety, shame, and spiritual confusion during the most formative seasons of their lives.

This webinar is designed for kidmin pastors, leaders, volunteers who want to disciple children and their families with both biblical clarity and Christlike compassion. You’ll learn practical ways to shape a kids ministry culture that:
- communicates safety without compromising biblical conviction
- reduces fear and secrecy for children navigating same-sex attractions
- equips parents to be the primary disciplers in these conversations
- strengthens proactive discipleship so kids don’t feel forced into isolation

When churches and parents work together, they can prevent closet wounds before they form and guide children toward faithful, hope-filled belonging in Christ.

Discipling Kids Around Sexuality

Amber hosted a live interview-style webinar with Laurie Krieg. She is a ministry leader, speaker, author, and Director of Parent Programs & Discipleship at The Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender.

Laurie’s new book, Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World, offers gospel-centered, practical guidance for talking with children about marriage and singleness, God's design for sex, same-sex attraction, gender identity, sexual abuse, and pornography.

In this webinar Amber & Laurie discussed:
-Laurie’s heart for helping parents move from reactivity to intentional discipleship
-Why avoiding these conversations only makes them harder later
-Practical, age-appropriate ways to talk about the tricky topics
-How to create space where kids feel safe to bring their questions and worries
-Modeling choosing Jesus no matter what

Rather than treating sexuality as something to fear, Laurie emphasizes small, ongoing conversations grounded in the gospel so parents can raise children who walk with confidence and clarity in a confusing world.

This conversation was encouraging and deeply practical, perfect for parents and caregivers who want to respond to the brokenness of the world with the goodness, truth, and beauty of the gospel.

Is God's Wisdom Homophobic?

During Pride Month, many Christian parents, pastors, and LGBT+ believers are asking a painful question: Is God’s wisdom about gay sex homophobic?

It’s a fair question. Some Christians have used the Bible to shame, reject, pressure, silence, and even try to “fix” LGBT+ people. And even today, many churches that affirm historic Christian sexual ethics still fail to offer the kind of family, honor, and costly belonging gay Christians need in order to flourish.

But the problem is not God’s wisdom. The problem is the Church’s failure to embody it.

In this resource, we'll define what homophobia actually means, explain why God’s intent toward LGBT+ people is love rather than harm, explore why a compassionate historic sexual ethic leads toward life, and name the ways Christians must repent of past and present homophobia.

Together, we’ll ask how churches can stop getting in the way of God’s best for gay Christians and start becoming communities where truth and love finally belong together.

Is the Nuclear Family Christian?

In recent debates over “Nuclear Family Month,” some Christians have treated defending the nuclear family as the same thing as defending biblical Christianity. Others have pushed back, arguing that the nuclear family is a modern, individualistic invention Christians should resist.

But what if both reactions are too simple?

In this webinar interview, Pieter Valk will talk with researcher and writer Connor Wood about whether the nuclear family is a modern secular invention, a historically Christian institution, or something else.

Together, we’ll explore different definitions of the nuclear family, the history of the single-family home in England and the United States, the impact of capitalism and contraception, and what all of this means for marriage, children, singleness, gay Christians, and intentional Christian community today.