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| | | | Key to Your Child's Heart Healing Weekend mothers with children who experience SSA September 28-30, 2018
The weekend is designed for mothers of a same-sex attracted or gay-identified child. The goal is for each mother to grow personally and as a Parent/Coach, to learn how to better love and understand your struggling child, and to uncover how your own unresolved issues may be blocking your family’s path to healing.
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| | Key to Your Child's Heart Healing Weekend fathers with children who experience SSA November 16-18, 2018
This weekend will give you the opportunity to connect with other fathers that are in the same position as you, and learn together how you can rise up and face the challenges that affect our families and children! You will gain great insight into your child’s needs by learning, growing, and taking part in group activities with each other during this interactive weekend!
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The Meaning of Sex: A New Christian Ethos
The Meaning of Sex: A New Christian Ethos is now available for order (paperback)! To order your copy, click here!
Click here to watch the trailer on YouTube!
Click here to order the Kindle version from Amazon, NOOK Book from Barnes & Noble, or iBook from iTunes.
What Others Are Saying About The Meaning of Sex: A New Christian Ethos
The Meaning of Sex: A New Christian Ethos is a masterful synthesis of Christian theology and the social sciences that has the potential to radically transform our culture in positive ways. With his characteristic accessible style, Christopher Doyle establishes that sex has a meaning and a purpose beyond mere pleasure and procreation. He also demonstrates that when couples embrace the true meaning and purpose of sex, holiness, health, and happiness result. This book deserves a close read by all Christians, especially those who nurture children, including parents, educators, pastors, physicians, and therapists. Our children must be armed with faith and reason together in order to thrive in and one day heal our culture.
~ Michelle A. Cretella, M.D.
President, American College of Pediatricians
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| Bring Christopher Doyle to Your Church Service, Conference, or Event Clear Answers on Sexuality and Gender in a Confused Culture
In today’s secular culture, confusion abounds on issues relating to sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Within the church, pastors and ministers are being inundated with so-called modern constructs of sex, gender, and sexual identity - and without the proper training and education, professionals in the faith-based community are often unable to articulate clear solutions to difficult questions.
Having journeyed through these issues, personally and professionally, Christopher Doyle understands and can articulate clear-cut solutions to these dilemmas. As a licensed clinical professional counselor, published author, and expert on sexuality and gender identity, some of the topics he teaches on, are:
- The Meaning of Sex: A New Christian Ethos
- Understanding Homosexuality and Gender Identity: Meaning and Causes
- Intimacy in Marriage: How to Take Your Marriage from Functioning to Flourishing
- Healing for Families and Parents of Sexual Minority Children
- Sexual Risk Avoidance: Benefits of Delaying Sexual Debut for Young People
- Real Love in Marriage: How to Give and Receive Unconditional Love
- The Politics of Sexual and Gender Identity
In addition, Christopher can customize any of these presentations to suit your conference, event, Sunday morning service, or mid-week Bible study.
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| | CNN Interviews IHF Executive Director, Christopher Doyle on Upcoming "Conversion Therapy" Films 'Conversion therapy' hits the big screen while laws play out in states
(CNN) - A therapist forbade 16-year-old Mathew Shurka from speaking to his mother and sisters for three years. The youngest child and only son in a tight-knit Long Island family, Shurka said that his mom wasn't physically or emotionally abusive. Instead, the therapist told the teen to give the women the silent treatment because it would help make him straight.
'I try to give them realistic outcomes'
Therapist Christopher Doyle, a conversion therapy advocate working with conservative groups like the Family Research Council to stop the government bans, disagrees.
He experienced same-sex attraction but didn't want to, he said, but by addressing the trauma in his life through therapy, he was able to shift his attraction. He's married now to a woman and has five children. He said he's dedicated his life to helping others who struggle with unwanted attractions.
"I specialize in trauma and work with clients to resolve that trauma. People who want help. There's no electric shock or shaming," said Doyle, who practices in the Washington, D.C., area. He says he doesn't promise anyone that they will be straight. "Each individual is unique, but I try to give them realistic outcomes." He points to a new study in the Linacre Quarterly, the peer-reviewed journal of the Catholic Medical Association, in which 68% of the 125 religious men who underwent such therapy had at least some "heterosexual shifts in sexual attract and behavior."
Most scientific studies have shown the opposite. And while all the major mental health associations object to the practice, Doyle believes those objections are politically motivated.
He believes that participants' horror stories involve practices that are not done by ethical mainstream practitioners. "I know I am not calling people bad or evil in my work," he said. "And I do have gay friends, and they support me, even if they don't necessarily agree with everything I say, but I don't agree with everything my wife says, either." Click here to read more at CNN.com
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| | Janet Mefferd Today
It's Revoice weekend, and Christianity Today lays out the biblical confusion of Revoice founder Nate Collins in black and white. We'll tell you why this proponent of so-called "LGBT Christianity" and his conference must be repudiated by every Bible-believing Christian. Plus: Christopher Doyle, executive director or the Institute for Healthy Families, discusses his new book, "The Meaning of Sex: A New Christian Ethos." Click here to listen. |
| | Helping Our Children Come Out of Hiding to Accept God's Grace
Most of us hide. You might not think you are hiding, but that is probably because you don't know that you have been programmed,
or conditioned, to hide. Your "programming" was so subtle that you do
it without even realizing it. Hiding becomes an unconscious behavior we
develop to remain safe, and it usually begins in early childhood. Click here to read more of Christopher Doyle's op-ed at The Christian Post.
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The Dacus Report Lifestyle Choices & Federal Attack on Privacy
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| | Pro-Life Supreme Court Decision Is Good News for Religious Liberty, Sexual Freedom, and 'Gay Conversion Therapy' Bans
Usually when the phrase "sexual freedom" is uttered, one thinks of
ideas such as free love and sexual liberation. But with the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme
Court decision that legalized same-sex unions across the country,
homosexual activists began to make a strategic change of course – from
securing rights for the oppressed to oppressing the rights of those who
seek freedom from homosexual and transgender behavior.
Beginning in 2012, homosexual activists began pushing legislation to
ban so-called "gay conversion therapy" – for minors first, and now
adults – that experience unwanted same-sex attractions and gender
identity conflicts. The most egregious of these bills is currently
making its way through the California legislature – AB 2943 would define
any effort by a licensed therapist or non-licensed religious counselor
or pastor that seeks to help a person change their sexual orientation or
resolve unwanted gender identity conflicts – as consumer fraud. Click here to read more of Christopher Doyle's opinion-editorial in The Christian Post. |
| | Institute for Healthy Families (IHF) specializes in counseling solutions for individuals, couples, families, therapists, and ministry leaders. IHF is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit therapeutic organization located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. As a Judeo-Christian organization, IHF believes that the family is the foundation for healthy individuals, relationships, communities, and places of worship. While IHF is non-sectarian, we believe that God reveals His truth in both the Bible and Creation and that we can use this wisdom to help facilitate healing. IHF believes that through this synthesis of science and faith, we can help our clients form and maintain healthy families that will be able to help their children become the best versions of themselves and fulfill God’s will for their lives. For more information, visit our website at: www.InstituteforHealthyFamilies.org
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