ECPA Bestseller Navigating the Four Critical Seasons of Relationship The vast majority of young people will still pass through the key phases of singleness, dating, engagement and marriage in their twenties.
Our satisfaction and our safety will be ensured if we can aim these powerful desires toward divine purposes..
This power can be constructive or destructive.
SINGLENESS: DEVOTION DATING: EVALUATION ENGAGED: UNIFICATION Married: MISSION Our desires for intimacy are powerful.
In each of these phases, we will look at what eternal purposes should be pursued in each stage, and how to pursue them.
In this book we will chart a course through the four relational phases that the vast majority of human beings on the planet will pass through in their twenties: singleness, dating, Engaged and married.
We need the skill-set to know how to journey through Life and how to select the right people to journey alongside.
How can a young person navigate such troubled waters? Is there hope out there? Like a sailor on turbulent seas, we need to look up and see the North Star: the fixed points in the sky whereby we might navigate the objective realities in life.
Many have discovered that where there is a lack of intimacy, addiction often rises to take its place.
In many ways, the very screens that are meant to link us to others have become shields blocking us from the deep intimacy we crave.
All of our technological connectivity has not made us feel more connected.
Studies show a dramatic rise in self-reported loneliness among the young.
Though many young people can avoid early pregnancy and STDs, most cannot dodge the depression and feelings of isolation that characterize this Modern generation.
In Rhode Island alone, since the onset of online dating, reported cases of Syphilis has risen 79%, and HIV has increased by 33%.
The Center for Disease Control also recently reported a dramatic rise in sexually transmitted disease nationwide.
More children than ever are growing up in fatherless homes, despite the overwhelming evidence that in every measurable way this is bad for the child.
Why? For the first time in history, the average age for an American woman having her first child, 26, is younger than the average age of her first marriage, 27.
Yet they are delaying marriage longer than any generation in human history.
ECPA Bestseller Navigating the Four Critical Seasons of Relationship The vast majority of young people will still pass through the key phases of singleness, dating, engagement and marriage in their twenties
