Parents,

The annual spring thaw is a good time to review with your kids the importance of purity and modesty. As the weather heats up, so does the temptation. Spring fashions are annually less modest than the previous year, and our culture is agressively putting forward immodesty and impurity as desirous.

For your sons in particular (and perhaps for your daughter), you should be aware that our dear friends at Covenant Life Church have created a Purity Resources page, compiling into one place many sermons and articles on the topic. I particularly recommend Josh’s 11/03 message on Media, and the recent Purity series. Don’t miss Josh’s You and the Flesh cartoons.

For your daughters, Sovereign Grace Ministries is making CJ’s message, “The Soul of Modesty” available for free until April 6. This message is described like this: “With humility and wisdom, C.J. brings the gospel to bear on this potentially sensitive topic, addressing externals only after addressing the heart.” I recommend reviewing this message at least annually with your daughter, perhaps before any shopping trip. Our culture has so completely jettisoned any semblance of modesty that as parents, we need to constantly fight the tide with biblical truth.

To download this message as an MP3 file, “visit the Sovereign Grace Store and add the message to your shopping cart. During the checkout process, enter the promotional code FREEDOWNLOAD to bypass credit-card payment. (Note: At the Order Preview page, please verify that you are being charged $0.00 for this message before you click on “Place Order.”) After the checkout process completes, you will see instructions for downloading the MP3 file. This code is good for this item only and expires April 6.”

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