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Is Being Transgender a Sin?
Is being transgender a sin? Can you be transgender and be a Christian?
Gender dysphoria is a divisive and controversial issue in today’s culture, especially among young people. But what the Bible says about being transgender is clear: we are created male and female, and should not go against God’s loving design. When people in the world and in our lives say they identify as transgender, how do we respond?
Learn how to share God’s truth and love on this topic with the Lighthouse Voices talk, From Transgender to Transformed.
Laura Perry Smalts shares her testimony of physically transitioning to embrace a transgender identity. After many years, she listened to God calling her home, detransitioned, and is now living as her true self. Laura Perry Smalts provides a powerful perspective on gender identity in this Lighthouse Voices talk.
Watch “From Transgender to Transformed” with Laura Perry Smalts
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Transgender to Transformed
In Transgender to Transformed, Laura Perry Smalts talks about living as a transgender man for many years. She found that, even though she was led to believe her new identity would bring her happiness, she still hadn’t found peace and fulfillment.
Laura’s book sheds light on the common deceptions about the transgender lifestyle, and can help Christians struggling with transgender identity find light of freedom in Christ.In Transgender to Transformed you’ll learn:
- What happens to a person struggling with gender, to understand how to love and minister to them
- How to deal with loved ones who are transitioning
- Hope and help for Christians struggling with gender dysphoria
About the Speaker
Laura Perry Smalts, once transgender, shares a powerful message of transformation through Jesus Christ, reclaiming her feminine identity. Her journey resonates with individuals who struggle with gender identity, those who have transitioned, parents, loved ones, and church members seeking to offer support. Her autobiography, Transgender to Transformed, narrates her story. Laura’s primary goal is to glorify Christ and encourage others to fully surrender to Jesus, embracing their God-given identity. She resides in Oklahoma City with her husband, Perry, and works on the staff of First Stone Ministries.
About Lighthouse Voices
Unlock the tools you need to navigate today’s cultural landscape with confidence and compassion. As a partnership between Focus on the Family and the Colson Center, Lighthouse Voices empowers you to address complex issues with informed insight.
Our speakers arm you with the latest faith-based insights on such subjects as racial tensions, gender identity, the societal impact of abortion, the mental illness epidemic and how to address it, and how to help children build biblical character. Join us to deepen your understanding and equip yourself to make a positive impact in today’s world.
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Past Events
Faith & Culture
Dr. Os Guinness
A Revolution of Love
Free love has not freed love, it has degraded it. The sexual revolution is the oldest, deadliest, and most seductive of the modern revolutions against the Christian faith. Our best response is not simply to protest or complain, but to live out the Bible’s position, which is the deepest richest view of love ever set out.
Faith & Culture
Joni Eareckson Tada
Engaging Suffering as a Cultural Witness
Courage and good character are rare in today’s culture, even among Christians. Moral purity seems outdated, and suffering is avoided. Yet, we crave authentic leaders with unbreakable character. Joni Eareckson Tada urges us to let suffering shape our character, stating that God grants influence through suffering, not despite it.
Faith & Culture
Samuel D. James
Resilient Faith in a Digital World
Faith & Culture
Alisa Childers & Tim Barnett
Exvangelicals & the Deconstruction of Christianity
Dive into the rising movement of deconstruction in churches. Authors Alisa Childers and Tim Barnett shed light on its allure and challenge to believers. Learn to recognize deconstruction’s signs, counter its arguments, and protect loved ones’ faith.
Family
Brad Wilcox
Discovering The Worth of Marriage
Hear University of Virginia Professor Brad Wilcox, one of America’s preeminent researchers on marriage and the family. Dr. Wilcox will discuss how culture pushes the belief that forgoing marriage and family for education, work and money will lead to happiness. But does it? He will show how getting married, having a family and investing in a strong faith are the true predictors of a flourishing life.
Gender
Laura Perry Smalts
From Transgender to Transformed
Discover the incredible journey of Laura Perry Smalts, author of “Transgender to Transformed.” Listen to her powerful testimony of breaking free from the transgender lifestyle and finding peace in her biological gender through the grace of Jesus Christ. Learn how to approach conversations about gender identity with empathy and understanding, and how to offer support to those navigating their own journey of self-discovery.
Faith & Culture
Alisa Childers
God’s Truth Amidst Cultural Deceptions
Alisa Childers addresses how to navigate the popular slogans that have infiltrated our everyday lives. Phrases like “live your truth,” “follow your heart,” and “you only have one life to live” Alisa showed how these phrases draw Christians away from God with Biblical examples.
Faith & Culture
Dr. Anthony Bradley
Stop Failing Young Men
Dr. Anthony Bradley provides a sobering overview of the challenges facing young men and gives advice on how to confront the problem.
Faith & Culture
Dr. Os Guinness
Our Civilization Moment
This talk seeks to set America’s distress in the setting of the wider crisis of western civilization. For better or worse, the Christian faith has made the West, and the future of the West depends on the state of the Christian faith.
Faith & Culture
Monique Duson
Christianity and Race: The Family of God in a Divided Age
Monique Duson spent 2 decades advocating for the idea of “racial reconciliation”. After the rise of Black Lives Matter, the divide between the races seemed worse than ever. Monique will share her journey away from the “racial reconciliation” model and how the Gospel offers a better hope for racial unity that Jesus Christ secured on the cross.
Faith & Culture
Dr. Ryan Burkhart
Mental Illness, Despair, and the Crisis of Meaning
Dr. Ryan Burkhart shares how you can be kind, be bold, and be light in your circle of influence by understanding the deep needs of others. This begins first with understanding a Christian Biblical Worldview regarding mental health.
Gender
Dr. Abigail Favale
The Genesis of Gender
Gender is a subject that has become so confused in our country., but we can find truth through what the Bible says. Hear Dr. Abigail Favale as she explains how our culture has misunderstood what gender is and uses Scripture to share what God’s true design for gender is.
Sanctity of Life
Alexandra DeSanctis
Tearing Us Apart
Supporters of legal abortion argue that American women can only be equal if they are allowed to obtain abortions, but the reality is that it hurts women more than we know.
Sanctity of Life
Ryan Bomberger
The Beauty of Possibility
Based on Philippians 4:13 and Psalm 139, this powerful presentation shatters the myth of the “unwanted” child, exposes the evil of abortion, and celebrates the truth that we are all wanted by someone.
Family
Katy Faust
The Rights of Children
Katy Faust shares the ways we can stand up for children’s most basic right: to be known and loved by the two people responsible for their existence.
Family
Dr. Kathy Koch
The Potential of Children
Dr. Kathy Koch explores ways parents, grandparents, and other adults can help children develop biblical character.