Grounded Panel Discussion

Grounded Panel Discussion

Digging deeper into issues of sexuality.

Running Time: 32 minutes

Transcript

Erin Davis: One thing I wanted to talk about was this book. Does this look familiar to you?

Laura Perry: Yes, it does.

Erin: Yes. Does this look familiar to any of you? This is True Woman 101, and you didn’t get to it in your testimony, so I did want to touch on it before we started fielding some questions about how the Lord used this in your story.

Laura: Yes. It was interesting. I was in a women’s discipleship group, which I wasn’t all that excited about to begin with. But then really throughout the year, the Lord was really speaking to me. I remember looking around the room one day and realizing, I was just one of the girls. It was so healing!

But this study, a few months into it, I was not excited about it. I was being obedient to the Lord, but I …

About the Speakers

Dannah Gresh

Dannah Gresh

Dannah Gresh is the cohost of the Revive Our Hearts podcast and the founder of True Girl, a ministry dedicated to providing tools to help moms and grandmas disciple their seven to twelve-year-old girls. She has authored over twenty-eight books, including a Bible study for adult women based on the book of Habakkuk and books for teens including Lies Young Women Believe and The Bride Wore White. Twice a year Dannah hosts an online Bible study for teen girls and their moms. Dannah and her husband, Bob, live on a hobby farm in central Pennsylvania.

Laura Perry Smalts

Laura Perry Smalts

Laura Perry Smalts is an author and speaker who shares her story of how Jesus Christ rescued her from a transgender identity. She also speaks and teaches on a variety of topics related to transgenderism and God’s design of human beings as male and female. She has had the privilege to tell her story on a variety of platforms including radio, video, TV, and more including the documentary In His Image and to teach at conferences, schools, and churches. Her story is available in her autobiography, Transgender to Transformed. She and her husband, Perry, now run a ministry called Eden’s Redemption which aims to teach and equip people to understand gender and sexuality from a biblical perspective.

Mary Kassian

Mary Kassian

In addition to being a frequent contributor on Revive Our Hearts podcasts and at True Woman conferences, Mary Kassian is an award-winning author and internationally renowned speaker. She has written more than a dozen books and Bible studies including True Woman 101 and 201, Conversation Peace, The Right Kind of Strong, and The Right Kind of Confident. Mary and her husband, Brent, have three grown sons and make their home in Alberta, Canada.