For Laura Perry, D transitioning from living as a man, back to being the woman God created

her to be, was a gradual process.

She says the scripture was crucial in that journey.

And so as God was pouring the word into me, I was getting more and more convicted.

And I realized after a while that I couldn't just twist one or

two verses to kind of fit whatever I believed. It was, you know, the whole Bible was telling me that

I couldn't be transgender. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth,

co-author of True Woman 101, Divine Design. For June 3rd, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

These days, you're probably seeing terms like gender dysphoria and transgenderism showing up a lot in your social

media and your news feeds. As we see those terms, it's easy to forget that there are people

behind the statistics, people behind those terms. Easy that is, until a friend or a family member

experiences it firsthand. This week we're hearing from

Laura Perry, who spent about a decade living as Jake with the identity of a man. Yesterday,

Laura's mom, Francine, shared the pain she experienced and what she learned as she walked

through this heartbreaking time.

If you missed either the last couple of programs, you'll want to go back and listen to those on your

Reviver Hearts app or at Reviverheart's.com. And I want to just remind us that it's important

that we approach these subjects from a biblical perspective. That's where we find truth. And the truth is not

only right and true, it's also good and beautiful. So we want to learn to line up our thinking

with what God says is true and right rather than what is so often promoted through the media

or through our other human institutions.

The scripture says in Genesis chapter 1 that God created man in his own image, male and female, he created them. And then a few verses later, God says that his creation was very good.

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