Betty Dodge is Coordinator for Family Life at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This article was written for the Bethlehem Star newsletter at hopeinGod.org. We post it here with our thanks and her permission.

Mary Kassian is the founder of Girls Gone Wise, where this post originally appeared, April 7th, 2009. She is an award-winning author, internationally renowned speaker, and distinguished professor of Women's Studies at Southern Baptist Seminary. We are also glad to say she serves on the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.

Lydia Brownback is the author of the On-the-Go Devotional series (Crossway); Fine China Is for Single Women Too (P&R, 2003); and Legacy of Faith: From Women of the Bible to Women of Today (P&R, 2002) and a speaker at women's conferences. Lydia is an editor at Crossway Books, and she blogs at The Purple Cellar....

Lydia Brownback is the author of the On-the-Go Devotional series (Crossway); Fine China Is for Single Women Too (P&R, 2003); and Legacy of Faith: From Women of the Bible to Women of Today (P&R, 2002) and a speaker at women's conferences. Lydia is an editor at Crossway Books, and she blogs at The Purple Cellar....

  Alex and Brett Harris recently served as keynote speakers for the Give Me An Answer Middle School/High School conference at Southern Seminary. The Harris brothers are authors of "Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations." SBTS freelance writer Courtney Tarter interviewed them during the conference.

Alex Chediak was an apprentice at The Bethlehem Institute under the leadership of Pastors John Piper and Tom Steller of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis (2005-2007). He is the author of With One Voice: Singleness, Dating, and Marriage to the Glory of God (Christian Focus, 2006) and the general editor of Five Paths to the...