If I were to ask you what it means to submit to your husband, what would you say? When I’ve asked that question at marriage groups, people hem and haw and then eventually come up with something like this:When we’re disagreeing about something, the husband gets the...
The doctrine of submission puts our emphasis in the wrong place Recently I decided to rerun a series that I did a few years ago on submission, because I point to the posts so often, and yet most of you weren't following me when I wrote them! And once I write...
Last week Josh Howerton preached in a sermon that he was being persecuted. He talked about how he frequently is "cancelled" as a pastor, when internet mobs come after him, and the first time that happened his wife Jana prepared a feast and told him that he was blessed...
Our series this month is "putting Christ back in Christian marriage advice." When I told Keith that, he said that there's something he's been wanting say for a while, but it would be intense. I told him to go for it. And so I've named this post Keith's manifesto!...
Can we stop objectifying women and treat us like whole people, made in the image of God? We've been talking about putting the "Christ" back in Christian marriage this month, and part of that is by treating women as the Imago Dei (made in the image of God) instead of...
Have you ever thought about how much Jesus must have laughed? And should that make a difference for how we see marriage? On Tuesdays I like to post something super quick rather than write a long post, and I've been listening through older episodes of the podcast...
Ever notice how all Scripture readings at weddings seem to sound the same--like the Bible has a very small marriage playbook? In January I want to talk about how to put the "Christ" back in "Christian marriage advice", and how to focus on Jesus again. And it reminded...
I've been talking about Gary Thomas' and Debra Fileta's new sex book Married Sex off and on on this blog and my podcast for the last few months, and there's been quite a hubbub about it on social media. The book has also been largely panned in reviews on Amazon. I've...
As we begin 2022, I feel that there has been a shift in the air. I ended 2021 with a personal post saying that I was very, very tired. And I really was! I took the last two weeks almost completely off (we did record the audio versions of the upcoming The Good Girl's...
The results on Instagram about how the "all men struggle with lust" message affected you dealt a big emotional wallop on me. I told you about it yesterday, but I'd like to explore it a little more today. I received hundreds upon hundreds of answers on Instagram, and...
I was blown away by the many great comments on yesterday's post on stay at home dads. Across my platforms I had a lot of feedback, and i was going to write something else today, but several themes kept emerging from the comments, so I thought we could talk about it a...
On the whole, women who attend church tend to believe, or are even more likely to believe, several key evangelical teachings about sex. It makes sense. If you invest in your church culture, your beliefs tend to line up with the church culture. And as we found in The...
I was blown away by your messages of encouragement yesterday, here and on Facebook. Thank you so much! I got up this morning with something I wanted to write that I've been thinking about, but you all told me to rest, so I think I'll leave it and write about it when...
We were supposed to go home from camping last Friday, but we extended for another week because I need it. "Camping" is perhaps too strong a word. We're actually sitting quite comfortably in our RV with a fridge, stove, and even an air conditioner, so we're hardly...
It's time for our next Start Your Engines podcast--the one where we talk more specifically to the guys! Of course it's always interesting for women, too, but we tend to bring Keith and Connor on more and we save up our guys' reader questions! Today on the podcast,...