Growing up, we hear, over and over again: "Just wait for the wedding night! The wedding night will the most magical night of your life!" We get that message from our youth groups; from movies; from bridal magazines. The honeymoon is the pinnacle of your sexual life...
So many women--and many men as well--honestly feel like the church is hurting them. I do not believe that it is Jesus that is hurting them, but the things that the church teaches, especially around sex and marriage, do cause harm. Our surveys have shown that...
Can sex be hot and holy at the same time? One of my big picture passions that I want people to understand is that sex is more than just physical--it's supposed to be deeply intimate too. And maybe to understand that, we need to take a step back to see what God thinks...
More podcasts dropped, a dust up on Facebook, and all about the birds and the bees! It's been a big week on social media and podcasts. Although, honestly, every Friday as I go to write these round-ups I realize it's been a big week, and maybe I should just slow down a...
Listen to the Podcast HereBrowse all the Different PodcastsSee the Last "Start Your Engines" (Men's) PodcastOr, as always, you can watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/s-gTfm4xkN4 Timeline of the Podcast 0:10 Exciting/Encouraging Things4:30 RQ: How can I speak up...
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...
The overarching question I have for my life is a simple one: How can I live out the kingdom of God and make Jesus take up more space? How can we make Jesus more evident in this world? That is the job of every believer. On the podcast last week, though, Scott Coley was...
When it comes to marriage and the church, I believe the ground is shifting beneath our feet right now. As I'v been sharing all week as we look back on 2021, things are changing quickly. God is shaking things, and people are starting to understand God's heart for...
It's Time to Celebrate--and also Refocus on Christ In the last podcast of 2021 I was very, very tired. I took two weeks completely offline, knit a ton, and rejuvenated. And then we had some really good news (including hitting 1,000,000 downloads of the podcast on...
Sometimes it takes just one thought, one concept, to change everything in your marriage. Yesterday I shared the top 10 posts from 2021 that garnered the most comments and were the most talked about. But there's another category of posts I thought it would be important...
2021: The Biggest Year on the Blog. What a year it was! The Great Sex Rescue was published in March. I had to wade through a lot of criticism and lawsuit threats and the discouragement that the Christian establishment didn't seem to care about the harm they were...
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...
My husband told me yesterday that I was in the middle of the "long dark night of the soul." We went down to a winery to celebrate our anniversary and we were just talking about the last year, and where we're at now emotionally and where we think we'll end up in five...
Thirty years ago I made the best decision of my life--but I really didn't understand that at the time. I don't know how a 21-year-old can truly realize how important the choice of mate is. It's so easy to think that love is all you need--and I did love Keith. It's so...
Hi, everybody! This month we've been talking about embodiment and mindfulness--how to understand the mind/body connection. I thought that theme fit in well with Christmas, because in Christmas our God actually took on bodily form. The incarnation shows us that our...