by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 26, 2023 | Podcasts, Sexual Intimacy
What’s Wrong with Vanilla Sex? Valentine’s Day is coming up just around the corner, and that means that we’re going to start to see lots and lots of articles about how to have hot sex. They will be on magazines. They will be in Christian media. How...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 20, 2023 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
Emerson Eggerichs does not handle Scripture appropriately in Love & Respect. So many people defend the book Love & Respect, saying that it is biblical and rooted in Scripture. And, indeed, Emerson Eggerichs has 230 Scripture references in his book. This does...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 19, 2023 | Podcasts, Theology of Marriage and Sex
It is not just that the book Love & Respect contains toxic teachings. It is also that the book doesn’t handle the Bible properly, twisting passages, prooftexting, and at times even deleting whole words and phrases so the verses appear to suit his thesis. ...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 16, 2023 | Sexual Intimacy
We need to deal with our double standards of sexual expectations in marriage. This month we’re looking at entitlement in marriage, and how the entitlement mentality can kill a marriage. One of the things we were talking about last week was that reasonable...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 13, 2023 | Connecting
When we marry, it’s because we want to be with someone for the rest of our lives. We enjoy being with them. We love them. We want that relationship. And God said that was a good thing! “It is not good for man to be alone.” This month on the blog...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 12, 2023 | Podcasts
If the heart is wicked and deceitful above all things, then aren’t emotions bad and not to be trusted? So often in evangelical circles we’ve been taught that emotions are bad. It’s logic we’re supposed to follow. It’s fact. Emotion...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 11, 2023 | Connecting
Is it wrong to have expectations in marriage? We’ve been talking about entitlement in marriage, and on Monday I wrote about the difference between feeling entitled and having realistic expectations in marriage. I want to expand on that today. So often...
