by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 12, 2018 | Resolving Conflict
By 4 a.m. on Christmas morning, my brother-in-law’s house is bustling. Wrapping paper is flying, Christmas music is playing, and laughter is bubbling. But it’s not the kids who wake everyone up at 4. It’s my brother-in-law. He does Christmas BIG.My...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 19, 2018 | Resolving Conflict, Theology of Marriage and Sex
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...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 12, 2018 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
One of the interesting phenomena I’ve encountered when blogging is that the angry men who leave “drive-by” comments quoting Bible verses about how women must obey and remain silent so rarely talk about Jesus. They take verses out of context from New...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 5, 2018 | Marriage
“How you view yourself will flow into every relationship you have, especially a romantic one.” Yep. And that’s why so many of us have trouble finding love that lasts. Just before Christmas I was sent a copy of Jefferson and Alyssa Bethke’s new...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 22, 2016 | Marriage, Resolving Conflict
What do you do when you’re married to someone completely opposite to yourself? Obviously none of us marry someone who is exactly identical to ourselves. But what do you do when those differences between you and your spouse start to create a rift? Because often...