by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 20, 2020 | Marriage
Can you marry the wrong person? When Keith and I started speaking at marriage conferences in 2004 and 2005, we were still using curriculum from FamilyLife USA. And the emphasis in that curriculum was in preventing divorce. I remember one of the major teachings was...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 12, 2020 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
What does 1 Corinthians 7:9–“it is better to marry than to burn with passion”–mean? I was blown away by the comments last Friday when we were talking about the gatekeeping phenomenon that many women feel, when we think that the boy is the...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 8, 2019 | Faith
Do we emphasize the wrong thing when talking about what makes someone marriage material? We receive a lot of emails from people in, frankly, horrible marriage situations. Oftentimes it’s an issue where sin or selfishness has been allowed to roam free for a while...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 28, 2019 | Marriage, Pornography
What should you do if your fiance watches porn? Quite frankly, Porn destroys marriage. It rewires the brain so that what becomes arousing is an image, rather than a person. And it distorts people’s sexuality, so that we concentrate solely on the physical aspects...