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PODCAST: Do You Know Your Attachment Style? with Krispin Mayfield

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 28, 2022 | Podcasts

I’m so excited to be switching gears for a month to talk about attachment! I’ve been reading some books in the last year, and thinking and talking to people who are super smart, and I’ve become convinced that many issues in our marriages and...

On Elisabeth Elliot’s Terrible Courtship–and Dating Men “Sold Out for Jesus”

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 26, 2021 | Bare Marriage, Preparing for Marriage

Elisabeth Elliot’s book Passion and Purity is NOT a love story. These last few weeks I’ve been reading the big books marketed to young women in the evangelical world for research for our mother-daughter book, and one of those was Passion & Purity. I...

10 Ways to Stay Close When You’re in a Period of Waiting

by Joanna Sawatsky | Nov 27, 2018 | Faith, Marriage

Waiting is hard. You have no control. There’s nothing you can do to make it better. And in those moments, how do you stay close to your spouse? I invited Joanna, who works for me, to write a post today on how she and Josiah have handled waiting in the last year,...

Have You Mistakenly Made God Seem Really Distant?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 5, 2017 | Faith

Sometimes the things we believe about God can actually make Him seem quite distant. One of those is our beliefs about how God sees sin. When we think that all sins are equal, we can actually make God seem really heartless. Last week I posted an article that went big...

Reader Question: Does God Care More About Men Than About Women?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 28, 2017 | Faith, Sex

Does God love men more than women? Every now and then I receive an email that makes my heart hurt. Recently I got this one, from a woman who is looking at the Bible, and looking around at her church, and ending up wondering if God really loves women. She asks: So, I...

When You Don’t Know God’s Plans for You

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 8, 2016 | Emotional Connection

Sheila’s Marriage Moment: When God Asks You to Wait Every Friday I like to run a 400-word inspirational piece about marriage. Here’s the New Year’s edition. As the New Year dawns, many of us have made resolutions and printed out goal sheets. And...