by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 25, 2021 | Preparing for Marriage
I’ve often heard pastors say that the only explicit reason given for marriage in the Bible is that it is better to marry than to burn with passion. The context they’re quoting is from 1 Corinthians 7: Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 17, 2020 | Preparing for Marriage
If you’ve been promiscuous in the past, is your future marriage doomed? We’re in the middle of our Sex Questions You Can’t Ask Your Pastor series this month, and this week we’ve been focusing on newlywed sex questions–including our...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 12, 2020 | Preparing for Marriage
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 | Jul 25, 2019 | Podcasts, Preparing for Marriage
It’s time for a new episode of the To Love, Honor and Vacuum podcast! Today we did a bit of a different one. Rather than having all of our segments, we just talked about one big thing: the earthquake in Christian circles where the purity culture is falling...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 30, 2018 | Preparing for Marriage
I’ve written at length on the blog about why we should wait until marriage for sex, and why God made sex just for marriage.But sometimes I fear that in all of our talk about saving sex for marriage we forget that the biggest sexual temptation isn’t always...
by Rebecca Lindenbach | May 23, 2018 | Preparing for Marriage
Should not having sex before you’re married be a struggle? We talk a lot about marriage and sex on this blog, but what about sexual temptation before you’re married? It’s Rebecca on the blog today, and I’m tackling a bit of a weird one. After...
Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 29 years and happily married for 24! She loves traveling around North America with her hubby in their RV, giving her signature "Girl Talk" about sex and marriage. And she's written 7 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.
