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FF: Paving the Way for Change
This is a follow-up on Confessions of the Husband of a Sex Positive Wife post, and specifically comments and emails generated by the post. you can be the best person possible, even near perfect, but if your wife doesnt want to also do this,...The post
Marriage and Sex as Self-Care: Refuge and Intimacy
Lets talk about your marriage and sex life as self-care. If your marriage and sex life are a source of stress, this may not make sense to you. But when your marriage is healthy, it can be a great source of calm. It can...The post Marriage and Sex as Sel
The Importance of Spiritual Self-Care
We hear a lot about self-care these days. Some scoff at it as weakness or a waste of time that could be better used in other ways. Thing is, the Bible is all about self-care. The 23rd Psalm would be one example. One pastor...The post The Importance of
Avoid Marriage Autopilot: Stay Engaged for a Healthy Relationship
In todays sermon, our pastor talked about autopilot. We all have places in our lives that run this way, and it can be a good thing. But it can also cause us problems because we miss things we need to embrace, challenge, or otherwise...The post Avoid Mar
Breaking Free from Broken Sexual Frameworks
Lets talk about frameworks and sex. We all have a framework for sex. And most of us had a significant framework for it long before we ever had sex. By the time you were with your wife, your framework was massive and probably set...The post Breaking Fre
FF: Confessions of the Husband of a Sex Positive Wife
A couple of weeks ago, Julie Sibert of Intimacy in Marriage wrote 10 Confessions of a Wife Who Loves Sex. Then J of Hot, Holy & Humorous did her Confessions of a Sex-Happy Wife and it became a trend. You can find five such...The post FF: Confessions
Marriage Frameworks: Building, Checking, and Adapting
I want to talk a bit more about our mental frameworks for marriage. In particular, how we got those frameworks. Its rare to intentionally build a mental framework. We generally start with something we pick up from others, and modify it. So our framework
The Problem with Frameworks: Good Tool, Bad Master
At the peaching workshop, we talked a good deal about the mental framework we apply to scripture. A framework can be a great tool for understating a passage, but it can also be a problem. If something falls outside our framework, do we just... The post Th
The Beauty of Sacrificial Love in Marriage
I got home from my preaching workshop at 2 AM Saturday morning. My wife woke up, we talked a bit, then I crashed. She woke before me and let me sleep which was great as I was very short on sleep from the...The post The Beauty of Sacrificial Love in Mar
The Sobering Reality of Female Sexual Dysfunction and What Can Help
I was reading a research study, and it started with this: Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) is a medicosocial problem and one of the most common complaints in sexually active women, affecting as many as 30-50% of them… If it affects 30% of women, that’s...