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Thanks for joining Francie on this episode of Heaven in Your Home. We hope you'll be inspired by this episode, and feel led to share it with someone you know would be ministered to by Francie's message.

In This Episode Francie talks about:

• Stewarding your marriage
• Taming the Tounge- James 1:19, Proverbs 18:21
• The healing power of speaking truth
• Quick repentance- James 4:6
• Family dance parties-Proverbs 17:22
• Schedule Sex
• Seeking community

Resources:

101 Course: Strong Foundations to Starting Well: CLAIMING A HEALTHY VISION FOR MARRIED SEX

To build a love that lasts, you must begin with a strong foundation. Whether you're newly engaged or in need of a new lens, this course is essential. You'll be equipped to set a Biblically integrated and practically grounded vision for sex, marriage and the calling to steward the gift of pleasure and intimacy. This course is pivotal as you begin to unlearn unhelpful perspectives and sift through shame, lies and painful messages you've received over the years. Learn more here.

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Thanks for joining Francie on this episode of Heaven in Your Home. We hope you'll be inspired by this episode, and feel led to share it with someone you know would be ministered to by Francie's message.

In This Episode Francie talks about:

• Dangerous assumptions about marriage
• Marriage partnership with God
• Strategies for investing in your marriage
• "You don't pay the price for success, you see the benefits of success"-Zig Ziglar
• Galatians 6:7
• Date night, Every night
• The art of a great date
• Pray together
• Heather MacFadyen Don't Mom Alone Podcast
• Book good hotels at priceline.com or hotwire.com

Prayer:

God thank you for opportunities, resources and creativity so that we can sow good into the soil of our marriage. I pray for wisdom and inspiration so that we can see the joy and fullness you want to incorporate in our marriage through the gift of intentional connection. Take us deeper into your heart God. All for your glory, in Jesus name, Amen.

Resources:

101 Course: Strong Foundations to Starting Well: CLAIMING A HEALTHY VISION FOR MARRIED SEX

To build a love that lasts, you must begin with a strong foundation. Whether you're newly engaged or in need of a new lens, this course is essential. You'll be equipped to set a Biblically integrated and practically grounded vision for sex, marriage and the calling to steward the gift of pleasure and intimacy. This course is pivotal as you begin to unlearn unhelpful perspectives and sift through shame, lies and painful messages you've received over the years. Learn more here.

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In This Episode Francie talks about:

• The increase of emotional contribution in marriage
• We are Image Bearers
• Empty love buckets
• Husbands love your wives as Christ loves the church
• Practical aspects of life sometimes interfere with our emotional intimacy
• How to overcome resentment toward our spouse
• Turning our offenses into offerings
• The sexual superpowers of wives
• Let sex be more connection driven than hormone driven

Prayer:

Thank for the gift of Image Bearing. Thank you for making us for intimate connection with you and each other. Help us to-re-see the gift of sex in a way that brings more revelation of who you are. Heal us, Fill us. In Jesus Name, Amen

Resources:

101 Course: Strong Foundations to Starting Well: CLAIMING A HEALTHY VISION FOR MARRIED SEX

To build a love that lasts, you must begin with a strong foundation. Whether you're newly engaged or in need of a new lens, this course is essential. You'll be equipped to set a Biblically integrated and practically grounded vision for sex, marriage and the calling to steward the gift of pleasure and intimacy. This course is pivotal as you begin to unlearn unhelpful perspectives and sift through shame, lies and painful messages you've received over the years. Learn more here.

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Welcome the Heaven in Your Home podcast. We hope you'll be inspired by this episode, and feel led to share it with someone you know would be ministered to by Francie's message.

In This Episode Francie talks about:

• Francie's conservative background
• Sex drives our husbands to us
• From the of our physical connection comes emotional connection
• Sex as a way of exclusive communication
• Proverbs 31:10
• What sex in marriage is NOT

Prayer:

Father, with our hands on our hearts, we pray you would do a healing work. Help us to re-see sex. We repent for seeing sex from a lower perspective, but ask we can see it from your perspective. We ask for a greater sense of your presence, even in our bedroom. In Jesus name, Amen.

Resources:

101 Course: Strong Foundations to Starting Well: CLAIMING A HEALTHY VISION FOR MARRIED SEX

To build a love that lasts, you must begin with a strong foundation. Whether you're newly engaged or in need of a new lens, this course is essential. You'll be equipped to set a Biblically integrated and practically grounded vision for sex, marriage and the calling to steward the gift of pleasure and intimacy. This course is pivotal as you begin to unlearn unhelpful perspectives and sift through shame, lies and painful messages you've received over the years. Learn more here.

Donate to the Heaven in Your Home Ministry:

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Welcome the Heaven in Your Home podcast. We hope you'll be inspired by this episode, and feel led to share it with someone you know would be ministered to by Francie's message.

In This Episode Francie talks about:

• Invest in your own health and refreshment
• Alisa Keeton (Revelation Wellness)
• Is sex just another need I have to meet?
• Elevating our view of sex to God's perspective
• A oneness of body that leads to a oneness of heart
• Unity brings fruitfulness
• The power of consistant sex in marriage
• Sex is God's gift and it is good.

Prayer:

Father, thank you for the gift of marriage and sex. Thank you for the blessing of sex. Fill us with you and your nearness, and make choices that nourish our hearts, minds, body and soul. Help us lean into you and see your Kingdom come into our marriage. Reconnect us to each other and to You. In Jesus name, Amen.

Resources:

101 Course: Strong Foundations to Starting Well: CLAIMING A HEALTHY VISION FOR MARRIED SEX

To build a love that lasts, you must begin with a strong foundation. Whether you're newly engaged or in need of a new lens, this course is essential. You'll be equipped to set a Biblically integrated and practically grounded vision for sex, marriage and the calling to steward the gift of pleasure and intimacy. This course is pivotal as you begin to unlearn unhelpful perspectives and sift through shame, lies and painful messages you've received over the years. Learn more here.

Donate to the Heaven in Your Home Ministry:

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Welcome the Heaven in Your Home podcast. We hope you'll be inspired by this episode, and feel led to share it with someone you know would be ministered to by Francie's message.

In This Episode Francie talks about:

• Developing good habits in your marriage
• Galatians 6:7-9
• To Love Honor and Vacuum by Sheila Gregoire
• The Good Girls Guide to Great Sex by Sheila Gregoire
• Episode 4: Sex as a Signpost
• 2 Samuel 12:24
• Fighting for oneness in our marriage
• Intentionally invest in your marriage
• Jeremiah 17:7 & 8
• Sowing into the marriage of your dreams

Practical Questions for your spouse:

1. How are we doing? How's your heart in our marriage?
2. Affirm each other: This is how I feel about you.
3. How is our intimacy?
4. How can we invest in our marriage

Prayer:

Father thank you for the chance to be honest and ask questions. Thank you for the humility to ask each other questions and help us honor the gift of vulnerability. Fill that space with strength from the Holy Spirit that looks like love and tenderness and care. I pray for more conversations about how we can invest in our marriages. Come Lord, do a deep work in us.

Resources:

101 Course: Strong Foundations to Starting Well: CLAIMING A HEALTHY VISION FOR MARRIED SEX

To build a love that lasts, you must begin with a strong foundation. Whether you're newly engaged or in need of a new lens, this course is essential. You'll be equipped to set a Biblically integrated and practically grounded vision for sex, marriage and the calling to steward the gift of pleasure and intimacy. This course is pivotal as you begin to unlearn unhelpful perspectives and sift through shame, lies and painful messages you've received over the years. Learn more here.

Donate to the Heaven in Your Home Ministry:

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Welcome the Heaven in Your Home podcast. We hope you'll be inspired by this episode, and feel led to share it with someone you know would be ministered to by Francie's message.

In This Episode Francie talks about:

• How sex connects to the mission of God
• The language of the body
• Why we drift apart in marriage
• Leaning in and choosing connection
• The ripple effect of sex
• Francie tells a story of when she and her husband began to experience the marriage drift.
• Overcoming the influence of fear
• Growing her family through the gift of adoption
• Episode 3: Re-Thinking Sex: Recovering a Biblical Lens

Prayer:

Thank you for the glory of God on our bodies and the power of reconnecting and becoming one. Help us to fight for our marriage because unity matters. Holy Spirit guide us into wholeness and heal us. Bring our marriage back to wholeness in our mission with you- to be fruitful and multiply the gifts You have given us. Be glorified Father. Help us to know You and show You in all we do. In Jesus name, Amen.

101 Course: Strong Foundations to Starting Well: CLAIMING A HEALTHY VISION FOR MARRIED SEX

To build a love that lasts, you must begin with a strong foundation. Whether you're newly engaged or in need of a new lens, this course is essential. You'll be equipped to set a Biblically integrated and practically grounded vision for sex, marriage and the calling to steward the gift of pleasure and intimacy. This course is pivotal as you begin to unlearn unhelpful perspectives and sift through shame, lies and painful messages you've received over the years. Learn more here.

Donate to the Heaven in Your Home Ministry:

Your one time donation will allow us to continue to produce and distribute teaching and resources. Thank you for partnering with us! Donate here.

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Please share Heaven In Your Home with your friends!

Welcome the Heaven in Your Home podcast. We hope you'll be inspired by this first episode, and feel led to share it with someone you know would be ministered to by Francie's message.

In this episode, Francie talks about...

• We all look at sex through different lenses
• The 5 W's that form our sex view
• The way media influences our view of sex
• Overcoming barriers to intimacy
• The ache of unmet intimacy
• Matthew 19: 3-5
• Sex is God's idea
• Genesis 1:21-29
• "We were not made for self-expression, we were made for God expression"- Francie Winslow

Prayer:

"Father, thank you for this good news. Thank you that the gospel can actually be revealed through our bodies, and this longing that tells us we were made for an eternal unstopping love. Thank you that we can actually see a glimpse of that love in the gift of earthly marriage. Ultimately, Lord, we acknowledge that You are our satisfaction."

101 Course: Strong Foundations to Starting Well: CLAIMING A HEALTHY VISION FOR MARRIED SEX

To build a love that lasts, you must begin with a strong foundation. Whether you're newly engaged or in need of a new lens, this course is essential. You'll be equipped to set a Biblically integrated and practically grounded vision for sex, marriage and the calling to steward the gift of pleasure and intimacy. This course is pivotal as you begin to unlearn unhelpful perspectives and sift through shame, lies and painful messages you've received over the years. Learn more here.

Donate to the Heaven in Your Home Ministry:

Your one time donation will allow us to continue to produce and distribute teaching and resources. Thank you for partnering with us! Donate here.

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Welcome the Heaven in Your Home podcast. We hope you'll be inspired by this episode, and feel led to share it with someone you know would be ministered to by Francie's message.

In this episode, Francie talks about...

• The science behind God's good gift of intimacy.
• The GOODNESS of God in our biology and all the amazing God-inspired wonders that happen on a physiological level in our mind, body and emotions when we enjoy the gift of intimacy.
• The fact that there is a grand narrative … the love story of God ... the very Gospel … embedded into the nature of sexuality, marriage, and into the story of husband and wife.
• How our bodies - our very most private parts, our brains, our hormones, our emotions and our relationships - testify to God's wisdom, creativity, and genius- all by Him, for Him and for His glory.
• Romans 11:36- For EVERYTHING comes from Him- and exists by His power and intended for His glory.

A prayer to see God's good design on our bodies:

God, it's clear that there's so much resistance in this area. But I know you to be a God of breakthrough, healing and restoration. I ask for your re-alignment in my mindset on sex, my body, and the gift of intimacy in my marriate. Help me to discover your view, your intention for my body, my sexuality, my family and my household. Help me embrace that my body is GOOD. Help me to see and celebrate your power, goodness and wisdom that is revealed in my body- this temple in which you delightfully dwell.

101 Course: Strong Foundations to Starting Well: CLAIMING A HEALTHY VISION FOR MARRIED SEX

To build a love that lasts, you must begin with a strong foundation. Whether you're newly engaged or in need of a new lens, this course is essential. You'll be equipped to set a Biblically integrated and practically grounded vision for sex, marriage and the calling to steward the gift of pleasure and intimacy. This course is pivotal as you begin to unlearn unhelpful perspectives and sift through shame, lies and painful messages you've received over the years. Learn more here.

Donate to the Heaven in Your Home Ministry:

Your one time donation will allow us to continue to produce and distribute teaching and resources. Thank you for partnering with us! Donate here.

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Please share Heaven In Your Home with your friends!

Welcome the Heaven in Your Home podcast. We hope you'll be inspired by this first episode, and feel led to share it with someone you know would be ministered to by Francie's message.

In this episode, Francie talks about...

• How she and her husband glued themselves together the first year of marriage
• Her need for inner-healing and how God became their healer
• Their move to Sri Lanka
• They had sex nearly everyday for a year
• How that led them to discover some pretty radical things about God's heart for marriage

101 Course: Strong Foundations to Starting Well: CLAIMING A HEALTHY VISION FOR MARRIED SEX

To build a love that lasts, you must begin with a strong foundation. Whether you're newly engaged or in need of a new lens, this course is essential. You'll be equipped to set a Biblically integrated and practically grounded vision for sex, marriage and the calling to steward the gift of pleasure and intimacy. This course is pivotal as you begin to unlearn unhelpful perspectives and sift through shame, lies and painful messages you've received over the years. Learn more here.

Donate to the Heaven in Your Home Ministry:

Your one time donation will allow us to continue to produce and distribute teaching and resources. Thank you for partnering with us! Donate here.

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Please share Heaven In Your Home with your friends!