Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith,

ask questions, seek answers, and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for water down Christian teachings, and if you're ready to go deeper,

God is just as ready to take you there. This is Verity, where every woman is a theologian.

Welcome back to Verity with Felicia Masonheimer. Except this time, it's not just Felicia Masonheimer.

It's Felicia and company, which is actually my husband, Josh, who is here with me today. Say hi,

Josh. Hello. We are in our fifth season of Verity, and in this season, we're talking about Christian

marriage. Now, this is going to be a more personal series than we've ever done before,

because obviously I have a guest with me, and this isn't going to be a marriage series that's

going to spend a ton of time exeguting scripture or teaching you how to apply all of these

biblical truths to your marriage. It's going to more be a glimpse of how we walk out Christian

marriage, and hopefully you glean something along the way that might encourage you in your marriage,

or if you're single in listening, might give you some things to think about as you're dating,

or as you're looking towards the future. So there are going to be 12 episodes in this series,

and we are so excited to get to share a little bit of our story today. Yeah, yeah. In this first

episode, if you're listening to this marriage series, there's a good chance that you or someone

you love is married. And that's fantastic, because on December 7, my brand new co-authored marriage

book is launching into the world. It's called the flirtation experiment. And if that title intrigues

you good, because I can't wait for wives to pick this book up and be encouraged and equipped

to pursue their husbands in ways they may be never expected to do so. When I wrote this book,

I was looking back on a year in my marriage when I was really struggling to cultivate a relationship

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