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 teaching. 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 podcast friends. I'm Felicia Masonheimer, and my husband Josh is with me.

Hey guys. For this series on marriage. So if you're just hopping in for this episode,

welcome. We are two-thirds of the way done with the marriage series, and we have had so much fun

talking through biblical marriage as it looks in our personal experience. This is more of a

descriptive series than prescriptive, but we've already heard back from so many people that it's

been encouraging to feel like they aren't alone and what they've struggled with and what they're

experiencing in their marriage. Today we're talking about flirtation, and before we get into that,

I want to apologize for my voice. I have picked up a cold from our children, because you know,

kids always have to share when they have a sickness. True meaning of what comes around goes around.

So I apologize in advance for my voice, but flirtation. Okay, so this whole series really was born

because of the book that I recently co-authored with my friend Lisa Jacobson of Club 31 Women called

the flirtation experiment, and this book was about a real experiment that I did on Josh without his

knowledge. Several years ago, two years ago, now I think, and through that experiment, I just saw

such changes in my marriage that I told Lisa about it, and it eventually inspired this short,

very practical hands-on book that we have coming out December 7th, and because that is this week,

the week this episode comes out, we are doing a whole episode on flirtation, and Josh is kind of

behind the scenes experience with the flirtation experiment when we did it. So thanks for being

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