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Bare Marriage

Episode 223: The Problems with Lies Women Believe by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

Marriage, Social Sciences, Science, Relationships, Sex, Christianity, Wife, Religion & Spirituality, Mother, Society & Culture, Advice, Family

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Lies Women Believe by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth is one of the most popular women’s bible study books used in churches across North America. But what does the book actually teach about marriage? About sex? About divorce and abuse? It’s scary, and today Gretchen Baskerville and Natalie Hoffman join host Sheila Wray Gregoire to analyze the harmful messages in Lies Women Believe.

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Natalie Hoffman's Information:
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Gretchen Baskerville's Information:
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Gretchen’s book The Lifesaving Divorce

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0:13.7

Welcome to the Bear Marriage Podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Gregg. We're from Bear Marriage.com where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage and we are

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able to do that because of the wonderful support of people like you, people who

0:21.9

have joined our patron group who give as little as $5 a month and get access

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to our Facebook group and some unfiltered podcasts or people who give in the United States

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you can get tax deductible receipts by giving to the Good Fruit Foundation,

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which is an initiative of the Bosco Foundation and the links to all those things are in the

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podcast notes and of course people who buy our courses and our

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merch like our love and respect mugs or a biblical womanhood mugs or wall

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hangings or canvas bags or anything. So the links to that are in the

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podcast note so that you can support us too. One of the things that we do do

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periodically on bear marriage is we want to draw people's attention to some of what we think are the most harmful resources that are currently in evangelicalism and create resources so that you can share them with your church so that hopefully these resources will stop being used.

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We have a rigorous process where we put these resources through our rubrics to see whether they actually do qualify as harmful or not,

1:25.2

so we're trying to be as objective as possible. We try to choose books that are still heavily sold and

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used, and we've done every man's battle love and respect for women only

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power for praying wife and today I want to look at lies women believed by Nancy Lee

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de Moss Wilkamuth. It's not a sex or marriage book per se, it's a

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women's book, but it does talk quite a bit about both sex and marriage. I read this book

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for the first time when I was in Sydney, Australia at the airport.

1:55.6

We were there all day waiting to come home back in December.

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And I can't tell you how bad the book made me feel it was it was one of the

2:08.3

strangest reactions I've had I was so tremendously sad I didn't sleep well and I know obviously I had jet leg but I was just I had dreams

2:17.9

about this for the next few nights but just reading it reminded me of where I was 15 years ago in church and how I always felt that God was

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