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Episode 262: Problems with Marriage on the Rock by Jimmy Evans

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

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

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Send us a textJimmy Evans started XO Marriage over 30 years ago, and his book Marriage on the Rock became a best-seller. He leads marriage conferences around the country. But for years he also Mark Driscoll on his leadership team. He got his start at Gateway Church under Robert Morris, who has been accused of grooming and sexually abusing a teen girl, starting when she was 12. And more recently audio of Evans’ bullying behavior has dropped. So let’s examine his book Marriage on the Rock—and w...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Bear Marriage podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Greg Gorg from Bear Marriage.com,

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where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage.

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And I am joined

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today by my husband Keith. Hey, everybody. And we are going to walk through another book that made me

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depressed. We are going to walk to Marriage on the Rock by Jimmy Evans. I read it earlier this summer,

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I think last year and over the summer and thoroughly depressed. But I think we can do sort of an upbeat, very interesting

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overall review of the book. And usually I do this with three other people, but I was like,

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Keith, I need you to read this so that we can talk about it together. Well, and I definitely had some

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thoughts as well, too. Yeah. So it'll be awesome. Before we get to that, Christmas is going to be here just a few short weeks.

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keep going. And as well, we're doing a major fundraising push in the month of December. We're trying to raise some money for some really neat things we have planned for 2025,

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including some more academic papers.

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