Welcome to the Bear Marriage Podcast. I'm Sheila-Reg-Greg-War where we like to talk about healthy advice.

No, what is it that we like to talk about?

Healthy evidence-based, biblical advice for your sex

life and your marriage. And I am joined today by my ill daughter, Rebecca, who is still getting

over cold. This has been our life for the last few months. But you are being a trooper and you are

coming on this podcast to be my sidekick as we talk about a book that I just read that is terrible.

But before we do that, I would like to talk about a book that I read that is wonderful.

And I would like to thank the sponsor of this podcast, Zondervin and Amy Bird's book Saving Face.

Amy was on the podcast last week.

It was a wonderful interview.

I really, really love

this book talking about how to get to true intimacy, vulnerability, and authenticity in our relationships

and in our church communities. It's so important and I love what she's saying. And I encourage

everyone to pick up the book. You'll be hearing more about it from me in a minute. But today,

we're going to do something that is always painful but fun and kind of energetic and energizing for me, but still

painful, which is we're going to look at another book. And that book is the loved air by Alex and

Stephen Kendrick, the Kendrick brothers, who have made the movies fireproof,

courageous, facing the Giants. War Room. Yes, yes. And they wrote this book, Love Dare,

which was one of the absolute bestselling Christian marriage books of all time. It's a 40-day dare

that you work through. It always sells super well on Amazon. We looked at including it in The Great Sex Rescue,

but as I read it, it's like it talked about sex, but it didn't talk about it enough that I

felt that I could give a serious scoring to it. I also feel like the love dare, from what I understand,

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