Part 1: Dating After 30, Singleness, and Other Questions Answered

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The Perrys

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🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

No one is really talking about what it’s like to be single in your 30s, or after you’re divorced or widowed, but it’s time to have a mature conversation about it. The Perrys are joined by two friends – Ebenezer and Megan – to talk about their separate experiences. Ebenezer Endiryas is a single pastor who longs to be married one day, and Megan Ashley is a mom of three who was married for 14 years prior to her divorce. Both call themselves hopeless romantics, though they each now have a healthier understanding of kingdom-minded marriage and the sanctification it brings. Jackie, Preston, Megan, and Ebenezer discuss affection and intimacy, why it’s important to have realistic expectations when you marry a sinner, and what dating looks like today when more people are meeting online than in community together. This is just the first half of a two-part conversation. Be sure to tune in to the September 1 episode for even more on this discussion. Scripture references: 2 Samuel 11 Connect with Ebenezer: Ebenezer's Instagram Shaping The Culture's Instagram Shaping The Culture Podcast Connect with Megan: Instagram YouTube In Totality Podcast Subscribe to the Perrys' newsletter: https://withtheperrys.myflodesk.com/zhfus4jx1s Join Preston's discipleship community for men: https://www.patreon.com/PrestonPerry/membership To support the work of the Perrys, donate via PayPal: https://paypal.me/withtheperrys Shop BOLD Apparel: boldapparel.shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello? What's up, Beth? How are you? Shilling, chilling like a villain. I hope not. You should want to be the hero. It's a hood term, man. You're not in the hood. You were in the forest. The hood is still in me. It shouldn't be. You need to be a new person.
0:21.1	No.
0:21.5	No.
0:22.0	God didn't save me from my culture.
0:23.4	You saved me for my culture.
0:24.4	To reach my culture. What book was that? I still got some hood in me. What book was that? It's the book of Preston Berry. I thought that was in How to Tell the Truth. I did put that in my book. Yeah.
0:17.2	Yeah, yeah.
0:17.5	What's the name?
0:17.9	What's the subtitle?
0:18.5	How to tell the truth, the story of our God saved me to win hard.
0:21.6	That's on Amazon Prime.
0:22.7	Amazon.
0:23.5	We're going to put it in show notes. I was thinking while we were praying, what kind of person you were when you were single. Why would you go there? Why do you look like that look like that? Talking about pre-Inchrist or...
0:55.0	I didn't know you pre-grice.
0:57.0	All you're talking about when we were friends.
1:00.0	Oh man.
1:01.0	Can we talk about the person you were?
1:03.0	Who was that?
1:04.0	The little baby fro.
1:05.0	Jackie had this little baby pro.
1:08.0	That's when we was in a little rock star stage and she had all of them
1:11.0	rock star chains or whatever from hanging from my pocket and a little dragon shirts.
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