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Chris Taylor is a writer and speaker about sexual intimacy in Christian marriage. She blogs and hosts multiple podcasts about the subject. Today, Chris shares the story of how she became a Christian sex blogger. She tells us about the moment she first experienced Christian community, how sex changed from fun to burdensome, and how God gave her a message from her mess. Her story reminds us that God redeems everything for his glory.

Listen to Chris’s story today!

Stories Chris shared:

• Here ministry to women struggling with sex in marriage
• Growing up going to a “hippie church”
• The moment she first experienced community
• Learning that Jesus taught us how to live and love others
• Having sex with her boyfriend in high school and the feeling of regret
• The negative message she took from a Sunday School teacher about sex
• A season of promiscuity
• Meeting her husband and feeling that the relationship was different
• Resenting her husband for wanting to have sex
• Looking up Christian marriage to prove her husband wrong
• The women’s Bible study that planted seeds
• How God put the puzzle pieces of her desires together to create a ministry
• Praying in images
• Two spiritual experiences that helped her experience healing
• Why you should take baby steps in your sexual journey

Great quotes from Chris:

Social justice is about caring for other people and making sure they have what they need to live.

I am the poster child for the idea that God uses your mess to become a message.

My sexual journey parallelled my spiritual journey in ways that still surprise me.

Resources we mentioned:

• Chris’s website Forgiven Wife
• Honeycomb and Spice
• Knowing Her Sexually
• Sex Chat for Christian Wives
• The Marriage Bed

Related episodes:

• J. Parker and How the Gospel Applies to Sex
• Thomas Umstattd Jr. and Untwisting the Gospel
• Rachel Joy Welcher and the Spirituality of Unmet Longings

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