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168. Margin Makes Room for Intimacy

Heaven In Your Home

09/04/23 • 28 min

You were made for intimate connection; with God, with your spouse, with your family and friends. Yet, in the culture of busyness, you may find yourself pulled in so many directions, the noise of life and doing all the things begins to drown out the ability to cultivate true connection.

Margin is required for deep intimacy. We’re going to talk about how to create margin on purpose and start taking ground in creating deep connection and intimacy. Whether you are newly wed, in the thick of raising kids or in the empty nest stage, creating margin is season to season. It’s never easy and it doesn’t happen naturally, but you CAN find rhythms of margin in your season of life.

Related Episodes:

Inner Healing, Sri Lankan Honeymoon & Sex for a Year, Ep 1

Keys to Our Most Fruitful Habit- Date Night Every Night, Ep 48

How Taking Hotel Dates Helps My Marriage Connection, Ep 126

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192. Prioritizing Growth while Parenting Little Ones

Heaven In Your Home

04/22/24 • 25 min

Overwhelm, endless to-do lists, and exhaustion is real, especially in the season of life when you’re pouring your heart and soul into a growing family. Raising little children and having little babies can feel like a sprinting marathon.

Let’s talk about the challenges faced by many mommas to nurture sexual intimacy while raising young children. And, let’s infuse some practicals for navigating this season with grace and helpful perspectives and ideas to help you thrive in every season of life. You are not alone!

Resources Mentioned:

The MomCo (formally MOPS) here

Revelation Wellness here

Date Night Every Night, Episode 48 here

101 Course: Strong Foundations to Starting Well

CLAIMING A HEALTHY VISION FOR MARRIED SEX

To build a love that lasts, you must begin with a strong foundation. Whether you’re newly engaged or in need of a new lens, this course is essential. You’ll be equipped to set a Biblically integrated and practically grounded vision for sex, marriage and the calling to steward the gift of pleasure and intimacy. This course is pivotal as you begin to unlearn unhelpful perspectives and sift through shame, lies and painful messages you’ve received over the years. Learn more here.

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Keep learning with Francie! Join the Circle group mentorship. This is a SWEET community of women, connected with the purpose of seeking God’s heart for their reclaiming a redeemed view of sex and sexuality. Inside the circle, we will explore and discover the good news about God’s heart for sex. Learn more here: Discipleship Circle

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Episode 33: Jumpstart Your Physical Intimacy In Your Marriage

Heaven In Your Home

10/05/20 • 37 min

Thanks for joining Francie on this episode of Heaven in Your Home. We hope you’ll be inspired by this episode, and feel led to share it with someone you know would be ministered to by Francie’s message.

In This Episode Francie talks about:

Jeremiah 17:7-8
Philippians 2:1-4
Episode 7: Why I Love My Husband’s Sex Drive
Practicals for Jumpstarting Your Physical Intimacy (download worksheet)
Episode 30: Dating During Covid and Great Date Tips

Prayer: God, we desire You more than ever. We want You more than ever in our homes, our marriages, our communities and our country. We ask Lord, that you would do the inside out transformation in our lives. We pray for the unseen transformation in the root system of our marriage. We invite You in to take the space and fill it with your life-giving love. God we thank you for the gift of physical intimacy. We welcome You into our bedrooms and our intimate relationship as a husband and wife. We pray for Your light to shine and bring more of Your goodness, Your peace and Your connection. In Jesus name. Amen.

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Don’t Mom Alone Episode 153

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Episode 71: Interview with Heather MacFadyen- Marriage Connection and Talking to Kids about Their Bodies

Heaven In Your Home

09/20/21 • 44 min

Thanks for joining Francie on this episode of Heaven in Your Home. We hope you’ll be inspired by this episode, and feel led to share it with someone you know would be ministered by Francie’s message. In today’s episode, Francie interviews Heather MacFayden. In their discussion, they chat about growing marriage connection in different seasons. They also talk about kids exploring their bodies. Enjoy Francie’s first interview on the podcast!

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In today’s episode, Francie interviews Heather MacFayden. In their discussion, they chat about growing marriage connection in different seasons. They also talk about kids exploring their bodies. They round out their conversation with discussing how women can find real community.

Francie mentions:

The Soul of Shame

Don’t Mom Alone Episode 243

Don’t Mom Alone Episode 328

Don’t Mom Alone by Heather MacFayden

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186. Called to Pleasure: Rest, Arousal, Sensuality and Female Design

Heaven In Your Home

02/19/24 • 27 min

Your female body is an extravagant gift from God.

He gave you a beautiful body and He’s called you to steward it well. Stewardship starts with knowing your body. And knowing that your female body was created for pleasure. When you look at the way you were designed, you can marvel at the Creator who made you with such a huge capacity for pleasure.

I want to hold open, celebratory conversations about the female body and have a different kind of conversation about pleasure. Friend, we’re continuing to lean into the Word of God and the works of God and see the beautiful design of the female body.

Rest is key to your ability to receive relaxation, tap into your five senses and experience pleasure. Let’s discover the beauty of the feminine joy you were created to walk in.

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Episode 32: Jumpstart Your Marriage: A 31 Day Challenge Intro

Heaven In Your Home

10/01/20 • 18 min

In This Episode Francie talks about:

Jeremiah 17:7-8
Live thoughtfully, intentionally this month- to find more oneness, purpose and intimacy.
Turn down your focus on social media and the news. Turn up your attention to what God is doing and wants to do in your marriage.
Schedule in your day a few “distraction breaks” for when you will take in input from outside sources- news, social media, etc. (Once in the morning, once in the evening) so that your mind isn’t oversaturated with so much distraction and heaviness, but instead can be filled with creativity and vision from God for your marriage and calling.
Set up a “tech box” on your kitchen counter where you keep your phones when you’re not using them.
Consider deleting social media or news apps from your phone, so that you check it purposefully on your desktop at certain times, which will prevent you from feeling fragmented or cluttered or distracted throughout the day.

Prayer: Lord, thank You for hope. Thank you that You fill us with your Holy Spirit. Even in desert seasons, even in seasons of famine, we don’t have to be afraid. We can still abound because the resurrection power of the Living God lives in us. Every part of our life belongs to you - our relationships, our marriage, even our bedroom. We invite You in - mind, body, heart - to come into our marriage and make us whole. This month, we give every part of our marriage to You. We ask for supernatural growth inside our homes and our marriage intimacy as we seek to serve You and reach the world from the inside out. We trust You. We seek to bring You glory and honor with our lives as we surrender to your good way. In Jesus Name. Amen.

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Episode 35: Jumpstart Your Spiritual Connection In Your Marriage

Heaven In Your Home

10/19/20 • 36 min

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Prayer: Living God, thank You for the chance to engage with You today. Come and ignite in us a spiritual grace to know You more. Awaken our hearts with a deeper hunger for more of You. Wake us from our spiritual slumber. We want to let our light shine for You day and night. We pray over every heart and marriage, a fresh outpouring of your grace, to know You, to hunger for You, to encounter You so that we can be transformed by Your presence. Help us to extend that transformational love to others around us. Invade our homes. Speak to us, Lord. We are ready to hear your voice and connect in greater ways spiritually as husbands and wives. Thank You for how You love us, lead us and heal us. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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Episode 36: Jumpstart Your Missional Connection In Your Marriage

Heaven In Your Home

10/26/20 • 30 min

In This Episode Francie talks about:

Genesis 1:26
Psalm 133
Philippians 2
Practical Tips to Grow your Missional Connection

Prayer: Lord, we thank You that You created us and designed us to be on mission with You. Our marriages are for more than our happiness, but meant for Your purposes. Awaken our hearts to be more aware of You and what You want for our marriages. We thank you that You are stirring fresh things in our marriages. Thank You for the grace to grow this month. We pray to be good stewards of the good gifts You have given us so that we can bear much fruit to bring You glory, further your mission and fulfill your great purposes. We invite You to bring more of yourself as we seek to glorify You with heaven in our homes. In your great name we pray. Amen.

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Episode 143 Stewarding Sexuality: Healing From Lies and Wrong Thinking

Heaven In Your Home

03/06/23 • 44 min

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ Matthew 25

How have we as the church buried the gift of our body, our gender and our sexuality? As we continue our discussion of the parable of the talents in Matthew 25, we observe the servant who buried the talent, hiding it in the ground, did so out of fear. This third servant believed a lie about the Master, therefore he buried what was given to him.

In this episode, we will look at Genesis 1 and parallels to Jesus’s parable in Matthew. Let’s uproot lies and lean into the good garden gifts. What would it look like to walk in freedom, seeing the goodness of our image bearing beauty and the unity that leads to fruitfulness in married intimacy?

Let’s learn a fresh viewpoint on stewardship and experience the joy of our Master

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