PREVIEW | Jay Stringer (coming March 3)

Virtually any person of faith who has done work to understand their sexual story over the past several years has heard of JAY STRINGER. Jay is the author of the best-selling book Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing. With over 100,000 copies sold, many people have come to better understand how their stories impact their current struggles. 

Jay has a new book, Desire: The Longings Inside Us and the New Science of How We Love, Heal, and Grow, available Tuesday, March 3rd. We're celebrating launch day with Part 1 of our conversation about the new book, and the much broader conversation of how we understand and bless our God-given desires.

Episode 60 | Jay Stringer: Listen to the Voice of Desire, part 1 will be available Tuesday, March 3rd, with part 2 available one week later!

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Transcript

Greg: 0:00

Hey everybody. This Tuesday, March the 3rd, you're gonna get to hear a conversation that I've wanted to have ever since we started this podcast. I can't wait for you to hear it. I got to talk with Jay Stringer, author of the best-selling book Unwanted. It's a book that's been life-changing for so many people seeking to heal and recover from unwanted behaviors and better understand their stories. Jay has written a new book called Desire: The Longings Inside Us, and the New Science of How We Love, Heal, and Grow. I've read it and it's amazing. This conversation was so good. I couldn't edit any of it out. So you're going to get it in two parts. Part one comes out Tuesday, March 3rd, and part two follows just a week later on March 10th. Here's a little taste of that conversation.

Jay Stringer: 0:46

These are not a la carte menu options that you get to pick or choose. You can't just choose to be a Joan of Arc in your field and have a great podcast or a great book or a great mission. Because what happens to those people is their marriages suck and implode. They don't work on their desire for intimacy. Or you get some people that get, you know, they get into recovery and they're all about their story. And they're going to be a therapy all-star. They're going to spend $20,000, $30,000 on retreats and intensives, and everything is about their desire for healing. And yet they are not confronting themselves. They're not differentiating and growing a sense of self or stepping into the tension in their relationships or loneliness. So all of us over-index in one of these five realms of desire. So part of what I'm trying to build is no, you have to desire all five of these core longings if you are going to develop into the most meaningful, connected version of yourself and in relationship to God, to others, and in your career.