Biblical family counsel with urgency.
HealingLives with Corey Gilbert is a Christian living show built around direct teaching on family, marriage, dating, sexuality, and cultural pressure. Its strongest episodes feel like chapel talks or workshops: urgent, practical, and rooted in a biblical frame.
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HealingLives with Corey Gilbert is a Christian living show about family formation under pressure. Its center of gravity is marriage, parenting, sexuality, dating, technology, and discipleship. The tone is direct. Corey Gilbert speaks like a teacher trying to fit a long seminar into a short room, moving rapidly through examples, books, warnings, Scripture-shaped claims, and practical counsel. Many episodes feel less like studio conversation and more like a workshop captured in motion. That gives the show urgency. It also gives it a clear point of view: families should not wait for schools, devices, entertainment, or peer culture to define the hardest conversations. The strongest recurring theme is preparation. Parents are urged to talk earlier, couples are urged to get aligned, and young adults are urged to take dating and marriage seriously rather than treating relationships as casual drift. Episodes on smartphones and social media frame technology as a force that can weaken attention, boundaries, family health, and adolescent development. Episodes on gender and sexuality are especially forceful, reflecting a conservative Christian stance and using medical, pastoral, and cultural language to argue for parental involvement and church clarity. The show also spends time with books and models, including discussions of dating frameworks, age-appropriate conversations, and ideas from The Coddling of the American Mind. Interviews appear too. A conversation with Dominic “Slice” Teich brings in military aviation, faith, and personal calling, while LaQuita Monley speaks from family, ministry, and coaching experience. Still, the show’s dominant shape is Corey Gilbert teaching, warning, and equipping. It suits listeners who want a morally certain Christian voice on marriage and family issues, especially those looking for practical language to use with children, students, spouses, churches, or ministry settings. It will be too pointed for anyone seeking a detached survey of culture-war topics. For its intended audience, the appeal is its lack of hesitation: the show says the hard thing, then tries to turn it into a next step.
Made for: Christian parents, spouses, pastors, ministry leaders, and young adults who want direct guidance on marriage, dating, sexuality, parenting, and technology. It especially suits listeners comfortable with conservative biblical framing and blunt pastoral instruction.
What sets it apart: The show’s distinguishing feature is its seminar-like intensity: Corey Gilbert compresses teaching, lived examples, books, research references, and practical scripts into urgent family guidance. It is less interview polish than pastoral classroom pressure.
Discover how to love and lead your family well and biblically. A podcast hosted by Dr. Corey Gilbert featuring issues important to building healthy marriages and families from a biblical worldview. Dr. Gilbert has a heart for marriages and families that honor God and one another. He interviews other experts, those with personal stories, and even uses his own kids to model hard conversations. He Interviews real people that overcame! He is the Founder and Owner of the HealingLives Center: A Center for Sex, Trauma, & Marriage Education and Transformation. Dr. Gilbert is author of 2 books and the Creator of the Trauma to Transformed Program, the Going Beyond The Talk Program, and the Healing Mar…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Corey Gilbert turns Christian convictions about marriage, parenting, sexuality, and technology into concrete conversations for families and church leaders.
Corey Gilbert treats family life as a field for Christian formation, moving from dating and marriage to parenting conversations about sex, gender, smartphones, and social media.
Dating advice gets personal when Corey Gilbert asks if you know what it's like to live with you.
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A direct Christian workshop on family unity, language, identity, and faith.
Corey Gilbert frames this short session as a condensed workshop, moving from a June 18 New York Times reference into conflicts over pronouns, medical language, and the ways young people absorb ideas at school, from friends, and online.
A direct conversation on betrayal, buried pain, and the religious fear that can keep a marriage stuck.
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Pastoral sermons for healing, faith, and release.
Faithful steps for God-shaped dreams.
Christian marriage counsel with prayerful accountability.
Christian steadiness for unsettled news and cultural life.
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Healing Lives with Corey Gilbert centers on Corey Gilbert’s book Going Beyond the Talk and its age-by-age framework for Christian sex education.
Healing Lives with Corey Gilbert episode 336, "Your Family & Technology - Social Media & Smartphones - OCEAN Conference Workshop 0624," is a solo workshop on how phones and social media shape family life.
Corey Gilbert uses Miriam Grossman’s Lost in Transnation, WPATH, and Romans 1:24 to argue that churches and parents are behind culture on gender ideology.
Corey Gilbert says love is "the cross" and uses Hebrews 13:4, Proverbs 18:22, Proverbs 21:9, 2 Corinthians 6:14, and Ephesians 5 to argue that dating should aim at covenant marriage.