The Bible says in Proverbs 27:2 “Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips”.  I have not posted letters people send me in a long time and these are not to make me look good, please understand my heart in that.  They are to praise God through what he has been doing through this ministry these past 11 years and to confirm why I will continue this ministry.

Also, I want to let my readers know that I have not been posting as much and probably won’t for some time due to me concentrating my finishing my first book.  Pray that God will give me wisdom and clarity as I write it.

In the past, I have just put one letter from a reader in a post and addressed issues they were facing.  This post will serve as more of an impact statement of how God is using this ministry to change lives and help men and women to live for his glory.   Below is just as sampling of testimonies as to how God is using this ministry to impact lives for Christ.

Letter #1

Dear BGR,

I can’t say thank you enough for helping save my marriage! All glory goes to God, without which I would’ve never been able to receive your messages. But I truly believe He led me to your site with a simple prayer & google search a couple of weeks ago. After bingeing several podcasts for 2 days, I asked my husband to listen so he could understand the changes I was attempting to make in our life. Once I wrapped my head around the fact I’ve been brainwashed for 37 years by friends, society & even my mother, I wanted to turn my life upside down & fix everything ASAP!

I have to brag on my husband though, because almost all concepts you speak on, he has tried to tell me in  one way or another over the last 10 years, but I was too stubborn & resentful. I thought I was serving him & respecting him, but had no idea how wrong I was.

I subscribed to the women’s podcasts & have gotten my husband intrigued. (We fortunately got to listen to several together on a road trip last week.) Is there a way for him to get the men’s version without a separate subscription? Your words are worth their weight in gold & I wish I could pay you what you’re worth because it is honestly just a foreign concept that no one talks about. I would describe your podcasts like “anti-therapy”. I laughed, I cried, I learned more about myself & God’s word & am putting into practice what I’ve always felt is natural, but put down by the church & “Southern manners”.

All that to say, THANK YOU!

Blessings,

Ashley

Letter #2

“I just discovered your website and I want to say, thank you. You are spreading the true word out when we live in a time of deceit and troubles.”

Mya

Letter #3

Mainly want to say thank you for your efforts in your podcast, blog, social media, etc.  All your efforts.  I can imagine it’s not easy to speak up against a mob with a politically incorrect message contradicting their narrative.  I’m sure you must have a thick skin to keep sharing your (God’s) message in our current man-hating, feminist culture.  So thanks for doing it anyway, and not letting anyone stop you.

My husband and I, by some miracle, have been married 25 years.  I’m 48, he’s 50.  I guess I feel like it’s a miracle while seeing all the divorce and mess around us, combined with an awakening of how confused we’ve been in our marriage about many of the concepts you talk about amidst a completely unsupportive culture.  I didn’t know I was confused perse, but I did know that I’m filled with anxiety, depression, stress, and an unfulfilling obsession to control.

I started listening to your podcast and was a combination of intrigued and offended/outraged all at the same time.  I kept coming back to hear more.  After I listened to entire episodes, or re-listened, fully heard you out, I noticed I was no longer offended and saw your point.

Listening to your podcast, I realize that I never wanted to go to college or have a career.  I wanted to be a wife and mother, and I did know that, but I didn’t know that was an option at the time.  I thought that I must go to college of some sort, get further training, become financially independent, and then I could get married, have kids, etc.

Somehow I’m 48 and I never heard that husbands and wives are not equals in marriage.  I literally didn’t know what the Bible says about male headship, the woman being created for the man, submission, discipline, any of it.  I also never got the message about sex in marriage on multiple levels.  One comment of yours that resonated with me was about letting go of the “gatekeeper” mentality after marriage.  And the only difference between sexy and slutty being marriage.  I realized that subconsciously I STILL maintain that gate when it’s wrong and I have no right to deny or boss my husband about what he can and can’t do with me.  Your podcast also made me see my body and sexual submission differently, and actually not as “my” body in marriage.  I decided to just try behaving the way you describe toward my husband as an experiment, which is a huge change.  I started noticing how disrespectful and controlling and angry I act toward him.

I can tell that my husband has noticed a huge difference in me.  He told me that our son commented to him that mom has been in a good mood lately.  My husband seems extra driven in his work lately even though I have said nothing whatsoever to him about his or my work, or bossed or criticized him in any way about anything.  I’ve just constantly kept in mind to behave as a quiet and meek spirit, zero talking over him, correcting him, bossing him, criticizing him, arguing with him, nagging him no matter how much I sometimes feel the urge, and I have not turned him away sexually a single time, even letting him touch me in ways I usually try to disallow to the point that I’ve had to express to him that it’s okay, I’m not going to object.  Our sex life is becoming amazing, like never before, I must admit.

I need to go get some things done so I’ll stop there and not write a full novel.  Just wanted to reach out and let you know that your efforts are reaching people like me and thank you.

April

Letter #4

Hi Larry,

I just wanted to thank you for your ministry. Your ministry was the only source of hope for me as I was in battling a more than a decade-long struggle to purchase my ex-wife’s signature on my divorce and allow me to exit an almost entirely sexless marriage. Unfortunately, my sexless marriage began on the wedding night. I feel that most pastors actively undermine husbands in sexless marriages, and they create an idol out of the marriage and an idol of avoiding divorce at any cost (including the cost of a personal relationship with God).

Thank you for being faithful to God’s word when no one else was.

Jamison

Letter #5

Hi Larry,

May God Bless You and your family. I have recently read your testimony in the site. I just agree with you all the things that has happened so far in your life is for you to do this ministry to help people like me. I pray that God will give you more strength and courage to continue this ministry. May Jesus Christ’s shalom be with you always.

Regards,

Jonah

Letter #6

Hello, Sir!

I hope God is blessing you and your family with peace during these troubling times of unrest and Godlessness.

I’d like to introduce myself as a new and grateful reader of your website. I’m 26 years old, and I’ve been married to my strong, wonderful husband for almost three years. Our anniversary is October 6th!

Even before we were married, my husband and I have been believers in Christ for almost our entire lives. We met as freshmen at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and we married the autumn after graduation in 2017. Because of my husband’s job, we moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We now attend an amazing church there, and we love getting fed every Sunday and on Wednesday for Bible study with other married couples in the area.

Since graduation, my husband and I have been trying to do what our worldly culture would consider a “normal” lifestyle. He works as a civil engineer, and I’ve been working as an administrative assistant at a financial firm in Pittsburgh. But we have been feeling very run down in our short time married together. We both come home tired every day after work, and we don’t feel as strong of a bond together. We also have been feeling spiritually fatigued, as if we are not pleasing Christ in some part of our household.

As a result, I have been praying furiously over the past few months for guidance from the Holy Spirit on how to spiritually revive our marriage. And I truly thank God that I stumbled upon your website a few weeks ago. At first read, the part of my mind that has been molded by this world and not by Christ was hesitant to accept your articles. But I have been praying for the strength to push my flesh and worldly urges aside, and I can truly see the light and love of God in your teachings. I have also introduced my husband to your website, and he, just like me, has seen the anointing in your website.

We have both agreed that we need to make a drastic change in our marriage to make our marriage pleasing to God. Friday was my last day at work, as I have decided to focus on being the Godly, submissive wife to my husband, focusing on our family and home instead of on a worldly career. And husband has agreed to step up in his role as the Godly head of the household and begin to groom me into a God-pleasing wife. We have both prayed about this, and we have decided this is the right direction for our marriage and relationship with God.

We are both excited but a little nervous to begin this new journey, and I wanted to thank you for providing an amazing resource for us! If it isn’t too much to ask, I would love to ask if it would be okay to email you with questions as they pop up. If not, I completely understand!

I apologize for the late email, but my husband is currently wrapping up a work presentation he is giving tomorrow. And I have allotted writing this email in the agreed amount of online time I should have each day (we decided on three hours a day at this point, but that may change with the guidance of the Holy Spirit!).

God bless you, and may you continue to do His work on your website!

Jennifer

Letter #7

Hi Mr Solomon,

I hope you and your family are doing well. I want to thank you for your blog. I read it for a short time when I got saved in 2017. It was one source that helped me – an ex lesbian/ex bisexual – to learn about God’s gender roles.

After 2017, I followed Christ for several years until returning to sin. I stopped identifying as Christian for two years. I dated a few worldly men, wanted to date women and return to feminism, but these things felt wrong.

One thing that convicted me was recalling my experience of moving halfway across the country in 2019 to join a home church that practiced the Bible’s gender roles. The men worked outside the home, the women (me included) kept the home. I never felt anything more natural than this. I learned a greater respect for male authority from their sacrificial love of working to care for us, and from receiving verbal correction that was loving but righteously stern.

That memory is one thing that made me again realize I need to be led by a husband. Then I remembered your blog.

Reading your blog again and watching other sermons convicted me about fornication, homosexual desire, other sin. Your posts on homosexuality that mentioned Romans chapter 1 and Leviticus verse(s) gave me a godly fear I couldn’t ignore.

Thank for all you are doing for God,

Melissa

Letter #8

BGR,

If you may permit, I would like to share the impact of your teachings on me and also make a request.  Apologies in advance, as this is lengthy 🙂

I just had to write and say a heartfelt THANK YOU for the teachings on your sites.  I came across them this past week and have had more ‘lightbulb’ moments and clarity/understanding regarding most issues/struggles I’ve had in my life than all the times I’ve sought answers through various sermons/teachings/counselings from the church.

Your clear teachings from the Scripture as opposed to the traditional interpretations I’ve had are truly a breath of fresh air and the peace in my spirit from your teachings is like a starving man falling onto a buffet table (even though my head wants to struggle with the concepts of how my experiences and what I’ve been taught don’t line up with what God is saying.  I dismiss those thoughts and step out on faith that God’s word is the best way, despite what I’ve been taught).  I truly know this is God’s way and way for me and I’ve never been more at peace.  I used to be angry/bitter/resentful at my husband for everything from not being nice to me when I thought he should (even though I failed to change what he was requesting be changed – and he was right about it) to thinking he was nagging me all the time about my failure to keep up the home (I truly thought it was messy because of his failure to pick up after himself).  For all those reasons and everything in between, I withheld sex because he hadn’t ‘earned’ it by continuing to woo me like he had in the beginning.

Because of God speaking to me through your articles, the feminist rebellious spirit inside me that struggled against my husband is gone and I have no more doubt about God taking care of me (vs me relying on my ability to get a job to take care of myself just in case I should ever find myself single again).  All the struggles I’ve had in my marriage so far have been my misunderstanding of my husband sticking to what he knew to be God’s role for him as a husband was, even when he had to discipline me (I didn’t see it as that until now; I just thought he was treating me like a child).  I just wanted him to forever be patient and kind, etc, like 1 Cor 13:4-7 because after all, that’s how Jesus supposedly loves us and husbands are to love their wives the same way (and thus, I continually compared my husband to Jesus).  I see now that is not God’s way.  I am 40 years old now and my husband and I will celebrate our 10 year anniversary this coming January.  If I can change after 10 years of marriage and 40 years of brainwashing, anyone can! 🙂  I truly thank God for giving me a true, strong, faithful man of God that would not compromise what he knew to be God’s role for him as a husband and was patient and truly agape loving me enough (even if he had to discipline me) until I could embrace God’s role for me as a wife.  I’m so excited for what our future holds! 

Thank you for taking the time to read my letter to you and please be encouraged to know that brave souls like you are truly needed in the body of Christ today to preach His true word, not the secular viewpoint of it!  May God bless you a thousand-fold and fill you and your house with more good things than you know what to do with 🙂

In Him,

Jenny

Letter #9

Larry,

Your blog has clarified things for me and has also taught me much. Many items I was relieved because you hit on items that I knew deep down was not correct.

So let that be my testimony. Even though my marriage is a mess, my eyes are opened. I truly believe God used your blog to direct me.

So as you say, “Brag on God, not me or anyone else”. to that I say Amen!

But to you specifically I say, “God called YOU”. And I, a complete stranger, just want you to know I do recognize and appreciate what you do. Keep it up, keep charging forward, keep being led, keep up the work that God ordained for you.

Blessings,

Steven

Letter  #10

Dear Mr. BGR,

I just wanted to fire an email your way thanking you beyond words for your blog. It has helped me tremendously in understanding God’s word better than I did before and also being courageous in my Christian faith. Many of your articles have helped strengthen my beliefs and convictions when it comes to what’s Biblical and right on a marriage front, social front, political front, and also just what exactly it means to be a man in the way God designed men to be.

I had found the woman I wanted to make my wife and someday bear my children. I began realizing to be the kind of husband I would need to be and the kind of father I would eventually need to be, I needed to bring my faith and Christian values back full force. So I quit the band I was in and left behind the “music scene” far behind and it was by far the single greatest and most refreshing decision I’ve ever made in my entire life because it was the decision to come back to God. For Him, myself, and for my future wife and children. I wanted and desperately needed to return to who I was before, who I actually am, but be a better stronger version of that. Be the man that God commands men to be. Be the leader, protector, and provider for my future family. And to not waver in my faith or let the world conform me to its mold. I dove headfirst back into Christianity and back into my conservative political beliefs as well. I began studying Scripture and researching numerous things related to the Bible and creation. And that’s where I stumbled across your blog.

Your articles have truly been answers to my prayers, almost as if God were saying, “Hey these questions you have, here are the answers, here’s what this means.” They’ve given me so many direct answers to several things I’ve wondered about! So again thank you sincerely and indescribably for what you do! It’s helped so much and I try to read at least one of your articles every day now.

I feel like I’m finally on the right path and am striving to do God’s will. I have scars from piercings I’ve removed and tattoos on my body that remind me every day of what can happen when you let your faith waver and surround yourself with morally corrupt people. But I stand with God again and will for the rest of my life.

Sincerely,

Logan

Letter #11

My husband and I are so immensely grateful to you again for your faithfulness in teaching the truth of God’s Word that we never heard before even though we are Christians and have been raised in church all of our lives.  We are so excited to see how our marriage is returning to what it was meant to be through applying the Scriptures you present to our marriage.  We went on the first date we have had for many, many years and are going on  weekend trip together in 2 weeks!!  I am working hard on learning to be a submissive wife and have given my husband permission to correct where needed.  We have told others about your site as well.  You have been such a blessing and we look forward to every podcast you post.  May God bless you and your unique ministry!

Ruth

Letter #12

Your site has been an immense blessing to me and helps take away some of the challenge of singleness, although as I age I fear there are fewer and fewer eligible true Christian women to marry and bear children. But your ministry is such a blessing and I really appreciate all the time and effort you put into it. My dad was an amazing man, but on these topics he had nothing to say. So I’m proud to call you a Brother in Christ and appreciate what you do.

David

Letter #13

Larry,

I have to thank you again for your teachings! I’ve prayerfully been submitting myself to the authority of my husband for the past few weeks and it has totally changed the atmosphere in my home! My husband is growing in affection to me and we haven’t argued at all. He isn’t necessarily doing everything I want him to do (he is head so that is his prerogative!) but I’ve made every effort to keep my mouth SHUT when I feel like contending with him. I have made every effort to reverence him whenever I can. My understanding of God’s relationship with us as the church has also grown since further removing my cultural lenses on these issues. My husband used to always tell me I was “acting like my mom” (who is very nitpicky and entitled to voice every opinion) but since I’ve learned my place he’s not said this once! This is an absolute miracle.

I have 2 single sisters I wish would accept these teachings. They aren’t self professed feminists but are still operating in a modern rebellious attitude and want their autonomy. They believe that “emotional abuse” from the man is grounds for divorce among other popular psychology teachings. They have little respect for our dad either thanks to my mother always complaining about him to us. I want them to see your blog but they’ve already pushed back on Lori Alexander there’s no way they can handle your content. I’ll just pass these teachings to young girls who are more receptive. God bless!

Tyra

Letter #14

I don’t know what else to say or not say so for now just, thank you, and keep up the good fight.

If you would, pray for me.

I just want to be all that Father wants me to be – do all He has given me to do – but I can’t seem to get the time and focus together long enough to do the works! (And yes, I pray and seek for these.)

Thanks to your teaching, at long last certain questions and inconsistencies have been resolved, and it lifted quite a burden, but now I need to get my house in order.

Phillip

Letter #15

I just came across your site and I am devouring it. We’ve been married 10+ years and I had no idea about biblical submission. Our church is very liberal and I’ve been guilty as a feminist. I went to my husband after finding out about biblical submission and apologized to him for not being submissive. We are now both studying our God given roles and trying to reset our marriage the right way. Thank you for your website and I will show my husband so he can learn from it too. It’s just so hard becoming submissive after being a feminist all my life! But I know it’s the right way.

Marry