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Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex

#243: Your Favorites From 2018

Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex

Authentic Intimacy®

Relationships, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We've got clips from your favorite Java episodes from 2018!  You'll hear from Gary Thomas on roles in marriage, Laurie Krieg on living with same-sex desires, and Juli & Linda will answer one of our most-frequently-asked questions about sex. Listen and enjoy clips from our most popular conversations at the coffee shop.

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0:00.0

Thanks so much for joining me for coffee every week on Job with Julie.

0:03.5

It's such a privilege to walk with you, to learn with you, as we discover God's design for sexuality.

0:09.4

I started this ministry because God laid such a burden on my heart, particularly for women,

0:14.2

for the sexual brokenness I was seeing all around me.

0:17.4

As he led me to begin speaking on sexuality, I was approached by woman after woman who had

0:22.0

wounds and questions that just weren't being addressed by the church. Questions like, my husband

0:27.5

has struggled with pornography and our entire marriage. Or sex is painful. My daughter is struggling

0:33.0

with same-sex attraction. What do I do with my sexual desires as a single person? The list goes on

0:39.0

and on. These women had questions and nowhere to go for answers. The church has a long history

0:45.3

of silence about sexuality. With God's help, we're part of changing that. Listen in with me.

0:52.5

I'm not sure how I thought that the Bible was silent when it came to sexuality, but after

0:57.5

Passion Pursuit and Rethinking Sexuality, I was like, I feel like God is using a foolborn

1:01.6

to address our sexuality and he uses it throughout the entire Bible.

1:05.4

It's made a tremendous impact in our marriage.

1:07.3

I can flesh out all the distortions that the world has created and pursue wholeness,

1:13.0

which might sound kind of boring. It's actually really fun and exciting.

1:16.7

Tons of shame and guilt around that because I was exposed in pornography when I was five.

1:22.6

Like I knew my parents were very affectionate, but I never understood the purpose of sex outside of it being

1:30.3

dirty. Yeah, God was nowhere involved in any of that.

1:34.3

I mean, I'm a married heterosexual Christian and I'm supposed to have this figured out, right?

1:41.3

But I don't. Like, I was hurting and broken. Our marriage was not good. Like,

1:45.8

how am I supposed to feel like to anyone that's struggling? Even after learning that sexuality

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