#379: Is Your Love Life All That You Want It To Be?
Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex
Authentic Intimacy®
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever felt this way about your sex life, you’re not alone. Many married couples settle for unsatisfying sex – or none at all. In this episode, Dr. Juli Slattery and Gary Thomas grab java in a crowded hotel lobby – but that doesn’t stop them from having a candid conversation about God’s good gift of knock-your-socks-off sex. That’s right – it’s God’s gift! You don’t have to feel guilty or ashamed for wanting it. But you do have to take the initiative to make it happen. That’s why we’re here. Grab your Java and join us!
Guest: Gary Thomas
Show Notes:
Join Juli online at the The Married Sex Conference where she'll sharing about why God made you sexually incompatible.*
"Married Sex" by Gary Thomas and Debra Fileta*
"Passion Pursuit" a 10-week Bible study through the Song of Solomon with Juli Slattery and Linda Dillow
Your Sexual Differences Can Make You Better Lovers (Juli's blog)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friend, this is Julie Slahery, and you are listening to Java with Julie, which is a listener-supported podcast and outreach of authentic intimacy. |
| 0:10.4 | And today you are joining me, and I'm joining you from Sunny Orlando, Florida at the Waymakers American Association of Christian Counseling Conference. |
| 0:19.6 | And there are about 5,000 Christian counselors |
| 0:22.4 | here who are people like you and me who wrestle with their own real life issues. Just feel |
| 0:28.0 | called to help people walk through difficulties in life, depression, marriage crises, you name |
| 0:33.9 | it. I hope you have benefited from a Christian counselor in the past, but just encouraging |
| 0:38.6 | to see all these people really seek. How do we do this well from a biblical standpoint that honors God |
| 0:44.1 | and helps other people? Now, I tell you that because you probably hear some unusual background |
| 0:49.0 | noise in today's conversation. We're in a huge hotel convention center and a lobby, and I'm chatting with |
| 0:55.4 | my good friend, Gary Thomas. A conference like this is a great time just to connect with people |
| 0:59.9 | who encourage me, and I just get to sit back and listen to what God's doing in their heart. |
| 1:05.6 | You might know Gary from his best-selling book, The Sacred Marriage, which really shifted a paradigm for a lot of us |
| 1:12.8 | to be asking, what if God designed marriage to make you holy more than just to make you happy? |
| 1:18.4 | But today, Gary and I are going to talk about a new book that just came out, that he co-authored |
| 1:23.0 | with Deborah Fletta, and we're going to talk about some of the nitty-gritty things about married sex, |
| 1:28.8 | about just how do we stay intentional, about pursuing attraction and sexual connection in marriage. |
| 1:36.2 | We'll talk about the differences between men and women and how God wired us different sexually |
| 1:40.6 | and just some great conversation around marriage and sex and singleness. |
| 1:45.3 | So I'm glad to be able to share just this conversation with you right away. |
| 1:49.1 | It's literally hot off the press. |
| 1:51.3 | I'm still at the hotel as I'm recording this right now. |
| 1:54.0 | But I also want to let you know that I'm going to be one of many speakers at a virtual |
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