Hello, hello there, good listener. I am your host, Nick Stumbo, and you are listening to The Pure Desire

podcast, your biblically based and clinically informed approach to healing from betrayal and breaking

free from compulsive sexual behavior. Today is episode 408 and here joining me as my co-host

throughout this series is Mr. John Beggeman. Mr. John, welcome back. Thanks, man. Stoke to be here.

I was all ready for like, you know, some kind of intro. And I will, you know, a little bit of behind

the curtains here for our listeners we are actually

recording episode five of five in this resurrection series before we do one two three and four so

I don't know if in episodes one through four you're going to do like witty greetings or sing

for me but now today you caught me off guard because it was just like so normal. Just general,

just playing for today. Hey, that works. How you been doing, John? You had a good week? Good week.

Yeah. It's fun to talk about things like this. I think there are conversations like this where I'm like,

man, I just so hope that so many more people in local places and communities, churches, small groups get to have

this level of conversation. I'm like, this is what we were built for. This is it. Yeah. Throughout

this series, we've been talking about the theme of resurrection. And what are the where the places

where we need to see new life in maybe places where there's been a lot of hurt or destruction or

even death, death of a relationship,

death of a dream. And I think that's very true in this area of biblical sexuality. For many people,

that's almost like an oxymoron. A bib, like can we even talk about that? Is there sexuality in the

Bible? What do you mean? And I think today was just a really life-giving conversation about what do we

mean when we say biblical sexuality

and how can we resurrect the goodness of that conversation?

Yeah, I think what I really appreciate about this conversation was not only did we address

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