Hey friend, this is Julie, and I'm excited to share this new episode with you.

But before we jump in, I want to let you know about a special series that we're starting next week,

all about singleness, relationships, and dating.

Now, these conversations are not just for singles.

Just like I encouraged our unmarried friends to listen to our series on God's sex and your marriage,

I also want to encourage those of you who are married to join us for these conversations. Regardless of our

relationship status, we are all called to be about the business of relationships and we're

called to build one another up. And we can't do that if we don't understand each other's journey.

So join me over the next two weeks.

My guest on the podcast will be first Lisa Anderson from Boundless.

She and I are going to be talking about what not to say to your single friends.

And then the next week I'll be talking with Jonathan Pekluta about how to date with intentionality

and why he thinks the way we approach dating today

may actually be setting us up for failure.

Each of those two weeks, I'll also be doing a webinar.

On Wednesday, August 17th, I'll be teaching on why God created you to be a sexual person in the first place.

Lisa Anderson will join me for that.

In other words, we'll be addressing

questions like, what kind of gift is sexuality if I'm not allowed to have sex? And what do I do

with those desires? And then on Wednesday, August 24th, I'll be joined by my friend Don Jones.

She's going to walk us through why we are drawn to counterfeit intimacy, like pornography and even the lure of

social media, and how to replace that with true intimacy, with a deep relationship with God and

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