God's Design for Sex: What is a Gospel View Of Sexuality? With Dr. Juli Slattery | Ep. 578
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
What is a gospel perspective of sexuality? It's hard to answer, since too often, sex is not talked about in the church. Yet it's literally everywhere in the world around us. Most couples struggle with their sex life at some point and parents are deeply concerned about helping their kids navigate the topic in a God-honoring way in the midst of all of culture's chaos. That is why we are honored to have Dr. Juli Slattery on the podcast today, sharing her vast knowledge and wisdom on the subject. You don't want to miss what she has to say.
Episode highlights include:
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Why a biblical worldview of sexuality is actually very freeing
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How disruptions to your sex life can become a springboard to greater intimacy
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4 specific aspects of God's love that should define healthy sex in marriage
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The process to engage so you can equip your kids to navigate sexuality biblically
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Encouragement for couples who are struggling in this area
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
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For more great info from Juli:
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Her newest book: God, Sex, and Your Marriage
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Her podcast: Java with Juli
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Her website: authenticintimacy.com
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Books by the authors mentioned in the episode:
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Celebration of Sex, by Douglas Rosenau,
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The Married Guy's Guide to Great Sex and Enjoy! The Gift of Sexual Pleasure for Women, both by Cliff and Joyce Penner
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. |
| 0:13.4 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. |
| 0:17.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. His passion is to help you |
| 0:23.4 | strengthen your most intimate relationship. Welcome to today's awesome marriage podcast. I'm so |
| 0:31.5 | excited to welcome Dr. Julie Slattery today. She is a clinical psychologist. She's an author, a speaker, |
| 0:37.3 | and the president and co-founder |
| 0:38.5 | of authentic intimacy. In the past, she served at focus on the family, and in 2012, she started |
| 0:44.1 | authentic intimacy. It's a ministry devoted to reclaiming God's design for sexuality. Julie's author |
| 0:50.4 | of 12 books, including the new one, God's Sex and Your Marriage and the host of the |
| 0:54.6 | weekly podcast, Java with Julie. This is going to be a lot of fun, guys. Let's go to the studio right now. |
| 1:01.6 | Well, Julie, welcome to Lost and Marriage Podcast. Thank you so much for saying yes to be here. I'm |
| 1:06.3 | excited about our interview today and just all the things that I think you have to share with our audience |
| 1:11.4 | and we're excited about having you. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Thanks for inviting me. |
| 1:16.4 | You bet. Well, let's just jump right into because this is something that I see a lot as a counselor |
| 1:20.6 | and there is a lot of tension and shame around sex in the Christian culture. It becomes a hot button issue. How did we get there? |
| 1:31.1 | Why is that? Yeah, boy, that's the million dollar question. Yeah, I think a lot of it is we really |
| 1:38.3 | have a Christian tradition over the last probably a couple hundred years of silence around sexuality, |
| 1:45.0 | where particularly within the Protestant tradition, sex isn't something we tend to talk about. |
| 1:51.0 | And if we do talk about it, we talk about sexual immorality and how bad it is. |
| 1:57.0 | But we've been uncomfortable to talk about the goodness of sex or even to get into the |
| 2:04.0 | indigritty of the difficulty of sexual brokenness and trauma and struggle. So, you know, |
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