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Awesome Marriage Podcast

God's Design For Sex: Why Does A Gospel View Matter? with Joshua Ryan Butler | Ep. 579

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Christianity, Society & Culture, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We're so used to seeing sex allll around us - skin sells, after all! But today, Joshua Ryan Butler shows us how we are still likely to miss so much of what sex is designed to show us. Sex is everywhere – except being talked about by the married couples who are (hopefully!) having it, and the churches and families who desperately need a robust theology of God's purpose for sex and sexuality.

Today's episode takes a look at why sex is so much more than right / wrong or rules, and why that truth is incredibly freeing. Tune in to learn more. 

 

Episode highlights include: 

  • Why does it matter what we believe about God's purpose for sex? 

  • How to unpack the tension between what culture says vs church says about sex 

  • Why a better relationship with God leads to better sex in your marriage (and a better marriage in general!) 

  • Specifically why our male / female differences are so valuable 

  • The shift from rule-keeping to image-bearing and what it means for our lives 

*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!

 

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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.

0:21.8

His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship.

0:28.5

Welcome to today's awesome marriage podcast.

0:30.7

I'm so excited to have Joshua Ryan Butler join me.

0:34.1

Josh is a pastor.

0:35.2

He's the author of Beautiful Union, How God's vision for sex points us to the good,

0:39.9

unlocks the true, and sort of explains everything. That book is out now, as well as the acclaimed

0:45.2

books that he's written as skeletons in God's closet and the pursuing God. Together with his wife,

0:50.6

Holly, and their three children, Josh enjoys spending time with good friends over great

0:54.6

meals and exploring the scenic beauty of the Southwest. I am so excited for you to meet Josh. Let's go to

0:59.8

the studio right now. Well, I'm so excited today, Josh, to welcome you to the awesome marriage

1:05.1

podcast. It's so good to meet you, so good to get to spend time with you and talk about this new book, Beautiful Union, which I have read.

1:14.2

And I think it's very, very good.

1:16.8

And I'm anxious for people to hear more about that and also get a chance to get to meet you.

1:22.3

Thank you so much, Dr. Kim.

1:23.6

It's great being here and getting the chance to meet you.

1:25.6

I love our conversation before the show just now. And i'm really looking forward to getting to dive in together thank you i am too well let's just

1:32.3

dive into beautiful union you talk about sex in that book with care and frankness you share an idea

1:38.5

of that shame around sex which i think so many people deal with that that doesn't reflect God's vision, but rather it's

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