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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Godly Character and Your Sex Life

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The world tells you that good sex is about what feels right to you. However, that's not the biblical approach. John and the Smalley's address misconceptions many couples have about sex. You'll also hear Jim Daly and Dr. Juli Slattery discuss why your character is the most important part of your sex life in marriage.

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0:00.0

Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't

0:04.7

grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I

0:10.2

take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I

0:14.4

ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't

0:18.8

shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love

0:23.6

with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app

0:28.3

today.

0:35.8

The world seems to put so much emphasis on sexuality, on expressing your

0:41.0

sexuality, on getting your sexual needs met, whatever that means. But that's

0:45.8

not really a biblical attitude. No. And it's so important to remember that God

0:50.6

created sex, God created marriage, God created that desire. It wants us to

0:56.8

really honor the way that he's established that, which is really about

1:00.4

understanding that both people within a marriage matter. Both sexual needs matter.

1:08.1

And then we really want to pay attention to that. I was just John with a brand new

1:13.1

married couple last night. I had done their pre-marital counseling. Now six, eight

1:18.1

weeks into their marriage. They just said, hey, can we get together? And so one of

1:22.5

the things that we were talking about is just some of those common misconceptions.

1:26.9

Like one being sort of what we touched on that I just need to simply make my

1:31.2

focus on my spouse's pleasure, not worry about my own versus really

1:35.4

understanding, no, both people matter. But for them, you know, one of the big

1:39.8

things that they had really bought into in spite of, I talked to them about

1:44.5

this is that, you know, that wedding night, you know, we waited and waited and

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