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Awesome Marriage Podcast

Sacred Intimacy: Linking Sexual and Spiritual Connection in Marriage with Dan Purcell Ep. 713

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Relationships, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Today on the Awesome Marriage Podcast, we're joined by Dan Purcell, creator of Get Your Marriage On! and the Intimately Us app. Dan is passionate about helping Christian couples build stronger, healthier marriages through better communication, playful intimacy, and gospel-centered connection. In this conversation, we explore the powerful link between spiritual and sexual intimacy in marriage. From God's design for sex to common misconceptions, practical habits, and healing struggles in the bedroom, Dan shares how faith and intimacy were always meant to work together. This episode offers encouragement and actionable wisdom for couples who want to honor God while cultivating deeper passion, joy, and closeness in their marriage.

 

Episode Highlights:

Experiencing really good sex in marriage requires living with virtue.

What works in marriage will change over time. You must be willing to adapt together.

Repair work is most of the work in marriage. 



Quotes from this Episode:

This is a gift from God. He gave it to us to enjoy.

You can't love a person you don't know.

The more honest we can be about things, the better our marriage will be.

Sex can be really fun. It can be incredibly replenishing. It can be good for your health.

You want to get to a place where you're at ease talking about sex. 

 

Questions Worth Discussing:

  1. What part of this conversation felt most relatable to where we are right now?

  2. Did anything we heard make you think differently about how our faith and our intimacy connect—or even just spark a new thought?

  3. What's one small way we could be more intentional with each other this week—emotionally, spiritually, or physically?

 

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But I think in order to have really good sex in a marriage,

0:05.0

it requires virtues like honesty, humility, truth, forgiveness,

0:12.0

the ability to be really humble and understand someone,

0:16.0

to really let someone in, like their mind and their spirit, their soul into you and you being

0:22.7

willing to expose your mind to them, that that takes a great deal of spiritual strength in

0:30.1

order to get to that kind of a level.

0:32.2

If sex is really amazing at that level. So I think it takes a great deal of spiritual maturity.

0:40.6

So I view sex as a wonderful part of God's perfect design to push couples to confront their

0:49.7

differences that force them to develop those virtues that we need.

0:54.8

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1:23.8

Well, welcome today's awesome marriage podcast.

1:26.3

I'm thrilled today to welcome Dan Purcell.

1:28.7

Dan is the creator of Get Your Marriage on in the Intimately Us app. He's passionate about helping Christian couples grow stronger marriages

1:33.8

through better communication, playful intimacy, and gospel-centered connection. Today, we're diving

1:39.6

into the powerful link between spiritual and sexual connection in marriage, exploring how to cultivate a

1:45.2

relationship that honors God while creating a space for passion, joy, and closeness can flourish.

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