Sex and Sacrificial Love
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
God calls us to minister to our spouse, even when it comes to sex. Dr. Juli Slattery and Jim Daly discuss what it means to practice sacrificial love in your sex life. Plus, John talks with the Smalley's about why couples need to have a selfless approach to sex in marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody around us this summer, I say everybody, but our eyes were open to it in the last year that there's a lot of folks in their 30s that are our age that we're seeing their marriage fall apart and that scared us. |
| 0:12.0 | After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale. |
| 0:15.0 | He wanted something better for he and his wife. |
| 0:18.0 | That's when they found our podcast online and began listening almost every day. |
| 0:23.0 | Focus on the families helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts to see things from the other's perspective and to make sure that God is centered in our marriage. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Jim Daly. Thanks to the generosity of friends like you, Brett's marriage is getting better. |
| 0:43.7 | Working together, we can give families hope. |
| 0:46.7 | Will you join our marriage building team? |
| 0:48.9 | Please call 800 the letter A and the word family, or you can donate at focus on the family |
| 0:54.3 | dot com slash gift and when you do your gift will be doubled. In marriage we're called to serve each other and what does that mean in the |
| 1:10.1 | bedroom well I'm John Fuller along with Greg Smalley and his wife Erin they lead the focus on the the with Dr. Julie Slattery. Now in previous conversations they shared about what Julie calls the four pillars of covenant love |
| 1:27.6 | and the first two were faithfulness and intimate knowing. |
| 1:30.9 | Let's keep going. |
| 1:31.9 | Let's move to the third one, sacrificial love. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm not sure if this connects, but one of the things that you and I have talked about in the past, |
| 1:40.0 | Gary Thomas, we've talked to him about it but you look in generally couples |
| 1:45.3 | tend to not always and believe me I hear from the folks that it doesn't fit but the |
| 1:50.6 | 80-20 rule is we tend to marry people who are opposite us in many ways |
| 1:55.1 | Extroverts marry introverts and I think in part it's a beautiful scriptural truth that you know we're looking for the compliment of our |
| 2:05.8 | Where we're looking for the compliment of our where we're not strong right so we're drawn we're attracted to those people that are different from us which is a |
| 2:09.5 | beautiful thing in how God creates that magnetism. But those can be the things that really |
| 2:14.8 | drive us crazy over the long haul in marriage. How does that apply in our |
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