Glorifying God in your sexual relationship on this edition of Truth in Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

Our guest this week on the podcast is Brad Bigney.

He's the lead pastor of Grace Fellowship Church, where he's been for 20 years,

and he is a counselor certified with the association of certified biblical counselors.

And we are talking about a topic this week with Brad that causes a lot of problems for a lot of people.

It might cause a lot of problems for everybody.

And it's the issue of sex, but specifically how to glorify God in your sexual relationship.

One problem, as we think about this, is negative attitudes that Christians can have about

sex in general, which is a problem because God made sex to be good.

So what are some of the suspicious attitudes that Christians can have about sex in marriage.

Right.

I think the mistake that so many Christians make, Heath, is understandable to some degree

because God doesn't just give us this gift and say, go for it.

It's good all the time, anytime, anywhere, any way.

Because there's parameters and boundaries, and outside of that is not good, the church is unwittingly, I think,

talked so much about where it's not good. Don't do that. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't. And the world has

hurt us, and I think even some of our kids growing up thinking, it's bad, it's bad, it's not bad,

it's wonderful. So some of the mistakes and suspicious

attitudes that I think Christians have, and they carry it into marriage often is sex is

dirty. Sex is dirty. There are hurtful things. Sexual abuse is not what God intended. To be

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