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Welcome to another edition of Focus on the Family with Jim Daly as we return to a very serious topic

impacting married couples of all ages

and single adults too and even families. We're all affected by how we view our identity

and our desires for intimacy and whether or not we're following God's design for those.

As you might suspect, this conversation isn't suitable for younger listeners. We'll recommend you have them occupied elsewhere. Your host is

Focus President and author Jim Daly, and I'm John Fuller. John, last time we started a powerful

conversation with Dr. Julie Slattery, one of our former colleagues here

at Focus on the family. And she has been laser focused on human sexuality when she was

here at Focus. And then for the last 14, 15 years that she's been leading her own ministry

in this area.

Obviously, the world's perceptions and practices of sex are a mess today, and we see it in every way.

And even Christians are lacking a clear understanding of God's purposes and design for our sexuality.

But Julie has done great research and studied the topic for literally decades and it always feels like a reunion when she comes back to visit and be part of

the broadcast. If you missed the conversation last time, get our focus on the

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