What Does the Fox Say? Navigating Conflict, Desire, and Redemption in Relationships (Sex, Love, and God Series)

Voxology

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2017

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

How the metaphors of vines and foxes in Song of Songs help us understand what undermines healthy relationships—and how God invites us to pursue healing and redemption from a place of honesty, grace, and commitment. In this fifth installment of the Sex, Love & God series, Mike unpacks the biblical worldview on relationship dynamics, addressing everything from Genesis creation truths to modern issues like fear of abandonment, sexual expectations, and emotional reactivity in conflict. This is a raw, revelatory exploration of why “foxes” (aka unaddressed issues) destroy intimacy and how Jesus-centered love offers something deeper than infatuation or cultural ideals.

Key Takeaways:
• Foxes in the Vineyard – What the imagery in Song of Songs 2 reveals about the small, often ignored issues that ruin intimacy and hinder relational flourishing.
• Why Love Is Hard – A deep dive into the Genesis 1–3 narrative showing how sin fractured our relationships, creating power struggles between genders and frustrating our efforts to find ultimate meaning in romance or career.
• God's Merciful Frustration – Understanding how God's "curses" in Genesis are actually invitations to return to Him, healing our relationships from egocentrism and making love more than just self-fulfillment.
• Fear & Sexual Frustration in Marriage – Examining how fear of abandonment or rejection—and real misunderstandings around sexuality—surface even within the most committed relationships.
• Breaking Cultural Myths About Love – Dismantling Hollywood illusions of “the one” and rediscovering biblical love as self-giving, covenantal, and genuinely countercultural.
• Practical Foxes to Watch For – Conflict avoidance, stonewalling, condescension, secrets, finances, emotions about in-laws, and how these, unaddressed, sabotage intimacy.
• Hope for the Broken – A call to those who carry sexual shame, trauma, or regret—God restores what the locusts have eaten, and healing is on the table for all who seek it.

Resources Mentioned:
• Song of Songs 2 – The metaphor of the vineyards and foxes and its relevance to relational health.
• Genesis 1–3 – How creation, fall, and redemption narratives shape biblical views of relationships.
• Ephesians 5 – God's redemptive vision for marriage and mutual submission.
• Mike’s Book List – Now available at voxpodcast.com/resources

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Andy here, your co-host and producer at the Vox podcast. We are going to jump right back into sex, love and God with this episode. It's going to be episode five called What Does the Fox Say?
0:22.8	We're going to get right to it, but just a couple things.
0:24.9	If you have any thoughts and comments, please feel free to drop us an email at hello at
0:28.8	foxpodcast.com.
0:30.4	And for those of you who have been waiting for the elusive book list from Mike, which is
0:35.3	his extensive list of recommended books relating to history
0:38.5	of the Old Testament, New Testament, Jewish history, contemporary culture, life of Jesus, all
0:45.2	of that great stuff.
0:46.2	We do have that on our website now at Voxpodcast.com.
0:49.8	It's available at the resources link at the top in the menu.
0:53.6	And along the next couple of weeks, I will be making those direct links out to books on Amazon.
0:58.0	But for now, you'll have to copy and paste.
1:00.0	Otherwise, here we go.
1:01.0	Here's Mike with the episode 5 of Sex, Love and God.
1:04.0	What Does the Fox Say?
1:10.0	We're glad you're here.
1:11.9	My name's Mike.
1:12.7	I want to welcome you.
1:13.4	If you have a Bible, let's go to Song of Songs, Chapter 2.
1:19.4	If you are new with us, really glad you're here.
1:23.2	Really glad that you would trust us enough to come and listen. As always, you can text questions in
1:30.9	anonymously as we go, and we will try to get to as many as possible. There's also space on our
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