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Biblical Perspective for a Fuller Marriage and Extraordinary Sex! Most married couples want more for their marriage, especially when it comes to sex. Intimate Covenant offers biblical teaching and resources to help achieve oneness with your spouse, resulting in a fuller relationship and an extraordinary sex life. Warning: We cover necessary and important topics about the marriage relationship and sex. We use frank language without being crude or crass. Our approach is biblical and wholesome, but not intended for singles — especially not for children.
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- Mar 9, 202636 min
What Science Reveals About Lifelong Intimacy
Send a text We explore findings from three recent scientific studies that show how flexible expectations, strong relationships, and emotional meaning shape a lifetime of sexual satisfaction in marriage. Bouchard KN, Cormier M, Huberman JS, Rosen NO. Sexual script flexibility and sexual well-being in long-term couples. Journal of Sexual Medicine. 2023. Tavares IM, Rosen NO, Heiman JR, Nobre PJ. Longitudinal associations between relational and sexual well-being. Family Process....
- Feb 9, 202632 min
The Conflicts of Pursuit, Response & Rejection
Send a text In this episode, we share a few more segments from our live Q&A at the 2025 Annual Retreat; all of these had to do with the pursuer-responder dynamic. Specifically, we covered questions about: What is God teaching me through the pursuer-responder dynamic?Is compromise the answer to sexual desire discrepancy?What if, despite the sterotype, the husband doesn’t want sex?How should a wife deal with the role of reluctant dual-pursuer? Register at intimatecovenant.com/Alabama for th...
- Jan 26, 202646 min
Marriage Retreat Live Q&A - keeping secrets; defining virginity; aging; and more... [180]
Send a text What happens when a room full of couples asks the questions most people are afraid to say out loud? We lean into the hard stuff: purity culture hangovers, what “counts” as sex, how to tell the truth without breaking trust, and how aging bodies can still enjoy rich, connected intimacy. Recorded live at our Intimate Covenant Marriage Retreat, this candid Q&A blends biblical wisdom, practical tools, and warm honesty to help you move from silence and shame to clarity and closeness...
- Dec 8, 202538 min
Q&A - creating a community for porn recovery; unity despite differing passions; and more...[179]
Send a text Today we’re sharing some excerpts from our live Q&A session during a recent Marriage Day in Illinois. Listen to our responses to questions about: How to find unity of spiritual purpose when we have different passions?As a wife, how do I avoid nagging in my role to be a helpmeet?How can we create a community for porn recovery and support for betrayed spouses?Practically speaking, how do we pray together as a couple?How do I deal with with sexual dysfunction?Warning: This podcas...
- Nov 3, 202542 min
Darwin, Freud, & Holy Sex -- Unmasking the Roots of Sexual Taboo in Christianity, part 3 [178]
Send a text We trace how Darwin and Freud shaped cultural ideas about sex and how these philosophies have infiltrated even modern religion. Darwin and Freud both rejected a divine order of the universe or a spiritual guide for moral and ethical living. Their influences profoundly shape the course of modern philosophy and our current society.Many modern Christians have unwittingly adopted influences from Darwin and Freud into their own theology, especially in how we approach sexuality and sexu...
- Aug 4, 202536 min
Medieval Sex -- Unmasking the Roots of Sexual Taboo in Christianity, part 2 [177]
Send a text Augustine and subsequent Medieval sexual theology have profoundly influenced modern Christian teachings on sexuality, often causing unnecessary shame and restrictions that aren't biblically based. During the Middle Ages, the influence of Augustine, with echoes of Greek philosophy, intensified into even more unnecessarily restrictive laws and unbiblical teachings about sex. Contrary to Augustine and classic Catholic doctrine, celibacy is not more holy than marriage. The Bible teach...
- Jul 14, 202544 min
It's Greek to Me! -- Unmasking the Roots of Sexual Taboo in Christianity, part 1 [176]
Send a text Matt and Jenn explore how ancient Greek philosophy has shaped modern Christian attitudes toward sexuality, creating an unbiblical culture of shame and stigma around sexual desire. • Plato's dualism in the 4th century BC separated body and soul, viewing bodily desires as inferior to spiritual pursuits • Stoicism further emphasized suppression of passions, teaching that sex was only acceptable within marriage and solely for procreation • The Apostle Paul directly confronted these p...
- Jun 30, 202538 min
Spicing Up Your Sex Life [175]
Send a text Matt and Jenn use a cooking analogy to explore how great married sex requires more than just "spices" – it needs solid foundational ingredients of spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical connection. • Adding more spice to bad ingredients doesn't make a dish better; it likely makes it worse. • In struggling marriages, focusing solely on sexual excitement without addressing overall closeness leaves couples unsatisfied • All aspects of intimacy (spiritual, emotional, mental, phys...
About Intimate Covenant Podcast
Biblical Perspective for a Fuller Marriage and Extraordinary Sex! Most married couples want more for their marriage, especially when it comes to sex. Intimate Covenant offers biblical teaching and resources to help achieve oneness with your spouse, resulting in a fuller relationship and an extraordinary sex life. Warning: We cover necessary and important topics about the marriage relationship and sex. We use frank language without being crude or crass. Our approach is biblical and wholesome, but not intended for singles — especially not for children.
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