Sex and Marriage: Unlocking and Restoring the Power of Sex Through Biblical and Psychological Insight

This book will lead through the foundation, interpretation, and application of biblical and psychological principles to transform sex with your spouse.Chris Legg, LPC, professional marriage counselor, founder of Alethia Family Counseling Center, and lead pastor of South Spring Baptist Church clearly and practically shows the way to more joyful, free-er sex based on twenty-five years of experience in counseling, teaching, research, and biblical study.“[A] remarkable book . . .Chris and Mark show an amazing gift for synthesizing big thoughts and research studies into actionable insights.” - Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn, bestselling authors ofFor Men OnlyandFor Women Only.This book will help your marriage become world-class, providing the keys to unlocking long-lasting, God-honoring, intimate, and powerful sexual intimacy in your marriage.God intended sex to be an intimate, pleasurable power within His design of marriage. Sadly, many sources, from well-meaning to diabolical, misled us about sex, resulting in widespread misinterpretation and spirals of disunity. This can crush the intimate, joy-filled sex God intended.The transactional liesays that husbands and wives trade commodities, like sex, to purchase something for themselves.The great sex misunderstandingis that men only want sex, and the only way to affair-proof a marriage is to make sure he gets it. These undermine the intimate, pleasurable, powerful sex God intended to be integrated into our marriages.What if, instead of having sex to avoid negative emotional consequences or feeling like a dumb kid asking for a cookie, we discovered intimacy with our spouses, actively pursuing each other’s arousal so as to freely, joyfully choose one another?Read more