Your social media feed is probably filled with examples of the latest person who has been “cancelled” because of something they said years ago or an unpopular position they recently expressed. Being cancelled is a weapon powerful enough to prompt teens to take their own lives and to silence men and women on issues that truly matter to them. Everything that happens within the larger ...
Dear Juli, My journey with fighting sexual temptation has been long and exhausting. I'm at a point where I know I'm not perfect. I'm going to fail sometimes. So how do I respond after I masturbate? Or watch porn? Or commit some other sexual act that I didn't want to?
No matter your sexual struggle, we are all on a stumbling journey toward sexual integrity. In this video, Juli...
Within the past few months, several different people have posed questions to me about the importance of sexual attraction.
- A young woman asked, “I am in a dating relationship with a great guy. We connect on a lot of levels, but I’m not sexually attracted to him. When we kiss, it’s more like kissing my brother. Does this mean we shouldn’t get married?”
- A ...
Praying about your sex life? It's a little awkward at first. That's because even those of us who've grown up in church have been led to believe that sexual problems don't belong there.
In this video, Juli opens the Word and reminds the crowd at a “God, Sex, & Your Marriage” event that it was God who created sexual intimacy — and He blesses it! It's O...
by Joy Skarka
Are you dating someone and wondering if the red flags you see are reason enough to break up with him or her? Do your friends and family have concerns about the relationship? If you feel in your heart that something is just not right, don’t ignore it. It might be the Holy Spirit.
Does God care who you date? “The survey says, Yes!" Of course God cares! God is ...
In a dating relationship, how soon is too soon…
- to share your past?
- to pray alone together?
- to share your hopes or fears?
With so many ways to connect, emotional intimacy in dating can easily outpace commitment. In this video, Juli shares a few safeguards to help you set a healthy pace to becoming intimate as a couple.
Other resources you may like:
Sexual ...
This is part three of a three-part series from, "Finding the Hero in Your Husband, Revisited.” *
As recently as a few decades ago, many Christian women believed that in order to be loving wives they had to limit their own personal potential. Loving and respecting a husband meant being essentially mute and supportive. In order to allow a man to assume the role of protector and lead...
There's a question that keeps popping up in our inbox: What if I'm not sexually attracted to the person I'm with?
Physical and sexual attraction wane over time. Physical and sexual intimacy can grow over time. In light of this, Dr. Juli Slattery shares her thoughts on the importance of physical attraction, yet how focusing too much on our feelings can detract from the intimacy t...
This is part two of a three-part series from, "Finding the Hero in Your Husband, Revisited.”*
A wife’s greatest dilemma is that you want your husband to lead, but you want him to lead the way you tell him to.
There is a tension between desperately wanting to build the hero in your husband and being too proud or afraid to trust him. And so we end up using our power to...
"I have a friend who contracted an STD (herpes). She is in her 30s, and wants to get married, but is afraid to look for a mate because of her STD. What encouragement or advice can I share with her?"
In this video, Dr. Jennifer Degler fills in for Juli and shares three ways you can help and encourage a friend who feels shame about having an STD.
Dr. Jennifer is a clinical psychol...
