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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 of For Men Only and For 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 lie says that husbands and wives trade commodities, like sex, to purchase something for themselves. The great sex misunderstanding is 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?
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 of For Men Only and For 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 lie says that husbands and wives trade commodities, like sex, to purchase something for themselves. The great sex misunderstanding is 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?
396 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 6, 2024
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December 9, 2024
Blessed and Thankful
I was fortunate to experience Chris’ teaching and mentorship as a Young Gun the Summer of 2006. To say it was life changing would be a gross oversimplification and drastic understatement. His impact on my life continues today even though we are separated by thousands of miles and more time than I like admitting. Thank You Sir… for an exceptional book on a difficult topic, for life lessons that still follow me today, for mentorship from afar, and soo much more! I just finished reading but this book has already made my marriage stronger and I’m deeply thankful for the work you’ve done and continue to do.
I was fortunate to experience Chris’ teaching and mentorship as a Young Gun the Summer of 2006. To say it was life changing would be a gross oversimplification and drastic understatement. His impact on my life continues today even though we are separated by thousands of miles and more time than I like admitting. Thank You Sir… for an exceptional book on a difficult topic, for life lessons that still follow me today, for mentorship from afar, and soo much more! I just finished reading but this book has already made my marriage stronger and I’m deeply thankful for the work you’ve done and continue to do.
June 11, 2025
Chris Legg is a fantastic preacher, so I had to read how book. It’s a great insight into true biblical marriage. He breaks up incorrect and outdated views on “traditional masculinity” and the dangerous transactional way some marriages treat sex. Chris shows us the way to live out the parable of Jesus loving his church by sacrificing for our spouses instead of expecting from them. It’s a beautiful message of God’s design.
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