NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Who would you turn to for advice about sex? Your friends? Your parents? Your doctor?

How about your local preacher?

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Pastor Joe Beam is an ordained minister, talk show host and soon-to-be doctor of sexology.

All of that somehow adds up to his specialty of saving and spicing up marriages.

“If you are a Southern Baptist, you have a higher rate of divorce than Atheists. Nothing against Southern Baptists, it’s just that religion doesn't make a difference there,” said Beam.

“I think it’s (that) we think just because we love Jesus and go to church that everything in our world is OK.”

Beam was a minister with a wife, kids and a large congregation, but then he divorced. However, he reconciled with his wife and re-married her.

Out of the hellish world of divorce and reconciliation, Beam forged an idea for a new ministry to save marriages.

A Christian business called Family Dynamics was born, and he has now trained 5,000 church couples to teach a course on love, marriage and sex.

Beam said the No. 1 problem that most couples face is disrespect.

But what gets a lot of attention and what has gotten Beam on NBC’s Today show is the topic of sex.

Beam offers frank, unflinching advice on passionate sex for Christian couples.

“It actually began in the third century that having sex and enjoying it became a sinful act. It became the predominant theology that you could only have sex for procreation, and if you like it you're a sinner. However, the Bible and even the Song of Solomon teaches you how to be a great lover,” said Beam.

Beam's own divorce and problems afterward makes him an even more credible expert on the subject.

“Because I am a fallen leader, it’s amazing how many people will tell me the truth of what they are going through. They don’t see me as Joe the preacher with all the answers. They just see me as Joe the sinner saved by grace like they are,” said Beam.

His study of sexology makes some Christians uptight, but he said all the sex talk is simply to save marriages. Family Dynamics has the over-the-top goal of reducing Christian divorces by 10 percent.

Beam has an upcoming seminar on Feb. 24 in Brentwood.

Visit Beam's Web sites to learn more:

Family Dynamics

Save My Marriage