HELP! My Marriage Has Grown Cold
When two people choose to live in marriage for the rest of their lives, there will be challenges to work through. The transformation from two independent people to a one-flesh, other-centered union is not easy. Perhaps you are finding that your relationship that began so warmly has started to turn cold. Where can you turn for help? This booklet offers practical counsel from the Bible, helping you to work through marriage challenges in a God-honoring...
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Friends & Lovers: Marriage As God Designed It
Sam and Geri Laing are best friends who love each other deeply. They offer a Biblical, warm and practical guide to building a truly great marriage. Writing with refreshing candor and spiritual insight, they help couples learn to respect and communicate with each other in useful and healing ways. Also included is an 18-page study guide and a section on dating and...
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The Power of Commitment: A Guide to Active, Lifelong Love
The Power of Commitment What is commitment and what’s so scary about it? How can we better understand and appreciate the value of commitment and make it last–for a lifetime? In his new book, Scott Stanley, best-selling marriage expert, reveals that the secret ingredient for finding lasting love is understanding commitment. Too often, men and women find themselves in half-committed, Maybe I Do, relationships that lead to frustration, sadness, and, in many cases, divorce. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Scott Stanley offers a five-step plan–based on his groundbreaking marital research and uniquely spiritual approach–for understanding commitment, including learning to handle the pressures of everyday life, moving through the pain of unfulfilled dreams and hopes, overcoming attraction...
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Closer: Musings on Intimacy, Marriage, and God
In this delightful and heartfelt appreciation of intimacy in marriage, award-winning essayist, wife, and mother Valerie Schultz explores how the bonds between husband and wife, and parent and child draw us ever closer to God and one another. In a series of frank and personal reflections on her own experiences, Schultz provides vignettes of marital intimacy that are sometimes ordinary, sometimes contentious, sometimes ecstatic, but always permeated by the incarnate presence of Christ. With a fresh vigor that is as engaging for newlyweds as it is entertaining for seasoned couples, Schultz reminds readers that intimacy is not only an essential ingredient in every marriage, but also part of their spiritual...
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Making I Do Last a Lifetime
The Promise of Love for a Lifetime God alone knows fully the hopes and dreams that nestle within the hearts of two souls who promise to honor and cherish one another “for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do us part.” And He also knows that only a firm commitment to those vows will fulfill their dreams for a lifetime of love. In this engaging book, author Claire Cloninger reflects on the promises a couple makes on their wedding day and explores what those words really mean when it comes to the daily grind and unanticipated difficulties of life. Along the way, she shares the inspiring stories of numerous real-life couples...
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