Marriage

Strengthening Your Marriage

Whichever term describes your marriage, there are ways to make it (even) better. That's because God has designed marriage to be a relationship of deep unity and strength. Despite the challenges that couples face today, marital harmony need not be considered an impossible ideal. Wayne A. Mack recognizes the challenges before us, and shows us how to meet those challenges with growing success. In this book, he has gathered a wealth of biblical insight and practical information on marital roles, communication, finances, sex, child rearing, and family worship. Both as a counseling aid and as a guide for husbands and wives to study together, this book offers true hope and help where couples need it most.

The 5 Love Languages Workbook

<p><em>The 5 Love Languages® Workbook</em> provides the sure steps to meaningful, relational connection. This workbook provides lessons—designed for individuals, couples, or small groups—focused on the invaluable love language content. It includes interactive questions, quizzes, charts, and diagrams—all aimed at helping you better express love and identify areas for development.</p>

The Marriage Gift

<p><em>The Marriage Gift</em>&nbsp;<em>Devotional</em> will inspire and equip you to pray boldly and specifically every day of the year to grow in confidence and intimacy with both your spouse and the Lord.</p>

Loving Your Husband Well

<p>What if, at the end of the year, despite your busy schedules and all the demands on your time and attention, you and your husband were more in sync, more connected, and more in love than ever before? Sounds too good to be true, right?</p>
<p>That kind of marriage is what is waiting for you as you read through the 52 weekly devotions in <em>Loving Your Husband Well</em>. Each entry includes a specific theme, related Scripture, a powerful devotion, a prayer, thoughts for further reflection, and practical ideas, all designed to help you love, cherish, and serve the man who shares life&#39;s journey with you.</p>
<p>Perfect when read alongside your husband&#39;s <em>Loving Your Wife Well</em>, this devotional will still transform your relationship even if you work through it on your own.</p>

Loving Your Wife Well

<p>What if, at the end of the year, despite your busy schedules and all the demands on your time and attention, you and your husband wife more in sync, more connected, and more in love than ever before? Sounds too good to be true, right?</p>
<p>That kind of marriage is what is waiting for you as you read through the 52 weekly devotions in <em>Loving Your Wife Well</em>. Each entry includes a specific theme, related Scripture, a powerful devotion, a prayer, thoughts for further reflection, and practical ideas, all designed to help you love, cherish, and serve the man who shares life&#39;s journey with you.</p>
<p>Perfect when read alongside your wife&#39;s <em>Loving Your Husband Well</em>, this devotional will still transform your relationship even if you work through it on your own.</p>

Praying the Scriptures for Your Marriage

<p>Discover powerful and life-changing prayers to strengthen your marriage and help you find the peace, provision, and joy that comes from trusting God with your most imporatant relationship.</p>
<p>God has great things planned for your marriage. He wants to fill you with joy in His presence, and He invites you to partner with Him, through your prayers, to experience His richest blessings.</p>
<p>Whether you're newly engaged or celebrating a golden anniversary, navigating an exciting new season or just barely hanging on, brand new to prayer or have been talking to God your whole life, <em>Praying the Scriptures for Your Marriage</em> will help you find ways to pray for every part of your most important relationship. From praying through a health crisis, parenting issues, job loss, a move, or simply daily love and communication, bestselling author Jodie Berndt covers some of the most common marriage struggles in this helpful, powerful, and thoughtful guide.</p>

The Meaning of Marriage

<p>Timothy Keller and Kathy Keller, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling authors, deliver a gorgeously packaged daily devotional that takes you and your spouse on year-long journey into discovering the meaning of marriage</p>
<p>Marriage is the most profound human relationship there is. Coming to know and love your spouse is one of the most rewarding and wondrous things we can experience in life. But it is also one of the most difficult and painful. In this 365-day devotional, Timothy Keller and his wife of forty-three years, Kathy Keller, share powerful instructions on how to have a successful marriage. The Kellers draw from and expand upon lessons they first introduced in their book The Meaning of Marriage, offering stories, daily scriptures, and prayer prompts that will inspire anyone who wants to know God and love more deeply in this life.</p>

Making Your Marriage a Fortress

<p>Discover the wisdom and insight every couple needs to keep their marriage together as the trials of life threaten to rip it apart, and learn how you can fortify your marriage ahead of time.</p>
<p>Every marriage faces disaster. Illness, cancer, job loss, financial burdens, addiction, anxiety, infidelity, and loss of faith are all challenges that could harm a marriage. It&#39;s not a question <em>if</em> your marriage will face the trials, but <em>when</em>.</p>
<p>Whether you&#39;ve been married for five years or fifty, your marriage will either become part of the problem, or part of the solution. You have the power to ensure your marriage is prepared for those seasons, and is a refuge and safety throughout those seasons, and can recover well after those seasons.</p>
<p>In <em>Making Your Marriage a Fortress</em>, Gary Thomas, bestselling author of <em>Sacred Marriage</em>, guides you and your spouse in building a marriage that can withstand any storm or difficult season. In these pages, you&#39;ll:</p>
<p>- Discover helpful and practical principles to protect your marriage from any struggle<br />
- Learn to detect the warning signs of trouble and how to act on them<br />
- Understand how the state of your marriage is magnified during a crisis and how to improve it<br />
- Be encouraged through stories from Gary&#39;s marriage, as well as others, that you and your spouse are not alone<br />
- Gain spiritual insight about God&#39;s view of marriage and how to live it out in all circumstances, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do you part</p>
<p>Every marriage encounters seasons of setbacks and disappointment, but this book will help you keep your marriage strong before <em>and</em> after those setbacks occur.</p>

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<div>When two people say <em>I do</em> they start the journey of a lifetime, and sometimes they expect that journey to be perfect. Expectations of the perfect marriage are sure to fade away through everyday life struggles, but many are shocked to discover their marriage transforms into something they didn&#39;t intend it to be. A long-term, gospel-centered marriage must be grounded in something sturdier than romance.</div>

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<div>In this rebranded edition of <em>What Did You Expect?</em>, popular author and pastor Paul David Tripp encourages couples to make 6 commitments to one another, such as:</div>

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<div>- Practicing Forgiveness<br />
- Appreciating Differences<br />
- Actively Working Toward a Relationship Built on Trust</div>

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<div>Through each chapter, Tripp will encourage you to stay motivated by grace as you strive to make Jesus Christ the center of your marriage.</div>


Ultimate Date Night

<div>Date will get a whole lot better. The <em>Ultimate Date Night</em> is a romantic keepsake devotional that includes fifty-two fun and memorable ideas to draw you closer to each other and God. Features include:</div>

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<div>- Unique date experiences varying in cost, romance, and effort<br />
- Hilarious stories<br />
- Creative conversation starters<br />
- Space to capture highlights and memories<br />
- Playful dares, games, and challenges<br />
- Heartfelt prayers<br />
- Inspiring Scriptures</div>

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<div>Develop new energy and deepen your relationship as you laugh, connect, and honor Christ as a couple.</div>


The 5 Apology Languages

<div>We all make mistakes, even in the best of relationships. We do and say things we come to regret and hurt the people we love most. So we need to make it right, but simply saying sorry isn't usually enough.</div>
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<div>In this book, #1<em> New York Times </em>bestselling author Gary Chapman and Jennifer Thomas reveal new ways to effectively approach and mend fractured relationships. Even better, you will find how meaningful apologies provide the power to make your friendships, family, and marriage stronger than ever before.</div>
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<div><em>When Sorry Isn't Enough</em> will help you...</div>
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<div>- Cool down heated arguments</div>
<div>- Offer apologies that are fully accepted</div>
<div>- Rekindle love that has never been dimmed by pain</div>
<div>- Restore and strengthen valuable relationships</div>
<div>- Trade in tired excuses for honesty, trust, and joy</div>
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<div>*This book was previously published as <em>The Five Languages of Apology</em>. Content has been significantly revised and updated.</div>
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<div>Chapters include:</div>
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<div>- Righting Wrongs</div>
<div>- &quot;I'm Sorry&quot;: Expressing Regret</div>
<div>- &quot;I Was Wrong&quot;: Accepting Responsibility</div>
<div>- &quot;How Can I Make It Right?&quot;: Making Restitution</div>
<div>- &quot;I Want to Change&quot;: Genuinely Repenting</div>
<div>- &quot;Can You Find It in Your Heart...&quot;: Requesting Forgiveness</div>
<div>- How Do You Say You're Sorry?</div>
<div>- What If You Don't Want to Apologize?</div>
<div>- Learning to Forgive</div>
<div>- Healing Your Family Relationships</div>
<div>- Choosing to Forgive Yourself</div>
<div>- Truly Sorry, Truly Forgiven</div>

The Four Laws of Love

<div><em>Four Laws of Love</em>, from the bestselling author of <em>Marriage on the Rock</em>, represents the wisdom and insight of Jimmy Evans' influential career. In this very personal book, Jimmy Evans covers the foundational pillars upon which God designed marriage. He doesn't hold back as he shares the story of his own marriage, which was spiraling toward divorce, until this self-proclaimed <em>bad husband</em> came to grasp and put into practice these four laws.</div>
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<div>This book is a resounding wake-up call for every kind of marriage, including those that are barely surviving and those that seem to operate on autopilot. Couples who follow these guidelines, recognizing their original intent and purpose of marriage, will inject new life into their unions. Hurting marriages will find healing and good marriages will become great. Each revitalized relationship will play a part in restoring marriage to its sacred role at the center of human civilization.</div>
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<div>Section One: The Law Of Priority</div>
<div>- The Law Of Priority</div>
<div>- Prioritized Communication</div>
<div>- Prioritized Relationships</div>
<div>- Prioritized Romance</div>
<div>Section Two: The Law Of Pursuit</div>
<div>- The Law Of Pursuit</div>
<div>- God's Perfect Plan For Marriage</div>
<div>- The Servant Rules</div>
<div>- Married On Purpose</div>
<div>Section Three: The Law Of Partnership</div>
<div>- The Law Of Partnership</div>
<div>- Disarming Destructive Dominance</div>
<div>- Growing Together</div>
<div>- Financial Intimacy And Partnership</div>
<div>Section Four: The Law Of Purity</div>
<div>- The Law Of Purity</div>
<div>- Disarming Anger And Resolving Conflicts</div>
<div>- Everyday Intimacy</div>
<div>- True Sexual Intimacy</div>

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