Author : Paul Chappell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2007-06-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781598940381
This book uncovers a vital missing element in most marriages--faith! Discover how faith should be the foundation and the source of joy and happiness in your marriage relationship. Faith is where God's touch enters the picture--and more than anything, your marriage needs His touch!
Author : Jewell R. Powell
Publisher : Revell
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2009-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0800733320
Using biblical examples, reflection questions, and Scripture meditation, Powell challenges those who want strong and healthy marital relationships to lay a spiritual foundation from which to grow.
Author : K. Jason Krafsky
Publisher : Turn the Tide Resource Group
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 11,98 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Marriage
ISBN : 0976955601
Before ?I Do? ? Preparing for the Full Marriage ExperiencePre-engaged, engaged, and newlywed couples learn what it takes to go the distance and experience all marriage has to offer. Before ?I Do? engages couples through its interactive layout and in-depth content packed with practical insights, Scriptural principles, and must-have relationship skills. In eight interactive sections, couples ?Build the foundation for a lifelong marriage.Eliminate common relationship obstacles and barriers.Frame their relationship with God?s insights from The Message and N.I.V.Obtain practical skills to make divorce a non-factor.Read, write, and discuss on all things marriage.Explore vital issues: money, future goals, faith, and sex.Essential book for any couple contemplating marriage, planning for marriage, or who just began their marriage.Ideal pre-marital tool for pastors, counselors, small group leaders and mentor couples.
Author : Elisabeth Klein Corcoran
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1426770278
Candid reflections for Christian women facing separation or just recently divorced.
Author : Aaron Smith
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310355354
What if God has purposed your marriage for something so much more than "happily ever after?" Since the very beginning, God's design for marriage has been for husbands and wives to be ambassadors of holy love to a hurting world. Still, too many couples stop short at happy and wonder why they feel unsatisfied. Rather than "you and me against the world," God calls each couple to the rich and meaningful mission of "you and me for the world." In Marriage After God, Aaron and Jennifer Smith, popular marriage bloggers at HusbandRevolution.com and UnveiledWife.com, transparently share their own journey of turning a marriage in crisis into a marriage built on Christ's redemptive love. With fresh biblical insight and intimate stories of their own struggles and victories, this book will guide you toward a God-centered, ministry-minded, and thriving marriage. Throughout Marriage After God, you'll learn to: Discover the signature marks of a marriage after God Find principles for building an unshakable marriage foundation Let God's story take the lead in your love story Recognize the tools God has already equipped you with for a missional life together Filled with timeless wisdom, this thorough and practical book will empower you and your spouse to dream, decide, and do as you step hand in hand into God's ultimate purpose for your marriage. God has created your remarkable, romantic, and redemptive relationship to be a powerful light to a dark and hurting world. Let Marriage After God be your invitation to marriage as God intended--a life-saving, hope-inspiring, and transforming force of God's love. Praise for Marriage After God: "This book is an incredible resource for anyone trying to grow or step into a healthier and more life-giving marriage. Aaron and Jen pull no punches; are honest, raw, and authentic; and show that a marriage in pursuit of Jesus can change the world." --Jefferson Bethke, New York Times bestselling author of Jesus > Religion "There is a short list of books I'm stashing away for my three small kiddos to read when they are older--Marriage After God is one of them. Dear couples of the world, you have picked up a treasure! This book will give you clear direction to live out God's will for your marriage. There is no greater gift you can give yourselves than to run after Him together. Marriage After God will show you how!" --Lara Casey, author of Cultivate and Make It Happen
Author : Mark Regnerus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190064951
Marriage has come a long way since biblical times. Women are no longer property, and practices like polygamy have long been rejected. The world is wealthier, healthier, and more able to find and form relationships than ever. So why are Christian congregations doing more burying than marrying today? Explanations for the recession in marriage range from the mathematical--more women in church than men--to the economic, and from the availability of sex to progressive politics. But perhaps marriage hasn't really changed at all. Instead, there is simply less interest in marriage in an era marked by technology, gender equality, and secularization. Mark Regnerus explores how today's Christians find a mate within a faith that esteems marriage but in a world that increasingly yawns at it. This book draws on in-depth interviews with nearly two hundred young-adult Christians from the United States, Mexico, Spain, Poland, Russia, Lebanon, and Nigeria, in order to understand the state of matrimony in global Christian circles today. Regnerus finds that marriage has become less of a foundation for a couple to build upon and more of a capstone. Meeting increasingly high expectations of marriage is difficult, though, in a free market whose logic reaches deep into the home today. The result is endemic uncertainty, slowing relationship maturation, and stalling marriage. But plenty of Christians innovate, resist, and wed, and this book argues that the future of marriage will be a religious one.
Author : David Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Publisher : Banner of Truth
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848711242
In an age which has seen an almost total collapse of marriage and when, in many cases, marriages end in divorce with children being raised in 'broken homes', Dr. Lloyd-Jones" words speak powerfully into our present situation. It is a situation which may be seen as giving Christians, and especially Christian marriages, a valuable opportunity to bear witness to biblical truth. The way in which Dr. Lloyd-Jones, like the Apostle Paul, deals with marriage relationship, is extremely important - to attempt to deal with Christian practice apart from Christian doctrine is to tread a dangerous path. As these chapters on Ephesians make clear, the only Christianity powerful enough to penetrate and change society is that which is derived from the work of the Spirit of God.
Author : Ryan Frederick
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493412779
Ryan and Selena Frederick were newlyweds when they landed in Switzerland to pursue Selena's dream of training horses. Neither of them knew at the time that Ryan was living out a death sentence brought on by a worsening genetic heart defect. Soon it became clear he needed major surgery that could either save his life--or result in his death on the operating table. The young couple prepared for the worst. When Ryan survived, they both realized that they still had a future together. But the near loss changed the way they saw all that would lie ahead. They would live and love fiercely, fighting for each other and for a Christ-centered marriage, every step of the way. Fierce Marriage is their story, but more than that, it is a call for married couples to put God first in their relationship, to measure everything they do and say to each other against what Christ did for them, and to see marriage not just as a relationship they should try to keep healthy but also as one worth fighting for in every situation. With the gospel as their foundation, Ryan and Selena offer hope and practical help for common struggles in marriage, including communication problems, sexual frustration, financial stress, family tension, screen-time disconnection, and unrealistic expectations.
Author : Lee Strobel
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0310220149
The author of "The Case for Christ" now presents thoughts on the spiritual aspects of marriage.
Author : Naomi Schaefer Riley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 2013-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199873755
In the last decade, 45% of all marriages in the U.S. were between people of different faiths. The rapidly growing number of mixed-faith families has become a source of hope, encouraging openness and tolerance among religious communities that historically have been insular and suspicious of other faiths. Yet as Naomi Schaefer Riley demonstrates in 'Til Faith Do Us Part, what is good for society as a whole often proves difficult for individual families: interfaith couples, Riley shows, are less happy than others and certain combinations of religions are more likely to lead to divorce. Drawing on in-depth interviews with married and once-married couples, clergy, counselors, sociologists, and others, Riley shows that many people enter into interfaith marriages without much consideration of the fundamental spiritual, doctrinal, and practical issues that divide them. Couples tend to marry in their twenties and thirties, a time when religion diminishes in importance, only to return to faith as they grow older and raise children, suffer the loss of a parent, or experience other major life challenges. Riley suggests that a devotion to diversity as well as to a romantic ideal blinds many interfaith couples to potential future problems. Even when they recognize deeply held differences, couples believe that love conquers all. As a result, they fail to ask the necessary questions about how they will reconcile their divergent worldviews-about raising children, celebrating holidays, interacting with extended families, and more. An obsession with tolerance at all costs, Riley argues, has made discussing the problems of interfaith marriage taboo. 'Til Faith Do Us Part is a fascinating exploration of the promise and peril of interfaith marriage today. It will be required reading not only for interfaith couples or anyone considering interfaith marriage, but for all those interested in learning more about this significant, yet understudied phenomenon and the impact it is having on America.
