The Marriage Playbook


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The institution of marriage is like a successful basketball playbook. We all tend to need spiritual and marital guidance. The institution of marriage is like a successful basketball play- book. Each year brings new challenges. There is a lot of planning involved. Marriages cannot base its future on past success or past failures. The Marriage Playbook offers spiritual and practical advice by using basketball as an analogy. Many people enjoy watching or playing basketball "for the love of the game". We should have the "love of the game" spirit for our marriages. The book seeks to encourage all spiritual couples to love as Christ loves. As marriage counselors, we enjoy seeing the art of love protected and achieved through the Holy Spirit.




Mastering Marriage


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The authors reveal the clues they have used to master their marriage and grow happier and more in love each year...a major achievement given their prior history. The authors were emotionally challenged when they met 27 years ago and were unlikely candidates for a successful marriage. Without undergoing an extreme makeover in personality or appearance, they improved their relationship skills virtually overnight by implementing suggestions given them by virtual strangers. This book shares this advice along with tips and techniques they discovered and intentionally developed during their 25 year marriage. Easy to read, understand and implement. This practical, straight-forward and powerful advice works. If you want to be more happily married every year, read this book.




The Marriage Playbook


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Your favorite teams begin the game with a plan in place to win, shouldn't you? Whether it's the pre-game show, half-time or you're in the fourth quarter, you can't win without one! The Marriage Playbook combines your love of sports and love for your spouse in this out-of-the-box teaching tool that will help strengthen your team and build an all-star marriage! This teaches you play-by-play how to build foundational communication skills that will grow into good habits, showing love; not just speaking it! All the X's and O's look good on paper, but let's put the plan into action! Using sports terms and analogies, the McKay’s challenge husbands to set the tone at home stressing that when men lead the way to better communication their wife follows because she longs for that oneness with him. This book shares that men don't have to get in touch with their feminine side in order to be a great husband. The Marriage Playbook teaches couples how to have a plan in place for those things in life that can and will affect their marriage. By having a “playbook” for marriage, couples can create a winning game plan that daily invests into a lifetime of love. Ace McKay is a 6-time AIR AWARD winner for Best Air Personality while in Nashville and also a member of the Dove Award Winning Radio Station of the Year for the 3rd time in 2001, 2003 and 2009. Moving around the country as a radio talk show host however, caused serious stress on his marriage (now in its thirteenth year). Facing a near divorce, Ace and Bethany came together stronger than ever with a passion to help couples by combining their love for sports with their love for each other.




The Desired Marriage


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I wrote this book because God told me to. Nobody ever got married with the intentions of getting divorced. Many of us have no idea what to do after the wedding. What does that even look like? What about generational curses? What about demonic warfare? The Bible says that we wrestle NOT against flesh and blood. We hear aEURoefor better or worse,aEUR but what do we do when it gets worse? God has details on what that looks like. The Holy Ghost told me what to say. God never wastes any time, and pain always births purpose. God used all the experiences that I have encountered personally and with people that I have counseled to put together detailed learned lessons. You ever ask God for help, and you want God to be specific? There were things that I went through that I had no control over, and there were times when I ignored GodaEUR(tm)s warnings. Do you follow your heart or your head? This is why the title is the Desired MarriageaEUR"to help you have the marriage that God has designed for you, the relationship that you desire that can lead to the marriage, how during the relationship both of you can work on things that can better prepare you for later. IaEUR(tm)ve seen small things that could have been fixed, but some didnaEUR(tm)t know how this could end the relationship or marriage. They just didnaEUR(tm)t know how to go about things. This book will push you to your potential and challenge you to be the best you that you can be. The person you are married to deserves a better version of you. This book will help you deal with friction between the person that you have a child/children with. The Bible tells us to walk by faith and not by sight. God had you in mind when He created this book. Relationships TikTok: Mr.Relationships101 E-mail:A [email protected] IG: Mr.Relationships101 Facebook group: Mr.Relationships101 Spiritual TikTok: MrEncouragement101 E-mail:A [email protected] (business) Facebook: Lokey Howell Facebook page: TeamMinistry2013A IG: thebreakdownwithlokey Twitter: lokeyhowell Business Facebook: Will Howell IV Poshmark: lokeyhowell Sports E-mail:A [email protected] Facebook page: The BreakdownLinkedIn: Lokey Howell




Catholic Marriage


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Catholic Marriage: A Pastoral and Liturgical Commentary is a collection of essays by scholars and practitioners on the rites, spirituality, history, theology, and pastoral practice surrounding the Sacrament of Matrimony in the Roman Catholic Church. Those who minister to engaged couples and teach the sacrament will appreciate the accessible approach to the meaning of Christian marriage and how it has been expressed in the rites of the Church and cultural customs. James and Evelyn Whitehead, longtime partners in marriage and in the exploration of Christian spirituality, open the book with their essay “Promises to Keep: A Spirituality of Christian Marriage.” The collection then focuses on the marriage rites themselves from a variety of perspectives. Kimberly Hope Belcher, assistant professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, wife and mother, offers “A Theology of Marriage.” Anne McGowan, assistant professor at Catholic Theological Union (CTU), also married with children, presents “Committed in Christ: A Historical Overview of Christian Marriage Rites.” Gilbert Ostdiek, OFM, professor of liturgy at CTU whose long career includes work on the translation of the rites of the Catholic Church, discusses the “Evolution and Translation of the 2016 Marriage Rite.” CTU professors Edward Foley and Richard Fragomeni focus on the adaptations that other bishops' conferences in the Western world have made in “The Marriage Rites: an International Perspective." Turning toward the pastoral aspects of the celebration of marriage, Paul Covino, husband, father, grandfather, deacon, campus minister, and expert in advising soon-to-be married couples, shares his wisdom in “Preparing the Wedding, Preparing for Marriage.” Diana Macalintal, who with her husband is cofounder of TeamRCIA, explores a crucial and often overlooked aspect of any sacramental celebration in “Mystagogy of Marriage.” Timone Davis, assistant professor at Loyola University Chicago’s Institute of Pastoral Studies, teams with Ed Foley to reflect on “Preaching at Weddings.” Conductor, composer, teacher, pastoral musician, wife, and mother Jennifer Kerr Budziak joins Richard Fragomeni in considering “Music in the Celebration of Marriage: Reflections on Best Practices." Finally, Patrick R. Lagges, who served for many years in the canonical offices of the Archdiocese of Chicago, presents “Canonical Reflections on the Order of Celebrating Matrimony.”




Making Marriage Beautiful


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What makes a marriage beautiful? Honesty? Compatibility? Physical and emotional intimacy? All of these are important, but there’s one component that determines the quality and longevity of a marriage more than anything else: a willingness to grow. Because a wedding joins together two imperfect people, all couples experience disappointment, conflict, and pain. How husbands and wives respond to these challenges determines the kind of people they will become and the kind of marriage they will have. Making Marriage Beautiful reveals how the pursuit of Christ results in profound transformation for both the individual and the marriage. Rather than offering clichés and formulas, Greco relies on candor, humor, and real life stories to bring encouragement and wisdom to all couples, regardless of whether they have been married four weeks or forty years.




The Exvangelicals


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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER "An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon’s story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction to the subculture that has shaped the hopes and fears of millions of Americans." —Kristin Kobes Du Mez, New York Times bestselling author of Jesus and John Wayne The first definitive book that names the growing social movement of people leaving the church: the exvangelicals. Growing up in a deeply evangelical family in the Midwest in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Sarah McCammon was strictly taught to fear God, obey him, and not question the faith. Persistently worried that her gay grandfather would go to hell unless she could reach him, or that her Muslim friend would need to be converted, and that she, too, would go to hell if she did not believe fervently enough, McCammon was a rule-follower and—most of the time—a true believer. But through it all, she was increasingly plagued by fears and deep questions as the belief system she'd been carefully taught clashed with her expanding understanding of the outside world. After spending her early adult life striving to make sense of an unraveling worldview, by her 30s, she found herself face-to-face with it once again as she covered the Trump campaign for NPR, where she witnessed first-hand the power and influence that evangelical Christian beliefs held on the political right. Sarah also came to discover that she was not alone: she is among a rising generation of the children of evangelicalism who are growing up and fleeing the fold, who are thinking for themselves and deconstructing what feel like the “alternative facts” of their childhood. Rigorously reported and deeply personal, The Exvangelicals is the story of the people who make up this generational tipping point, including Sarah herself. Part memoir, part investigative journalism, this is the first definitive book that names and describes the post-evangelical movement: identifying its origins, telling the stories of its members, and examining its vast cultural, social, and political impact.




One Perfect Day


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Astutely observed and deftly witty, One Perfect Day masterfully mixes investigative journalism and social commentary to explore the workings of the wedding industry-an industry that claims to be worth $160 billion to the U.S. economy and which has every interest in ensuring that the American wedding becomes ever more lavish and complex. Taking us inside the workings of the wedding industry-including the swelling ranks of professional event planners, department stores with their online registries, the retailers and manufacturers of bridal gowns, and the Walt Disney Company and its Fairy Tale Weddings program-New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead skillfully holds the mirror up to the bride's deepest hopes and fears about her wedding day, revealing that for better or worse, the way we marry is who we are.




Hot Chocolate for Couples


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From her own hardships and deep joys, Cindy Dagnan offers refreshing perspective about how to create a strong and loving marriage. Personal illustrations, stories, conversation starters, and a couples' study guide combine the delights of humor and the richness of wisdom. Cindy delves into the day-to-day issues that impact "till death do us part" relationships and provides a fun-loving look at communication, expectations, friendship, sex, and commitment to help couples discover: What gives a marriage lasting flavor Ways to engage in great dialogue How to pray together and play together Why real life is more fulfilling than the fairy tale What is "better" than chocolate in a marriage Whether a woman explores this resource on her own or with her husband, the practical and encouraging content will help all readers create and savor the sweetness of a lasting, godly love.




Doppelgänger Dilemmas


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The Dutch were culturally ubiquitous in England during the early modern period and constituted London's largest alien population in the second half of the sixteenth century. While many sought temporary refuge from Spanish oppression in the Low Countries, others became part of a Dutch diaspora, developing their commercial, spiritual, and domestic lives in England. The category "Dutch" catalyzed questions about English self-definition that were engendered less by large-scale cultural distinctions than by uncanny similarities. Doppelgänger Dilemmas uncovers the ways England's real and imagined proximities with the Dutch played a crucial role in the making of English ethnicity. Marjorie Rubright explores the tensions of Anglo-Dutch relations that emerged in the form of puns, double entendres, cognates, homophones, copies, palimpsests, doppelgängers, and other doublings of character and kind. Through readings of London's stage plays and civic pageantry, English and Continental polyglot and bilingual dictionaries and grammars, and travel accounts of Anglo-Dutch rivalries and friendships in the Spice Islands, Rubright reveals how representations of Dutchness played a vital role in shaping Englishness in virtually every aspect of early modern social life. Her innovative book sheds new light on the literary and historical forces of similitude in an era that was so often preoccupied with ethnic and cultural difference.




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