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Because I Said Forever
$16.99Add to cartA recent study indicates that Christian marriages don’t fail as often as secular marriages — they fail more! Debbie Kalmbach, the wife of a recovering alcoholic, understands the longing to leave but offers Christian wives solid reasons to stay in a difficult marriage. This is not a “how to save your marriage” but more a guidebook for wives on how to save their ability to love, to honor their commitment to their husbands, and to maintain their faith in God while in marriages that may never live up to their dreams. Debbie tackles tough questions such as “Why won’t he go to counseling?” “Can I change him?” and “What do I do when I don’t feel in love anymore?” with a warm, compassionate approach sure to encourage and inspire every struggling wife.
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Marriage Poems : A Medley Of Pop-Pops Poems On Marriage
$12.49Add to cart“D. J. Wooten grew up within the church. In fact, he and I grew up within the same church, back in the late forty’s. Still quite young, he moved on and began his studies, which led to his Bachelor’s degree from United Wesleyan College. This helped prepare him for his pastoral and evangelistic calling. His own marriage of almost fifty years ended in the passing of his wife. He has since remarried. He and Lily together have a music ministry. D. J. “Pop-Pop” Wooten, as he is now often affectionately called, has studied churches and homes for the long years in his service to God. I have owned my religious bookstore for forty five years and I know of no other book on the teachings of marriage that has been put in this kind of poetic form. It is both Biblical and practical, as well as pleasant to read and at times very, very challenging. Every age can benefit from the study of the principles of which he writes.” Pastor Jack Savage OWNER, JACK’S RELIGIOUS GIFT SHOP SALISBURY, MARYLAND
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Love Your Man
$15.49Add to cartIn Love Your Man, author Jeri Bankson encourages women to appreciate and wholeheartedly love their husbands. She addresses everything from misconceptions about men to bringing sexual freedom in the marriage bed. Jeri begins by sharing her own personal love story which is funny, romantic, and inspiring. This is a great book for newlyweds or those who want to be once again! “Pastor Jeri is truly a woman without guile or pretentiousness. She shoots straight from the heart – tackling those ’embarrassing’ sexual questions with openness and purity. Every woman I know could find something to help her marriage within these pages. Need help? Start reading!” -PASTOR EILEEN GORDON, Cornerstone World Outreach “This book helps Christian couples watch for the potential pitfalls attacking marriages today, and avoid them. We need more of this type of bold teaching. You will learn truths that will help your marriage thrive!” -PASTOR BRENDA KUNNEMAN Lord of Hosts Church
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Sacred Unions : A New Guide To Lifelong Commitment
$18.95Add to cartSacred Union is a book about true love. By true love – or romance – the author refers to sexual passion that deepens into the permanent union of two persons in heart, body, and mind. The book is therefore addressed to all true lovers; straight or gay, deep into the adventure of a shared life or just contemplating it, or emerging out of a failed attempt. Lifelong union, Breidenthal asserts, is of central importance in all circumstances, and it remains a viable option for all of us, no matter who we are or what our story is.
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How To Choose A Life Partner
$15.99Add to cartThis insightful book deals with practical aspects of marriage and relationships, based on God-given principles. It deals with issues such as abuse, communication, temperament, finances and infidelity head-on, and points out how they influence the relationship between a man and a woman.
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Sex Marriage And Family Life In John Calvins Geneva Volume 1
$48.99Add to cartYou would not expect this from his dour reputation, but John Calvin transformed the Western understanding of sex, marriage, and family life. In this fascinating, even sensational, volume John Witte and Robert Kingdon treat comprehensively the new theology and law of domestic life that Calvin and his fellow reformers established in sixteenth-century Geneva. Bringing to light and life hundreds of newly discovered cases and theological texts, Witte and Kingdon trace the subtle historical forms and norms of sex, marriage, and family life that still shape us today.
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Marriage Covenant
$15.99Add to cartIs your marriage less than what you envisioned? Are you suffering in a bad marriage, but don’t want to be the next divorce statistic?
If you find yourselves divided as a couple while you focus on who is at fault rather than what can be done – here is the answer!
In Marriage Covenant, Derek Prince unravels the principle of covenant and how we can build “a cord of three strands” that cannot be broken.
By following God’s plan for marriage, you will build a relationship that faces difficulties, overcomes them, and emerges stronger than ever.
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Communication : 6 Studies (Student/Study Guide)
$8.00Add to cartHow can you “give life” to your marriage with your words?
Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III have together written this inductive Bible study guide to help couples build healthy and happy marriages. Through six study sessions for individuals, couples or groups, they help you explore differences that might hinder communication and learn strategies that can strengthen your marriage.
Intimate Marriage Bible studies bring spouses into deeper communion with God and with each other. In marriage a man and a woman are called to leave their families of origin, to weave their individual lives into a unity and to cleave to each other. How can fallen human beings even begin to contemplate this ideal–God’s ideal?
These studies will help you take small but real steps toward honoring the image of God in each other and living out God’s goal for marriage. As you explore and respond to Scripture together, you will discover strength and beauty in your marriage and become even more intimate companions.
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Good Husbands Guide To Balancing Hobbies And Marriage
$13.99Add to cartHarvest House Print On Demand Title
Avid hunter Steve Chapman (A Look at Life from a Deer Stand-200,000 copies sold) enthusiastically pursues a lifelong hobby while remaining passionate about his wife and home. Knowing the perils of spending too much time in the woods, he prayed, studied God’s Word, and sought advice. The result? Nine life-changing principles to balancing hobbies and marriage, including-
*investing equal finances in his spouse’s interests
*spending more time with his wife than with his hobby
*communicating desire to be with his family
*sharing the child-rearing load
*making sure hobby doesn’t cause a messWhether their passion is hunting, golf, or team sports, this guide will help men participate in hobbies and keep their families happy.
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I Love You More Workbook For Women (Workbook)
$8.99Add to cartRelationship experts and award-winning authors Les and Leslie Parrott believe the same forces that can tear down a marriage can become the catalyst for new relational depth and richness–provided you learn the secrets to using everyday problems to strengthen your marriage. In this workbook companion for the book, they help women explore how a marriage survives and thrives when a couple learns to use problems to boost their love life, to literally lover each other more.
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I Love You More Workbook For Men (Workbook)
$8.99Add to cartRelationship experts and award-winning authors Les and Leslie Parrott believe the same forces that can tear down a marriage can become the catalyst for new relational depth and richness–provided you learn the secrets to using everyday problems to strengthen your marriage. In this workbook companion for the book, they help men explore how a marriage survives and thrives when a couple learns to use problems to boost their love life, to literally lover each other more.
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Love And Respect Workbook (Workbook)
$18.99Add to cartSuccessful couples know that harmony and happiness in marriage are not achieved by love alone. There is the other side of the Ephesians 5:33 equation respect. Yes, a wife needs love. But a husband needs respect. Based on extensive biblical and scientific research, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs reveals the secret to couples meeting each other’s deepest needs: Without love she reacts without respect, and without respect he reacts without love and a destructive, vicious cycle begins.
Love and Respect is a groundbreaking book, to be featured on Focus on the Family, which offers much-needed help to husbands and wives everywhere. It introduces the biblical teaching of unconditional respect, and that it is as powerful as unconditional love. Discover the secret revealed by God that cracks the communication code between male and female and reap the benefits of marriage as God intended.
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Communication And Conflict Resolution
$5.00Add to cartHandling communication and conflict resolution are two major hurdles in a marriage. Doing so biblically must be the mutual resolve of every husband and wife. Unless you truly desire to honor God in this aspect of your marriage, the relationship will never be what it could be.
Communicating and resolving conflicts in a God-honoring way involves having a heart that is humble and wants to please God, some good listening skills, and a willingness to die to self. Conflict is a grievous thing to God. He wants His Children to have no part in it. Within these pages you will find biblical ways to resolve conflict and communicate effectively.
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His Rules : Gods Practical Roadmap For Becoming And Attracting Mr Or Mrs Ri
$17.99Add to cartFrustrated by All the Advice for Finding Mr. or Mrs. Right?
Some worldly “experts” may sound sexy but don’t offer the spiritual tools you need to address the real-life pains, temptations, and fears associated with the dating experience. Quickie solutions won’t cut it, and neither will a wait-and-see approach. You want God’s views-His rules for becoming and attracting a lifelong mate. This book offers the answers you’ve been seeking.
*Rule 1: Make Sure Your Map Isn’t Upside Down (Get a clue about what real relationships are about, for your own sake!)
*Rule 5: Clean House (If your internal house is dirty, how can you invite folks to come live with you?)
*Rule 6: Put the Kingdom Above the Booty (God’s not getting relationship rules from Sex and the City, so why are you?)
*Rule 11: Stop Looking Back (Crying about what could’ve been keeps you from what can be.)
*Rule 15: Handle the Heat (Learn how to tame the fire, or get out of the kitchen.)
*Plus eleven more rules for avoiding relationship disasters.Using wit, straight talk, and real-life illustrations, His Rules explores relationship guidelines singles can follow as they seek out lifelong love. These no-nonsense relationship rules will equip you to get closer to God, challenge you to clean up your act in preparation for a mate, and give you the savvy you need to distinguish a godly mate from an imposter.
Because when you commit to following God’s guidance, your relationship will not only work-it will last.
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Back To The Garden The Marriage The Purpose
$12.49Add to cartBack to the Garden, the Marriage, the Purpose is the third book in the Back to the Garden purpose series. It is written for those desiring to walk as one in God’s promises for marriage while growing together into a “tag team” for His glory.
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Reconcilable Differences : Hope And Healing For Troubled Marriages
$24.00Add to cartWhat does it take to really make right a severely damaged relationship? When going back to how things were is not nearly good enough, is there hope for true transformation and healing? Counselor and teacher Virginia Holeman waves together biblical insight and rich theological reflection while drawing from the best of current psychological studies on forgiveness, repentance and reconciling. Out of her own research you will hear the poignant stories of married couples who tell in their own words what its like to seek reconciliation in seemingly hopeless situation. Complete with honest and practical help, this book will be an encouragement to married couples who dare to hope for the healing and transforming of broken relationships and for counselors and pastors who want to work more effectively with them.
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Maximizing Your Marriage Student (Workbook)
$19.95Add to cartGod intends for marriage to be one of the most satisfying relationships you will ever experience. Like our relationship with Christ, your relationship with your spouse should be a source of joy, peace, life, and love. But many marriages miss God’s plan. The facts are that only about half the couples who go to the altar remain married — and many of those who do not divorce find themselves in frustrating relationships full of pain and conflict.
Maximizing Your Marriage is an interactive mentoring course for couples based on solid biblical principles about God’s design for marriage. Ten weekly sessions provide plenty of tools that get couples headed in the right direction to experience and enjoy all God wants for them. And the course concludes with an overnight retreat which offers couples the opportunity to renew their vows.
Maximizing Your Marriage is an adventure that will bring refreshment and encouragement to any marriage. It’s a great investment for a healthy relationship that reflects Jesus Christ.
Sessions include:
* Mutual Submission To Christ
* The Wonder Of God’s Oneness
* A Promise To Be Kept
* Expectations vs. Godly Assignments
* Stop — Talk — and Listen, Listen, Listen
* In Pursuit Of Understanding
* Finding A Firm Financial Foundation
* The Reward Of Raising Children
* Intimacy In Every Way
* Fueling The Flames Of Your Marriage
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Maximizing Your Marriage Leader (Teacher’s Guide)
$17.95Add to cartGod intends for marriage to be one of the most satisfying relationships you will ever experience. Like our relationship with Christ, your relationship with your spouse should be a source of joy, peace, life, and love. But many marriages miss God’s plan. The facts are that only about half the couples who go to the altar remain married — and many of those who do not divorce find themselves in frustrating relationships full of pain and conflict.
Maximizing Your Marriage is an interactive mentoring course for couples based on solid biblical principles about God’s design for marriage. Ten weekly sessions provide plenty of tools that get couples headed in the right direction to experience and enjoy all God wants for them. And the course concludes with an overnight retreat which offers couples the opportunity to renew their vows.
Maximizing Your Marriage is an adventure that will bring refreshment and encouragement to any marriage. It’s a great investment for a healthy relationship that reflects Jesus Christ.
Sessions include:
* Mutual Submission To Christ
* The Wonder Of God’s Oneness
* A Promise To Be Kept
* Expectations vs. Godly Assignments
* Stop — Talk — and Listen, Listen, Listen
* In Pursuit Of Understanding
* Finding A Firm Financial Foundation
* The Reward Of Raising Children
* Intimacy In Every Way
* Fueling The Flames Of Your Marriage
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Winning Your Husband Back Before Its Too Late
$18.99Add to cartHe’s walked out and she still wants him back. Thousands of discouraged and hurting women ask, “Is there anything I can do to win my husband back?” Though there are plenty of books on divorce, few talk about what it takes to initiate a reconciliation. Gary Smalley and Dr. Greg Smalley offer women a biblically based strategy for winning back their mate.
Included is an appendix of additional resources on organizations, counseling centers, video series, and books that have proven particularly helpful in this situation. Full of practical advice and realistic encouragement, Winning Your Husband Back can help heal a marriage. And whether the marriage is healed or not, the ideas will also help readers become responsible for their own choices and draw nearer to God.
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Winning Your Wife Back Before Its Too Late
$18.99Add to cartEach year more than five million couples separate in the United States and almost 1.2 million more couples divorce. While there are numerous books designed for the spouse who wants to separate or divorce, there are few resources for those who want to reconcile the relationship. This book is written specifically for the man whose wife has walked out on him and wants to win her back. It includes step-by-step, easy-to-understand instructions and advice. Real-life examples offer insight into how other men won their wives back, and a workbook section helps men develop a personalized plan for their individual situations. This book offers simple steps that God can use to restore hope and make a positive difference in a marriage relationship
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Love And Respect
$29.99Add to cartSuccessful couples know that harmony and happiness in marriage are not achieved by love alone. There is the other side of the Ephesians 5:33 equation respect. Yes, a wife needs love. But a husband needs respect. Based on extensive biblical and scientific research, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs reveals the secret to couples meeting each other’s deepest needs: Without love she reacts without respect, and without respect he reacts without love and a destructive, vicious cycle begins.
Love and Respect is a groundbreaking book, to be featured on Focus on the Family, which offers much-needed help to husbands and wives everywhere. It introduces the biblical teaching of unconditional respect, and that it is as powerful as unconditional love. Discover the secret revealed by God that cracks the communication code between male and female and reap the benefits of marriage as God intended.
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15 Minutes To Build A Stronger Marriage
$16.99Add to cartTyndale House
In this book a couple will gain a deeper understanding of each other in areas such as love, communication, emotional and physical intimacy, forgiveness, and spiritual growth. In only 15 minutes a week, busy couples will learn techniques to strengthen their relationship as well as give substance to the time spent together.
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Mad About Us
$23.99Add to cartLEARN TO LOVE YOUR MARRIAGE AS MUCH AS YOU LOVE YOUR SPOUSE. Many couples try to love each other only to be trapped by the marriage itself. Loving the relationship provides an opportunity for a deep and lasting connection. When you and your spouse love the Us-the separate entity created when two people fall in love-then together you will experience a unique partnership and deep spiritual union. Mad About Us embraces the longing that pulls people together and guides readers to redirect their marriage to live from the relationship rather than for it. “Dr. Doug McKinley has a passion for helping couples build marriages that not only survive but thrive. His years of clinical competence combined with his practical insight make him a true authority-someone we deeply respect. We urge you to read this book.” Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott Seattle Pacific University Authors of The Love List “Mad About Us offers piercing insight and truly effective help for people looking to build profound marriage partnerships. Individuals and couples looking to move beyond a marriage of survival to one of deep satisfaction and intimacy will want to pick up this book.” Daniel Meyer, Senior Pastor Christ Church Oak Brook, Illinois “Dr. Doug McKinley provides both the wisdom and discernment to move beyond simplistic solutions. Mad About Us offers a unique and profound relational definition of marriage as well as a pattern through which to assess next steps for a couple’s marital growth.” Rev. Dr. Scott Field Wheatland Salem United Methodist Church Naperville, Illinois
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Marriage Journey : Preparations And Provisions For Life Together (Revised)
$24.95Add to cartThe Sacrament Of Marriage
Extended Families
Being With Others
Living Together
Fighting Fair
Money Matters
Sexual Intimacy
The Gift Of Children
Yes, No, Maybe, Why Bother (Marriage Preparation, Marriage Enrichment)
The Journey AheadAdditional Info
Updated version of this classic resource for couples about to marry, those already married, and the congregations that support them, including new introductory material and a completely revised resources section. -
Relationships Gods Way
$13.49Add to cartChapter 1: Unmarried To the unmarried individual who is trying to identify his or her soul mate. Male: God loves you so much that He wants to give you favor. Female: You are so special to God that He identifies you as a good thing and says that your price is far above rubies. Chapter 2: Married To married couples who are searching for the truth to stay married. Husband: God has chosen you to be the vehicle that will transport the greatest gift of all to His daughter, your wife. Wife: The ingredient that God has placed in you is a gift for your husband that will take him to heights that will elevate him spiritually, physically, materially, and relationally. Chapter 3: Parents To parents who want to contribute a blessing and not a curse to society. Father: God wants you to know that you are important-that’s why He put the chromosome inside of you that determines the gender of your child. Mother: You are unique because God put inside of you the incubator that develops life to its outward manifestation.
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Safe Haven Marriage
$18.99Add to cartCreating a safe haven for each other in a marriage can enable a couple to weather any storm. Yet that accomplishment is certainly easier said than done. Psychologists Arch Hart, Ph.D, and Sharon Hart Morris, Ph.D., present a detailed blueprint for establishing a marital safe haven so that couples can count on each other and avoid criticizing, blaming and shutting out their partners during tough times. Based on a new therapeutic approach that involves establishing a feeling of “safety,” out of which commitment and the other necessary elements of a lasting and fulfilling relationship can grow.
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Sheet Music : Uncovering The Secrets Of Sexual Intimacy In Marriage
$15.99Add to cart246 Pages
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Get ready to make beautiful music together! Dr. Leman’s practical guide will help any couple stay “in tune” for an active God-designed sex life. Addressing a wide spectrum of individuals—with positive, negative, or no experience—his frank descriptions, line drawings, and warm and friendly tone will help couples find greater harmony through intimacy. -
Gift Of Sex (Revised)
$15.99Add to cartClifford and Joyce Penner, clinical therapist and nurse have written a sensitive and forthright guide to understanding sexuality and how it fits into God’s design for marriage. This revised and updated version features a new introduction, new illustrations, a section on addictions and the Internet, and a timely discussion on sexually transmitted diseases and their consequences. With the latest information on sexuality and intimacy, this best-selling book is ideal whether you are newlyweds or have been married for many years.Chapters include: The Physical Dimension The Total Experience Moving Past Sexual Barriers Resolving Difficulties Finding Help
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Best Thing I Ever Did For My Marriage
$15.99Add to cartMarriage has never been easy. But sometimes it takes surprisingly little to yield to infinite rewards. This eye-opening book by marriage experts Nancy Cobb and Connie Grigsby contains humorous and profound true stories of turning points in marriages. From brushing her teeth at a different sink to letting her husband finish his sentences, each woman’s story expresses the staggering impact that simple actions can have on marriages everywhere. More fulfilling relationships, expanded ministry opportunities and a more intimate walk with God await the readers of this book when they see how God’s best for their marriages may be just one small decision away.
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Upside Down Marriage
$13.49Add to cartJust for fun let’s view our marriages like a coach would view building a successful athletic team… We have to decide whether or not we are going to be spectators or players. Watching a basketball game is fun. Attending a pep rally for our favorite team is exciting. Having season tickets is nice. But this is one game we do not want to be sitting in the stands watching others play the game. We do not want to be on the sidelines cheering for our team or for our families. This is one game, one adventure we want to come away with sweat on our brow, dirt on our pants, soreness in our muscles, and a heart filled with excitement. We do not want to be left behind while other couples move ahead in their marriages. Marriage is the adventure of a lifetime. The game of all games. The sport of all sports. A healthy marriage, a healthy home is worth the price. It is worth the hard work. It is worth the sweat equity. It is one game we should not mind getting banged up and bruised. It is one game in which we do not want to miss the practices. We will become better husbands due to the hard work and the practicing.
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Guard Your Heart
$16.99Add to cartToday’s marriages are under attack and Christian homes are not exempt. That is why Gary and Barb Rosberg have committed themselves to helping couples understand the temptations they face. As one of the key books in the Divorce-Proofing America’s Marriages campaign, Guard Your Heart and its companion workbook, will equip couples to practice guarding love and protect their marriages.
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8 Kinds Of People You Dont Want To Marry
$13.49Add to cartThis book is a close look at those aspects of our human frailty that serve as potential hazards to marriage relationships. It is also a deep look at how our worldview has adversely influenced the way we interpret the Bible. Looking through the lives of people such as Adam, Eve, Nabal, Jezebel, Samson, Delilah, Elimelech, and Vashti, we learn how to avoid mistakes of the past and live lives that are pleasing to the Creator God.
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Creative Counterpart : Becoming The Woman Wife And Mother Youve Longed To B (Rep
$18.99Add to cartLinda Dillow gracefully and succinctly motivates Christian women to reach for more than they are currently experiencing in their marriages. She includes creative suggestions on how to encourage your husband, live above your circumstances, and develop a plan whereby you can begin to become the woman, wife, and mother that you long to be. She describes a creative counterpart as being more than just a helper. She is a woman who, having chosen (or having found herself in) the vocation of wife and mother, decides to learn and grow in all the areas of this role and to work as though she were aiming for the presidency of a corporation. Also included is a Bible study and project guide, which work perfectly for personal study or small group interaction.
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Politically Incorrect Wife (Student/Study Guide)
$19.00Add to cartJust what is a politically incorrect wife? She is a woman who is married to her husband and not to popular American culture. The politically incorrect wife does not buy into the stifling modern-day thinking that says, “Look out for number one. Treat your husband no better than he treats you.” Instead, she cultivates a joyful marriage using transformational spiritual principles. As formerly politically correct wives with miserable marriages, popular speakers and authors Nancy Cobb and Connie Grigsby lead readers confidently beyond the picket lines of the politically correct – into a warm, rewarding marriage.
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Discerning Gods Desire For Your Marriage
$13.49Add to cartAre you seeking God’s desires for your marriage? In Jeremiah 29 verse 11, the Bible reminds us that God has a good plan for us to prosper and to have a hopeful future. This hopeful future includes our marital relationships. To benefit from this hopeful future, we need to be obedient to the “owner’s manual,” which is the Bible. We must respect husbands and love wives, be humble, be servant leaders, speak with our behaviors and not always our mouths, honor the covenant of marriage, and other things that the Scriptures clearly show us. Femi Awodele has highlighted some of the areas that the Bible gave us, including a clear path to follow in marital relationships. Owner’s Manual is designed to be practical and quick reading material for couples worldwide that genuinely seek to better their marriages.
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She Carried Pink Geraniums
$15.99Add to cartShe Carried Pink Geraniums is a true story taking place in rural Michigan, starting in 1900, when Emma Shepherdson was six years old, and ending on her wedding day, when she carried pink geraniums. Geraniums deals with family life, birth, death, a country school, trouble with the law, revival meetings, courtship, elopement, growing pains, and kissing games. It tells of her struggles with physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges, and of witnessing to Charlie Hull, a school friend, and his later call to preach. It contains excerpts of their actual love letters to each other when she was finishing Hart High School and he was a young preacher many miles away. Nancy’s research for this book includes interviews with Emma, Charlie’s diaries, and their letters over a year and a half.
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Exemplary Husband : A Biblical Perspective (Revised)
$16.95Add to cartThe official companion book for The Excellent Wife by Martha Peace is a biblical blueprint for the mandate God has given to husbands in the covenant of marriage to love their wives, even as Christ loved the church. Dr. Stuart Scott has respoonded chapter by chapter to the biblical teaching put forth in Marth’s popular book. It is suitable for men’s small group Bible studies, or for couples prayerfully seeking God’s very best in marriage.
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Exemplary Husband Teachers Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$9.95Add to cartHere is a biblical blueprint for the mandate God has given to husbands in the covenant of marriage to love their wives, even as Christ loved the Church. Dr. Stuart Scott has responded chapter by chapter to the biblical teachings put forth in Martha’s popular book. Where Martha writes about a wife’s submission, Stuart responds with a chapter on the husband’s leadership.
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For The Love Of God In Your Marriage
$14.99Add to cartFor the Love of God in Your Marriage is a book which encourages couples to ground their relationship on Christ and His Word. Written from the very personal perspective of parents-of-the-bride, it expresses universal truths based on God’s Word for all Christian marriages. Each chapter examines one aspect of the multi-faceted and wonderful world of holy Christian marriage. The book is designed for couples to read together in devotional pursuit of and preparation for a Christ-honoring and personally-fulfilling marriage. The messages of each chapter are also helpful for already married couples who desire to grow closer to each other and into conformity with God’s Will for this most sacred of all human relationships, which gives us a small foretaste of that great and coming marriage feast wherein Christ is the Groom and the Holy Church is the Bride.
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And Marries Another
$27.00Add to cartOnce divorced, forever barred from church leadership—sometimes even from full fellowship. Isn’t that what the plain sense of Scripture teaches? No, says Keener. In this compassionate and carefully documented study, he first explores how the early Christians would have understood the statements of Jesus and Paul on divorce and remarriage. Keener then builds a soundly scriptural view of divorce and remarriage—a view that reminds the church that all of its members are forgiven people.
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Resolving Conflict In Marriage
$16.99Add to cartHave years passed since your marriage was filled with romance? Have conflicts arisen–trouble with the kids, problems with money, or struggles in your intimate relationship? Do you find yourselves divided as a couple for days, even weeks? Are the two of you focusing on who is at fault rather than what can be done? If this is your story, now is the time to resolve the conflicts in your marriage. Darrell Hines calls on you to recognize the spiritual forces that are intent on destroying your marriage. He challenges you to rediscover and reconnect with the foundational principles that keep a marriage together. He identifies key ways to prevent and confront conflict. Find a place of agreement and move on! Discover today how you can begin walking together in a new, stronger commitment! Learn how to build a relationship that faces difficulties, ovecomes them, and emerges stronger than ever! This book is a must-read for all married couples… and a powerful gift for those about to make wedding vows.
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What I Wish Id Known Before I Got Married
$16.99Add to cartBuilding a marriage is a lifelong endeavor for both men and women. Most marriage books cover the three C’s–communication, compromise, and consideration-but fail to address many issues critical to a healthy relationship. Family advocate Kay James calls these the “things I wish I had known before I got married”: advice on finances, sex, children, and dealing with the extended family. Noting that the apostle Paul exhorted older women not to inspire or counsel younger women, but to teach them how to be wives to their husbands, Kay offers a lifetime’s wealth of wisdom for creating an unbreakable marriage relationship.
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Case For Marriage
$20.00Add to cartA groundbreaking look at the most basic and universal of all human institutions, this authoritative and provocative book reveals the benefits-emotional, physical, economic, and sexual-that marriage brings to individuals and society as a whole.
Everyone knows that we are experiencing an epidemic of divorce; rates of single-parenthood and unmarried cohabitation are skyrocketing while marriage rates continue to decline. Yet 93% of Americans still say they hope to form a lasting and happy union with one person, though fewer now believe that this is possible.
Numerous books have been written about the impact of divorce on men, women, children, and society at large. But no one has yet studied the long-term benefits of being and staying married. The Case for Marriage is a critically important intervention in the national debate about the future of the family. Based on the authoritative research of family sociologist Linda Waite and other scholars, the book’s findings dramatically contradict the anti-marriage myths that have become the common sense of most Americans. Today a broad consensus holds that marriage is a bad deal for women, that divorce is better for children when parents are unhappy, and that marriage is essentially a private choice, not a public institution. Waite and Gallagher flatly contradict these assumptions, arguing instead that by a broad range of indices, being married is actually better for you physically, materially, and spiritually than being single or divorced. Married people live longer, have better health, earn more money and accumulate more wealth, feel more fulfilled in their lives, enjoy more satisfying sexual relationships, and have happier and more successful children than those who remain single, cohabit, or get divorced. Statistics show, for example, that violence is less prevalent in married households and that divorce reduces male life expectancy on the order of a pack-a-day cigarette habit.
While their book is not primarily a work of moral exhortation, the authors argue that in order for marriage to do its beneficial work it must be treated as a socially preferred option, not merely one choice among others that are equally valid. Combining clearheaded analysis, penetrating cultural criticism, and practical advice for strengthening the institution of marriage, the authors provide clear, essential guidelines for reestablishing marriage as the foundation for a healthy and happy society.
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Avoiding Mr Wrong
$18.99Add to cartYou know the man. He’s the one who looks good at a glance — but not so good once you get to know him. What kind of women fall for him, and why? What are the chances he will change? And what if you’ve already married him?More than just a checklist of men to steer clear of, Avoiding Mr. Wrong is a powerful tool to help women learn more about themselves and the Mr. Wrongs to whom they often feel drawn. Those men include: The Control Freak, The Mama’s Boy, The Cowardly Lion, The Ungodly Man, and Mr. Wonderful.Complete with a diagnostic quiz and quick reference lists, Avoiding Mr. Wrong is ideal for women whose hopes have been dashed again and again by a seemingly promising relationship. The book helps them to see more clearly, think more rationally, and act more wisely in the pursuit of Mr. Right.
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Becoming Parents : How To Strengthen Your Marriage As Your Family Grows
$26.95Add to cartMoving into parenthood is typically a time of great joy and excitement, but it also brings fatigue, stress, and conflict. From the authors of the best-selling Fighting for Your Marriage and A Lasting Promise, this unique and innovative guide offers indispensable advice on how to protect and preserve your marriage and take care of yourselves as you become parents. Based on scientific research and containing real-life examples, Becoming Parents challenges you to seize this opportunity to really thrive in your relationship and in parenting together as a team.
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Learning To Live The Love We Promise
$15.99Add to cartMaster wordsmith Lewis Smedes helps readers look at relationships and how they work. He answers such questions as: What do committed relationships do for us? To whom should we commit our time and devotion? Which, if any, relationships should last forever and how can we make them last?
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Excellent Wife Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$9.95Add to cart24 Chapters
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The Excellent Wife was proven seaworthy on its maiden voyage and now the Revised Edition is impacting lives and marriages in an even greater way. Here is a scripturally based blueprint for the woman who really wants to be the wife God intended her to be. This book is based on Proverbs 31:10, “An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is far above jewels.” Thousands of women have already discovered the worth of this volume and testify to lives and marriages changed because of a commitement to the principles presented here. If this is a commitment you have made, or want to make, The Excellent Wife answers the difficult questions facing you today. -
Excellent Wife : A Biblical Perspective (Expanded)
$16.95Add to cartThe Excellent Wife was proven seaworthy on its maiden voyage and now the Revised Edition is impacting lives and marriages in an even greater way. Here is a scripturally based blueprint for the woman who really wants to be the wife God intended her to be. This book is based on Proverbs 31:10, “An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is far above jewels.” Thousands of women have already discovered the worth of this volume and testify to lives and marriages changed because of a commitement to the principles presented here. If this is a commitment you have made, or want to make, The Excellent Wife answers the difficult questions facing you today.
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Uncommon Wife
$15.00Add to cartThe Uncommon Wisdom In This Book Will Forever Change Your Life, Your Heart And The Circumstances You Are Experiencing. You will be encouraged in your Divine Assignment on earth. Discover the powerful part the Uncommon Wife plays in a harmonious home. Don’t wait! Order Your Copy Today! 31 Chapters for 31-Days of Uncommon Wisdom! The Perfect Gift For Someone You Love.
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Should I Get Married (Revised)
$27.00Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
Are your ready for marriage? Are you physically, spiritually and emotionally compatible? What if making such a big commitment scares you? How do you find God’s will in all this? These are crucial questions that evey man or woman asks. And they deserve our best thinking. In this revised edition M. Blaine Smith draws from his own experience and his years of counceling singles and couples and takes a refreshingly candid, open-hearted look at these issues, helping men and women think through the important disisions concerning marriage.
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Act Of Marriage After 40
$18.99Add to cart15 Chapters
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The Act of Marriage After 40, written by Tim and Beverly LaHaye with a Christian physician, follows the hugely popular book The Act of Marriage (more than two and a half million copies in print). The Act of Marriage After 40 covers such topics as nutrition (how do nutritional supplements affect your sex life?), fitness, sexual desire (does sexual desire actually reverse with age?), male impotence (psychological and physical causes, including a discussion of Viagra), female hormone drugs (the effect on desire), menopause and hysterectomy sex, first-time marriage after 40, and much more. -
9 Ways To Nurture Your Marriage
$8.99Add to cartThis collection of light-hearted anecdotes has been compiled from conversations with couples who have found the key to a happy, fulfilling marriage. From these interviews, the Rabiors derive nine ways to energize your marriage, nurture spiritual life, and to cultivate physical intimacy. Spouses will discover how to communicate more clearly, develop trust, enjoy a better sexual relationship, put a stop to pointless power struggles, deal creatively with anger, and more.
At the end of each chapter, the authors have provided points for discussion to generate dialogue–helping with new growth and possibilities.
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Federal Husband
$12.00Add to cartPrologue
Section One: Federal Husband And Christ
Section Two: Federal Husband Against Himself
Section Three: Federal Husband And Society
Section Four: Federal HusbandAdditional Info
This collection of essays continues the discussion begun in Reforming Marriage in greater depth, dealing with aspects of covenantal husbandry such as masculinist distortions, feminism, fashion symbolism, and carburetor repair. Federal thinking is foreign to the modern mind. Federal has come to mean nothing more than centralized or big. Because our federal government has become so uncovenantal, it is not surprising that the original meaning of the word is lost. But federal thinking is the backbone of historic Protestant theology, and the Church needs to recover the covenantal understanding of federal headship. Husbands are to lead their families, taking responsibility for them as covenant heads – as federal husbands. -
3 To Get Married
$16.95Add to cartOne of the greatest and best-loved spokesmen for the Catholic Faith here sets out the Church’s beautiful understanding of marriage in his trademark clear and entertaining style. Frankly and charitably, Sheen presents the causes of and solutions to common marital crises, and tells touching real-life stories of people whose lives were transformed through marriage. He emphasizes that our Blessed Lord is at the center of every successful and loving marriage. This is a perfect gift for engaged couples, or for married people as a fruitful occasion for self-examination.
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Boundaries In Marriage Workbook (Workbook)
$19.99Add to cart1. What’s A Boundary, Anyway?
2. Applying The Ten Laws Of Boundaries To Marriage
3. Setting Boundaries With Yourself
4. It Takes Two To Make One
5. What You Value Is What You’ll Have
6. Value One
7. Value Two
8. Value Three
9. Value Four
10. Value Five
11. Value Six
12. Three’s A Crowd
13. Six Kinds Of Conflict
14. Resolving Conflict With A Boundary-Loving Spouse
15. Resolving Conflict With A Boundary-Resistant Spouse
16. Avoiding The Misuse Of Boundaries In Marriage
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1. What’s A Boundary, Anyway?
2. Applying The Ten Laws Of Boundaries To Marriage
3. Setting Boundaries With Yourself
4. It Takes Two To Make One
5. What You Value Is What You’ll Have
6. Value One
7. Value Two
8. Value Three
9. Value Four
10. Value Five
11. Value Six
12. Three’s A Crowd
13. Six Kinds Of Conflict
14. Resolving Conflict With A Boundary-Loving Spouse
15. Resolving Conflict With A Boundary-Resistant Spouse
16. Avoiding The Misuse Of Boundaries In Marriage
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Gift Of Self In Marriage
$19.95Add to cartOne of the most striking features in the Catholic Church today is the ever-widening gap between its official teaching on marriage and sexual morality and the practice of most of its lay members. This book seeks to bridge this gap in two ways – it considers some of the tacit assumptions about marriage and sexual morality in today’s society, since these affect Catholics as much as everyone else; and it also considers the Church’s teaching in some of these areas and explores new ways of explaining it so that it will make sense to ordinary lay Catholics. The author draws on contemporary writing as well as bringing her own reflections and experience of living the Church’s teaching to bear on the subject.
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Handbook For Married Couples (Student/Study Guide)
$10.00Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
In A Handbook to Enrich Your Marriage Alice and Robert Fryling offer married couples a chance to enhance their marriages. They help readers learn crucial reading skills such as how to make decisions together and how to resolve conflict. Then they apply these skills to tough marital issues like sex, spiritual growth, disappointment and money.
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Exemplary Husband Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$9.95Add to cartThe much-anticipated companion book for “The Excellent Wife” by Martha Peace is finally available. Here is a biblical blueprint for the mandate God has given to husbands in the covenant of marriage to love their wives, even as Christ loved the Church. Dr. Stuart Scott has responded chapter by chapter to the biblical teachings put forth in Martha’s popular book. Where Martha writes about a wife’s submission, Stuart responds with a chapter on the husband’s leadership.
In previewing Dr. Scott’s manuscript, Martha said, “This material is fantastic, Ladies! It will be just as convicting to the husbands as The Excellent Wife has been to the wives. I am very excited about this.”
This volume is suitable for men’s small group Bible study, or to be studied by a couple prayerfully seeking God’s very best in marriage.
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Marriage : Gods Design For Intimacy (Student/Study Guide)
$12.00Add to cartWhat makes a good marriage even better? How can we build an intimate relationship that endures? How do we live out our roles as husband and wife? The Bible’s approach to these questions is realistic and practical. In these studies you will discover how following God’s design for marriage helps us enjoy it to the fullest.
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Recreating Marriage With The Same Old Spouse (Workbook)
$24.00Add to cartDrawing on years of experience counseling couples and groups, Sandra Bender contends that married people need intentional, focused direction to create the marriage they want. Recreating Marriage with the Same Old Spouse educates couples in the skills of being married. Beginning with a discussion of the Myers-Briggs personality framework, Bender covers topics such as identity, intimacy, insecurity, and reflective listening. The personal and professional examples, discussion questions, and practice exercises will encourage couples to recreate and renew their marriage.
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Distant Partner : How To Tear Down Emotional Walls And Communicate With You
$18.99Add to cart‘I’m always the one willing to go the extra mile for the sake of my marriage’, ‘His eyes glaze over when I try to talk intimately about things that matter.’ Maybe you’ve heard these words from your spouse. Maybe you’ve said these words about your marriage. Distant Partner is a book for those who have a relationship with too much busyness and not enough personal sharing. You don’t have to stay locked into this merry-go-round battle. Once you understand the dynamics between evasive husbands and emotionally eager wives, you can begin to take the initiative and move forward with healthy actions and choices.
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Discovering The Mind Of A Woman
$18.99Add to cartIn Discovering the Mind of Women husbands learn to understand their wives as Christ would. From this point they learn to respond to their wives in a consistent Christlike manner. A radically transformed and renewed marriage is the result. Drawing from his own story and the stories of husbands whose marriages were dissolving, Ken Nair reveals major problems in life and marriage. After discussing the problems, he reveals relationship altering concepts which not only will revive a marriage, they will radiate throughout couple’s lives as well.
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Building Your Mates Self Esteem
$19.99Add to cart287 Pages In 18 Chapters
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This eloquent source of instruction for anyone seriously committed to a strong, meaningful marriage will teach you how to:Appreciate your role in building your partner’s self-esteem.
Learn practical and effective ways to love and support your mate.
Repair past hurts in your spouse’s life.
Build mutual intimacy through unconditional acceptance.
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Marriage Is For Grownups
$19.00Add to cartAre you grown-up enough to handle it?
To many couples, marriage means little more than just living together. But others succeed in establishing a true union, a profound emotional fusion that involves not only sharing a home, but sharing an entire life as well. In Marriage Is for Grownups, Joseph and Lois Bird analyze the problem areas common to most marriages and offer sound guidelines toward solving them and attaining that true union and meaningful relationship.
The authors–who have years of experience in marriage counseling–offer no marital nostrums; instead, they encourage each partner to examine his own fears, demands, values, and defenses in order to decide where he wants his marriage relationship to go–and how to reach that goal. The Birds explore many aspects of married life maturely and positively, and at the same time suggest rational ways of confronting them. Whether they’re discussing communications problems, finances, sex, in-laws, children, they do so on a realistic level with the aim of helping married couples become motivated to improve their marital relationship. As Dr. Bird points out, “This is not a marriage ‘cook book,’ providing pat answers which would hopefully apply to all (but which never do). It raises questions by which the spouses can find their own answers.”
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Reforming Marriage
$15.00Add to cart1. A Practical Theology Of Marriage
2. Headship And Authority
3. Duties Of Husband, And Wives
4. Efficacious Love
5. Keeping Short Accounts
6. Miscellaneous Temptations
7. The Marriage Bed Is Honorable
8. Multiplying Fruitfully
9. Divorce And RemarriageAdditional Info
How would you describe the spiritual aroma of your home? The source of this aroma is the relationship between husband and wife. Many can fake an attempt at keeping God’s standards in some external way. What we cannot fake is the resulting, distinctive aroma of pleasure to God. Most marriage books address the mere externals of marriage, without seeking to understand the heart issues. Godly marriages proceed from an obedient heart, and the greatest desire of an obedient heart is the glory of God, not the happiness of the household.
