Engagement: Preparing for Marriage (Mike McKinley)

Engagement

Preparing for Marriage

Have your wedding plans crowded out the spiritual significance of your marital union? God created marriage as a picture that demonstrates his love and character—both to you and to those around you. Using daily devotional readings, reflection questions, and practical action points, Mike McKinley’s book Engagement prepares your heart for the wonderful, sanctifying calling to love another person in a way that echoes God’s love for his people.

This 31-Day Devotional book guides you through Scripture passages that speak to the specific situations or struggles accompanying dating, courtship, and engagement.

Endorsements

“Will recall, reinforce, refresh, and expand on relevant truths in an especially interesting and unique way.” —Wayne Mack, Best-Selling Author, Preparing for Marriage God’s Way; Director, Association of Certified Biblical Counselors—Africa

“The perfect premarital gift to offer to a newly engaged couple to help them to direct their gaze to what really makes marriage work: the gospel of Jesus Christ.”  —Jonathan D. Holmes, Pastor of Counseling, Parkside Church, Chagrin Falls, Ohio; Author, Counsel for Couples

Contents

1. God is a Husband?
2. An Unfaithful Bride
3. A Restored Bride
4. The True Bridegroom
5. A Wedding at the End of Time
6. Jesus’s Marriage and Yours
7. The Enemy of Marriage
8. A Potential Idol
9. The Same and Different
10. Husbands, Love Like Jesus!
11. Loving Your Wife is Loving Yourself
12. God-Given Help
13. Called to Submit
14. A Beautiful Interplay
15. A New Priority
16. ‘Til Death Do Us Part
17. The Gift of Intimacy
18. The Gift of Exclusivity
19. God’s Will for Your Life
20. Fruit Grows in the Soil of Relationships
21. Without Spot or Wrinkle
22. The Value of Input
23. A Marriage in Community
24. A Marriage of Perfectly Righteous People
25. The Power of Words
26. Speech that Builds Up
27. The Easy Way to Destroy Everything
28. Anger and Conflict
29. Repentance is the Way Forward
30. Forgiveness and the Imitation of God
31. Inviting Jesus to Your Wedding

More Endorsements

“Argues that the key to marital success is to put the Lord first and to look to him, not marriage, to provide ultimate fulfillment.” —Jim Newheiser, Director of the Christian Counseling Program and Associate Professor of Practical Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary

“Provides biblical clarity concerning what marriage is and what husbands and wives are called by God to be and to do.” —Nick Roark, Pastor, Franconia Baptist Church, Alexandria, Virginia; Coauthor, Biblical Theology

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