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Build a Stronger Marriage: The Path to Oneness (Bob Lepine)
$9.99Best-selling author and longtime FamilyLife Today cohost Bob Lepine helps you work through the challenges that emerge in every marriage, causing couples to become isolated and alienated.
All marriages face seasons of distress and frustration—times when, thanks to a variety of factors, you don’t feel as close as you once were. Lepine helps you make the adjustments necessary to build the kind of marriage God intends for you to have and encourages you back on the path to oneness.
Build a Stronger Marriage maps out this path to oneness by first helping you and your spouse uncover how your motivations and expectations about marriage, childhood hardship, or family of origin issues, guilt, shame, or unaddressed relational wounds can impact a marriage relationship. You will be able to trade blame, dissatisfaction, and disappointment for a stronger, richer, and more rewarding relationship.
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Building A Marriage To Last: Five Essential Habits For Couples (Brad Hambrick)
$5.62Where is your marriage? Newly married, in a rut, coming off a major transition, or coming out of a period of crisis or conflict? Regardless of your situation, it’s never too early—or too late, for that matter—to build habits that will strengthen and grow your marriage. Forming habits is inevitable, but intentionality can make it beneficial.
Counselor and pastor Brad Hambrick encourages couples at all stages to intentionally adopt five core practices to help foster healthy, God-honoring rhythms of communication and care. Learning how to steward time, money, and community, practicing healthy self-care, avoiding criticism and defensiveness, seeking to know your spouse deeply, and expressing gratitude for the opportunity to grow are just some of the wisdom gifts from God that will help deepen your relationship and also call you into a deeper walk with Jesus.
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Courtship and Dating: So What’s the Difference? MP3 (Dennis Gundersen)
$3.99We hear much about courtship these days, but judging by the conversations we have with families, many parents are quite in the dark as to the real differences between a “dating” approach to relationships and the “courtship” concept. We want to spare our children the pitfalls we experienced in the 20th-century “dating” tradition, but too often, we lack clear ideas about what we are leading them to and end up being more of a barrier than a door! So, what are the differences between courtship and dating?
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Gospel Centered Marriage (Tim Chester)
$9.99Most of what the Bible has to say about marriage does not come flagged up under a heading of marriage. It’s not just the famous marriage passages that shape a gospel-centered marriage, but the whole Bible-story of God’s good creation, humanity’s wicked rebellion and God’s gracious redemption.
To understand why marriages struggle as they all do we need to understand the nature of our sin. To make marriages work, we need to understand how to apply the truth about God and His salvation.
This study guide on Christian marriage focuses on how the Gospel shapes the practical realities of everyday life. Author Tim Chester lifts the lid on many of the common pressure points that modern couples face, and shows how a proper understanding of the Gospel can shape a response.
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Let the Men Be Men (Chris Mueller)
$13.95In 1 Corinthians 16:13, the Apostle Paul gives a clear command to “act like men.” In our current times that is a difficult target for even Christian young adults to hit. The good news is that, in the book of Titus, God provides us with direct instruction on how to achieve that goal. There, the apostle Paul reveals God’s clear design for how young men are to walk worthy of Jesus Christ.
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Let the Women Be Women (Chris Mueller)
$13.95In Proverbs 31:30, the author states that “a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.” In our current times that is a challenging goal for young Christian women to achieve. The good news is that, in the book of Titus, God provides us with direct instruction on how to achieve that goal. There, the apostle Paul reveals God’s clear design for how young women are to walk worthy of Jesus Christ.
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Marriage Conflict: Talking as Teammates (31-Day Devotionals for Life) (Steve Hoppe)
$9.95How we communicate with one another matters — especially in a marriage. The Bible reminds us to use words that build up our spouses, not tear them down. Whether your marriage is a verbal war zone or just needs a little help in the communication arena, both you and your spouse will benefit from the encouragement in these pages. This devotional is not a program to do better; it unveils how God helps you to be better. As you read through it as a team, meditating on Scripture, praying, and using the practical questions and action steps, you will learn to communicate with Christlike love, grow in holiness, and glorify God with your words.
In the 31-Day Devotionals for Life series, biblical counselors and Bible teachers guide you through Scripture passages that speak to specific situations or struggles, helping you to apply God’s Word to your life in practical ways day after day.
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Track: Dating, Marriage & Sex (David J. Ayers)
$3.99A young person’s entry into biblical views of relationships.
Chastity is a word that isn’t used much these days, but it means exercising sexual self–control in line with the moral teachings of the Bible. It means honoring God, respecting others, and embracing the liberating beauty of God’s order. But how do we do that in today’s recreational dating culture? And how do we think about dating and, ultimately, marriage? David Ayers has written this helpful little book to help you think through these questions, and understand why this is such an important part of the Christian life.
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A Child’s First Book About Marriage (Jani Ortlund)
$10.75The world’s view of marriage can often be very different to what the Bible says. But who is right, and who should we listen to? From a very young age, children are confronted with and can be confused by these conflicts. This hardback, illustrated title helps to explain the beauties of God’s plan for marriage to children of any age, introducing them to a different, counter-cultural way of viewing these aspects of life and faith.
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Tying the Knot: A Premarital Guide to a Strong & Lasting Marriage (Rob Green)
$16.00Field-tested and recommended by multiple counselors in a thriving counseling practice, Tying the Knot has already guided many couples into a stronger and more joyful union.
Let this eight-week premarital study reorient your life and marriage around Christ, so you both will experience all the blessings of marriage as God designed it.
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Yours, till Heaven: The Untold Love Story of Charles & Susie Spurgeon (Ray Rhodes)
$12.50“There are many books that tell us how to have a good marriage. But here is something unique: a book that shows us what such a marriage looks like. Husbands and wives will do well to read this book and emulate the loving marriage of Charles and Susie Spurgeon.” — Pastor John MacArthur
Includes numerous original photographs.
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Preparing Children for Marriage (Josh Mulvihill)
$14.50My kids are way too young to be thinking about dating and marriage already! Why would I begin ‘the talk’ now, before they’ve even started asking questions?”
Many parents find it difficult to broach these topics with their children, especially in age-appropriate ways. But our choice is no longer between teaching them now or later—if we do not reach them first, our culture is happy to step in with messages of its own. Someone is going to shape our children’s beliefs—so the time to start biblical conversations is now!
In this foundation-laying book, Josh Mulvihill offers theological training for a critical area of parenting. He walks parents through how to begin conversations, then teaches them God’s purpose for dating, marriage, and sex so they can pass this teaching on to their children.
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The Person I Marry: Things I’ll Think About Long Before Saying “I Do” (Gary & Jan Bower)
$11.99Everyone knows what makes up a person’s outside, things like hair color, clothing or height. But isn’t the inside what really matters, when it comes to friends, and especially when it comes to marriage! In these pages young children are encouraged to look for and desire integrity, kindness, faithfulness, purpose, honor, helpfulness, teachability, and humility.
Winsomely adorable oil paintings by Jan Bower grace every page, along with the poetic wisdom of award-winning author Gary Bower.
These pages will inspire readers of all ages (but especially focused on ages 4-12) to place a higher value on the character of their future marriage partner, and to see less importance in appearance and other shallow criteria. Young children, teens, even grown-ups will benefit from the counsels of this book.
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The Excellent Wife: A Biblical Perspective (Martha Peace)
$13.50New 10th Anniversary Edition! This is the most biblical blueprint for the woman who truly desires to be the wife God intended her to be, written in the last 100 years. A book 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 commitment 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.
Who is an excellent wife? What is she like? Using the woman in Proverbs 31 as a model, trusted Christian counselor Peace offers detailed practical answers to questions most often asked by Christian wives. Her proven principles and scripturally based insights will encourage you to become the wife God wants you to be. This is a must-read for every Christian wife.
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Gospel-Shaped Marriage (Chad & Emily Van Dixhoorn)
$15.75Married Christians, and those preparing for marriage, know that they’re sinners—and that their sin threatens God’s great purposes for their union, including mutual support, companionship, and intimacy. But how often do believers recognize that they are also saints, equipped through God’s power to create a healthy, loving marriage?
In Gospel-Shaped Marriage, Chad and Emily Van Dixhoorn encourage couples with how Christ calls and enables them to love their spouse. They give a brief assessment of the biblical design for marriage while offering practical, proven advice for husbands and wives. Drawing from Scripture and the writings of Puritan minister William Gouge, their advice also prepares churches, friends, and others to support married couples in their lives.
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Marriage and the Mystery of the Gospel (Ray Ortlund)
$12.50Winner of the ECPA Book of the Year Award for Bible Study
“This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.” —Ephesians 5:32
Marriage reveals something of eternal significance. From the beginning, God designed marriage to convey a greater reality—the passionate, unfailing, redeeming love of God for sinners, the eternal romance between Christ and his bride. In this volume, Ray Ortlund traces marriage throughout Scripture—from the first marriage in the garden of Eden to the ultimate marriage in the book of Revelation—laying out a transcendent vision of marriage that dignifies our own imperfect unions as a display of the gospel. This book offers insight and hope to every married person today.
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Toxic Sons- and Daughters-in-Law: Untangling Difficult Relationships
$18.50Generally speaking, if there’s trouble with in-laws in a family, blame is quickly assigned to the father- or mother-in-law. But they are not always to blame. Many fathers- and mothers-in-law are wonderful folks, beloved parents, good communicators, and fun-loving people. When their son or daughter ends up married to a person with immature attitudes, an abusive personality, or excessive emotional baggage, these parents are now stuck with a son- or daughter-in-law who makes their lives a living hell. What was once a loving family now finds itself turned upside down by a toxic, self-centered individual.
Toxic Sons- and Daughters-in-Law helps expose the harmful attitudes and actions of a difficult son- or daughter-in-law and calls for biblical repentance and change. Untangling the destructive and dysfunctional nature of their abusive behavior will help parents manage the painful process of rejection, manipulation and anger. Practical counsel throughout the book will guide parents through the minefield of emotions to a God-glorifying conclusion and a lifestyle marked by application of biblical principles.
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The Exemplary Husband: A Biblical Perspective (Stuart Scott)
$13.50A book which shows how a Christian husband who starts with his relationship to God in the areas of reverence, worship, love, humility learns, from these, the foundation for knowing how to love and lead his wife. A powerful and helpful section on “fatal sins” to a husband’s life: anger, anxiety, fear, lust, and how to fight them.
God ordained marriage between a man and a woman for companionship, procreation, and so man would have a suitable helper. However, God says much more in the Bible about husbands loving their wives than He says about wives submitting to their husbands. He created marriage to be a picture of the relationship between Christ and the Church. Christ was willing to sacrifice His life for the Church, and God expects no less from husbands today.
The overall purpose of The Exemplary Husband is to assist husbands toward purposeful and lasting Christ-likeness for the glory of God. It was written to be a companion book for The Excellent Wife by Martha Peace. Couples who commit to the biblical principles presented in these books will find a oneness in marriage that will give God glory and bring His blessing.
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Is It Abuse? A Biblical Guide to Identifying Domestic Abuse and Helping Victims (Darby Strickland)
$17.50For years, biblical counselor Darby Strickland has served women in oppressive marriages. Now she writes to anyone who wants to help, regardless of their level of experience. You will learn how to identify the toxic entitlement that drives abusive behavior and to better understand its impact on victims—including children who are raised in a home with domestic abuse. Ultimately, you will become equipped to provide wise and Christ-centered counsel and to empower and advocate for victims while navigating the complex dynamics of oppression in a marriage.
- Reflection questions throughout chapters guide helpers as they process the material
- Detailed inventory questions allow helpers to screen for different kinds of abuse—physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and financial
- Case studies, exercises, and comprehensive worksheets, including a safety action plan, can be used to train helpers and assist victims
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Dating with Discernment (Sam A. Andreades)
$17.50Done with dating? Don’t know where to start? Wondering if your date is the one to marry? Pastor-scholar Sam Andreades brings single Christians in that vulnerable life moment the practical, theological help to make the dangerous decision confidently. Bringing the Bible’s wisdom on relationships to bear on the dating scene, he helps you lay a foundation for a love that lasts.
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