Tying the Knot: A Premarital Guide to a Strong & Lasting Marriage (Rob Green)

Tying the Knot

A Premarital Guide to a Strong & Lasting Marriage

Tying the Knot by Rob Green offers soon-to-be-married couples a practical vision of Christ-centered marriage that is realistic, hopeful, and actionable. With homework to help any counselor or couple put crucial lessons into practice, Tying the Knot is a highly relevant premarital counseling book.

This eight-session study guides couples through issues like conflict, expectations, communication, finances, and intimacy, showing how each can be successfully resolved with Christ at the center of the marriage.

Knowing the stresses and needs of a couple in their season of engagement, Green has helpfully designed the study to require a manageable (and healthy) 60 minutes of at-home work per session, with questions and exercises to build communication and intimacy at the end of each chapter.

Tying the Knot also includes an appendix for mentors. This makes it easy for a married couple, lay leader, or counselor to lead an engaged couple through the book.

Field-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.

Endorsements

“Tying the Knot shows the connection between having an amazing Savior and things like communication or budgets. Where it can be easy to fall into mechanistic teaching, Rob Green draws the line from Christ’s obedience and provision to our lives. I appreciated his focus on the community of Christ and its importance in marriage. I recommend this book to anyone who is doing premarital counseling.”
— Elyse Fitzpatrick, Author of Counsel from the Cross and Because He Loves Me

“Tying the Knot is a great book for those considering marriage. The topics are highly relevant and the homework will help any counselor or couple to put these crucial lessons into practice. I gladly recommend this book to anyone involved in premarital counseling.”
— Garrett Higbee, Executive Director of Biblical Soul Care, Harvest Bible Chapel and of the Biblical Counseling Coalition

About the Author

Rob Green, MDiv, PhD, is the pastor of Counseling and Seminary Ministries at Faith Church (Lafayette, Indiana). He is also a member of the council board of the Biblical Counseling Coalition as well as instructor and counselor at Faith Biblical Counseling. Rob also wrote A Father’s Guide to Raising Boys; Can We Talk?; Leaving Your Family Behind; Not Tonight Honey; and Reuniting After Military Deployment. 

Contents

1. Jesus Must Be the Center of Your Life
2. Love with Jesus as the Center
3. Problem Solving with Jesus as the Center
4. Rules and Expectations with Jesus as the Center
5. Communication with Jesus as the Center
6. Finances with Jesus as the Center
7. Community with Jesus as the Center
8. Intimacy with Jesus as the Center

• Appendix: Just for the Mentors