I urge everyone who wants to understand just how wonderful marriage CAN BE to read and re-read this book. But I also urge psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, pastors, missionaries and lay counselors to study it as well. I urge them because it not only covers a host of important aspects of marriage that include practical tips but also deep spiritual and emotional concepts—even unconscious personality dynamics and how we all, to one extent or another, deceive ourselves in many ways that are detrimental to our marriages. Paul Meier, MD Founder of the national chain of Meier Clinics

You’ll never by happy in your marriage if you don’t deal with issues head on, such as communication, conflict resolution, and intimacy. J.A. Alexandre, a pastor and relationship expert, helps you build and maintain a loving relationship with your spouse in this guidebook to marital bliss. You’ll learn how to

rekindle the flame of love that brought you together; avoid choices and situations that could endanger your marriage; get the maximum amount of enjoyment in being with your partner; and recognize needs that aren’t being met (including your own).

By revealing results from surveys he’s conducted during marital retreats, the author shares specific behaviors that can cause trouble in a marriage. More importantly, he provides ideas and guidance on how to overcome problems.

Regardless if you are contemplating marriage, already married, or seeking to help couples, you’ll understand that marital happiness is a choice by seeking to understand the Word of God while confronting the challenges of everyday life.

J.A. Alexandre is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary and George Fox University. He has counseled hundreds of couples and has conducted annual marital retreats for twenty-three years in Massachusetts, Florida, New Jersey, Connecticut, and New York. He is the founder and senior pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Congregation in Boston, Massachusetts, where he also practices psychology.

Today, divorce is such a common occurrence that it’s considered a normal part of life. Our culture has made it acceptable—even easy—for people to go their separate ways. Is it any wonder, then, that marriages are suffering in a nation that is dominated by selfishness?
It’s time to break the trend and reinforce your marriage with I Love You This Much. This inspiring guide presents biblical principles in a practical way for couples who want to know the joy of a satisfying marriage. Pastor Brian Edwards challenges husbands and wives to create a culture of giving rather than a culture of taking in order to experience a deeper, more intimate relationship that lasts through every season of life.
Relying on his extensive marriage counseling experience, Brian explains that a marriage should follow the example of God’s love, which is true love. This love is sacrificial, securing, visible, and serious. Brian discusses how to take these characteristics of love and apply them to your marriage. In addition, he stresses the importance of communication, sex, friendship, and always putting God first.
Concise and informative, I Love You This Much can show you how to strengthen your marriage by following the best marriage counselor of all: God.

Today, divorce is such a common occurrence that it’s considered a normal part of life. Our culture has made it acceptable—even easy—for people to go their separate ways. Is it any wonder, then, that marriages are suffering in a nation that is dominated by selfishness?
It’s time to break the trend and reinforce your marriage with I Love You This Much. This inspiring guide presents biblical principles in a practical way for couples who want to know the joy of a satisfying marriage. Pastor Brian Edwards challenges husbands and wives to create a culture of giving rather than a culture of taking in order to experience a deeper, more intimate relationship that lasts through every season of life.
Relying on his extensive marriage counseling experience, Brian explains that a marriage should follow the example of God’s love, which is true love. This love is sacrificial, securing, visible, and serious. Brian discusses how to take these characteristics of love and apply them to your marriage. In addition, he stresses the importance of communication, sex, friendship, and always putting God first.
Concise and informative, I Love You This Much can show you how to strengthen your marriage by following the best marriage counselor of all: God.

Today, divorce is such a common occurrence that it’s considered a normal part of life. Our culture has made it acceptable—even easy—for people to go their separate ways. Is it any wonder, then, that marriages are suffering in a nation that is dominated by selfishness?
It’s time to break the trend and reinforce your marriage with I Love You This Much. This inspiring guide presents biblical principles in a practical way for couples who want to know the joy of a satisfying marriage. Pastor Brian Edwards challenges husbands and wives to create a culture of giving rather than a culture of taking in order to experience a deeper, more intimate relationship that lasts through every season of life.
Relying on his extensive marriage counseling experience, Brian explains that a marriage should follow the example of God’s love, which is true love. This love is sacrificial, securing, visible, and serious. Brian discusses how to take these characteristics of love and apply them to your marriage. In addition, he stresses the importance of communication, sex, friendship, and always putting God first.
Concise and informative, I Love You This Much can show you how to strengthen your marriage by following the best marriage counselor of all: God.

Playful Journey for Couples

Presenting a light-hearted approach to enjoying marriage, Playful Journey for Couples leads you and your spouse through a year of growing, loving, and laughing together that will last a lifetime.

Through fifty-two Bible verses, Playful Journey for Couples suggests a new combination of studies, activities, and romantic dates to live out the love of Christ with each other. It offers practical marriage advice and tools to open your hearts so you can get to know each other in a brand new way, enhance communication and trust, and renew intimacy and romance. It communicates the importance of putting Christ first in your marriage so you may enjoy a deeper and richer love.

Living the marriage of your dreams doesn’t have to be complicated, in fact it can be a lot of fun. In Playful Journey for Couples, author Susan Markin-Ryerson offers a new way to live out your own love story while enjoying your marriage journey.

Playful Journey for Couples

Presenting a light-hearted approach to enjoying marriage, Playful Journey for Couples leads you and your spouse through a year of growing, loving, and laughing together that will last a lifetime.

Through fifty-two Bible verses, Playful Journey for Couples suggests a new combination of studies, activities, and romantic dates to live out the love of Christ with each other. It offers practical marriage advice and tools to open your hearts so you can get to know each other in a brand new way, enhance communication and trust, and renew intimacy and romance. It communicates the importance of putting Christ first in your marriage so you may enjoy a deeper and richer love.

Living the marriage of your dreams doesn’t have to be complicated, in fact it can be a lot of fun. In Playful Journey for Couples, author Susan Markin-Ryerson offers a new way to live out your own love story while enjoying your marriage journey.

Playful Journey for Couples

Presenting a light-hearted approach to enjoying marriage, Playful Journey for Couples leads you and your spouse through a year of growing, loving, and laughing together that will last a lifetime.

Through fifty-two Bible verses, Playful Journey for Couples suggests a new combination of studies, activities, and romantic dates to live out the love of Christ with each other. It offers practical marriage advice and tools to open your hearts so you can get to know each other in a brand new way, enhance communication and trust, and renew intimacy and romance. It communicates the importance of putting Christ first in your marriage so you may enjoy a deeper and richer love.

Living the marriage of your dreams doesn’t have to be complicated, in fact it can be a lot of fun. In Playful Journey for Couples, author Susan Markin-Ryerson offers a new way to live out your own love story while enjoying your marriage journey.

The words of love are powerful in our hearts. We can build a meaningful life if we only allow ourselves to be true to our feelings. In 1 John 4:8, God said, “He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.” God’s words remind us that we can find happiness when we don’t feel the love, and we can find comfort when we are feeling alone and separate from the person we married. 

What Is True Love in a Marriage? explores the love we hope to find in a marriage and what we believe love should encompass in a relationship. It was inspired by the true meaning of love as determined by God, the creator of the love that so many of us so often take for granted. 

Inspired by God’s love and words, this examination of relationship dynamics is for the women who have shared thoughts of love, and for those who have not yet experienced the real feelings true love brings. It is for the men who want to share their love, and their understanding of love, in a marriage. It aims to guide you toward discovering the true spirit that touches so many of our lives and help you discover or rediscover unconditional love.

Marriage is hard. A great marriage is even harder. It takes sweat, tears, and sometimes grinding of teeth to make the marriage you want. Call it gravity if you’d like, but without some very specific, intentional maintenance, most marriages begin to self-destruct. Well over half of couples in America divorce after allowing this downward trend to spiral out of control.

According to Proverbs 24:26, ”an honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.” So consider yourself “kissed” because Kiss and Tell exposes the truth about marriage. In a lovingly direct, honest, humorous and simple manner, Dr. Gibbs reveals the difficulties in everyday relationships, as well as practical strategies to marriage success and satisfaction.

Whether you are happily married, or experiencing some significant struggles in your relationship, Kiss and Tell will inspire and equip you! So roll up those sleeves and put these pages to hard work. You’ll be glad you did!

Maintaining a marriage has always been hard, but it’s easier than ever to leave an unhappy marriage—and easier still to avoid marrying altogether. Divorce and cohabitation are increasingly acceptable in our society, and we hear over and over that we “deserve” to be happy. So is marriage still important? Why should we marry instead of living together? And why should we stay married when we’re no longer happy? After decades of counseling couples and making some important changes in his own marriage, Tom Clark tackles these fundamental questions and more.

We have come to value our personal happiness over everything else, Clark says; indeed we feel entitled to it. We pursue marriage because we think it will make us happy. As the relationship changes and conflicts arise, we seek divorce because we think that will make us happy. We marry because we are “in love” but aren’t sure what to do when those feelings change.

But life isn’t about happiness; rather, it’s about God. If we understood God’s design and purpose for marriage, perhaps we would be more motivated to get married and stay married, even when it’s hard. Clark also addresses the different roles of husbands and wives outlined in the Bible—often misunderstood—and how God intends them to reflect the relationship between Christ and the church.

Here are powerful tools to help strengthen your commitment and a sound outline for how understanding God’s plan for marriage can help make your own union more fulfilling than ever before.

Sometimes it seems as though adultery is everywhere, with tales of ruined marriages all too common. We almost take it for granted that an extramarital affair spells the end of a relationship. But does it have to?

Married twelve years with four young children, Laura and Glen Samuelson were leaders in their church and helped couples strengthen and repair their marriages through a biblically based program. Just weeks before they planned to celebrate Christmas in their new house, Glen confessed to a three-year relationship with another woman. Not surprisingly, the news devastated Laura and struck a terrible blow to their marriage. Yet literally from the first moments of Glen’s confession, Laura invoked the Holy Spirit and felt God’s hand at work, pointing them in the direction of restoration. Today, she says, the two of them are more deeply in love than ever.

Laura and Glen prove that a marriage can survive and even grow stronger after infidelity. Step by step, Laura reveals how they were able to heal and renew their relationship through prayer, hard work, forgiveness, and soul searching. Her individual journey is one of learning how to forgive, realizing and admitting her own faults, and resisting the temptation to twist the situation to her advantage. She addresses physical intimacy, what—if anything—to tell the children, deciding how much detail to ask for, how to manage when the offending spouse is unrepentant, and more. Throughout, God’s guidance is present, making this an inspiring story of faith and hope.

It is no secret that many hearts have been shattered by infidelity. With affairs and sexual addiction at all time highs in our society, it is no wonder that those affected by the real-life trauma and agonizing pain of unfaithfulness search for ways to cope, forgive, and eventually heal. In her comprehensive, Christian self-help guidebook What Happens After Shattered?, licensed mental health counselor Dr. Deanna Sims shares gentle guidance that includes case examples, strategies for coping and healing, and over one hundred biblical passages. With the hope of encouraging and supporting those on a journey to healing after infidelity, Dr. Sims addresses many key issues including how to identify the different types of affairs; honor anger as a natural phase of grieving; navigate through the discovery and disclosure phases of an affair; understand narcissism and its correlation to infidelity; answer questions to determine whether to reconcile or terminate the marriage; implement an affair-prevention plan to safeguard your marriage; work toward a spirit of forgiveness.

 What Happens After Shattered? reinforces the important message that hope, personal growth, and healing are possible even after the life-altering experience of an affair.

"A unique and valuable resource for those in the Christian community."
--Peggy Vaughan, author of To Have and To Hold and host of DearPeggy.com

"A well-thought-out Christian counseling book on the topic of infidelity."
--Rona Subotnik, LMFT, coauthor of Surviving Infidelity, 3rd Edition and author of Why Did He Cheat on Me?

A Beginner’s Guide to Proper Husbanding: A Handbook for Men Married Fewer than Seventy Years invites men of all ages, whether they are married or considering marriage, to look to God’s guidance in the Scriptures for the wisdom they need to embrace their responsibilities to their wives and children to serve as priests, protectors, providers, partners, and parents. Author Randy Turnbull III presents men with advice, both practical and spiritual, to help them fulfill their callings from God to give themselves to their wives and children out of sacrificial love, just as Jesus Christ has given Himself to the Church.

Each of the five roles receive the attention of a chapter in this guide, beginning with a vivid description of the role, describing the biblical foundations for that role, drawing upon wisdom from contemporary sources, and outlining a series of practical steps men can take to grow more responsible and loving in living out each role. A final chapter digs more deeply into the parallels between Christ’s care for the Church and a man’s care for his family.

Whether you are a veteran of married life or find yourself drawn to the possibilities of marriage and family, A Beginner’s Guide to Proper Husbanding stands ready to help you hear God’s voice speaking of His desires for your faithfulness and His hopes for your loving care and sacrifice on behalf of your wife and children.

A Beginner’s Guide to Proper Husbanding: A Handbook for Men Married Fewer than Seventy Years invites men of all ages, whether they are married or considering marriage, to look to God’s guidance in the Scriptures for the wisdom they need to embrace their responsibilities to their wives and children to serve as priests, protectors, providers, partners, and parents. Author Randy Turnbull III presents men with advice, both practical and spiritual, to help them fulfill their callings from God to give themselves to their wives and children out of sacrificial love, just as Jesus Christ has given Himself to the Church.

Each of the five roles receive the attention of a chapter in this guide, beginning with a vivid description of the role, describing the biblical foundations for that role, drawing upon wisdom from contemporary sources, and outlining a series of practical steps men can take to grow more responsible and loving in living out each role. A final chapter digs more deeply into the parallels between Christ’s care for the Church and a man’s care for his family.

Whether you are a veteran of married life or find yourself drawn to the possibilities of marriage and family, A Beginner’s Guide to Proper Husbanding stands ready to help you hear God’s voice speaking of His desires for your faithfulness and His hopes for your loving care and sacrifice on behalf of your wife and children.

It is no secret that many hearts have been shattered by infidelity. With affairs and sexual addiction at all time highs in our society, it is no wonder that those affected by the real-life trauma and agonizing pain of unfaithfulness search for ways to cope, forgive, and eventually heal. In her comprehensive, Christian self-help guidebook What Happens After Shattered?, licensed mental health counselor Dr. Deanna Sims shares gentle guidance that includes case examples, strategies for coping and healing, and over one hundred biblical passages. With the hope of encouraging and supporting those on a journey to healing after infidelity, Dr. Sims addresses many key issues including how to identify the different types of affairs; honor anger as a natural phase of grieving; navigate through the discovery and disclosure phases of an affair; understand narcissism and its correlation to infidelity; answer questions to determine whether to reconcile or terminate the marriage; implement an affair-prevention plan to safeguard your marriage; work toward a spirit of forgiveness.

 What Happens After Shattered? reinforces the important message that hope, personal growth, and healing are possible even after the life-altering experience of an affair.

"A unique and valuable resource for those in the Christian community."
--Peggy Vaughan, author of To Have and To Hold and host of DearPeggy.com

"A well-thought-out Christian counseling book on the topic of infidelity."
--Rona Subotnik, LMFT, coauthor of Surviving Infidelity, 3rd Edition and author of Why Did He Cheat on Me?