Marriage Growth

Dating in modern times can be confusing and seem more complicated than ever. How do you date and get close to someone while keeping God first? When meeting someone new, there are many questions and scenarios to be thought about. Should he pursue first? How often should you spend time together? When should you start attending church as a couple? Should you serve in the same area? When in the relationship should you hold hands or kiss? What do social media boundaries look like? Waiting While Dating interviews six Christian couples who had different backgrounds and situations.

In What If Love Is the Point? Carlos and Alexa PenaVega shared how putting God at the center of their marriage, parenting, and career choices dramatically changed their lives and brought real fulfillment. Now, in Love Is the Point, they've created a 100-day devotional, inviting you to join them on the adventure of experiencing God's love and boldly sharing that love with others.

Car pools and car crashes. Job changes and joint custody. Life can feel overwhelming and inconsequential at times. But there's more to your story than the chaos, confusion, and clutter of daily life. Above us and around us God directs a grand saga, written by his hand, orchestrated by his will, unveiled according to his calendar. When you're part of this story, your life has purpose, you recognize your value, and you discover your unique path.

If you've ever felt this way about your marriage, you're not alone. Marriage is hard. Every couple comes to a place of disappointment and distance at one point or another. The good news is that your relationship can get better. If you're both willing to work at it, it can work out. Teacher, author, and creator of "Living the Sweet Wife" Chelsea Damon has coached thousands of couples through the hardest seasons of their marriage. In I Thought This Would Make Me Happy, she'll help you take your first steps to a renewed and life-giving marriage.

"Eternal Bond: A Widow's 40-Day Journey of Faith and Love" by William Gomes is a deeply insightful and supportive guide, specifically crafted for widows grappling with the intricacies of loss. Over a transformative 40-day period, this journey encompasses daily scripture readings, poignant reflections, and tailored personal exercises.

Spiritual Growth is a call to go back to the basics of the Christian faith. It is designed for every believer and non-believer who wants to receive Christ, grow spiritually, mature, and be rooted and grounded in the word of God. It shows how your conforming to the image of Christ can positively impact your life and marriage relationship. The book explains the principles and what you need to do to grow spiritually and live a victorious Christian life.

The enneagram, a funky nine-pointed geometric structure, has been all the talk in personality testing and career coaching over the past decade. The enneagram is an ancient personality system that can unearth some of your hidden desires and fears. One of the things that the enneagram can tell you about yourself is how desperate you are to find something that seems almost unattainable. This book will explore some of the things that each enneagram type searches for in life, but finds hard to actually maintain or grasp.

Our Godly Sexual Beings: The Fellowship of the Mystery explores substantial biblical and other ancient scholarly-backed references to unveil one of humanity great mysteries -God's Love affair with humanity. We were designed by God to crave, yearn, and desire love; however, in truth, these needs can only genuinely and forever be filled by God’s authentic spiritual love, granted to us by the One Who created heavenly affection.

The second half of your marriage can be a time of incredible fulfillment, no matter what challenges you've faced in the past. It can be a time to learn not only about each other, but also about God's long-term plans for your marriage. Drawing on their survey of hundreds of "second-half" couples - as well as insights from their own marriage - coauthors David and Claudia Arp show you how couples can work together to share their dreams, make new commitments, and build a more satisfying union.

It started off as the most difficult year of my life. The man I thought I was going to marry dumped me out of nowhere and completely ghosted me. I spent months mourning the loss of my best friend and the future we envisioned together. I begged God to heal my heart and make the pain go away for months.

Throughout life, we will experience love through our familial and romantic relationships, friendships, and, most importantly, our relationship with God. Only by having a relationship with Christ can we effectively and rightly love others.

What does the Bible say about marriage? This brand-new audiobook provides a concise, easy-to-listen-to resource on the biblical teachings of marriage. There are 12 sections, each addressing a common question relating to the overall topic.

Personal stories, categorized scriptures, and practical advice make the What the Bible Says About... series perfect for personal and ministry use. Other titles in the series address important contemporary topics, such as money, divorce, and grieving.

Our lives consist of moments. Stitched together like the seams on a coat, these moments cloak us in awareness and possibility. But what if we miss our moments? What if we live in a bland state of wandering? Seeking growth, seeking passion - but missing the moments in which God tries to pull the thread through the cloth in the way we've dreamed of? Watershed moments are the turning points in our lives brought on by circumstances which stop us in our tracks

This is the true story of Ora-Jay and Irene Eash, Amish farmers from northwest Montana whose lives changed in an instant when a semi-truck struck the family buggy, killing their two young daughters. After the accident, the couple turned to their Amish community for comfort, but they remained haunted by the thought that they might not see their girls again in heaven. Would their deeds be good enough?

God’s vision for your marriage is far more than mediocre, and money and sex are two of the most common tension points. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In Your Money, Your Marriage, Brian and Cherie Lowe offer straight talk and power principles for getting your finances back on track so you can get back to your romance. Take it from them - the Lowes worked off $127,000 in debt in just four years, and emerged not only financially free but better together.

Les and Leslie Parrott are passionate about how marriage mentoring can transform couples, families, and entire congregations. In The Complete Guide to Marriage Mentoring, Les and Leslie offer practical guidelines that help mentors and couples work together as a team, agree on outcomes, and develop skills for the marriage mentoring process. The Complete Guide to Marriage Mentoring is an exhaustive resource for marriage mentorship in any church setting, and this guide also includes insights from interviews with church leaders and marriage mentors from around the country.

For the longest time, Elizabeth Bristol ran from God — until, out of desperation, she caved. She found out she not only needed God but wanted him. In what came as a total shock, she found peace, purpose, and incredible healing. She can’t not share because in this crazy world, who couldn’t use a little more of all that? There are stories in this book she wasn’t going to tell. Why did she? She had to share her indiscretions in order for people to see the power of redemption.

Hope Amid Hopelessness is a true story about the loving, merciful, caring, all powerful, ever present, gracious, just, sovereign, personal Abba Father (God) working in the lives of Jim and Laura Hansen. As Jim cared for Laura while she struggled with major clinical depression that later led to borderline personality disorder, he realized quickly that he could not fight this battle alone. Turning to his Abba Father, he sought understanding, knowledge, and wisdom from the only source that could truly help.

No one in history has seen a world like this. Never before has information been so accessible. Never before have people lived as long, enjoyed fuller bank accounts, or been more connected. Yet, we live in a world where relationships remain unfulfilled. People aren't happy. Marriages are falling apart. And the so-called "strongest relationships" we have are built on a simple swipe to the right.

From boyhood, we search for heroes, starting with our fathers. But somewhere along the way, all our heroes disappoint us. And our attempts to be a hero fair no better, leaving us confused and unsure. Yet the heroic longing never leaves us. We want to be that heroic man, but we do not know how. Jesus does. He is the great hero of all time. And he calls men to follow him. As we follow, we will quickly realize that the path is surprising.