Marriage Ministry

The key to a good marriage is honest, complete, and humble confession of sin. This short, little audiobook, coming from a pastor with 40 years of experience, offers concrete practical suggestions about how to confess sin properly and how to avoid other snares married people tend to get snagged on, usually depending on whether they're the man or the woman.

Bitterness often grows out of a small offense. Perhaps a passing word, an accidental shove, or a pair of dirty socks left in the middle of the living room floor. Yet, when bitterness takes root in our hearts, its effects are anything but small.

You are about to discover how to turn your marriage to a happy, healthy, and fulfilling one for yourself and your spouse until death do you apart! How do you set your marriage up for success to increase your odds of making it to the "till death do us part"? What are the dos and don’ts that will support you throughout your journey? Well, the secret is to go back to the one who instituted marriage. You cannot do it by modeling what celebrities as well as friends do on magazines, social media, TV shows, etc.

An audiobook for lovers. Maybe the John 10:10 life was meant to encompass the pleasurable enjoyment and fulfillment of sex and sexual intimacy, when it is done God’s way. Myths, misunderstandings, misinformation, misdirection, and repeated practice become entrenched and sex no longer holds the pleasure it once promised. Recapture it. Get it for the first time. Your enthusiasm that is! That sex can be great--when practiced in the context that God designed it and when his instruction manual is followed and practiced.

There are many views today on morality, relativity and right and wrong. Dr. Tony Evans refuses to let the voice of God be drowned out amidst the clamor of the crowd. In the age where people can get a "no-fault" divorce (When is it ever nobody's fault?) believers who claim to live by God's word cannot dodge the issue: we cannot skip it, run from it, or ignore it. God has spoken clearly on this subject and while it is far from easy to address, it must be dealt with.

Many women enter or stay in relationships out of fear of being alone, shame, or insecurity which may cause them to lower their standards or expectations. What they find are men they normally would never have tolerated. What they find are BooBoo Dudes—men who portray narcissistic and abusive behavior, leading to confusion, shame, and eventual isolation. With wisdom rooted in the gospel, Ainsley tenderly brings the listener along her own journey toward confidence found only in Jesus. She embraced her identity and left BooBoo Dudes behind. Every woman can do the same.

Nobody is immune to disappointment. Unfortunately, at some point all of us will face that horrific moment when the bottom completely drops out of out of our life, leaving us broken, devastated, and desperately searching for God's grace. Pastor and theologian Robert Bugh has experienced unthinkable pain and disappointment firsthand, having lost both his wife and his best friend to cancer within a year and a half of each other.

An overview of Jesus’ teachings on life’s most pressing topics. Consulting Jesus on how to find eternal life is common. But what relevance do Jesus’ teachings have for contemporary life? When it comes to core worldview topics such as human life, marriage, and race, should it be Christ or culture that decides our convictions? Can we really find intelligent answers to contemporary quandaries in the ancient teachings of Jesus? In Countercultural Living, Carol Swain confronts cultural consensus with the countercultural and surprisingly compelling teachings of Jesus.

Want to clear out the noise and fuzz regarding Christian dating? Want to ensure finding the right one? Want to put God first before anything else? Christian dating has become so weird in the last couple of years, totally understandable. The world is getting worse, and finding the right partner seems like an impossible mission. There are so many misconceptions, rules, and lies that have made dating difficult for Christians when it shouldn't be hard at all.

Moving forward wasn’t a matter of trusting Joe. She had to learn to trust God. A single text message on her husband’s phone shattered her world. Faced with the truth of his betrayal, Hilarie is tormented by anger and debilitating fear. Can she forgive the unforgiveable? Will she ever trust her husband again? A true story, the award-winning We Survived Infidelity offers a rare perspective on one couple’s life altering journey as they fight to save their marriage. Hilarie, a nonbeliever, is surprised when she begins to hear God in the depths of her pain.

Harriet Sulcer didn't want anybody to know her husband had left home. For more than 20 years, she had been leading Bible studies on the Christian family, and now her own family was falling apart. "If I don't tell anybody," she thought, "maybe Lou will come home before they find out." Lou was gone for 10 years. During that time, their teenage son began his own prodigal journey. Harriet fell into depression and then financial bankruptcy, losing her home, then losing herself. As she lay in the hospital bed, Harriet's daughter told her, "They want to move you to the fifth floor."

Do you know someone who could use some encouragement? Perhaps that someone is you. When God Makes Lemonade comes from the lives of everyday folk - a collection of stories about people like you who have discovered unexpected sweetness in the midst of sour circumstances. Some of these real-life stories are laugh-out-loud funny, others are sobering, and more than a few will have you reaching for a tissue. But these true stories all have one thing in common: hope.

From the New York Times best-selling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham comes a revelatory journey across four continents and 4,000 years exploring how Adam and Eve introduced the idea of love into the world, and how they continue to shape our deepest feelings about relationships, family, and togetherness.

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.

En ¿Y si comenzamos de nuevo? el adorador Ricardo Rodriguez y su esposa Susana exponen como Diosrestauró su matrimonio en medio de circunstancias que lucian imposibles. Es una conmovedora historia de amor,infidelidad, coraje, divorcio, arrepentimiento, perdon pero sobre todo, fe. Sin duda, ¿Y si comenzamos de nuevo? ayudará a los matrimonios en crisis, pero tambien a los pastores, padres, hijos, amigos y familiares que les toca vivir junto a los cónyuges las situaciones dificiles.

Parenting teenagers is one of the biggest challenges parents face. New realities make becoming independent more difficult. Teens are traveling a different road and are moving at a different pace than those of previous generations. Today's cultural environment is more complicated and confusing than ever. But fear not! Family expert Jim Burns provides a handy guide for parenting teens.

SQuire Rushnell and Louise DuArt have practiced daily prayer together for sixteen years. Now they offer listeners step-by-step advice on why and how to pray with another person. The 40 Day Prayer Challenge answers the question they hear daily: how do you pray with someone else? The authors also explain how Partnered Prayer - which sounds like a new idea, but comes from ancient biblical promises - restores relationships and revitalizes families.

From Mel White, author of Stranger at the Gate: To be Gay and Christian in America: "In Two Pews from Crazy, the author takes us on a painful but always hopeful spiritual journey. Cyd has a great sense of humor. Her story is honest, frank, easy to follow, and never dull. And though her journey is sometimes painful, it is also a celebration of god's presence and power in the life of a lesbian Christian pastor who never stops believing that god loves her and is with her every step of the way. "

In this book, Harold Arnold offers a fresh perspective on Christian marriages, based on Second Peter 1. He explores the small percentage of couples with a deep level of marital intimacy, which comes from the Holy Spirit's presence in their lives. This gives them an "unfair advantage" - one that is rooted in eight faith-filled habits of marital stewardship.

God knows how to heal your relationship and wants to breathe life back into your marriage! Marriage therapist Dr. Barry Ham gives you the tools needed to navigate through the hard times in your relationship - sharing inspirational stories of couples who worked through the "marriage rut".