Married and desire to enrich your marriage? |
Married and having problems you wish you could resolve? |
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(Having this book will enable you to use the premarital counseling materials included on this site in: Preparing & Planing Your Marriage) |
If so, Deepening Love--For Marital Happiness is the book for you! |
| What is Deepening Love--For Marital Happiness about? | See its Preface and Contents below |
| Preface |
| The information and encouragement in this book need to be understood in this light: building a mutually pleasing marriage as God planned it is an important part of living your life under Christ. The Holy Spirit begins the discussion of the roles of Christian husbands and wives in Ephesians 5 by saying they are to arrange themselves under or submit to one another "out of reverence for Christ" (Ephesians 5:21). As a fruit of your faith in Christ, then, you will desire to make your marriage all that he says it should be to glorify him. |
| Since Christian couples want to glorify Christ through their married life, they are looking for biblically sound information to guide them in improving their marriage. They realize that no one knows more about marriage, about husbands and wives, and about what will bring about happiness in marriage than the Lord who has made them and has instituted marriage. |
| You may already be married, or you may be planning to be married soon. In either case, you are probably looking for scriptural information on marriage, or you would not be reading this book. |
| The purpose of this book is threefold: to share with you what our Lord has said about the marital relationship; to bring to you the Lord's guidance for working through the chief marital problems; and to unfold for you what our Lord has said about love in marriage. |
| Let me share this encouragement with you as well: if you and your spouse have had, or are beginning to have, marital problems, in addition to reading this book seek help from a Christian marriage counselor. The sooner you get help, the easier it will be for you to resolve your problems. Too many couples do not seek help until their feelings of love have long evaporated in the heat of their marital confrontations and failures. Clearing up their problems and reawakening feelings of love are then difficult for them. |
| It is my prayer that this book may serve in the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Bridegroom of the church, to assist Christian couples in building a mutually pleasing marriage that honors him. May this book glorify him who alone can enable us to be God-fearing husbands and wives. |
| Contents |
| Part 1 DEEPENING LOVE FOR MARITAL HAPPINESS BY ENRICHING YOUR MARITAL RELATIONSHIP |
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Learning God's Design of the Marital Relationship 2. Identifying Your Type of Marital Relationship 3. Improving Your Type of Marital Relationship |
| Part 2 DEEPENING LOVE FOR MARITAL HAPPINESS BY WORKING THROUGH THE CHIEF MARITAL PROBLEMS |
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Recognizing and Addressing the Chief Marital Problems
5. Opening Up the Airwaves for Communication 6. Dealing with Disagreements and Curbing Conflicts 7. Resolving Anger and Resentment |
| Part 3 DEEPENING LOVE FOR MARITAL HAPPINESS BY PROMOTING LOVE IN YOUR MARRIAGE |
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Identifying the Types of Love in Your Marriage 9. Arousing, Restoring, Maintaining, and Promoting Unity and Love 10. Growing in Knowledge about Sexual Love in Marriage 11. Keeping Your Marriage Like a Sweet Honeymoon |