The Sacred Search
What if It’s Not about Who You Marry, but Why?
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In the revised edition of his hit book The Sacred Search, author Gary Thomas helps single people of all ages make wise marital choices, in large part by rethinking what basis those choices should be made on.
Listeners are encouraged to think beyond finding their “soul mate", an idea that has its roots in the philosophy of Plato, and instead adopt a more biblical search for a “sole mate” - someone who will walk with them on their spiritual journey.
Thomas asks, What if we focused on why to get married more than on who to marry? What if being “in love” isn’t a good enough reason to get married? And most of all, what if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy?
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- Finding Freedom from Toxic People
- By: Gary Thomas
- Narrated by: Gary Thomas
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Your life's calling is too important to let toxic people take it away. In When to Walk Away, Gary Thomas - best-selling author of Sacred Marriage - draws from biblical and modern stories to equip you with practical insights to handle toxic people in your life and live true to your God-given purpose.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don’t be trapped by the idea that a good Christian just has to endure toxic abuse. You can walk away.
- By S White on 02-08-20
By: Gary Thomas
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Loving Him Well
- Practical Advice on Influencing Your Husband
- By: Gary Thomas, Lisa Thomas - foreword
- Narrated by: Gary Thomas
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Women: you're not alone in your marriage. You never have been, and you never will be. While it may not always feel like it, God desires for you to have a relationally healthy, emotionally engaged, and spiritually mature husband with whom you can share your days. In Loving Him Well, Gary Thomas builds on concepts from his best-selling book Sacred Marriage to reveal the inner workings of a man's heart and mind. He delves into Scriptures that help women gain biblical insight to influence their husbands.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for any wife!
- By James on 04-03-18
By: Gary Thomas, and others
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Preparing Your Heart for Marriage
- Devotions for Engaged Couples
- By: Gary Thomas
- Narrated by: Michael Axtell
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The wedding is planned, but are you spiritually prepared for your wedding day? Trusted relationship author Gary Thomas coaches engaged couples on how to grow closer to the Lord in the days leading up to the wedding as a means of preparing them for all the days after the wedding. Providing encouraging entries that will help you deal with common issues such as what real intimacy means, how to celebrate your differences, and remembering to laugh together, Preparing Your Heart for Marriage will help you grow in your relationship as a couple as you become closer to God.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a blessing in disguise
- By Althea on 03-26-19
By: Gary Thomas
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Sacred Pathways
- Nine Ways to Connect with God
- By: Gary Thomas
- Narrated by: Gary Thomas
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In this updated and expanded edition of Sacred Pathways, Gary Thomas details nine spiritual temperaments and - like the Enneagram and other tools do with personality - encourages you to investigate the ways you most naturally express yourself in your relationship with God. He encourages you to dig into the traits, strengths, and pitfalls in your devotional approach so you can eliminate the barriers that keep you locked into rigid methods of worship and praise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great writing
- By brian kemp on 07-11-24
By: Gary Thomas
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The Meaning of Marriage
- Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
- By: Timothy Keller
- Narrated by: Lloyd James, Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Few subjects are as compelling-or as endlessly variable-as love and marriage. The Bible is filled with references to husbands and wives, from the story of Adam and Eve to advice in the New Testament, each open to interpretation. In The Meaning of Marriage, Timothy Keller, pastor of New York's Redeemer Presbyterian Church and bestselling author of The Reason for God, uses the scriptures as his guide to show readers what God's call to marriage is, and why this is such a powerful call.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Now my most recommended book on marriage
- By Adam Shields on 01-26-12
By: Timothy Keller
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- Find Love That Lasts When Dating Has Changed
- By: Jonathan Pokluda, Kevin McConaghy - contributor
- Narrated by: Jonathan "JP" Pokluda
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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Everyone wants to be loved - to find someone who will stick with them through all of life's ups and downs, someone who is in it for the long haul. But in a world where dating is increasingly based on split-second decisions and geared toward casual relationships rather than marriage, it's easy for single people to feel discouraged, used, or unworthy of true love. Jonathan "JP" Pokluda wants to dispel the myths, misconceptions, and fairy tales you've believed about dating and replace them with the truth from the One who invented marriage and created you to crave a relationship.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Want to know how to really date this is the book
- By MDM on 05-03-21
By: Jonathan Pokluda, and others
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The Love Everybody Wants
- What You're Looking for Is Already Yours
- By: Madison Prewett Troutt, Audrey Roloff - foreword
- Narrated by: Madison Prewett Troutt
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Is there something wrong with me? How many more wrong ones until the right one? Am I hard to love? Madison Prewett Troutt knows what it’s like to ask these questions in the middle of the night—to doubt and worry about never finding the love so desperately hoped for. But Madi has discovered a deeper truth now, that the love we’re searching for is already ours. In The Love Everybody Wants, Madi sets aside the shallow messages our culture shouts every day to help us hear God’s beautiful whisper: I have loved you with an everlasting love. And nothing will ever change that.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Christian Insight About Love
- By Amanda Einink on 02-21-24
By: Madison Prewett Troutt, and others
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The Glorious Pursuit
- Becoming Who God Created Us to Be
- By: Gary Thomas
- Narrated by: Gary Thomas
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In this classic book of spiritual formation, we encounter true discipleship - the life we were made for - by observing Jesus in his daily life: his interactions with the people around him, his reactions and responses to spiritual warfare, his thoughtful engagement of complicated questions about faith and profound temptations. Jesus embodied the virtues that God has invited us all to cultivate. This book becomes instrumental to our spiritual growth.
By: Gary Thomas
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I Want This to Work
- An Inclusive Guide to Navigating the Most Difficult Relationship Issues We Face in the Modern Age
- By: Elizabeth Earnshaw LMFT CGT
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Earnshaw LMFT CGT
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Elizabeth Earnshaw is here to help. The renowned Gottman therapist, founder of A Better Life Therapy, and influential Instagram therapist behind @lizlistens has helped to transform countless relationships. With I Want This to Work, she presents for today’s generation the most effective and proven steps for relationship success.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I want this to work too. Excellent information, excruciating execution
- By Sunny Bettley on 03-17-23
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Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't
- By: Dr. Henry Cloud, Dr. John Townsend
- Narrated by: Dick Fredricks
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Safe People will help you discover why good people can get tangled in bad relationships, how to avoid repeating your own mistakes, and how to pick safe, healthy people for the friends you make and the company you keep. In Safe People, Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend teach you that being with an unsafe person can be damaging to your confidence, your trust in others, and even your health. You'll learn that you have the power to surround yourself with accepting, honest, and safe people who draw you closer to being the person God intended you to be.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent analysis of Safe and Unsafe People
- By Weedarkone on 06-14-12
By: Dr. Henry Cloud, and others
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Making Your Marriage a Fortress
- Strengthening Your Marriage to Withstand Life's Storms
- By: Gary Thomas
- Narrated by: Gary Thomas
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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How to keep your marriage together when the trials of life threaten to rip it apart. It's not a question of if your marriage will face trials. It's a question of when. Illness or injury. Job loss or financial burdens. Addiction. Anxiety. Infidelity. Loss of faith. Whether you've been married for five months or fifty years, it's within you and your spouse's power to ensure your marriage is prepared for those seasons and situations—a place of refuge and safety for both of you.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Practical
- By Jon M. on 06-03-23
By: Gary Thomas
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Single, Dating, Engaged, Married
- Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age
- By: Ben Stuart
- Narrated by: Ben Stuart
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In a society where everyone is supposedly more connected, why do more people than ever feel so lonely? Even as marriage rates decline, studies show that most single adults still hope to get married. But how can we navigate life and love in this disconnected culture? Has social media eroded the institutions that brought us together—and the deeper emotional intimacy they provided? Pastor and author Ben Stuart guides you in navigating the four stages of a relational life and embracing the intentions and truths God has established for each one.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Needed clarity, found it ♥️
- By Catalina on 04-21-25
By: Ben Stuart
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The 4 Seasons of Marriage
- Secrets to a Lasting Marriage
- By: Gary Chapman
- Narrated by: Gary Chapman
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 119
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Spring, summer, winter, fall. Marriages are perpetually in a state of transition, continually moving from one season to another—perhaps not annually, as in nature, but just as certainly and consistently. The seasons of marriage come and go. Each one holds the potential for emotional health and happiness, and each one has its challenges. The purpose of this book is to describe these recurring seasons of marriage, help you and your spouse identify which season your marriage is in, and show you how to enhance your marriage in all four seasons.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very God and Christian centric!
- By Benjamin Boyd on 08-14-24
By: Gary Chapman
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Boundaries in Dating
- How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Relationships
- By: Henry Cloud, John Townsend
- Narrated by: Jonathan Petersen
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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How do you set smart limits on your physical relationship? How much do you get involved financially? And how do you know if you've found your future spouse? Dating can be fun, but it's not always easy to navigate the questions and intricacies along the way. In Boundaries in Dating, Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend, counselors and authors of the New York Times bestseller Boundaries, share their practical advice for adding healthy boundaries to your dating life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Packed with good Godly advice
- By F. Bramming on 01-27-15
By: Henry Cloud, and others
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Love and Respect
- The Love She Most Desires; the Respect He Desperately Needs
- By: Dr. Emerson Eggerichs
- Narrated by: Dr. Emerson Eggerichs
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Cracking the communication code between husband and wife involves understanding one thing: that unconditional respect is as powerful for him as unconditional love is for her. It's the secret to marriage that every couple seeks, and yet few couples ever find. While both men and women deserve both love and respect, in the midst of conflict the driving need for a woman is love and the driving need for a man is respect. When either of these needs isn’t met, things get crazy. Based on over three decades of counseling, as well as scientific and biblical research, Love and Respect is for anyone.
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Invaluable Tools - Heaavy on Religion
- By PLURPAMMY on 01-23-17
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- 01-10-22
Every Christian Single Needs This Book
I wish that I had received such rich, sound & biblically based advice years ago. This is a must read for any single who desires to enter into a lifelong, fulfilling and loving marriage with the right person for them. I will be listening to this book at least one more time to make sure that I didn't miss anything.
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- Rebecca Carter
- 10-06-22
Incredible!!
What a wonderful book that I’ll recommend to so many and I’ll listen to again beautifully written and God honoring .
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- Kat Pattinson
- 04-07-25
Priceless!
The knowledge I gained from this book was phenomenal!!! The very fact that it pointed back to scripture and God throughout was priceless!
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- Noreen
- 10-10-22
Straight to the point!
In the first part of this book, I was hesitant to "read" this in audible; it is so good I want to jot down and write on the sides of the pages or underline the necessary parts. Thank God for bookmarks and clips!
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- Winston
- 04-21-24
The Guidance We Need
I feel blessed to have read this prior to marriage. Please spread this message to any and all young people in your life!
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- Chris Rice
- 04-17-25
Fantastic Preparation For Marriage
This book is written in a way that it should be read at least twice. Gary did an amazing job breaking down so many different facets of not only looking for a good spouse, but also trying to become a good potential husband or wife to begin with. A number of the topics hit pretty hard yet it’s presented in a way that provides conviction and not condemnation. The entire book is packed with fantastic wisdom and insight. Definitely a recommendation for any man or woman seeking to honor God in their pursuit of marriage!
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- Kamila
- 12-09-22
Before you start dating
This book should be used in church groups for high school & college kids getting ready to start dating in the first place. So much food for thought.
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- Leandra v
- 06-09-22
Highly recommend
I highly recommend this book to anyone that’s single and looking, or even those who are dating or maybe engaged. I will definitely listen to it again.
Chapter 10 is incomplete though.. so four stars overall.
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- Meredith Sivick
- 08-28-22
A must read for those who are married!
Gary has helped me understand why my marriage became broken.
It has also helped me help my kids understand how to end up with a good healthy marriage.
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- Victor Pimentel
- 11-22-22
Great listen
The Book does a great Job of causing you to question and really consider marriage.
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