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Certified biblical counselor and long-term missionary Dr. Anne Dryburgh describes in biblical terms what secularists refer to as "emotional abuse". From her long experience she explains how an abusive parent relates to a child, and the impact on the child. Her book will assist you in discovering how you can live out the profound truth that in Christ you have everything, including everything for dealing with your childhood experiences.

Marriage was first, God's idea, and your marriage can be even more beautiful than your wedding ceremony if you apply the principles of marriage that God's word teaches. I have experienced firsthand the pain of watching my love slowly "transform" into an enemy, and it is not a good place to be at. I know every doubt and despair you feel because I have been there too. Everything changed when I got hold of the biblical truths in this audiobook. By God’s grace, I was able to turn the tide in my home and found the willpower to make my marriage work again.

The latest book from Pastor Rich Wilkerson, Jr., Single & Secure, is a guide for living a fulfilling, abundant life, single. His message in this book is clear: Life is made of seasons, and no season is lost or forever. Rich explains that marriage does not produce contentment. Rather, contentment comes from learning to find value in the season you’re experiencing today. With his typical wit and profound insight into the gospel and culture, Rich will take us on a journey to see the beautiful, fun, productive stage of life called being single in a new way.

Single parents who are dating or want to begin a dating relationship wonder: How will dating affect my children and my parenting? They probably have figured out that "dating in a crowd" is complicated. Now they're looking for help. Ron Deal, who has counseled single parents and remarried couples for many years, helps single parents - as well as those who date them - navigate the potential pitfalls involved. He gives perspective on when a relationship may be harmful to the children as well as how it can be a blessing to all.

Many pastors feel ill-equipped to handle the challenges that arise when a couple is going through marital difficulties. If you are or have been in this situation before, this book shows church leaders how to counsel married couples from both a logical and biblical perspective. Author and pastor Jonathan Holmes offers you a practical guide to get started with the first sessions and then offers specific guidance on nine of the most common topics that come up in marriage counseling.

If you are a Christian who struggles with dating, the struggle is over! In this audiobook, Dating + God = Questions, Pastor Robert Connolly reveals the truth about dating God’s way and how to enjoy it. Using his marriage as an example, listeners will learn God’s purpose for relationships and how to go from single to married the way he intended it.

Every sexual mindset, habit, or experience pursued by false beliefs is a "counterfeit climax" in the making, and they could be sabotaging the level of intimacy you are experiencing with your spouse right now. Deep-rooted insecurity from harsh teachings you may have learned about sex or unseen habits like pornography are leading factors to sexual dissatisfaction and false sexual expectations. It's one thing to discover these hurts, but it's an entirely different undertaking to talk about it with your spouse in a healthy way.

Not every dad who wants to be there for his kids has the knowledge, training, and confidence he wishes he’d been given. But a great mom has the incredible ability to give a hesitant dad the encouragement and wisdom he needs to succeed.

In The Impossible Kid, relationship coach and pastor's wife Lucille Williams writes an exceptionally honest and funny account of parenting a strong-willed child. Through 11 entertaining chapters, this book provides practical tools for parents to sow seeds of encouragement in their kids as they aspire to raise adults who reflect the nature and character of God.

The essence of a true soulmate relationship is that of deep spiritual connection and a shared commitment to God. Learn to enrich your inner lives while building a strong foundation for a lasting marriage as you focus on basics of love, prayer, Bible study, forgiveness, and more. Relationship experts and authors Ben Young and Samuel Adams give user-friendly tips for nurturing your personal walk with God and enhancing your spiritual connection as a couple through in this 9-week devotional.

So many young people enter adulthood with expectations of blissful dating followed by a romantic marriage but then discover they’ve been duped. Because they learned about love and sexuality from faulty sources - social media, their friends, Disney fairy tales, pornography, or even their own rocky past - they have no idea what healthy lifelong love is supposed to be like. The results are often disastrous, with this generation becoming one of the most relationally sick, sexually addicted, and divorce-ridden in history.

In 31 Ways to Show Him What Love Is, Alyssa Bethke gives wives thirty-one specific tips for strengthening and deepening their relationship. Each day you will find a new suggestion for encouraging and loving your husband. Topics include serving each other, offering forgiveness, laughing together, praying for each other, affirming each other through words, and even making a favorite snack.

Jefferson Bethke gives husbands 31 specific tips for strengthening and deepening their marriage relationship. Each day, listeners find a new suggestion for encouraging and loving their wives. Topics include serving each other, offering forgiveness, laughing together, praying for one another, affirming each other through words, and even making a favorite snack. From serious to lighthearted, each tip challenges listeners to make their marriage a priority and reminds them of the importance of a healthy, vibrant relationship.

Why does God care? He cares because he loves us and yearns to see his creation blessed and fruitful. He told Adam and Eve to replenish the Earth and gave them the means to do so. The damage that sin brought in through disobedience has caused great division among those who have dared to obey God in being married. The tools God gives us are quite available to those who desire to be successful in their relationship of husband and wife. The beginning of this is found in the best toolbox ever put together, the word of God.

Shaz Jones provides a fresh look through the Bible to help equip any Christian manage the awkwardness around the divorce journey. Discover what the Bible really says about marriage and separation - including God's divorce - and the radical biblical commandment to end a bad marriage immediately (even when there are multiple children involved). Learn how to love and support others who are going through the painful process, and allow yourself to laugh and cry at some of the real-life stories of those who've gone before.

Your husband or wife is no mere mortal, but an eternal soul who is going to grow closer to God or further from him because they are married to you. The biblical picture of the family is something far more powerful, far more dangerous, far more glorious - far more like a nuclear reactor - than anything else in modern society. No Mere Mortals: Marriage for People Who Will Live Forever shows how husbands can lead their wives, and how wives can follow their husbands, and how both together, building on the firm foundation of Jesus Christ, can shape future generations and the world.

God’s intention for purity and sex is something far more meaningful, powerful, and beautiful than anything we’ve been taught before. When we understand God’s purpose and design for sex, we begin distancing ourselves from sexual brokenness and stepping toward a loving Father who desires a relationship with us. Whether you are currently single, engaged, or married, this book will give you biblical insight and practical tools to confidently and intentionally pursue purity with Jesus as your priority. Purity is not an accomplishment to obtain; purity is a relationship to pursue.

We all experience difficult relationships. Oftentimes we try to reconcile but the other person simply won't, or else we find they can't keep the commitments they made during reconciliation. How do we handle these tough relationships in a way that brings peace to our lives and glory to God?

Millions of married couples have pledged to "love and to cherish, until death do us part." Most of us understand and get the love part... but what does it mean to cherish your spouse? Why do we say it once at the wedding and then rarely ever mention it again? In this six-session audio Bible study, bestselling author Gary Thomas draws on personal stories and teachings from the Bible to show how cherishing can have a powerful effect on marriage.

As with everything that God created, marriage has a purpose. In fact, marriage has more than one purpose. The first purpose is to have a relationship with God as Adam did before sin came into the garden. We are His brides on the earth. The second purpose is to be fruitful and multiply and take care of the earth He created. The third purpose for marriage is to keep His word. God is serious about covenants and vows. Our words have the power to make or break a great life. In Genesis, nothing manifested until God spoke it. Say what you mean, and mean what you say. Marriage is forever.