Devotions for a Sacred Marriage: A Year of Weekly Devotions for Couples (A 52-Week Devotional to Strengthen Your Relationship) (Audio)
Overview
Grow in your marriage and in your spiritual life with weekly devotions that turn your heart towards God and your spouse.
Do you consider your marriage to be holy? What if holier meant having a happier marriage? Your marriage is more than a sacred covenant with your spouse. It is a relationship God uses to help you know Him more, trust Him more fully, and love Him more deeply.
In Devotions for a Sacred Marriage author Gary Thomas encourages you to build your marriage around God’s priorities and explores how God can reveal Himself to you through your marriage and help you grow closer to Him as well as to your spouse.
This devotional provides:
- Scripture readings that connect your marriage to God’s Word
- 52 weekly devotions offering practical and biblical wisdom for nurturing your marriage as an expression of your love for God
- Questions and suggestions for reflection that challenge you to grow in your marriage and your spiritual life
- Insights that build upon principles from Gary’s book Sacred Marriage to help you create a strong marriage
- Marriage advice that is applicable to you whether you are a newlywed or have been married for years
You and your spouse will discover:
- Closure in ongoing marital issues
- Simple tactics to handle disagreements
- Ways to improve your communication
- Actionable ways you both can identify your strengths and weaknesses
If you are married, God has called you into a delightful yet difficult, a problematic yet pro-found relationship—but through it all, marriage is more than worth the pain. Devotions for a Sacred Marriage invites you embark on a journey to experience life as God created it and has called you to live it and challenges couples to embrace the profound and soul-stretching reality of Christian marriage.
Contents
Introduction / 9
1. The God-Centered Spouse / 11
2. A Prayer to Remember / 13
3. Keeping the Focus Where It Belongs / 16
4. Growing Old Together / 19
5. God’s Son, God’s Daughter / 21
6. The Gift of Fear / 23
7. Don’t Look Back / 26
8. Fame Is Trumped by Intimacy / 28
9. A Soul Filled with God / 31
10. The Foundation of Fellowship / 34
11. The Heart To / 37
12. The Preyer / 40
13. Love Mercy / 42
14. One Bad Habit / 45
15. Soul Mate or Sole Mate? / 48
16. Enjoying Each Other / 51
17. Thoughtlessly Cruel / 53
18. You Deserve a Break Today / 55
19. Shaped by Sharing / 57
20. I Hold You Responsible / 60
21. The Big Picture / 63
22. If It’s Not Sin . . . / 66
23. Greater Than the Sum of Their Parts / 69
24. You’re Prime! / 71
25. Marital Ruts / 74
26. To Make Her Holy / 76
27. Marriage Is Movement / 79
28. Earthly Education for Heavenly Heights / 81
29. One / 84
30. The Happiness That Follows Holiness / 86
31. Running from Yourself / 89
32. Good in Bed / 91
33. Divine Detachment / 93
34. Make Someone Happy / 96
35. I Love Him Anyway / 98
36. A Spiritually Tight Marriage / 101
37. The Great Escape / 105
38. Sanctuary / 108
39. Real People / 111
40. A Difficult Road / 114
41. The Ministry of Noticing / 118
42. One Day at a Time / 121
43. You Don’t Understand: Role Reversals / 123
44. Worth the Pain / 126
45. What Do You Do? / 129
46. Open Marriage / 131
47. The True Image of Love / 134
48. A Call to Listen / 137
49. The Estate of Marriage / 140
50. Passive Persecution / 143
51. Kindness Matters / 146
52. Oases of Sanity / 149
Notes / 153
Acknowledgments / 155