Build a Stronger Marriage: The Path to Oneness (Ask the Christian Counselor)
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Best-selling author and longtime FamilyLife Today cohost Bob Lepine helps you work through the challenges that emerge in every marriage, causing couples to become isolated and alienated.
All marriages face seasons of distress and frustration—times when, thanks to a variety of factors, you don’t feel as close as you once were. Lepine helps you make the adjustments necessary to build the kind of marriage God intends for you to have and encourages you back on the path to oneness.
Build a Stronger Marriage maps out this path to oneness by first helping you and your spouse uncover how your motivations and expectations about marriage, childhood hardship, or family of origin issues, guilt, shame, or unaddressed relational wounds can impact a marriage relationship. You will be able to trade blame, dissatisfaction, and disappointment for a stronger, richer, and more rewarding relationship.
Practical, accessible, and concise guidance on how seeing marriage from God’s point of view is the path to oneness.
Part of the Ask the Christian Counselor series, walking readers through their deepest and most profound questions.
Gives readers the tools to understand their struggles in marriage and how the gospel brings hope and healing their relationship.
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- Helps you make the adjustments necessary to build the kind of marriage God intends for you to have.
- Encourages you back on the path to oneness.
- Gives readers the tools to understand their struggles in marriage.
- Introduction: Why We’re Here: A Reason for Hope
- Part 1: How Did We Get Here?
- Chapter 1: Married for the Wrong Reasons
- Chapter 2: Not What I Expected
- Chapter 3: The Central Purpose of Marriage
- Part 2: What Weighs Us Down
- Chapter 4: How Your Past Impacts Your Present
- Chapter 5: Your First Family
- Chapter 6: Bringing Trauma into a Marriage
- Chapter 7: Confronting Shame and Guilt
- Chapter 8: The Unexpected Wounds
- Chapter 9: Time to Forget a Few Things
- Part 3: The Essential Oil in Every Healthy Marriage
- Chapter 10: Argh! Sometimes My Spouse Makes Me So Angry!
- Chapter 11: Overlook? Or Confront?
- Chapter 12: Without This, Your Marriage Won’t Make It
- Chapter 13: What Forgiveness Is (and What It Isn’t)
- Part 4: Restoring What Has Been Broken
- Chapter 14: A New Marriage Wardrobe
- Chapter 15: Marriage Best Practices: Extravagant Love
- Chapter 16: Marriage Best Practices: Enthusiastic Encouragement
- Chapter 17: Marriage Best Practices: Common Convictions
- Conclusion: Real Change Requires Real Change
- Acknowledgments
- Endnotes
Bigger than a minibook, smaller than regular, just the right size to give biblical answers to common counseling questions. This book, along with others in the series, is an affordable, much-needed resource for the church community—strugglers, pastors, counselors, and other helpers.
—Barbara Miller Juliani, VP New Growth Press
What couple doesn’t yearn to make their marriage stronger and happier? I’ve been married to Ken Tada for over forty years, and I say a hearty ‘yes’! It’s why I love Bob Lepine’s new book, Build a Stronger Marriage. I know Bob well, and he’s not only got the heart, but the experience and biblical know-how to guide couples toward a richer, more meaningful life together. I give this book a double thumbs-up!
—Joni Eareckson Tada, Joni and Friends International Disability Center.
Do you need a marriage makeover? Drawing on decades of insight as a teaching pastor and author, FamilyLife Today® cohost Bob Lepine shows you—practically and biblically—which items of your interpersonal ‘wardrobe’ to eliminate and what new pieces to put on for a refreshed, renovated relationship.
—Jim Daly, President, Focus on the Family