MARRIAGE RESOURCES
Whether you're preparing for marriage, looking to strengthen your relationship, or navigating a difficult season, we're here to help. Explore practical, faith-based resources to help you build a healthy, lasting marriage.
Resources for strengthening your marriage.
- Family Life offers high quality resources for marriage. Couples can find support and insight on a host of topics.
- The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. Understanding your own love language and that of your spouse can enhance communication and relationship fulfillment.
- Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas. This book shows how your marriage can become an opportunity to bring you closer to God and to your spouse.
- Love Talk by Les and Leslie Parrot. This resource includes a book, DVD, and workbook. All three tools work together to develop stronger communication skills.
- Love and Respect by Emerson Eggerichs. This resource helps couples understand some of the differences between men and women and how to get off the crazy cycle and into a relationship filled with more love and respect.
- A Celebration of Sex by Dr. Douglass E. Rosenau. This resource offers couples insights and practical tools for enhancing the richness in their sexual intimacy.
- Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey. Dave will guide a couple into reaching financial goals and finding financial “peace” in their home. This book and livestream are helpful for financial planning. Couples can also attend Financial Peace University, a series of training events which help a couple get on the same page with their financial goals and skills.
Resources for repairing your marriage.
- Family Life offers high quality resources for marriage. Couples can find support and insight on a host of topics.
- Boundaries in Marriage book and workbook offer helpful insights in how to establish healthy and biblical boundaries to navigate some of the more stressful areas of marriage.
- Non Violent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg. This is not a book especially designed for marriage, but is an excellent discussion about communication. Especially helpful is his discussion about “feeling” words and how to use them.
- Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by John Gottman. Gottman remains the premier expert providing researched based communication insights and training.
- After the Affair: Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Sanity by Shirley Glass. She is probably the most informed researcher on repair following affairs. While not specifically written from a Christian worldview, it is not inconsistent in any major way.
- Created for Connection by Dr. Sue Johnson. This book will help enrich a healthy relationship, revitalize a tired one, or rescue one gone awry. A focus is on growing closer to God and to further incorporate Him and His teachings into your marriage.
- Fighting Fair: Winning at Conflict Without Losing at Love by Tim and Joy Downs. This resources offers insights and tools for handling conflict in a way that creates solutions, love, and fairness.