Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?
Your marriage is more than a sacred covenant with another person.\ It is a spiritual discipline designed to help you know God better, trust him more fully, and love him more deeply.\ Scores of books have been written that offer guidance for building the marriage of your dreams. But what if God's primary intent for your marriage isn't to make you happy . . . but holy? And what if your relationship isn't as much about you and your spouse as it is about you and God?\ Everything about your...
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Starting with the discovery that the goal of marriage goes beyond personal happiness, writer and speaker Gary Thomas invites readers to see how God can use marriage as a discipline and a motivation to love him more and reflect more of the character of his Son.
1.The Greatest Challenge in the World: A Call to Holiness More Than Happiness112.Finding God in Marriage: Marital Analogies Teach Us Truths About God273.Learning to Love: How Marriage Teaches Us to Love394.Holy Honor: Marriage Teaches Us to Respect Others535.The Soul's Embrace: Good Marriage Can Foster Good Prayer736.The Cleansing of Marriage: How Marriage Exposes Our Sin897.Sacred History: Building the Spiritual Discipline of Perseverance1038.Sacred Struggle: Embracing Difficulty in Order to Build Character1279.Falling Forward: Marriage Teaches Us to Forgive15310.Make Me a Servant: Marriage Can Build in Us a Servant's Heart17911.Sexual Saints: Marital Sexuality Can Provide Spiritual Insights and Character Development19912.Sacred Presence: How Marriage Can Make Us More Aware of God's Presence22713.Sacred Mission: Marriage Can Develop Our Spiritual Calling, Mission, and Purpose247Epilogue: The Holy Couple265Notes269
