Even if your wedding day is years off, "Spiritual Relationships That Last" tests your readiness for Christian marriage, life's most intimate love. If you are already married you will discover how to move ahead by building a lasting unity between you and your spouse. And whether you are single or married, you will find out how to stop a fruitless search for a mythical true love and to instead focus on building the relational skills that make marriage work.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A candid, inspiring guide to finding lasting love and sustaining a healthy relationship by getting real about your goals—based on the viral, multi-million-view sermon series about dating, marriage, and sex “No matter where you are and no matter what stage of life you are in, Relationship Goals will be a game changer.”—Levi Lusko NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY COSMOPOLITAN You scroll through photo after photo of happy couples and think, I want a relationship like that! The thing is, those intimate relationships are a mirage—the closer you get to them, the more you realize they aren’t real at all. So what does a real relationship look like? And how do you get there? In Relationship Goals, Pastor Michael Todd digs deep to give you good news and real-life ideas for making the most of your most important relationships. Take a look at • what it means to choose intentional dating over recreational dating • how to move on from mistakes you’ve made in the past • why love gets stronger after marriage • what the Bible has to say about sex (hot take: it’s more sizzling than you think) • why the best friendships have God at the center Whether you are married, single, or it’s complicated, aiming for the right targets will make all the difference in finding true satisfaction. As it turns out, God’s got the best relationship goals of all for your life. Why settle for less?
As Christians, our relationships should be rich and rewarding the kind of godly connections that spur us on to great things in the Lord! When we unite together in love, forgiveness, faith and singleness of heart, nothing can stand against us. Whether you need broken relationships repaired or just need to strengthen the ones you have, Kenneth & Gloria Copeland have a lifesaving message for you. In this interactive book, you'll find an in-depth, 10-Day Spiritual Action Plan designed to help you think scripturally about all the relationships in your life from your marriage and family to your church and workplace connections. From day one, you'll saturate your life with the Word of God, using the enclosed tools, including: Scriptures to stand on every day and interactive, devotional questions designed to help you take action and apply what you have learned. A suggested schedule for the next 10 days to saturate your life with God's Word concerning your relationships. Daily "Faith in Action" cards that give you a connection point with the materials, even when you're away from home. Worship music you can take with you anywhere, revealing God's heart for your relationships and interactions with others Bonus DVD-video teaching, carefully selected to keep you focused on the Word. And much, much more.
Jesus put love in the first place. So did Paul and Peter. This highly accessible book takes readers into the heart of spiritual love in highly practical ways. Learn how to build friendships at a deep level; even the deepest level - marriage! The two halves of the book cover friendship building and marriage readiness. Nine readiness markers make it possible to know your upcoming marriage will not fail. Formerly the well-read Spiritual Relationships that Last, this completely re-written and updated version is filled with new research.
Am I with the right person? Will our love last? Men and women in love are haunted by these questions. Love -- especially why it blossoms in relationships and why it later dies -- is a mystery to them. Will Our Love Last? A Couple's Road Map solves this mystery by giving readers a new understanding of love -- an understanding they can actually use to evaluate the soundness of their relationships and to answer confidently the crucial questions that mystified them before. Based on hundreds of cases in his twenty-four years as a marital therapist and twenty-nine years in his own happy marriage, Sam R. Hamburg, Ph.D., explains how compatibility is the key to lasting love. He shows how compatibility on three major dimensions -- the Practical Dimension, the Sexual Dimension, and the Wavelength Dimension -- is essential to the mutual understanding and affirmation that keep love alive, and he leads readers through a simple but systematic procedure for assessing their compatibility with a romantic partner in these crucial relationship areas. Dr. Hamburg introduces a new technique, The Hand Rotation Exercise, to help readers express their degree of compatibility and then convey that visually to their partner. In addition, he presents two new original techniques for working through relationship conflicts and coming to agreement on difficult issues: His Way/Her Way and The Long Conversation. Written in a clear, direct style that is free of jargon, Will Our Love Last? empowers readers to make important relationship decisions that are intellectually and emotionally informed. Will Our Love Last? will help couples trying to decide if they should take the next step to a more committed relationship. It will aid individuals embarking on a new relationship, or who are between relationships, to evaluate the rightness of a new or prospective partner. And it will assist people who are already in committed relationships to make an honest assessment of their prospects for happiness with their current partner. People have it in their power to make sure that they truly are with the right person. Will Our Love Last? shows the way.
Learn how selfless love is the central ingredient in spiritual growth, and discover how to practice it. This third book in The Wisdom of Yogananda series captures the teachers expansive and compassionate wisdom, his sense of fun, and his practical spiritual guidance.
This book will help you see that love and leadership are not mutually exclusive and learn that without love, you cannot be an effective leader. The one action verb most frequently missing from various manifestos on leadership is love. In Love Leads Dr. Steve Greene shares real-life examples, principles, and exhortations of the love of a leader. You will discover what it looks like to lead with love--is there a process of love? is tough love really love?--and you will view leadership as it's never been seen before as Dr. Greene dispels the myths and misconceptions many have come to accept about leadership. The real-life principles in this book are fully supported throughout by the actions of God who "so loved that He gave...," leading you to see with new insight that the true essence of leadership is love.
This book is designed for people who are either in a committed relationship or want to be. A committed relationship is one path toward spiritual growth and transformation. It is not the only path, nor is it a very easy path. The seven spiritual laws discussed in Part Two of this book provide a roadmap for couples who are committed to their mutual spiritual growth. This simple but profound guide to growth and happiness for couples will help you and your partner weather the ups and downs of your relationship so that you can grow together and deepen the intimacy between you.
Don't wait for your relationship to be in shambles before you seek relationship assistance. By reading Love Can Last, you and your partner will be able to get on the same page and succeed in your relationship. This book will even help couples that already have a good relationship. When we grow up, there is no relationship 101. We have to learn about relationships from watching our parents and their risky, trial-and-error approach. When we choose our partners, we are essentially taking a gamble that they are the one with whom we belong. By loving them we are gently placing our heart, mind, body, and soul in their hands. We can only hope that they will love and respect us enough to keep us safe from unnecessary heartache and stress. We can better prepare them for handling our emotions if we prepare ourselves for how we want to interact with our partner. This book will help you and your partner get on the same page in your relationship. These important topics in Love Can Last will help shift your perspective, so that each of you can take more responsibility for the way that your relationship works. Both partners have the power to steer the relationship clear of the pitfalls that lead straight to divorce. By reading Love Can Last, you will be able to incorporate key elements into your relationship that will help you get through tough times and strengthen the foundation of your relationship, making you stand stronger together for many years to come. By realizing that God is there for you both and to help keep others from interfering in your relationship, you will stand united in your quest to keep your partner happy. If you can forget about the concept that a relationship is 50-50 and give 100 percent to your partner, you will see a huge difference with how you treat each other.
This book is not a before-and-after story. Our culture treats suffering like a problem to fix, a blight to hide, or the sad start of a transformation story. We silently, secretly wither under the pressure of living as though suffering is a predicament we can avoid or annihilate by working hard enough or having enough faith. When your prayers for healing haven't been answered, the fog of depression isn't lifting, your marriage is ending in divorce, or grief won't go away, it's easy to feel you've failed God and, worse, he's failed you. If God loves us, why does he allow us to hurt? Over a decade ago chronic illness plunged therapist and writer K.J. Ramsey straight into this paradox. Before her illness, faith made sense. But when pain came and never left, K.J. had to find a way across the widening canyon that seemed to separate God's goodness from her excruciating circumstances. She wanted to conquer suffering. Instead, she encountered the God who chose it. She wanted to make pain past-tense. Instead, God invited her into a bigger story. This Too Shall Last offers an antidote to our cultural idolatry of effort and ease. Through personal story and insights from neuroscience and theology, Ramsey invites us to let our tears become lenses of the wonder that before God ever rescues us, he stands in solidarity with us. We are all mid-story in circumstances we did not choose, wondering when our hard things will end and where grace will come if they don’t. We don't need to make suffering a before-and-after story. Together we can encounter the grace that enters the middle of our stories, where living with suffering that lingers means receiving God's presence that lasts.
