The Ultimate Marriage Vow

by Darlene Schacht

The Ultimate Marriage Vow is a 21-day journey through love. It encourages us to cherish our vows, love our husbands, fulfill our role as a help meet, and seek God’s plan for our marriage.

Each day includes a vow that is designed to strengthen one area of your relationship.

These 21 vows challenge us to live beyond ourselves, to put aside our preconceived ideas of what romance should look like, and seek out true love that is sacrificial and intentional.

This journey is merely a stepping stone of many that will continue on in your heart long past the 21 days.

Genres: Marriage, Nonfiction, Christian Non Fiction, Christian

103 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 13, 2013

About the author

Darlene Schacht is known by her readers as The Time-Warp Wife. She's an Evangelical Christian whose number one priority is to serve Jesus Christ in every area of her life. She and her husband Michael live in Manitoba Canada. Married 26 years, they have four children, a bird and two pugs. She's an award winning and New York Times best-selling author.

Reviews

[Rachel Brand · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although this was better written than The Proverbs 31 Woman: One Virtue at a Time, the devotions were a mixed bag. Some of them felt relevant to my marriage, some of them went off on random tangents and a few bought into too many gender-stereotypes about marriage. There was a whole section on the husband's headship and how we should submit to his decision-making, which is not the way our marriage works. And the final chapter bought into the whole "husband needs respect, wife needs love" issue. Honestly, I think this goes both ways, and in our marriage, I feel like I need to be shown more respect and Simon feels like he needs to be shown more love. I think this is my issue with marriage books--they often put across the impression that there's one way to make every marriage work, or there's a certain way all men or women should act. Yes, our marriage is made up of a man and woman, but we're also individuals--and we don't always do things the way books suggest!

Truly, this book did have some nice, encouraging stories and tips, but most of them were pretty straight-forward. I didn't find anything terribly new in this book (which I suppose is suggestion that our marriage is going well?) As a freebie, it's worth a try, if you don't mind the devotions that buy into traditional gender roles. It's a great encouragement and reminder of things you can do to make an effort for your marriage and your spouse, even if the ideas aren't new to you.

[elizabeth sawyer · Rating 2 out of 5]

An ebook I got in a bundle pack. Very sappy conservative Christian marriage devotional for wives. Structured nicely, good stories and comes from a place of wisdom it appears. However, just a bit too redundant in the topics over and over. Might be okay spread out more as something just to pick up/put down here and there than days right in a row.

[Lori · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this marriage devotional! You can read it alone or with your husband. I truly enjoyed how open, honest and funny the author was with her own marriage experiences. Will certainly keep this on my Kindle to read again and again!

[Desiree Gilman · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a nice one if if you've been married 20 years...gives you a fresh perspective