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Marriage Takes More Than Love
The difference between smooth sailing and shipwrecks in marriage lies in what couples do about rough weather. A strong marriage is built by making good choices.
In a his-and-hers style, Carol and Jack Mayhall show you how to make the kind of choices in marriage that look out for the best interests of all three parties you, your spouse, and God.
In a his-and-hers style, Carol and Jack Mayhall show you how to make the kind of choices in marriage that look out for the best interests of all three parties you, your spouse, and God.
239 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1978
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February 1, 2023
One of the best book of marriage based on God’s word!
October 2, 2019
Simply great!
January 12, 2014
Written by a husband and wife, Marriage Takes More Than Love holds a bountiful balance of humor, straightforwardness, encouragement, and truth. Carole and Jack come through the pages as real life friends who walk beside you in this crazy, maddening, gloriously rewarding experienced of marriage. They are so clearly rooting for your success and the Lord's delight. Each chapter is not only manageable in length to read in one sitting, but you will get up from it with either conviction, new insight, or affirmation. In any case, you and your marriage will be the better for it.
February 16, 2022
Those who are familiar with the ministry of Howard Hendricks will need no further encouragement to take up this book and read than knowing that he wrote the foreword for this book. In his foreword, Dr. Hendricks has this to say: “All marriages have strengths and weaknesses. All marriages are dynamic or they are deteriorating. The husband-wife combo must either progress or perish.”
So the aim of the author’s is to survey marriage, and highlight both what Christian marriage is, and the skills needed to build a successful marriage. Whether you dip into Section 1 to Section 7, the one thread that is common to all sections is our responsibility to choose. If the reader who simply skims the contents of this book will grasp that Marriage is a choice, and all aspects of fulfilling promises to your mate is built on daily choices, the book will indeed help. But oh the blessings to the couple that read chapter by chapter together, and use the content to deepen their understanding of marriage with one another. Although it is not set out as a devotional, it certainly could be treated as such.
Which couple does not have problems with communication, personal adjustments to the other, listening and conflict resolution? And yes, aspects of the physical relationship are included in this seasoned and practical book.
In each section of the book, Jack and Carole write on the particular aspect of the subject from their own point of view. That is, it’s written by a married couple for married couples!
In attempting to give my marriage the lease of life it needs, I have been enriched and equipped to marvel at the simplicity and complexities of putting the needs of my mate in priority position. There are some things that simply don’t go out of date, and this is one. I heartily recommend this book to the newly married, the married couple that needs a refreshing stimulus to their marriage, and the marriage that is getting bogged down.
Take up and read. I believe you’ll be glad you did.
So the aim of the author’s is to survey marriage, and highlight both what Christian marriage is, and the skills needed to build a successful marriage. Whether you dip into Section 1 to Section 7, the one thread that is common to all sections is our responsibility to choose. If the reader who simply skims the contents of this book will grasp that Marriage is a choice, and all aspects of fulfilling promises to your mate is built on daily choices, the book will indeed help. But oh the blessings to the couple that read chapter by chapter together, and use the content to deepen their understanding of marriage with one another. Although it is not set out as a devotional, it certainly could be treated as such.
Which couple does not have problems with communication, personal adjustments to the other, listening and conflict resolution? And yes, aspects of the physical relationship are included in this seasoned and practical book.
In each section of the book, Jack and Carole write on the particular aspect of the subject from their own point of view. That is, it’s written by a married couple for married couples!
In attempting to give my marriage the lease of life it needs, I have been enriched and equipped to marvel at the simplicity and complexities of putting the needs of my mate in priority position. There are some things that simply don’t go out of date, and this is one. I heartily recommend this book to the newly married, the married couple that needs a refreshing stimulus to their marriage, and the marriage that is getting bogged down.
Take up and read. I believe you’ll be glad you did.
January 28, 2009
read as a requirement for our pre-marital counseling
June 17, 2013
It was better than I expected.
July 28, 2011
Good book, the questioners at the back of the book will be good for couples to go through
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