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The Dream Home: How to Create an Intimate Christian Marriage
Many couples, including Christian couples, struggle to find happiness and intimacy in the first few years of their marriages because they may lack knowledge and skills to create the marriage of their dreams. As a result, many fail to connect, adjust, and grow as a married couple.
The Dream Home: How to Create an Intimate Christian Marriage provides a creative look at marriage from a Christian perspective. Drs. Elias and Denise Moitinho use the home as a metaphor for marriage, along with multiple analogies, to address the various areas of marriage in a creative way. They guide couples through the process of creating a dream home, which means an intimate Christian marriage.
In The Dream Home, the Moitinhos provide practical tips and relationship skills grounded on a solid biblical worldview, insights from research, and wisdom gained from various areas, including personal life, professional and ministry work with couples, church ministry, and teaching experience in seminary and graduate school.
The Dream Home: How to Create an Intimate Christian Marriage provides a creative look at marriage from a Christian perspective. Drs. Elias and Denise Moitinho use the home as a metaphor for marriage, along with multiple analogies, to address the various areas of marriage in a creative way. They guide couples through the process of creating a dream home, which means an intimate Christian marriage.
In The Dream Home, the Moitinhos provide practical tips and relationship skills grounded on a solid biblical worldview, insights from research, and wisdom gained from various areas, including personal life, professional and ministry work with couples, church ministry, and teaching experience in seminary and graduate school.
279 pages, Paperback
First published January 8, 2020
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February 18, 2026
This is practical and structured resource for couples and counselors seeking a thoughtful, Christian-based approach to marriage.
I appreciated the balance between biblical principles and psychological insight. The “dream home” metaphor works well, helping couples think clearly about foundation, communication, conflict, confession, and long-term growth. The sections on communication and emotional patterns are especially useful, showing how beliefs and past experiences shape present interactions.
While it sometimes reads more like a textbook than a narrative, that structure makes it valuable as a teaching and counseling reference.
Overall, it’s a solid guide for anyone serious about building a healthy, intentional marriage.
I appreciated the balance between biblical principles and psychological insight. The “dream home” metaphor works well, helping couples think clearly about foundation, communication, conflict, confession, and long-term growth. The sections on communication and emotional patterns are especially useful, showing how beliefs and past experiences shape present interactions.
While it sometimes reads more like a textbook than a narrative, that structure makes it valuable as a teaching and counseling reference.
Overall, it’s a solid guide for anyone serious about building a healthy, intentional marriage.
June 26, 2026
MASTERS BOOK: good resource for tying Biblical Info to counseling techniques. Written in a cute way, but still is a textbook. has some helpful resources in it. It’s a flyover of all things marriage, but doesn’t have as much depth.
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