Pray More, Fight Less: A Couple's Devotional: Weekly Devotions, Prayers, and Communication Exercises for a Stronger Marriage

by Karin Earle

Navigate difficult conversations together, communicate with kindness and respect, and establish a deeper connection through weekly scripture, prayers, and faith-based exercises.

Even the healthiest of relationships can be thrown off-balance when there are difficulties in communication and trust. Pray More, Fight Less by Karin Earle, LMFT, brings together scripture and therapeutic practices to help couples find spiritual and practical support while recentering their marriages on God. With weekly devotionals and faith-based therapy exercises, you and your partner will learn techniques for effective communication while strengthening your commitment to your marriage.

Pray More, Fight Less
• REAL GUIDANCE FOR REAL
Fighting in a relationship is unavoidable. Relatable examples and real-life anecdotes help reframe conflict in your relationship and help you and your spouse reroute unhealthy patterns of thinking, fight less, and recenter your marriage on God during difficult seasons.

• 52 WEEKS OF PRAYERS AND  
Setting aside time weekly will help you grow in faith together as a couple. Through powerful scripture, you’ll receive guidance on maintaining a God-centered marriage, especially when communication and trust break down. Each devotion offers a prayer for God’s strength, wisdom, and healing.

• PRACTICAL COMMUNICATION
Communicate your needs while affirming your partner and understanding that we are all made precious by God, using helpful scripts and skill-building activities and exercises for listening effectively and building true intimacy.

• LICENSED FAMILY
Author and therapist Karin Earle, LMFT’s, experience and passion provide couples with empathetic advice for spiritual growth and healing.

176 pages, Paperback

Published April 11, 2023

About the author

Karin Earle is a LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist).

Reviews

[Amanda Alviz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of good stuff in this book. I think it's good for building a stronger marriage even for those couples who are not fighting a lot.
I like that it is set up for a weekly devotion as it gives you time to focus and absorb on the lesson of the week. While I love me a good daily devotional sometimes I find it hard to really press into and mediate on the lesson, verse, etc because the next day you're on to something new. With the weekly set up it gives you time to mediate and practice what is on the pages. Each devotion has multiple activities listed in the back of the book that help foster and build on the lesson of the week.
It is obvious the author is very knowledgable and has spent a lot of time creating this devotional.

Thanks to Netgalley and Zeitgeist for a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

[Ink_Drinker · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm not married, however, I am in a long-term relationship and really enjoyed this devotional. I read it with my boyfriend and it was a great reminder to us both to keep God in the center of our relationship. With life being so busy, sometimes we forget this and then everything seems to fall apart slowly. We have now renewed our beliefs together and it has helped us tremendously!!

[Ronja · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pray More, Fight Less is a devotional for couples that is quick to read, yet has good ideas on how to connect with our spouse better. The devotions truly were short and quick to read but there were activities to do and good explanations for how to do those and I find those good.

[LeeAnn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I highly recommend this book to any couples of faith. I could easily see even a non-heterosexual couple being able to use these strategies and ideas in this book. It is well-written and will definitely bring you and your partner closer.

[Lilian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short and sweet devotions with practical exercises.