Christian Marriage Resources

General Marriage: (Find Reviews on most of these books here.)

• Fully Connected Marriage: Fantastic Book and contains homework to do!
• The Forty-Day Word Fast: A Spiritual Journey to Eliminate Toxic Words From Your Life
• 10 Choices Successful Couples Make: The Secret to Love That Lasts a Lifetime
• Fierce Marriage: Radically Pursuing Each Other in Light of Christ's Relentless Love
• Love and Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs
• Divine Marriage: Discovering the Blessing and Beauty of a Covenant Relationship
• The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
• It Starts With You: The Secret to a Passionate Marriage & Peaceful Home (Even if your Spouse doesn't Want to Change)

Topical Marriage:

• Fighting for Your Marriage While Separated: A Practical Guide for the Brokenhearted
• Unfaithful: Hope and Healing After Infidelity
• Intended for Pleasure: Sex Technique and Sexual Fulfillment in Christian Marriage
• A Celebration Of Sex: A Guide to Enjoying God's Gift of Sexual
• Sexual Intimacy In Marriage: 4th Edition
• Teen Proofing: Fostering Responsible Decision Making in Your Teenager (Read before your kids are teens. Spoken from experience. 😉

Personal and Spiritual Growth:

• The Bible: I personally recommend the New Living Translation for your daily reading. Looking for a place to start? Start in the Book of John.
• Lifetime Guarantee: Making Your Christian Life Work and What to Do When It Doesn't
• The Normal Christian Life: What is normal?
• Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

Podcasts and Websites:

• Fierce Marriage - Tons of great stuff to support your marriage like, books, podcasts, articles, and much more!
• Loving the Fight Marriage Podcast with Travis and Dawn Rosinger
• The Life Video Series - In my humble opinion, the single greatest resource to finding and experiencing the victorious Christian life! This teaching was a game changer for Jodi and I over 20 years ago. This video teaching ties together with the Lifetime Guarantee book above.
• Regaining Passion in Your Marriage - Audio Podcast from Focus on the Family - For a lot of couples, talking about sex can feel awkward and uncomfortable. But it doesn't have to be that way.
• "Managing Anger" - Sermon Message - One of the best messages on the topic of anger I have ever heard.

These are devotionals that I have personally completed and they are listed in no particular order. Look through the titles and start ones that grab your attention.

Bulletproof Marriage

Being Real In Our Marriages

Enduring Marriage By Pete Briscoe

Living a Servant Marriage

A Beautiful Adventure Marriage

The Marriage Course

Solid…building the Marriage of Your Dreams

Bullet Proof Marriage

Fully Connected Marriage

Being Real In Our Marriages

Kingdom Marriage

One Thing To Grow Your Marriage Each Day

Profound Mystery: Marriage Lessons from Ephesians

Change Your Words, Change Your Marriage

14 Keys to Lasting Love

10 Choices Successful Couples Make

Love and Respect

Emptied: Living a Poured-Out Marriage

Staying I Do: Committed, Connected & Crazy in Love

Being Intentional In Your Marriage

Marriage Matters

Thrive: Building Stronger Marriages...Together

Married Couples: Developing Healthy Spiritual Habits

7 Relationship Goals for Your Marriage

Wisdom for Marriage

Change Your Words, Change Your Marriage

Creatures of Habit - How to develop healthy spiritual habits

Why Are You So Mad?

Stop The Fighting - Part 1: Breaking The Cycles Of Unhealthy Conflict

Stop The Fighting - Part 2: Breaking The Cycles Of Unhealthy Conflict

5 DAYS to FREEDOM from anger in Your Marriage

Choosing to Lose Wins in Marriage - by Pete Briscoe

Don't Walk Away from Your Marriage - Peter Briscoe

Wisdom For Marriage

In my opinion, this is the best Bible App out there and is very robust in helping you to build your relationship with God. This app has so many features it's hard to note them all and it's something you need to see to believe. You can download the app here or in your app store. You can also watch this short video tutorial of what's in the app and how to navigate it on our YouTube Channel, https://youtu.be/3Rc4ty36dzM

It's remembering this statement, "It's always going to be difficult to have a thriving relationship with other people if you don't have a thriving relationship with God." We've got to remember that it all starts with us and our relationship with God and how healthy that relationship is. The depth of our relationship with Christ is determined by how we do with these four things, spending daily time in Prayer and the Study of God's Word, Being Active in a Local Church, and Being in Christian Community consistently . All of these things will determine what our walk and relationship with God looks like and how much victory you experience in life.

If we're not healthy spiritually, our relationships with our spouse, kids, and anyone else in our lives will just not be as healthy as they should or could be! Get your relationship right with the Lord, get close to Him, and the rest of the relationships in your life will start to fall in place and get to where you want them to be. The YouVersion Bible App is a great help in helping you to achieve this!

It Starts With You! Follow this link and consider reading the book.

Well, first off, download the YouVersion Bible App as you see in the question above and do a devotional together.

Another great thing you could do is look at Fierce Marriage. FM is a fantastic resource for many different types of tools, videos, podcasts and more. This is one particular set of tools I would encourage every couple to purchase and start using. Check out more here, https://shop.fiercemarriage.com/collections/devotionals - The Husband/Wife in Pursuit and the 40 Prayers for my Husband/Wife are fantastic!

Below are links to a great video series published by Focus on the Family called, "Blended Families – Overcoming Challenges." It's a seven-part series featuring Ron Deal.

Ron co-authored a book with Gary Chapman (The 5 Love Languages) called, Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages and Becoming StepFamily Smart if you're interested in looking into it?

Episode 1 - "Making a Good Blend: Challenges and Opportunities"

Episode 2 - "Triangled: Your Marriage, the Kids, and Your Blended Family"

Episode 3 - "Former Spouses, Co-Parenting, and Between-Home Challenges"

Episode 4 - "The 6 P's of Step-Parenting"

Episode 5 - "Freedom for those Between Homes"

Episode 6 - "Financing Family Togetherness"

Episode 7 - "Turning Points: Research Insights for a Good Blend"

After each video there's a list of great questions to think and talk about and then you'll see a short prayer to pray together!