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Christian Marriage Resources

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.


Best and most comprehensive Marriage Devotional Series I've found: 

  • The Marriage Talks Part 1 | Unity - 5 Days
  • The Marriage Talks Part 2 | Love & Respect - 5 Days
  • The Marriage Talks Part 3 | Covenant - 6 Days
  • The Marriage Talks Part 4 | Making It Last - 7 Days


Top felt need and topical devotionals:

The Wife Betrayed

The Pre-Marriage Course

Marriage And Disability

Achieving Awesome Communication in Marriage

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

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

Thirty One Day Marriage Reset - Good one!

Infidelity - Part 1 and Part 2

Aftershock - Can I trust My Emotions - Overcoming His Secret Life with Porn


Voices and Choices - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

Restoring a Broken Marriage

Help For A Hurting Marriage

I No Longer Love My Spouse

Refresh Your Marriage in 31 Days

The 7 Laws of Love

2 Are Better Than 1: Uncover Your Marriage Purpose

Strengths Based Marriage - Understanding Each Other's Gifts

When Love Turns Toxic: Finding Freedom from Emotional Abuse

Healing Your Marriage When Trust is Broken

Rebuilding a Marriage Better than New

4 Days to Deeper Intimacy in Marriage

The Lies Couples Believe

Back Together

Marriage: A Lifelong Journey

Happy Marriage, Happy Home

Speaking Life in Your Marriage

Fierce Marriage

Making Marriage Meaningful Through Conflict Resolution

7 Prayers to Grow Your Marriage

Strengthen You Marriage in 30 Days

Resolving Conflict in Marriage

Marriage That Works

Celebrating Differences in Marriage

31 Days To A Stronger Marriage

One Sided Marriage

7 Secrets to an Awesome Marriage

Your Best Us: Marriage Is Easier Than You Think

12 Marriage Safeguards

Lies That Can Ruin a Marriage by Pete Briscoe

Mind Craft: Take Your Thoughts Captive to Transform Your Marriage

Talk it Out

Marriage & Money

When Conflict Arises - Biblical Wisdom for Managing Differences

Foundations of Marriage

Don't Walk Away From Your Marriage

See-Through Marriage

Boundaries in Marriage

Marriage - 5 Days of Abiding in Christ 

What is Christian Marriage

Strengthen Your Marriage

Do's and Don'ts

Fighting for My Marriage

Communication in Marriage

Being Intentional In Your Marriage

In Love & Always Arguing

Marriage Crisis

Spiritual Intimacy as Couples

When Marriage Gets Hard

31 Day Marriage Reset

Sex: How Often

Safety Gates for Marriage

Pursuing Love While Considering Divorce

I No Longer Love My Spouse

One Foot Out the Door

Fighting For My Marriage

Dos and Don'ts: A One-Week Plan to Help Your Marriage

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?

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


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

  • Fully Connected Marriage: Fantastic Book and contains some homework for further learning. - Paperback or Kindle
  • The Forty-Day Word Fast: A Spiritual Journey to Eliminate Toxic Words From Your Life - Paperback or Kindle
  • 10 Choices Successful Couples Make: The Secret to Love That Lasts a Lifetime - Paperback or Kindle or Audio
  • Fierce Marriage: Radically Pursuing Each Other in Light of Christ's Relentless Love - Paperback or Kindle or Audio
  • Love and Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs - Paperback or Hardcover or Kindle or Audio
  • Divine Marriage: Discovering the Blessing and Beauty of a Covenant Relationship - Paperback or Kindle
  • The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts - Paperback or Hardcover or Kindle or Audio
  • The Happy, Healthy Marriage Reset: Using Sincerity to Erase Relationship Baggage & Restore the Love - Paperback or Hardcover
  • Journaling Notebook: Classic Notebook, Line Ruled, 240 Pages, Black, Hardcover, 5 x 8.25-Inch - Journaling is a valuable tool to keep track of your thoughts, prayers, and what the Lord is doing in your life. If you've never tried this before, why not give ut a try? It's fun to look back at years later to see God's faithfulness!


Topical Marriage:

  • For Men Only - Adam Loves Eve: Paperback or Audio - Best Men's Book I've ever read that clearly teaches us about our responsibilities as men and husbands in the marriage relationship. Bloodied my nose a few times if I'm honest. Ladies, this is not a read for you! Author even tells you to put the book down if you start reading and says this is for men only.
  • For Women Only - Created To Be His Help Meet: Paperback or Audio or Kindle - Solid Women's Book that talks to the importance of how the Bible calls a wife to live towards her husband.
  • Fighting for Your Marriage While Separated: A Practical Guide for the Brokenhearted - Paperback or Kindle or Audio
  • Unfaithful: Hope and Healing After Infidelity - Paperback or Audio
  • Intended for Pleasure: Sex Technique and Sexual Fulfillment in Christian Marriage - Paperback or Kindle or Audio
  • A Celebration of Sex: A Guide to Enjoying God's Gift of Sexual - Paperback or Kindle
  • Sexual Intimacy in Marriage: Expert, biblical answers to tough questions (4th Edition) - Paperback or Kindle  
  • Teen Proofing: Fostering Responsible Decision Making in Your Teenager - Paperback or Kindle  (Read before your kids are teens. Spoken from experience. 😉


Personal and Spiritual Growth:

  • New Living Translation (NLT) Study Bible: Imitation Leather and Large Font - I personally recommend the New Living Translation for your daily reading. Looking for a place to start? Start in the Book of John.
  • Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
  • Lifetime Guarantee: Making Your Christian Life Work and What to Do When It Doesn't - Paperback or Kindle
  • The Normal Christian Life: What is normal? - Paperback
  • Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind - Paperback or Kindle or Audio


Downloadable Book Recomendations:

  • 22 Marriage Enrichment Books to Help Your Marriage Grow by Todd LaVine - Download List
  • 22 Books That Will Help You Grow Spiritually by Pastor Craig Groeschel - Download List


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.


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! 


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