From the writers of the No. 1 New York Times best-seller, The Love Dare. Love is a choice. A daily choice. The Love Dare Day by Day is a daily reminder of how it’s done -- and done well -- taking the source material's original experience to the next level. With 52 weekly dares, this one-year devotional invites you to go deeper into the scriptural principles of The Love Dare and is meant to enrich your relationship with God and your spouse through a daily time of reading, prayer, and action. Make this more than a year of your life. Make it your bold, next step to a lifetime of love. Features of this book include: • 365 devotional readings on unique aspects of genuine love• 52 weekly dares to help you express love in your marriage• Dozens of specific prayers to pray for yourself and your spouse• Questions to get you thinking strategically about your relationship• More than 100 Go Deeper sections that enhance personal Bible study

Strengthen your faith and marriage―half-hour devotionals for a lifetime together.\nStrong marriages don’t just happen. They require commitment, time, and faith―which can often be difficult to achieve amid the hustle and bustle of our daily lives. But this kind of dedication is essential, not just to getting married, but to staying married.\nAfter five years of marriage, Michelle Peterson discovered that many of the couples she knew were separating or getting divorced, and found herself asking a question that would become the foundation of her life’s work: What does it take to stay married? From this question Michelle developed the popular blog and podcast, #staymarried, which has helped hundreds of thousands of couples improve their marriages.\n#staymarried: A Couple’s Devotional combines everything Michelle has learned in one welcoming and applicable couple’s devotional. In #staymarried: A Couple’s Devotional, scripture-based devotions help you and your spouse work together to strengthen your relationship―to each other and God.\nIn this couple’s devotional, you’ll find:\n\nDevotions that require only 30 minutes per week and address everything from finances and arguments to trust and intimacy.\nWisdom from the Bible incorporated with up-to-date research from research-based sources such as The Gottman Institute.\nInclusive, open-minded guidance that applies to a diverse range of couples.\n\nWith #staymarried: A Couple’s Devotional, you and your spouse will learn to connect meaningfully and communicate honestly while renewing your shared commitment to your marriage and faith.

The Love Dare challenged individuals to love their spouse more. Closer shows wives and husbands how to grow that love together. Introduced with Scripture verses and engaging stories, these 52 devotionals will inspire couples to draw closer through faith conversationsthose quiet talks so vital for emotional and spiritual intimacy in a marriage. Guided, practical action steps round out each reading. Closer, with its flexible weekly format, is an appealing alternative to a daily devotional.

HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE – FOR GOD?\nIf you are like most dating couples, you are looking for more than just a companion – you want a soul mate! The essence of a true soul mate relationship is that of deep spiritual connection. This dynamic book, Devotions for Dating Couples, offers guidance for deepening your commitment to God as individuals and as a couple. Through short chapters focused on such essential topics as prayer, simplicity, community, and purity, you will discover how to make your most important love relationships–with God and your potential mate–strong, lasting, and radiant.\nRelationship experts Ben Young and Samuel Adams, authors of The Ten Commandments of Dating and The One, give user-friendly tips for nurturing your personal walk with God and enhancing your spiritual connection as a couple. As you read through the devotions each day, you will:\n\nBecome a great lover by learning to love God first\nDevelop the essential disciplines of a lasting relationship\nFocus on the important things in life\nDiscover a sense of spiritual purpose and meaning\nUnderstand that grace is not just for "beginners" – it is for you, every day\n\nWhether you are dating seriously or engaged to be married, these daily personal devotions and weekly couple's devotions will help you discover the way to lifelong love.

52 Weeks of Newlywed Devotionals for Navigating a God-Centered Marriage Marriage is a journey of both hills and valleys, and newlyweds are just beginning this great adventure. By following God's way and making him the center of their marriage from the start, couples can avoid rockier paths and create stronger foundations. In this spiritual and practical devotional, marriage coaches Chris and Jamie Bailey speak to the particular challenges that every newlywed couple faces and provide both inspiration and guidance. Newlywed Couple's Devotional features-

Are you and your spouse speaking the same language? He sends you flowers when what you really want is time to talk. She gives you a hug when what you really need is a home-cooked meal. The problem isn’t love―it’s your love language. The Love Languages Devotional is your daily guide to how to express heartfelt love to your loved one.

Strengthen your faith and your relationship with your partner―with weekly devotional bible studies.\nTrue commitment is a gift from God―but it is a gift you have to be ready to receive. Together With Christ: A Dating Couples Devotional lays the foundation for a lifetime of love, faith, and understanding with relevant bible studies for today’s relationship trials.\nDesigned as a weekly devotional, this book contains 52 chapters of bible studies―one for each week of the year―that you and your partner can use to inspire discussion and strengthen your bond to each other and God. Applying scripture to real relationship tests, these practical devotionals delve into topics that include a healthy view of intimacy, family matters, work and money, and more! \nHow do you know if you’re ready to get married? Find out with:\n\n\n52 devotions for partners to discuss once per week to reinforce their connection to each other and with God.\n\nScripture for everyday life that applies bible study to love and relationships, along with bonding milestones such as personal values, morals, parenting, money, etc. \n\nDate ideas to foster your connection through fun activities like going to a baseball game, watching the sun rise, or taste testing local coffee shops.\n\nGet closer to each other and to His love and grace with Together With Christ: A Dating Couples Devotional.

Open Your Heart a Lasting Love Before you tie the knot, make sure the rope is strong. Let these insightful and inspiring devotions minister to your heart as you begin to develop a daily habit of spending time with God. Best-selling author and counselor H. Norman Wright’s has mentored more than a million dating and engaged couples with his interactive and easy-to-use books on marriage. Through Scripture, storytelling, and thought-provoking questions, each of these devotions serve as a tool to initiate honest and heartfelt conversation between you and your partner. Whether you’re already engaged or still getting to know each other, you can build a strong and healthy relationship with open communication, respect for one another, and trust in God.

Harder than you imagined. Better than a fairy tale. Marriage between sinners has its inevitable messes. If you’ve been married longer than a week or two, you know how the hard realities of life in a fallen age can come crashing in. Perhaps you had a season of “once upon a time,” but soon enough you realized that this marriage, in this world, is not yet your “happily ever after.” We want to help. We believe that God designed marriage not as a trial to be endured, but as a pointer to and catalyst for your greatest joy. God didn’t design marriage to be your storybook ending, but a fresh beginning, to help get you ready for the true “happily ever after” when together we see our great Bridegroom face to face. The thirty devotional readings in Happily Ever After have been assembled to shape, challenge, and inspire you and your spouse’s (or fiancé’s) vision of marriage.

Ryan and Selena Frederick were newlyweds when they landed in Switzerland to pursue Selena's dream of training horses. Neither of them knew at the time that Ryan was living out a death sentence brought on by a worsening genetic heart defect. Soon it became clear he needed major surgery that could either save his life--or result in his death on the operating table. The young couple prepared for the worst.When Ryan survived, they both realized that they still had a future together. But the near loss changed the way they saw all that would lie ahead. They would live and love fiercely, fighting for each other and for a Christ-centered marriage, every step of the way.Fierce Marriage is their story, but more than that, it is a call for married couples to put God first in their relationship, to measure everything they do and say to each other against what Christ did for them, and to see marriage not just as a relationship they should try to keep healthy but also as one worth fighting for in every situation. With the gospel as their foundation, Ryan and Selena offer hope and practical help for common struggles in marriage, including communication problems, sexual frustration, financial stress, family tension, screen-time disconnection, and unrealistic expectations.

Take Time Out of Each Day to Relax and Grow TogetherIn the midst of the stress and pressure of everyday life, Moments Together for Couples will give you and your mate a chance to pause, relax, and draw upon the strength of the Lord. This easy-to-use devotional helps you set aside anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes every day with your spouse to grow closer to God and closer to each other.

With the ongoing popularity of A&E’s Duck Dynasty, the much-loved Robertson family has more to share about family, faith, and love than ever before. Alan (the beardless brother) and his wife Lisa have created a devotional combining their hard-won wisdom about love and marriage to help bring couples closer together and closer to God.Alan and Lisa Robertson had a failing marriage. But with unwavering faith and the unconditional love of their ever-present family, they got through the tough times and rekindled their love. Now the Robertsons want to share what they’ve learned. Combining the spiritual with the practical, The Duck Commander Devotional for Couples has a simple purpose: to bring couples closer to God and to each other. Designed with busy couples in mind, this devotional encourages husbands and wives to set aside time weekly to enhance their relationship. Spending spiritually meaningful time together every day is often impossible, but Al and Lisa arranged this devotional with realistic goals, allowing you to experience success and the desire to meet together regularly.Each devotional includes inspirational messages, relevant scriptures, thoughtful questions, and prayer suggestions. Whether you are happy in your marriage or struggling to hold it together, setting aside time to focus on each other and deepen your connections will improve your relationship and bring you closer to God.

What if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy? By popular demand, the author of Sacred Marriage returns to the topic of how God uses marriage to expand our souls and make us holy. With all new material, Devotions for a Sacred Marriage explores how God can reveal himself to you through your marriage and help you grow closer to him as well as to your spouse. Fifty-two devotions encourage you to build your marriage around God’s priorities. From learning to live with a fellow sinner, to the process of two becoming one, to sharing our lives as brothers and sisters in Christ, Devotions for a Sacred Marriage challenges couples to embrace the profound and soul-stretching reality of Christian marriage.

The demands of everyday life almost always pull husbands and wives in different directions. And even when they are together, there’s very little opportunity to just be a couple. Work, children, and other commitments make it a constant challenge to find quality time alone.\nHugh and Cindi McMenamin have put together an innovative devotional about meaningful ways that husbands and wives can draw closer together. Each reading in this 31-day book offers simple, helpful (and fun!) steps a husband and wife can take to nourish closeness and intimacy. Among the topics are\n\nthe power of a note\nmaking a memory\nextending grace\nsplurging on love\nfinding a getaway\nlighten the load\nflirting again\nsharing your heart\n\nKey thoughts from Scripture are interwoven into each devotion, and each ends with “Points to Ponder Together” as well as a couple’s prayer. Especially helpful are the frequent anecdotal tips from a woman’s perspective (Cindi) and a man’s (Hugh).

Maybe you’re a bride-to-be who is about to gain a mother-in-law. Or perhaps you’re a mother-of-the-groom who is about to gain a daughter-in-law. Or maybe you’ve been in an in-law relationship for decades, one that’s been struggling in painful tension for years. No matter your age or stage, every daughter-in-law and mother-in-law needs help navigating their relationship sometimes.\\nWhether the struggle is one of feeling unseen, unheard, or unvalued, authors and in-laws Barbara and Stacy Reaoch have been there, and as they’ve put the Bible’s wisdom to practice over the years, they’ve found that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law really can thrive in the midst of difficulty.\\nIn this biblical, practical, and heartfelt book, Barbara and Stacy Reaoch share from their own 20 years of forming a mother-in-law/daughter-in-law bond. As you walk alongside them in their own journey and lessons learned, prepare to be encouraged and equipped in these areas: Expectations Conflict Suffering Communication Parenting And more With the Bible as your foundation and this book as a helpful companion in the journey, take heart: a healthier relationship with your mother-in-law or daughter-in-law is closer than you think!

Life Is Never Mainly about Love and Marriage. So Learn to Live and Date for More.\nMany of you grew up assuming that marriage would meet all of your needs and unlock God’s purposes for you. But God has far more planned for you than your future marriage. Not Yet Married is not about waiting quietly in the corner of the world for God to bring you “the one,” but about inspiring you to live and date for more now.\nIf you follow Jesus, the search for a spouse is no longer a pursuit of the perfect person, but a pursuit of more of God. He will likely write a love story for you different than the one you would write for yourself, but that’s because he loves you and knows how to write a better story. This book was written to help you find real hope, happiness, and purpose in your not-yet-married life.

Marriage is an adventure unlike any other. At times, you and your spouse may feel so close, connected, and in love that you’re ready to take on the world together. But other times things grow distant, and you wonder where all the joy and excitement has gone. What is the secret to a happy, healthy, God-honoring marriage―one that will last through anything that comes your way?Join Tony and Lauren Dungy in The Uncommon Marriage Adventure, a series of daily reflections for couples. With transparency, wisdom, and humor, the Dungys share what they’ve learned over 30 years of marriage about faith, teamwork, conflict, communication, and more. Through each day’s reading, you and your spouse will go deeper in loving, understanding, and learning to serve each other. Dare to embark on your own marriage adventure―and discover how to make your relationship truly uncommon.

By God's design, the desire to be wanted and loved runs deep inside everyone He created. In an engaging and down-to-earth way, author Kim Cash Tate encourages you to satisfy that desire by living in the fullness of God's love. Cling shares wisdom from biblical examples and the author's personal experiences to help you cultivate an ongoing closeness with the Lord through prayer and Bible study. Discover how to have an intimacy with God that will sustain you through the imperfect, the disappointing, and the trying times of life.

In this freshly designed trade edition of the bestselling daily devotional Quiet Times for Couples (more than 600,000 copies sold), noted counselor and author Norm Wright provides the help couples need to nurture their marriages. In just a few moments together each day, couples will discover a richer intimacy with each other and with God. They are encouraged to share their fondest dreams and deepest thoughts—creating memories in these quiet times together.\nA couple will look forward to closing the doors on the frenzied world and taking turns reading the devotions. The Scripture verses and meditations guide them in applying God's Word to their lives and marriage, and the daily discussions will fill their relationship with a new expression of God's promises and an everlasting love toward one another.\nThis is the perfect gift—thoughtful and inspirational—for all couples at any stage of life and relationship.

A Study Guide to Equip Couples for Life.\nFamilyLife Bible Study for Couples helps couples―and those who are one half of a couple―explore the issues facing husbands and wives: resolving conflict, communicating effectively, raising godly children, rekindling and maintaining romance together, loving difficult family members, and more. \nWith firm biblical grounding, this seven-week study has applications for personal growth, individual reflection questions, and discussion questions for couples and small groups.

Draw closer to God and your spouse through 30 daily devotions, each one brought to life with beautiful imagery (black/white) and practical application.\nFiercely Focused on ChristLearn how the gospel relates to every aspect of your marriage by tracing core issues to their source and seeking Jesus as the answer to every question.\nVisually Rich and ChallengingEach day starts with an image/quote combination designed to inspire and stimulate conversation. Explore passages of the Bible, connect the gospel to real challenges, and pray alongside your spouse.\n10 Bonus Images IncludeIn addition to the 30 devotional images, enjoy 10 bonus graphics with space to express why they matter to you. Cut out a few pages, write on the backs, and place them around your home or work place as constant reminders.\nChapters and Outline \n\nDay 1: Rocks, Rockets, & the Gravity of Belief\nDay 2: No Longer Two\nDay 3: The Blessed Fountain\nDay 4: Busier Isn't Better\nDay 5: Created Beautiful\nDay 6: A Worthwhile Pursuit\nDay 7: Christ is Enough\nDay 8: Foundational Friendship\nDay 9: An Unparalleled Adventure\nDay 10: Perseverance (doesn't equal) Perfection\nDay 11: Fully Known & Fully Loved\nDay 12: Laugh, Listen, Love\nDay 13: The Generous Marriage\nDay 14: Keep the House, Toss the Bulb\nDay 15: Lost in Intimacy\nDay 16: Works in Progress\nDay 17: No shortcuts, No Substitutes\nDay 18: Reconciliation Over Retaliation\nDay 19: Lives Marked by Pursuit\nDay 20: Pray, Play, Stay\nDay 21: The Three Proximities of Intimacy\nDay 22: Seeing the Same Truth\nDay 23: This Grace in Which We Stand\nDay 24: Love for All Occasions\nDay 25: Beautiful In-Between\nDay 26: Design Your Time\nDay 27: Exchange Fear for Faith\nDay 28: Love vs Lust\nDay 29: A Generational Gift\nDay 30: Love Endures All Things\nBonus Images\nAdditional Resources\n

When you write together, you grow closer together.\nThe secret to a great relationship is to stay emotionally open and connected with each other―year after year. A Couple’s Love Journal makes it easy by providing a shared space for the two of you to explore (and write responses to) deep, thought-provoking questions that deal with your relationship, yourselves, your hopes, and more.\nFrom exploring how you’ve grown as a couple to reliving old memories, each weekly entry in A Couple’s Love Journal features a new and meaningful way for you to grow your love together. You’ll learn more about each other as you reflect on ways to share your feelings and build a connection that can last a lifetime.\nA Couple’s Love Journal includes:\n\n\nA year-long journey, one week at a time―Rediscover your relationship over the course of a year with this love journal’s 52 weekly prompts.\n\nRelationship building―Deepen your intimacy with engaging and enjoyable activities both of you will love to try.\n\nJournaling made easy―Never kept a love journal? Get helpful suggestions for making sure you get the most out of this experience.\n\nSpend the next year getting to know each other even better inside the pages of A Couple’s Love Journal.

"I found the one my heart loves." Song of Songs 3:4 Discover all that God has in store for your marriage as you share your dreams and fears in your quiet times. Making time to become still before the Lord as a couple is vital to a strong and happy marriage. This 366 devotional book written by Rob and Joanna Teigen is aimed especially at couples. Each devotion will guide couples to a deeper intimacy with each other and with God. The daily insights and advice will help you to grow closer to Him as you reconnect on a spiritual level. Each daily reading offers a Scripture verse, a short inspiring devotion, and a powerful prayer. Whether it's 5 or 30 minutes, the Mr. and Mrs. Devotions for Couples will give you a chance to grow in your faith and to draw from the Lord's strength. Do whatever it takes to put each other first and rekindle the joy of your marriage. This beautiful hardcover devotional for couples has a debossed foiled title and gilt-edged pages. It is the perfect size to place on a nightstand, coffee table or bring along with you as you travel together. It has two color insides with a ribbon marker to hold your place. Featuring Song of Songs 3:4, this devotional makes a lovely gift book for newlyweds or couples celebrating an anniversary after many years together. \nSize: 7.2" x 4.8" x 0.7" \nBlue Hardcover\nHeat-Debossed Gold Foiled Title\nTwo-Color Insides\nRibbon Marker\n388 Gold Gilt-Edged Pages\n

A Realistic Guide to the Marriage You’ve Always Dreamed OfIs your relationship with your spouse far from the union you’d hoped it would be? John and Stasi Eldredge know about the realities of marriage—and they know why it’s so important to take hold of the dreams you once had and see God fulfill them. In this eight-week devotional, John and Stasi will guide you and your spouse to see God’s heart for your marriage more clearly. This life-changing guide includes new insights, encouraging Scriptures, and practical exercises that will help you develop a personal plan for a vibrant marriage. As John and Stasi write, “We learn to love moment by moment. Day by day. Week by week. Our marriages grow and become what God intended and what we ultimately long for in the same way. We are, all of us, learning to love.”

Stay happily married for life! Whether it has been twenty years or twenty minutes, every marriage needs encouragement. This daily devotional is for married couples who want to strengthen their relationship and center it on God. Designed with busy couples in mind, each reading is short enough to enjoy together over that first cup of coffee or right before bed. Every day includes • practical tips for fostering meaningful connection, • simple reminders on how to enjoy a Christ-like relationship, • fun anecdotes from other couples, and • space to record thoughts and action steps. Draw closer to your spouse and God with Celebrate Your Marriage —the perfect gift for newlyweds and seasoned couples alike.

In a world full of distractions, it can sometimes feel virtually impossible to disconnect from work, news, social media, friends, or whatever life throws your way. Finding moments for quality connections as a couple can seem difficult, but it’s incredibly important for maintaining a healthy marriage! One of the best ways to strengthen your relationship is to spend time together with God with the help from this daily devotional book. This spiritual couples book contains 365 devotions and is designed to help you and your spouse apply Scripture to real relationship situations. A Little God Time for Couples will help open communication, build intimacy, and strengthen your commitment to God and one another. Whether you have been married for five days, five years, or a lifetime, a little God time is the ultimate way to begin or end your day together. Offering fresh insight on relationships, encouraging Scriptures, thought-provoking questions, and inspirational prayers, this book will help you intentionally engage with God and each other. This devotional book also makes a great couple’s gift for anniversaries, engagements, holidays, or any gift-giving occasion. FEATURES: - Includes 384 pages of daily devotions, inspirational prayers, encouraging scriptures and thought-provoking questions. -Binding: Hardcover - Publisher: BroadStreet Publishing Group, LLC

The God Centered Marriage is more than an eloquently written overview on putting God at the center of your marriage. It is a how-to manual with action steps, journal questions, Scripture references, prayers for specific areas of your marriage and resources for deeper study.In it, we cover what it means to have a God-centered marriage and explore the many areas of your marriage that many overlook when it comes to putting God at the center.These areas include:MoneyIntimacyFriendshipSubmissionCommunicationFamily and Other Relationships

A Year of Weekly Devotions for a Holier, Happier Marriage\nYour marriage is more than a sacred covenant with your spouse. It is a relationship God uses to help you know Him more, trust Him more fully, and love Him more deeply.\nDevotions for a Sacred Marriage explores how God can reveal Himself to you through your marriage and help you grow closer to Him as well as to your spouse. With fresh insights that build upon the principles found in Sacred Marriage, these fifty-two weekly devotions offer practical, biblical wisdom for nurturing your marriage as an expression of your love for God.\nA happy marriage is good, but a holy one is sacred.\nGary Thomas is a writer-in-residence at Second Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, and an adjunct faculty member teaching about spiritual formation at Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of fifteen books, including Sacred Marriage, Sacred Pathways, Sacred Parenting, and the Gold Medallion Award-winning Authentic Faith.

The wedding is planned, but are you spiritually prepared for your wedding day? Trusted relationship author Gary Thomas coaches engaged couples on how to grow closer to the Lord in the days leading up to the wedding as a means of preparing them for all the days after the wedding.\nEngagement is bursting with promise, hope, joy, and anticipation of all kinds. It can also be one of the busiest times your life. For some, planning a wedding, with all the decisions involved, can feel less like the onset of marriage and more like a long to-do list. Amidst the busyness, this devotional is designed to help you think through the spiritual priorities and challenges that lie ahead in order to grow an outstanding marriage filled with love, grace, and God's blessing.\nThis lovely book provides encouraging entries that will help you deal with common issues such as:\n\nWhat real intimacy means\nHow to celebrate your differences\nRemembering to laugh together\n\nWith a special section on the marriage vows and meditations for the bride and groom, Preparing Your Heart for Marriage will help you grow in your relationship as a couple as you become closer to God.