Welcome To Our Reading List
Let’s Learn And Grow Together
Welcome To Our Reading List
Lets Learn And Grow Together
Hey! Are you interested in growing your marriage in a powerful way? Reading and learning together is one of the best things you can to build unity.
This page is simply to be a resource to you. We will be posting the books that we want to read along with ones we recommend.
Shared/Common Visions and Goals
Learn How To
Create A Vision
Creating a common vision for your marriage is vital. Aligning your goals can help you move in step together.
- The Love Language of Goal Setting by Darrin Wiggins
- Pure Gold: Encouraging Character Qualities in Marriage by Susanne M. Alexander, with Craig A. Farnsworth and John S. Miller
- Sacred Marriage: What if God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy? By Gary Thomas
- Visionary Marriage by by Rob & Amy Rienow
- The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God by Timothy and Kathy Keller
Intimate and Open Communication
Learn To Talk
In A Healthy Way
Healthy communication is an important tool in building the intimacy your marriage needs to thrive.
- Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Sue Johnson
- The Intimate Enemy: How to Fight Fair in Love and Marriage by George R. Back and Peter Wyden
- What Your Mother Couldn’t Tell You and Your Father Didn’t Know: Advanced Relationship Skills for Better Communication and Lasting Intimacy by John Gray, Ph.D.
- You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D.
- The Five Languages of Apology by Gary Chapman
Selfless Service
Learn To Serve
In a Godly Way
Marriage hinges on both partners serving each other selflessly. When we are selfless we give all of our-self.
- His needs, her needs: Building an affair proof marriage by Willard F Harley
- Love and Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs by Emerson Eggerichs
Continued Pursuit
Learn To Keep
The Flame Alive
Dating our spouse shouldn’t end when we get married. We are not finished pursuing them.
- The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
- The Love Dare by Stephen and Alex Kendrick
- The Secrets of Happily Married Men: Eight Ways to Win Your Wife’s Heart Forever by Scott Haltzman, M.D. with Theresa Foy Digeronimo
- Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage by Kevin Leman
- Intended for Pleasure by Ed and Gaye Wheat
Grit and Grace
Learn To Forgive
And Fight Unified
The storm in our lives will come. In those moments we will need to know how to have grit and grace to thrive.
- Anger: Handling a Powerful Emotion In A Healthy Way by Gary Chapman
- A Lasting Promise: A Christian Guide To Fighting For Your Marriage by Scott Stanley, Milt Bryan, Daniel Trathen
- Love to Stay: Sex, Grace, and Commitment by Adam Hamilton
- Surrendering to Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and Other Imperfections by Iris Krasnow
- Love That Lasts: When Marriage Meets Grace
by Gary and Betsy Ricucci - What’s It Like to Be Married to Me? by Linda Dillow
by Gary and Betsy Ricucci