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Sacred Marriage

What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?
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What if God designed marriage to make you holy instead of happy? What if your relationship isn't as much about you and your spouse as it is about you and God?

In Sacred Marriage, Gary Thomas explores how marriage can be a pathway to a deeper relationship with God and a closer, more meaningful bond with your spouse. Drawing on Scripture, church history, and Christian wisdom, Thomas offers practical advice to transform struggles into spiritual growth and to foster a marriage centred on holiness.

The book provides guidance on turning marital challenges into opportunities for personal and spiritual development, strengthening love with purpose, and growing together in faith and character. It also emphasises maintaining a healthy sex life, prayer life, and spiritual life as essential parts of a sacred marriage.

Each copy includes discussion questions to encourage reflection and dialogue between couples or small groups, deepening the lessons found within.
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This book is ideal for Christian couples seeking to deepen their faith through marriage, as well as individuals interested in exploring the spiritual purpose of their relationship. It suits those looking for practical, faith-based guidance to strengthen marital bonds and grow in holiness together.

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Sacred Marriage doesn't just offer techniques to make a marriage happier. It helps readers become holier husbands and wives. The revised edition has been streamlined to be a faster read without losing depth. It clarifies points, expands on the most popular teaching, and takes into account contemporary changes in marriage.

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What if God designed marriage to make you holy instead of happy? What if your relationship isn't as much about you and your spouse as it is about you and God?

In Sacred Marriage, bestselling author Gary Thomas uncovers the ways that your marriage can become a doorway to a closer walk with God and with each other. Join over one million others who have already uncovered Thomas's tips for fostering a sacred marriage.

Within the pages of Sacred Marriage, Thomas invites you to see how God can use your relationship with your spouse as a discipline and a motivation to love God more and reflect more of the character of his Son.

In addition to life-changing insights from Scripture, church history, and time-tested wisdom from Christian classics, you'll find practical advice and techniques to make your marriage happier by becoming holier husbands and wives.

In Sacred Marriage, Thomas will give you all the tools you need to:

  • Turn marital struggles into spiritual and personal appreciation
  • Love your spouse with a stronger sense of purpose
  • Confront your weaknesses and sin in order to grow your relationship with God and with your spouse
  • Partner in the spiritual growth and character formation of your spouse
  • Transform a tired marriage into a relationship filled with awe and respect

Thomas reveals that sacred marriages teach us to love God and others well by fostering a healthy sex life, a strong prayer life, and a rich spiritual life. God uses our marriages to help us grow in character, in prayer, in worship, and in serviceβ€”we just have to recognize that the purpose of marriage is holiness, not happiness.

Each copy also includes thought-provoking discussion questions designed to spark conversation between couples and small groups, allowing you to dive deeper into the lessons that Thomas shares in Sacred Marriage.

Join the one million others who have already started on their journey to transforming their relationship with their spouses and with their Creator.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780310337379

Publisher: Zondervan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 September 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Zondervan

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 249g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Gary Thomas is Writer in Residence (and serves on the teaching team) at Second Baptist Church, Houston, Texas and author of 18 books that have sold over a million copies worldwide and have been translated into a dozen languages. He and his wife Lisa have been married for 30 years

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