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A Lasting Promise

The Christian Guide to Fighting for Your Marriage
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A Lasting Promise is a thoroughly revised Christian guidebook that addresses common marital challenges through sacred scripture and contemporary research. It offers practical strategies for improving communication, deepening commitment, increasing enjoyment, and enhancing intimacy within marriage. The book also explores modern cultural changes such as technological distractions and social media, while discussing themes like the chemistry of love and emotional support.
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Ideal for Christian couples seeking to strengthen their marriage through faith-based insights and practical advice. Suitable for those wishing to deepen commitment and prevent divorce over the long term.

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The revised edition of the bestselling Christian guide to a happy marriage For more than fifteen years, Scott Stanley's A Lasting Promise has offered solutions to common problems facing conflicts, problem solving, improving communication, and dealing with core issues within a Christian framework.

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The revised edition of the bestselling Christian guide to a happy marriage

For more than fifteen years, Scott Stanley's A Lasting Promise has offered solutions to common problems—facing conflicts, problem-solving, improving communication, and dealing with core issues—within a Christian framework. Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition is filled with sacred teachings of scripture, the latest research on marriage, and clear examples from the lives of couples. The book's strategies are designed to help couples improve communication, understand commitment, bring more fun into their relationship, and enhance their sex lives.

  • Lead author Scott Stanley is co-director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver and coauthor of Fighting for Your Marriage, which has sold more than a million copies.
  • Offers reflections on how to enhance anyone's marriage over the long term and avoid divorce.
  • Covers recent cultural shifts, such as dealing with the endless technological distraction and issues with social networking.
  • New themes include the chemistry of love, the life-long implications of having bodies, and how to support one another emotionally.
  • Uses illustrative examples from couples' lives and rich integration of insights from scripture.

This important book offers an invaluable resource for all couples who want to honour and preserve the holy sacrament of their union.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118672921

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 February 2014

Country: United States

Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.

Edition: New and Revised Edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 224.0mm

Weight: 408g

Pages: 352

About the Author

Scott Stanley, Ph.D., coauthor of Fighting for Your Marriage, codirects the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver. Daniel Trathen, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice and counseling educator. Savanna McCain, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice. Milt Bryan has been a counselor to couples for over twenty-five years.

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