The Intimate Mystery: Creating Strength and Beauty in Your Marriage (INTIMATE MARRIAGE SERIES) - Hardcover

Allender, Dan B.; Longman III, Tremper

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0830821317 ISBN 13: 9780830821310

Publisher: IVP Books, 2005

Synopsis

Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III have together written this brief, simple and charming introduction to help couples build healthy and happy marriages. Their model follows the "leave, weave and cleave" imagery of the Bible: leave your parents, weave a life together and cleave to each other. This book is part of a kit that includes everything needed to mentor individual married couples or to lead a group discussion. It will be especially helpful for newlyweds or young married couples who are just beginning their new life together.

About this title

From the Publisher

"Helps couples build healthy and happy marriages Draws from the ""leave, weave, cleave"" imagery of the Bible Brief, simple and charming introduction Designed to complement a curriculum kit for counseling individual couples or leading group discussions Part of a marriage curriculum kit but also available separately There is a companion DVD available with engaging discussion openers to accompany each session Appropriate for group discussion or one-on-one discussion by a couple Studies are written by Tremper Longman, part of the NLT translation committee using the NLT Sidebars with biblical background information are included with the studies"

From the Author

IVP: How is this book and curriculum different than others on marriage?

Longman: We felt that Christians need more than another how-to, step-by-step book. Rather, we thought it would be more helpful to get people in touch with important biblical ideas about the nature of marriage. The Bible tells us everything we need to know about marriage--its purpose and goal, and its importance. We also learn important principles about the most essential aspects of marriage such as communication, sexuality, and most importantly, about repentance and forgiveness. IVP: What do you mean by the "intimate mystery" of marriage?

Allender: One the mysteries of marriage is sacrifice. "Sacrifice is not merely cleaning the floor or doing the laundry; it is suffering for, with and against the other without turning away from desire. Sacrifice compels us to enter the heartache, stories, dreams, desires and sin of the other in order to bless them. It calls us to lose ourselves in the complex web of their soul. The mystery is great--in doing so, we find ourselves. We find our truest self and the God who is true to our self. The sacrifices of love open our eyes to the mystery of Jesus' death and resurrection for us."

Edition details

• Publisher: IVP Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0830821317
• ISBN 13: 9780830821310
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 107