Grounds for Marriage, Book and Study Guide: A Fresh Starting Point for Couples in Crisis - Softcover

Jade G. Stone

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160899810X ISBN 13: 9781608998104

Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2011

Synopsis

Your marriage is in crisis, and you've read countless books on how to make it work, but to no avail. You haven't seen sustainable change in your relationship, and you're ready to give up hope that counseling will be effective. You're weary of striving, and you may have even considered having an affair, doing violence to yourself or to your partner, or indulging in an addiction. Perhaps you already have.

You cannot stomach another false promise or simplistic solution to the complex problems in your marriage, and you wonder, is there any other way?

Grounds for Marriage speaks into the wreckage of broken covenants with a fresh perspective on relationship, refusing to apply flimsy bandages to fractured relationships and insisting that the core brokenness be addressed and genuinely repaired. This material helps couples and their counselors to honestly evaluate troubled marriages, providing a much-needed compassionate, sensible, hopeful, sound, and sometimes unexpected understanding of the scriptures and of relationship.

Synchronizing personal story, anecdotes from her work as a Licensed Professional Counselor, and a review of literature in psychology and theology, Jade G. Stone helps couples in crisis to:

-study the scriptures to determine what they say constitutes a marriage covenant
-recognize how both partners contribute to failure in their marriage
-heal from old wounds so they can be in covenantal relationship with God and with a covenant companion

With no-nonsense directness and high-definition clarity, Stone helps you envision how human covenantal commitments must function in order to mirror intimacy with God.

About this title

About the Author

Jade G. Stone is a seminary graduate, Licensed Professional Counselor, and master's level educator. She specializes in treating adult survivors of childhood trauma, neglect, and abuse.

Review

"A heartfelt and practical plea to re-affirm a true marriage covenant, based on good Biblical foundations."
--David Instone-Brewer
Senior Research Fellow in Rabbinics and the New Testament
Tyndale House, Cambridge --Wipf and Stock Publishers

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 160899810X
• ISBN 13: 9781608998104
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 376