Beyond the Celebration: The Essential Guide to Creating a Marriage of Mutual Respect, Lasting Love, Joy, Hilarity and Great Sex: 2 (Shocking Marriage)

You’ve spent months planning your wedding, now what about the rest of your life?Marriage is one of the most important commitments into which you will ever enter. If you and your fiancé are Christ-followers, it makes sense to know what God's design for marriage looks like and to create a relationship that honors Him.Beyond the Celebration will lead every couple through the essential steps of planning a life-long marriage. From questions to ask prior to the ceremony to life-tested techniques guiding you through the years to come, this book is the essential pre-marital guidebook.Authors Jerry McColgin and Lou Rodriguez have worked with hundreds of couples both through pre-marital counseling and post-marital support. They’ve incorporated wisdom gained from these couples’ struggles as well as joy in their triumphs. Jerry and Lou also impart lessons from each of their thirty-plus years of marriage.Your wedding day is just the beginning. Your marriage should get better every day from there!

Much more than just a counselor who doles out truth, Jerry McColgin is an involved friend who winsomely speaks truth into a couple's life by gently shepherding them into a place where godly counsel, soaked in grace with a dash of humor, is given. He is a sought-out advisor by many couples regardless of their stage in life. Through his writing, podcasting, coaching and speaking he encourages couples to have the type of incredible and unique relationship that God intends them to have. Jerry has been married to his beautiful wife Tara for almost forty years. Prior to becoming a marriage minister, he lived life as a corporate executive, an entrepreneur, a business consultant. He is the founder of Shocking Marriage Ministries, a group founded on fighting complacency and creating lasting intimacy in marriages.

"To Know Lou is to Love Lou" is a common sentiment expressed by the hundreds of couples that Lou has counseled both from a premarital perspective as well as those in crisis. His heartfelt advice and non-ceasing humor provide him with a unique perspective that has set couples out into a life-time of marital happiness. He has been in Christian ministry for 35 years as an educator, youth pastor, associate pastor and senior pastor. Lou is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary. He has been married to his bride Sara for 36 years. They have 4 children and six grandchildren. Lou is a gifted public speaker and has spoken at churches throughout the country on a variety of topics including marriage and relationships. He has hosted retreats and marriage workshops. He has been the guest on popular podcasts bringing his perspectives on effective communication within marriage.