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| Title | Author | Description | Available at Pine Rest Family Institute |
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| 31 Learning to Step Together: Building and Strengthening Stepfamilies | Tim Kahn | ||
| A Lasting Promise: A Christian Guide to Fighting for Your Marriage | Scott Stanley, Daniel W. Trathen, Savanna C. McCain | This book will help you create a marriage of lasting love. The powerful and practical principles offered are solidly based on Scripture with a unique blending of university research. | |
| A Lasting Promise: A Christian Guide to Fighting for Your Marriage | Scott Stanley, Daniel Trathen, Savanna McCain & Milt Bryan | An integrated Christian version of the best selling "Fighting for Your Marriage," a powerful and practical guide for building communication, commitment, friendship and spiritual connection in a marriage of lasting love. | No |
| All About Families the Second Time Around | H.C. Lewis | ||
| Becoming Soul Mates: Cultivating Spiritual Intimacy In the Early Years of Marriage | Dr. Les Parrott III and Dr. Leslie Parrott | Fifty-two devotions to enrich the development of new couples. | |
| Before a Bad Goodbye, How to Turn Your Marriage Around | Tim Clinton | A book full of helpful tools and suggestions for turning your marriage around when you've reached the end of your rope. Written from a Christian perspective, this book brings hope and help to hurting marriages. | |
| Bring Home the Joy | Larry Crabb, Kevin Leman, Gary Smalley, and Neil Warren Clark | The goal of this book is to re-energize each marriage with vitality and enjoyment. | |
| Communication: Key to Your Marriage | H. Norman Wright | This is a book that goes beyond talking about the differences in the way men and women communicate - it will help you do it! If you're married, you and your spouse will learn to understand each other at new and deeper levels. If you know a couple planning to get married, they can begin laying the groundwork today for a successful marriage. | |
| Diagnosis: Married | Kathy Dawson | How to deal with marital conflict, heal your relationship, and create a rewarding and fulfilling marriage. | |
| Empowering Couples: Building on Your Strengths | David Olsen Ph.D., and Amy Olsen, B.A. | A book designed to recognize your strengths as a couple and how you can build on them. | |
| Fighting for Your Marriage: Positive Steps for Preventing Divorce and Preserving a Lasting Love | Howard Markman, Scott Stanley and Susan Blumberg | All major topics of the PREP marriage education program are presented through numerous examples and practical exercises. Learn strategies for better communication, conflict management, and how to deepen commitment, friendship and fun in marriage. | |
| Fit to Be Tied: Making Marriage Last a Lifetime | Lynn and Bill Hybets | Gives a realistic look at marriage, giving workable strategies for maintaining a healthy, loving relationship as husband and wife. | |
| Hidden Keys To a Loving, Lasting Marriage | Gary Smalley | Author, Smalley shares the principles of strong marriages. | |
| How To Succeed as a Stepparent | P. Jolin | ||
| How to Win as a Stepfamily | E. Visher and J. Visher | ||
| Insuring Marriage: 25 Proven Ways to Prevent Divorce | Michael J. McManus | An excellent resource for couples desiring to protect their own marriages as well as invest in the lives of newly married couples. Michael McManus founded the ministry, Marriage Savers, www.marriagesavers.com, which offers many resources for married life. | |
| Loving Your Marriage Enough To Protect It | Jerry Jenkins | An absolute must-read for every couple committed to maintaining fidelity within their marriage and faithfulness to their Lord. Exposes the causes of infidelity and provides invaluable insight on how to make your marriage a stronghold against them. | |
| Marriage Enrichment | Richard Hunt Ph.D., Larry Hof, M.Div., and Rita DeMaria, Ph.D. | Marriage preparation, mentoring and outreach. | Yes |
| Marriage Mentoring: 12 Conversations for a Healthy Happy Marriage | Dr. Ed Gray, LMFT | A breakthrough, innovative, proactive program that brings marriage mentoring into the lives of everyday couples who have much to learn from one another. It is elegantly simple--and powerful for building communities and churches that value marriage. Guided yet informal conversations allow couples to share their wisdom and encouragement with one another through the stories of their marriages. The leadership training kit with DVD instruction makes this an ideal marriage mentoring program for faith-based or secular settings to teach right out of the box. A milliary version is available. For more information check out the website www.12conversations.com
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| Marriage Mentoring: The Start Smart Church Resource Marriage Kit | This kit will help you learn more about marriage mentoring and how you can make a huge difference in the next generation of married couples. It includes: * Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Kit * Mentoring Engaged and Newlywed Couples Kit * Getting Ready for the Wedding * Insuring Marriage * Becoming Soul Mates and other resource. Available on www.realrelationships.com. |