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Reclaim the Bible-based concept of marriage as a satisfying one-flesh relationship. In this definitive guide to marital intimacy for Christian couples over 50, learn how to deepen sexual pleasure and enjoy God’s gift of sexual intimacy with your spouse. It can be difficult to find biblically based sexual advice. A licensed psychologist and family therapist, Dr. Douglas Rosenau answers specific and often unasked questions about sexual topics, presenting married couples with detailed techniques and skills to deepen their sexual pleasure and improve their marriages.

For better or for worse? Whichever term describes your marriage, there are ways to make it (even) better. That's because God has designed marriage to be a relationship of deep unity and strength. Despite the challenges that couples face today, marital harmony need not be considered an impossible ideal.

Beautiful isn’t likely the first word that comes to mind when we think about sex. Our reactions are as varied as our experiences and backgrounds. Around us, our culture is divided by this topic. On one side, “progressive” voices seek to dismantle historic Christian teachings to fit current norms. On the other side, “conservative” voices can reinforce messages of shame, judgement, and repression. Beautiful Union offers a third way, one that is both true and beautiful.

Anyone who has welcomed another person into their family is well-versed in the challenges associated with that labor of love. However, families of all types joyfully embrace the endeavor, whether they feel prepared or not. In Raising Parents, Jonathan Brozozog and his wife Joanne reveal that how people are trained to parent is equally as important as how parents train their children.

"Biblical womanhood" is the idea that the Bible teaches God-ordained male leadership and female submission in the home and subordination in the church. Some say this hierarchy of authority is sufficiently evidenced by examples of male leadership (and lack of female leadership) in the Bible: the first human was male, Israel's official priests were male, most authors of Scripture were male, Jesus was male and chose twelve male Apostles. God is addressed as Father. Wives are commanded to submit to their husbands.

Couples don’t ride off into the sunset after their honeymoon. The truth is that marriage is hard. Maybe you’re in place where you’re feeling that. You might even feel like this is the end.

Based on an unprecedented national survey of 50,000 marriages, The Couple Checkup presents the principles for creating a successful couple relationship. The free online profile includes fifteen to twenty categories that are customized based on the relationship stage—whether dating, engaged, or married—the age, and whether or not children are involved.

The concept of narcissism is widely thought of as a person who is simply selfish or self-promoting. The reality is much more diabolical. The narcissist is like an emotional vampire that drains the soul. The victim is confused and broken while the narcissist is intentional and entertained.

Learn to aspire for a relationship with Christ rather than mark a checklist of things to do and not to do. Just because the world has treated you unfairly doesn't mean you should give in. Be fearless in the face of danger. Be hopeful when all things seem to be falling apart. But most of all love and forgive others even when they do not deserve it.

How often do women see a friend in distress or crisis, but feel helpless to really make a difference? Hopelifter: Creative Ways to Spread Hope When Life Hurts takes the mystery out of how to be the hands and feet of Jesus to anyone in need of hope, comfort and care. Kathe Wunnenberg, whose hope-lifting ministry has impacted the lives of thousands, demonstrates simple, practical ways that acts of creative compassion can transform lives.

From dealing with judgment, feelings of inferiority, and unsolicited relationship advice to working through loneliness and your sexuality, a single woman today has many things to handle. What’s worse—she has very few outlets where she can be vulnerable and understood.

You remember the dreams you had when your child was born. The innocence and You remember the dreams you had when your child was born. The innocence and possibilities. But lately, things have taken a troubling turn. Sure, you do your best to keep up appearances in public. But you live in constant worry about what’s happening behind your teenager’s closed bedroom door. Now it’s time to turn the tide with The E.M.B.R.A.C.E. Parenting Method.

One of the greatest things we can do in this world is to love one another. But love can mean many things to different people. The Bible says God is love. So, the ultimate goal is to love the way God loves us. But what does that look like? How do we learn this?

Join Bob as he travels around Northern New Jersey and “down the shore” meeting thousands of people from all backgrounds as he gives them a ride in his minivan. In Uberservations of a Pastor, he shares his private thoughts, reacting to the numerous conversations he’s overheard as a driver for the world’s largest ride sharing company.

Do you ever worry that the insecurity and instability of the modern world will have a negative effect on your children as they get older? Maybe you're worried that the impact of social media will lead to your children feeling insecure about themselves, damaging their self-confidence and self-belief.

Growing and building a great marriage does not happen by accident. Taking your relationship to the next level requires attention and effort. Even people in great marriages face challenges and encounter difficulties. What tools can you place in your hands to build the marriage you desire? In The 21 Undeniable Secrets of Marriage, best-selling author and communicator Dr. Allen Hunt shares the life-giving principles that are necessary for success in your relationship.

Sex is one of the most common marriage issues (for example, almost 80% of couples are mismatched in how often they want it), but it doesn't have to be that way. Relationship researcher Shaunti Feldhahn and renowned sex therapist Dr. Michael Sytsma have identified eight simple, transformational factors to help you move from disconnection to delight. This is knowledge you can trust, based on vast clinical experience and their breakthrough research, including the largest nationally representative study ever conducted with married couples about sex.

A unique story of two seasoned travelers who find each other and marry later in life is told from two viewpoints with openness and candor. This engaging and often humorous narrative written by a high-powered Christian woman publisher and a ready-for-retirement widowed pastor deals with change and criticism, blended families, issues of compatibility, and meshing as a couple. More than just a love story, this growing-in-faith story touches on what we all long for—belonging, being loved for who we are, and finding a place of service to God and purpose in our everyday lives.

Dr. Sharon views conflict through the lens of the attachment theory, helping us understand: why we argue, how we argue, and how to unravel our arguments. She helps us identify what's really going on in our brains and body when we argue, the cycles we get stuck in, the emotions fueling the cycles, and then helps us to argue in more considerate and connecting ways. She also offers six practical principles that help turn arguments into conversations.

When Dietrich von Hildebrand converted to Catholicism in 1914, he was surprised to find that, despite an abundance of books on the dangers of impurity, there were practically none on the positive values of purity. “So,” writes Alice von Hildebrand, widow of Dietrich, in a new foreword to the book, “this is what he set out to do in In Defense of Purity: to explore purity as a positive reality and only in light of its beauty to describe its contrary.”