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Premarital Preparation
We recommend a premarital preparation class for every engaged couple at River Valley!
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Marriage Mentoring
We desire for your marriage to be all that God intended it to be!
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Vision For Your Marriage Guide Booklet
Why does our marriage need a vision? How do we create a vision for our marriage?
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A Lifelong Love
Gary Thomas believes couples often settle for too little when it comes to marriage. We fail to understand how deeply God cares about our spouse. We diminish our need to not only understand what biblical love really is, but also to become a people who excel at it.
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Experiencing God’s Dream for Your Marriage
Would you like a fresh breeze to blow in your marriage? Do you long for a marriage where intimacy and communication are a reality instead of a dream? Experiencing God's Dream for Your Marriage is a 12-part series examining God's design for marriage, with practical instruction to help you make your marriage what God desires it to be.
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Essentials Of Marriage: Handle With Care
In Essentials Of Marriage: Handle With Care, authorities like Dr. John Trent, Dave Ramsey, and Kay Arthur spell out strategies for dealing with the biggest threat couples face today- including anger, depression, sexual issues, and financial battles. You and your spouse or group will discover new- yet Bible-based- ways to beat these marriage busters.
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The Art of Marriage Small-Group Series
Marriage, the way God intended it to be, is a true art form. That's why for more than 35 years, FamilyLife has been helping couples understand God's plan for relationships. In The Art of Marriage, we weave together biblically-centered teaching, real-life stories, humorous vignettes and more to portray both the challenges and the beauty of God's design.
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Marriage: Built to Last
Money, in-laws, sex, arguments … we all want a healthy, loving marriage, but there are so many real issues that can stand in the way. Research has shown that over 50% of marriages are ending in divorce. That is why we've partnered with Pastor Chip Ingram of Living on the Edge Radio Program, financial guru Dave Ramsey and Super Bowl MVP Kurt Warner to tackle the common issues couples are facing in their marriages today.
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The Crazy Cycle in Marriage
We know that divorce is a major issue in our culture today, both inside and outside the church. Despite our best attempts at love, couples find themselves paralyzed by dysfunction and mired in conflict. Why do we face so many seemingly insurmountable problems today? Is there hope for the struggle? What are we missing?
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Torn Asunder: Recovering From an Extramarital Affair
Written by respected pastor and marriage counselor Dave Carder, this revised and expanded version of Torn Asunder sorts through the factors that contribute to infidelity and then maps out a recovery process for both partners. With compassion and wisdom rooted in the Bible, Carder offers insight for the victims of adultery, the perpetrators, and those who seek to help hurting couples.
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The Power of a Praying® Wife
Today's challenges can make a fulfilling marriage seem like an impossible dream. Yet God delights in doing the impossible if only we would ask! Stormie Omartian shares how God can strengthen your marriage as you pray for your husband concerning key areas in his life.
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The Power of a Praying® Husband
In The Power of a Praying® Husband, you'll find the excitement and hope that come from inviting the God who hears and answers prayer into your marriage.
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Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?
In Sacred Marriage, bestselling author Gary Thomas uncovers the ways that your marriage can become a doorway to a closer walk with God and with each other. Join over one million others who have already uncovered Thomas's tips for fostering a sacred marriage.
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The 7 Love Agreements
The 7 Love Agreements book helps you build your relationship one step at a time by applying relationship agreements. This book helps you develop and apply faithfulness, patience, forgiveness, service, respect, kindness, and celebration to your relationships.
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When Life Hurts: Finding Hope and Healing from the Pain You Carry
We all experience emotional pain--and even devastation--in our lives, but few of us know how to deal with it properly. Our unresolved pain accumulates deep within the recesses of our hearts, in a place Jimmy Evans calls the "hurt pocket." The more pain we accumulate, the more we are mentally, emotionally, and relationally crippled. But what if we could reach into that hurt pocket, confront our pain, and experience release and freedom?
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The 5 Sex Needs of Men & Women
A perfect follow-up book to the Rosbergs' widely read book 5 Love Needs of Men & Women. The 5 Sex Needs provides a straightforward and candid look at the different sex needs that both men and women bring to a marriage.
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The 5 Love Needs of Men and Women
Gary and Barbara Rosberg, a dynamic husband-and-wife team, share surprising new research about the unique needs of men and women. In this popular book (over 15,000 sold in hardcover), Gary talks to women, and Barbara talks to men about the top five love needs of men and women. Readers will discover how truly unique men and women are.
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The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
The 5 Love Languages is as practical as it is insightful. Updated to reflect the complexities of relationships today, this new edition reveals intrinsic truths and applies relevant, actionable wisdom in ways that work.
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The Meaning of Marriage
Based on the acclaimed sermon series by New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller, this book shows everyone—Christians, skeptics, singles, longtime married couples, and those about to be engaged—the vision of what marriage should be according to the Bible.
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How We Love
Relationship experts Milan and Kay Yerkovich explain why the ways you and your spouse relate to each other go back to before you even met. Drawing on the powerful tool of attachment theory, Milan and Kay explore how your childhood created an “intimacy imprint” that affects your marriage today.
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Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs
The message continues to impact marriages all over the world. Touted by leaders as a "classic" among marriage books, Love and Respect reveals how spouses react negatively to each other, and how they can deal with such conflict quickly, easily, and biblically.
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Keep Your Love On!
Keep Your Love On reveals the higher, Jesus–focused standard defined by mature love―love that stays ‘on’ no matter what. Danny Silk’s practical examples and poignant stories will leave you with the power to draw healthy boundaries, communicate in love, and ultimately protect your connections so you can love against all odds.
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