Description
Happy Marriage: Dream or Reality? is filled with insightful and practical ways to build—or rebuild—an exciting, fun, and loving marriage. There are also keys to raising godly, respectful children. Pastor Joe Okedi shares years of experience as a Christian marriage counselor.
Called with a passion for marriages and families he reveals:
- Why marriages fail and how to make yours succeed.
- The seven pillars of a successful marriage.
- How to enjoy—not just endure—your marriage.
- God’s covenant power to bless and protect marriages and families.
- Hope for overcoming childlessness.
- And much more.
These highly researched, tested, and proven principles will work for anyone who cares to read and apply the wisdom. This book will change your marriage and family forever!
Book contents
Dedication
Endorsements
Foreword
Introduction:
Why I Wrote This Book
Chapter One:
Yesterday’s Godly Qualities—Today’s Sinful Ways
Chapter Two:
Marriage—An Accident Waiting to Happen?
Chapter Three:
Understanding Marriage as a Covenant
Chapter Four:
Building Relationships That Last
Chapter Five:
God—the Missing Link
Chapter Six:
Blessed Families
Chapter Seven:
Grace for Marriage Matters
Chapter Eight:
Destruction and Construction
Chapter Nine:
God’s Loved Ones
Appendix A:
Personal, Marriage, and Family Prayers
Appendix B:
My Marriage Covenant
Appendix C:
Declaration
Appendix D:
Living Proofs—Faith Lifters
Recommended Readings
About Pastor Joe Okedi and Marriage and Family Ministry International
Foreword
The chasm between the biblical vision of marriage and the common human conception is—and has always been—gargantuan. Modern culture, for instance, would make you believe that everyone has a soul mate; that romance is the most important part of a successful marriage; that your spouse is there to help you realize your potential; that marriage does not mean forever but merely for now; that starting over after a divorce is the best solution to seemingly intractable marriage issues. All these modern-day assumptions are in a word wrong.
Using the Bible as his guide, coupled with insightful illustrations, Pastor Okedi delivers the Happy Marriage: Dream or Reality?—an extraordinary, insightful look at happiness in marriage that will inspire Christians, skeptics, singles, long-time married couples, and those to be engaged. Also underlining the theme of the book is the message that God created marriage to bring us closer to Him and to bring more joy into our lives.
Are you and your spouse struggling to keep your marriage alive? Or are you planning to enter into a married relationship? Or are you yearning to lift your marriage to the next level? Pastor Okedi’s revealing and wise insights about marriage are what you need.
I have found great value in the book. Reading this book may turn out to be the wisest thing you have ever done.
Pastor Henry Ojogan, Ph.D.
Word of Life Bible Church
College of Education Warri, Nigeria
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