Sacred Marriage

This book was given to us even as we started on the journey together as one. It's been an interesting read, of how marriage is to make us Holy and more like Christ. Interesting in that my sister mentioned this when she got married. I think each time I picked up the book, it inspires to to be more Christ centred till the next selfish moment. Haha.. anyway 1st of 2 books given.

' What if God designed marriage to make us Holy more than to make us Happy?'




1. The Greatest Challenge in the World
A call to Holiness More Than Happiness

2. Finding God in Marriage
Marital Analogies Teach us Truths about God 
Creator
God views His people as a husband views His wife
Reconciliation, pointing as a sign to the union of Christ with His church
Aim of marriage is to proclaim and model God's ministry of reconciliation.

3. Learning to Love
How Marriage Teaches Us to Love 
By learning to love your spouse, you learn to love God
It is far less of a leap for us to love each other then to love God. Marriage is designed to call us out of ourselves and learn to love the " different".

4. Holy Honor
Marriage Teaches Us to Respect Others
have contempt for contempt. Christian marriage calls us to focus on giving respect to someone whom we've become so familiar.We can be thankful for our fellow sinners when we spend more time looking for evidences of grace than we do finding fault. honour by demonstrating esteem and respect, complimenting them in public, affirming their gifts, abilities and accomplishments and declaring our appreciation for all they do. honour not expressed is not honour.No one is of the Spirit of Christ but he that has the utmost compassion for sinners. Jesus the only perfect being moved towards sinful people.

5. The Soul's Embrace
Good Marriage Can Foster Good Prayer 

6. The Cleansing of Marriage
How Marriage Exposes Our Sin

7. Sacred History
Building the Spiritual Discipline of Perseverance

8. Sacred Struggle
Embracing Difficulty in Order to Build Character

9. Falling Forward
Marriage Teaches Us to Forgive 

10. Make Me a Servant
Marriage Can Build in Us a Servant's Heart

11. Sexual Saints
Marital Sexuality Can Provide Spiritual Insights and Character Development 

12. Sacred Presence
How Marriage Can Make Us More Aware of God's Presence

13. Sacred Mission
Marriage Can Develop Our Spiritual Calling, Mission, and Purpose.

Epilogue: The Holy Couple