Author(s): Tony Evans
Publisher: Focus on the Family
Price: $3.99       (Ends Aug 31)

Experience the vibrant, abundant marriage that God wants for you.

What happens when a kingdom man marries a kingdom woman? Kingdom Marriage: Connecting God’s Purpose with Your Pleasure helps couples grow together as a kingdom couple to fulfill God’s design and purpose for their relationship. Through practical insights and powerful stories, Dr. Tony Evans inspires and instructs so Christian couples will discover the hope, challenge, and guidance God’s Word provides for their journey together.

“You can reflect the glory of God and the unity of the Trinity through your shared purpose, honor, and love as a true kingdom couple.” ―Tony Evans

Kingdom Marriage shows couples that the key to influencing our society and world with lasting impact is found in solidifying biblical marriage (more…)

Everybody Fights
Author(s): Kim Holderness and Penn Holderness
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Price: $1.99 (Ends Aug 15)

A USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller!

Learn how to fight better and end your arguments with your partner feeling closer, more loved, and better understood.

We take our cars in for oil changes. We mow our lawns and pull weeds. Why don’t we do maintenance on our marriages? This relationship is the most important one we will ever have, so why not get better at it?

For the last several years, Penn and Kim Holderness of The Holderness Family have done the hard maintenance and the research to learn how to fight better. With the help of their marriage coach Dr. Christopher Edmonston, they break down their biggest (and in some cases, funniest) fights. How did a question about chicken wings turn into a bra fight (no, not a bar fight or a bra fight)? How did a roll of toilet paper lead to tears, resentment, and a stint in the guest bedroom?

With their trademark sense of humor and complete vulnerability, Penn and Kim share their 10 most common Fight Fails and how to combat them. Throughout the book, they offer scripts for how to start, continue, and successfully close hard conversations. Couples will emerge equipped to engage and understand, not do battle—and maybe laugh a little more along the way.

In Everybody Fights, couples will learn how to:

Use “magic words” for healthy conflict resolution
Address unspoken and unrealistic expectations
Banish the three Ds of unhealthy communication—distraction, denial, and delay
Carry individual baggage while helping your partner deal with theirs
Penn and Kim want you to know you’re not alone. Everybody fights. Marriage is messy. Marriage is work. But marriage is worth it. Fight for it!

Emotionally Destructive
Author(s): Leslie Vernick
Publisher: WaterBrook
Price: $1.99 (Ends Aug 13)

Something Has to Change…

You can’t put it into words, but something is happening to you. Your stomach churns, your heart aches, and the tension in your marriage is making you feel weary and a little crazy. The constant criticism, disrespect, cruelty, deceit, and gross indifference are eroding your confidence and breaking your spirit.

For any woman caught in an emotionally destructive marriage, Leslie Vernick offers a personalized path forward. Based on decades of counseling experience, her intensely practical, biblical advice will show you how to establish boundaries and break free from emotional abuse. Learn to:

· identify damaging behaviors
· gain the skills to respond wisely
· promote healthy change
· stay safe
· understand when, why, and even how to leave
· recognize that God sees and hates what is happening to you

Trying harder to be a perfect fantasy wife won’t help fix what’s wrong your marriage. Discover instead how you can initiate effective changes to stop the cycle of destruction and restore hope for the future.

“Women in an emotionally abusive marriage do not need another book on how to have a good marriage; those books rub salt in raw wounds. No, they desperately need this book so that they can diagnose just how bad their marriage is and then, with Leslie’s clear expertise, develop a plan that will either begin to turn their marriage around…or give them a wise route of escape.”
—Dee Brestin, author of Idol Lies and The Friendships of Women

Sheet Music
Author(s): Kevin Leman
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Price: $2.99 (Ends July 26)

Are you longing for an active, fulfilling sex life?

With his characteristic warmth and humor, Dr. Kevin Leman offers a practical guide to sex according to God’s plan. This frank and down to earth book is a perfect resource for Christian couples, whether they’re in premarital counseling, engaged, newlyweds, or have been married for years.

Psychologist Dr. Leman addresses a wide spectrum of people, from those with no sexual experiences to those with past sexual problems or even abuse. Using no-nonsense descriptions, this book has a warm and friendly tone that will help husbands and wives to:

Improve love, passion, and pleasure in the bedroom
Overcome awkwardness with their spouses in discussing an issue important to all married couples
Create healthy sexual intimacy in their relationship

Now includes answers to 30 intimate questions you’ve been too afraid to ask!

Staying Close
Author(s): Dennis Rainey
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Price: $2.99 (Ends July 27)

Countless married couples end up living alone – in the same house. Over twenty-eight years of conducting “Weekend to Remember” conferences have convinced Dennis and Barbara Rainey that isolation is the number-one problem in marriages today. But they believe it’s possible to overcome “marital drift” and experience the miracle of oneness. This book provides a positive, workable strategy for keeping your marriage vital and intimate. Included are proven principles and hands-on exercises to help you:

understand the personal and cultural forces that isolate you from your spouse
manage your schedules, workloads, roles, and responsibilities without losing sight of each other
allos for (and enjoy) individual differences while maintaining unity
build an atmosphere of cooperation by meeting each other more than halfwey
“affair-proof” your relationship (or heal it after the fact)
grow closer duing hard times instead of letting your troubles pull you apart
create a “safe” atmosphere for transparent communication
discover the secrets of a mutually rewarding sex life
leave a legacy of love and unity to your family and friends

Author(s): John Mark Comer
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Price: $2.99       (Ends Jun 23)

In the beginning, God created Adam. Then he made Eve.
And ever since we’ve been picking up the pieces.
Loveology is just that—a theology of love.
With an autobiographical thread that turns a book into a story, pastor and speaker John Mark Comer shares about what is right in male/female relationships—what God intended in the Garden. And about what is wrong—the fallout in a post-Eden world.
Loveology starts with marriage and works backward. Comer deals with sexuality, romance, singleness, and what it means to be male and female; ending with a raw, uncut, anything goes Q and A dealing with the most asked questions about sexuality and relationships.
This is a book for singles, engaged couples, and the newly married—both inside and outside the church—who (more…)

The Love Dare
Author(s): Alex Kendrick
Publisher: B&H Books
Price: $4.99 (Sept 29 only)

Unconditional love is eagerly promised at weddings, but rarely practiced in real life. As a result, romantic hopes are often replaced with disappointment in the home. But it doesn’t have to stay that way.

The Love Dare, the New York Times No. 1 best seller that has sold five million copies and was major plot device in the popular movie Fireproof, is a 40-day challenge for husbands and wives to understand and practice unconditional love. Whether your marriage is hanging by a thread or healthy and strong, The Love Dare is a journey you need to take. It’s time to learn the keys to finding true intimacy and developing a dynamic marriage.

This second edition also features a special link to a free online marriage evaluation, a new preface by Stephen and Alex Kendrick, minor text updates, and select testimonials from The Love Dare readers. Take the dare!

Suffering Is Never for Nothing
Author(s): Elisabeth Elliot
Publisher: B&H Books
Price: $4.99 (Sept 29 only)

Hard times come for all in life, with no real explanation. When we walk through suffering, it has the potential to devastate and destroy, or to be the gateway to gratitude and joy.

Elisabeth Elliot was no stranger to suffering. Her first husband, Jim, was murdered by the Waoroni people in Ecuador moments after he arrived in hopes of sharing the gospel. Her second husband was lost to cancer. Yet, it was in her deepest suffering that she learned the deepest lessons about God.

Why doesn’t God do something about suffering? He has, He did, He is, and He will.

Suffering and love are inexplicably linked, as God’s love for His people is evidenced in His sending Jesus to carry our sins, griefs, and sufferings on the cross, sacrificially taking what was not His on Himself so that we would not be required to carry it. He has walked the ultimate path of suffering, and He has won victory on our behalf.

This truth led Elisabeth to say, “Whatever is in the cup that God is offering to me, whether it be pain and sorrow and suffering and grief along with the many more joys, I’m willing to take it because I trust Him.”

Because suffering is never for nothing.