The intimate mystery : creating strength and beauty in your marriage /
Allender, Dan B.
The intimate mystery : creating strength and beauty in your marriage / - Expanded edition. - Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, ©2009. - 139 Pages. ; 21 cm. - Intimate marriage series . - Intimate marriage series. .
"Now includes six companion Bible studies"--Cover.
Man's best friend--is not a dog -- Meaning of marriage -- Matrix of marriage -- Leaving : making space for faithfulness -- Leaving : walking away from home -- Weaving : connecting communication -- Weaving : bringing our souls together -- Cleaving : united into one flesh -- Cleaving : playing with glory -- In the garden -- Bonus section: the goal of marriage study.
The book of Genesis provides a matrix for understanding the intimate mystery of marriage in light of three commands-- leave (your family of origin), weave (a life together) and cleave (through sexual intimacy). In this book, Dan Allender and Tremper Longman III explore and unpack the rich implications of this pattern--From publisher description.
9780830837243 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0830837248 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2009455474
Marriage--Religious aspects--Christianity.
BV835 / .A4556 2009 BV835 / A4556 2009
248.844 A418I
The intimate mystery : creating strength and beauty in your marriage / - Expanded edition. - Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, ©2009. - 139 Pages. ; 21 cm. - Intimate marriage series . - Intimate marriage series. .
"Now includes six companion Bible studies"--Cover.
Man's best friend--is not a dog -- Meaning of marriage -- Matrix of marriage -- Leaving : making space for faithfulness -- Leaving : walking away from home -- Weaving : connecting communication -- Weaving : bringing our souls together -- Cleaving : united into one flesh -- Cleaving : playing with glory -- In the garden -- Bonus section: the goal of marriage study.
The book of Genesis provides a matrix for understanding the intimate mystery of marriage in light of three commands-- leave (your family of origin), weave (a life together) and cleave (through sexual intimacy). In this book, Dan Allender and Tremper Longman III explore and unpack the rich implications of this pattern--From publisher description.
9780830837243 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0830837248 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2009455474
Marriage--Religious aspects--Christianity.
BV835 / .A4556 2009 BV835 / A4556 2009
248.844 A418I