A comprehensive contemporary resource for planning and conducting Christian marriage services and providing pastoral care for couples before and after the wedding. Includes sample wedding services from mainline denominations and suggestions for designing personalized services, selecting music, and developing church policy statements.

About the Book A good marriage! How do you have a good marriage without crashing on the rocks of the current secular society? This book lays out what the Bible says about how to have a good marriage. Since this marriage book is based on the Bible, there will be parts of it that you will hate and parts of it that you will love. Why? Because many of societies’ ideas no longer agree with what the Bible says, and we are accustomed to think that what we hear from society is correct. But God never changes, and He made us, and He knows and understands us better than we know ourselves. We must follow God’s formula to be successful in marriage. About the Author David Deeken has been a Christian since he was 25 years old and has been teaching the Bible for over 40 years. He taught Bible weekly in a high security prison in South Texas for 15 years before he felt God leading him and his wife to move to California. While there, they both were very active in teaching and promoting God’s Word. David and his wife have been married over 53 years.

It's a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen knew more about marriage than anyone else. (Never mind that she never got married herself...) It's in the midst of the recession when Kate, a freelance journalist and self-professed Jane Austen addict, finds herself single, unemployed and soon-to-be homeless (not to mention about to turn 40). In desperation she accepts a writing assignment to prove a theory that in the toughest economic times a wealthy man is the only must-have accessory. So, with just Jane Austen's advice for company, she sets off to see if Mr Rich can ever become Mr Right. Her mission takes her to Palm Beach, St Moritz and London. Where, in keeping company with the elite, she meets billionaires, oil tycoons, and generally men who make Mr Darcy look like an amateur. But will rubbing shoulders with men of good fortune ever actually lead her to love?

How was Elizabeth Bennett expected to respond to Mr Darcy's fumbled advances? How was a mother meant to present her daughter to society for the first time? Read the manuals and 'conduct books' every respectful Regency lady was required to read before embarking on the long courtship process made famous by the novels of Jane Austen.

Irresistibly candid and wholly persuasive, Mama Gena speaks to women of all ages and gets to the true heart of any relationship whether it's seven years or seven months old.

This resource is much more than a mere leader's guide for the Focus on the Family Marriage Series; it is a manual for developing and sustaining a ministry to marriages in your church and community. With marriages in our culture-and even the Church- in dire straits, there is a desperate need for the Church and it's leaders to stand in the gap for families and marriages. Gleaned from ministries around the nation, this manual contains information on how and where to begin, types of ministry settings, staffing and organization of the ministry. It also includes basic information on learning styles and how to teach adults, develop lessons and encourage discussion. It will also include reproducible forms, publicity aids and clip art, as well as a listing of additional resources.

"How to Pick a Mate: The Guide to a Happy Marriage" by Clifford R. Adams|Vance Packard. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.