Building a Solid Marriage and Family

When you buy a book about marriage, where do you expect the author to begin? What is the first topic you want to read about? Something on Love, Communication, Anger, Cheating or Sex? All of these are essential topics because all of us are affected by these issues. The problem with these topics is that they are not starting points. These are the things we do, but they are not who we are. If your goal is to build a solid marriage and family, which I hope it is, then the best thing we can do is to begin at the starting point, the foundation of life, marriage, and family. If you are having marriage problems, the first place you want to begin resolving those problems is upright before you go straight. God must be our starting point.

For interest sake, allow me to ask you some questions:

• What defines your life, your marriage, and your family?

• Who are you?

• What defines you?

• On what is your life and your marriage built upon at the present time?

The person you are will determine how you are going to live your life with and before others, as well as how you are going to approach your problems.

As an introduction to this book “Every season in a marriage has a benediction” I want you understand these twofold principles:

• Upon what should your life and marriage be built and

• Then share a practical plan to live out this foundation in your marriage and family.

I would like to First talk about the foundation. Every life and every plan needs a foundation, a base, a way of thinking about who you are and how you relate to your marriage and family. To tell you the truth, without a foundation, the practical steps you lay upon will not stand. Things like communication, anger, and sex will fall apart if you don’t have a clear understa...

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...alvation, when joined together in a church, form a network of interdependent support systems, which are effective in extending the Kingdom of God.

In a God ordained marriage, the excitement of romantic love ultimately leads to a lively, ongoing communication, a deep knowledge of your partner's most intimate joys and fears, sacred sex, mutual trust, and practical agreements to guide how you'll conduct your lives together. When all these things are present you have fulfilled the promise of love in marriage. In this book, you will acquire the knowledge and skills required to sustain the love that brought you together out with step-by-step guides for negotiating the areas that bring roadblocks into every marriage. These areas of contention are self, money, sex, and children, and because these topics cause the most confusion in marriage, they receive the most attention.