The following are Web Site links and descriptions of various resources that are aimed at enriching your marital relationship. We pray you will find them to be helpful to your marriage.

• www.amfmonline.com The Association of Marriage and Family Ministries has the vision to become a worldwide leader in the delivering and training of Marriage and Family resources. Their mission is to facilitate the coming together of both the resource providers and trainers, and the resource users in Marriage and Family Ministry. Their purpose is to serve, encourage, equip and partner with those who are called to the vital area of Marriage and Family ministry.

• www.dougbrittonbooks.com This is a web site that can help you to strengthen and refresh your marriage and your life. It has articles you can read, free on-line Bible studies you can use, and books you can purchase — all written by Doug Britton, which are designed for individuals, married couples, and small groups.

• www.familylife.com This is the web site for the great ministry of Family Life Today (which also has an international presence throughout the world). It has so many resources they make available to enrich your marriage including articles, broadcasts for marriage and the family broadcasts that you can choose to listen to or read the transcripts, plus helpful resources they make available. They also have conferences each year at various locations which you and your spouse can attend which could greatly enrich your marriage. To see what they have available in a location near you, just go to their web site and on the Home page click on “Conferences.”

• www.foreverfamilies.com Jeff and Debby McElroy offer a variety of conferences that have been used across the nation to revive the family and unite the family of God. Combine the antics of “tool time,” the hard hitting challenges of Vince Lombardi and the poignancy of a Hallmark commercial and you’ve got the idea of what you’d experience at one of their conferences. They have a Marriage Tune Up Conference that sounds great! You might see how you can plug into one of their conferences.

• www.garychapman.org Dr Gary Chapman’s Toward A Growing Marriage Seminar is an investment in your marriage. The sessions are filled with lots of humor and practical insight on sound biblical marriage. A Growing Marriage is designed to stimulate strong, healthy marriages—the foundations of strong, growing churches, and reaching others for Christ. Engaged couples will come away with ideas and insights to prepare them for marriage and enhance other relationships. Married couples will benefit from the insights gained at the seminar that will help them minister more effectively to their mate, family, and friends.

• www.liferelationships.com The mission of The Center for Relationship Enrichment (with Gary Oliver) is to help students, individual, couples, families, churches and organizations cultivate healthy relationships through Christ-centered consulting, education and enrichment at a local, regional, national and international level. Their goal is to impact relationships for a lifetime. You will find all kinds of articles and a question and answer section, etc. If you go into the section titled “Resources” and then select “articles” you can “select a category.” If you select “Marriage and Intimacy” you will find a variety of articles such as “Discovering Your Mates Built In Marriage Manual” that could greatly enrich your marriage.

• www.laughyourway.com Unlike many traditional marriage seminars that tend to be overly serious, technical and emotionally taxing, the Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage seminar with Pastor Mark Gungor, is different because it helps couples deal with tough issues in a way that is fun and non-threatening. However, while this event is fun, it is anything but light and ineffective. Mark’s great content and unique approach to troubled marriages has yielded one of the highest success rates in the country. Through the two-day seminar, couples will laugh, learn and be able to make real positive changes to their marriage. We highly recommend this seminar. It really is fun and yet helpful.

• www.loveandrespect.com This is the web site for the ministry of Love and Respect with Emerson Eggerichs. By far, he and his wife Sarah, put on one of the best marriage conferences we’ve ever attended. The ministry of Focus on the Family endorses these conferences and with good reason. God speaks powerfully through what is presented. The Love and Respect Marriage Conference is a presentation that unfolds three basic principles: 1. The Crazy Cycle: which explains the simple reason why two good willed people negatively react to each other. 2. The Energizing Cycle: which explains how two people can positively motivate one another by doing one simple thing. 3. The Rewarded Cycle: which explains what a person can do if personal expectations are unmet by a spouse. You can go to their web site to check out where the conferences will be presented or to see what else they make available (some of it for free) to enrich your marriage.

• www.marriagealive.com This is the ministry of David and Claudia Arp who have written many books, including the “Ten Great Dates” series, and gives marriage seminars in locations both within the United States and outside. You should check out their speaking schedule on their web site to see if they’re giving a seminar near you (or perhaps you want to book a marriage event for your church.

• www.marriagepartnership.com. Marriage Partnership Magazine is an American-based magazine dedicated to strengthening your marriage which helps you get a better picture of how to work together as a team. This EXCELLENT resource focuses on a variety of vital marital issues like communication, money, forgiveness, sex, and your spiritual life together. It’s written for both husbands and wives, comes out quarterly, and is published by Christianity Today International. We HIGHLY recommend it to all who can obtain it. They also have a free newsletter which you can sign up for at their very helpful web site. (You’ll need to have access to the internet in order to read the articles featured in this newsletter.) This is a great tools for enriching your marriage.

• www.marriage.com.au This Australian web site has been created for people who think that marriage is important, and are willing to spend time improving their own relationship. On their web site you can sign up for their newsletter and commit to reading it every month, browse through the resources and articles they make available, and look through the database of marriage web sites for something that suits your needs.

• www.marriages.net GTO Family Ministries offers Marriage Enrichment Conferences and Retreats to help couples Grow Toward Oneness. They can be designed specifically to meet the needs of your church or group. Conference Theme Packages and schedules can be seen for these “at church” events on the Conference Info page on their website. They run only one evening and one day so it is much easier to get couples/families to attend since there are fewer conflicts and things such as childcare and meals can be accommodated quite well at the church. They also hold weekend Marriage Enrichment Getaways (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) which contain five to six sessions. They are taught from the available Conference Theme Packages.

• www.realrelationships.com This is the web site for Dr Les and Dr Leslie Parrott who are a husband-and-wife team who not only share the same name, but the same passion for helping others build healthy relationships. They give wonderful marriage seminars throughout the U.S. and have written a lot of great books — plus their web site has free videos that you can view on your computer which gives relationship advice on many different subjects you will deal with in your married lives together including. We highly advise that you visit their web site to see what they can offer to help you enrich your marriage.

• www.3pministries.com Passionately Pursuing Purpose Ministries or 3P Ministries is founded on the premise that God’s word is true —the ultimate authority. It is alive and active. It is useful for teaching, encouraging and equipping the people of God to go forth in victory. Materials provided through 3P Ministries are biblically based. They are founded and established on the truth of the word of God. They are not intended to replace the word of God but to supplement your learning and aid your understanding —to stretch and challenge you to connect with God in a deeper way.

• World Wide Marriage Encounter — This seminar ministry can help married couples “turn a good or even ho-him or boring marriage into a great marriage.” By attending one of their weekend encounters, you, as a couple can “rediscover the spark that was there on your wedding day … rediscover the best friend you had when you were first married … and join the millions of couples worldwide who have learned how to keep their marriage vibrant and alive!”

RESOURCE DESCRIPTIONS:

• CREATIVE CONVERSATION STARTERS FOR COUPLES -by Robert and Pamela Crosby, published by Focus on the Family. This small book contains varying questions to ask for those longing for more intimate conversations. The questions included range from light-hearted and friendly topics to intimate, more personal subjects that will help you establish a lifetime of effective communication. You’ll be amazed how these powerful techniques can impact the interaction in your marriage.

• DEVOTIONS FOR A SACRED MARRIAGE… A Year of Weekly Devotions for Couples - by Gary Thomas, published by Zondervan Publishing House www.zondervan.com. This is by far our favorite devotional book for married couples and could be used as a great tool for enriching your marriage! It explores how God can reveal Himself to your through your marriage and help you to grow closer to Him as well as to your spouse. It has 52 devotions in it and even though it has all new material in it, it’s based on another of Gary Thomas’ books (which we highly recommend) Sacred Marriage. It originated because so many people requested a follow-up book to Sacred Marriage and gives a different yet compatible perspective on this subject encouraging you to build your marriage around God’s priorities. We can’t recommend it highly enough! Gary Thomas has a great way of helping you to see the holiness of marriage in a way like no other author explains it. We truly hope you’ll obtain it for yourself. Buy this book now.

• Marriage Builders® Home Study Courses, Marriage Builders® Weekend, and Marriage Builders® Accountability Program. Dr Willard F. Harley Jr. offers these three major programs to those within the United States and guarantees them to turn terrible marriages into terrific marriages. To read an explanation which describes each of these marriage enriching and marriage saving programs you can go to the following link we provide for their web site. You can go directly to the page description by clicking HERE.

• NOW WE’RE TALKING: Questions to Build Intimacy with Your Spouse -by Robert and Pamela Crosby, published by Focus on the Family. This small book is full of great questions that invite you and your spouse to open up and draw closer to each other. Buy this book now.

• TEN GREAT DATES TO ENERGIZE YOUR MARRIAGE -by David and Claudia Arp, published by Zondervan. This book will help you to reclaim the spark you had together in your dating days, through helping you to plan ten intentional, creative, memory-making dates. This proven approach to relationship growth is low-key, purposeful, effective, easy, and fun, and will help you communicate better, process anger and resolve conflicts, appreciate your differences, help you balance your busy lifestyles and more. You can enjoy your dates alone as a couple or start your own 10 Great Dates group in your church or community. (Those within the U.S. can obtain the DVD curriculum for this series for your church by going to their web site at www.marriagealive.com.)

• TEN GREAT DATES FOR EMPTY-NESTERS -by David and Claudia Arp, published by Zondervan. This book is helpful for empty-nesters because it’s just the two of you again and it’s time to renew your relationship. You can reconnect and reclaim that same spark, excitement, and creativity you experienced before you had kids through ten innovative, fun dates guaranteed to spice up your marriage. Specially crafted for empty-nesters, these dates are based on marriage-enriching themes, such as becoming a couple again, rediscovering intimate talk, revitalizing your love life, relating to adult children, becoming best friends, and more.

• The Love List - by Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott, published by Zondervan. This is a fun little book for the couple who are busy and find it difficult to find ways to keep the lines of communication open. It begins by challenging you with “two things you can do once each day. For example, it will ask you to find something that makes you both laugh. Do this every day.” And then it reveals two things to do each week in your marriage and then will point out two things to do each month. The final portion of this book points you to two important exercises you should conduct on a yearly basis. By following through with these recommendations of intentionality, you will find your marriage can grow to a whole new level. As the authors say, “A great marriage is not built quickly. It is constructed thought by thought, action by action.” And this book helps you do just that.Buy this book now.

• THE ULTIMATE MARRIAGE BUILDER: A Do-It-Yourself Encounter Weekend for You and Your Mate -by Dave and Claudia Arp, published by Thomas Nelson Publishers www.thomasnelson.com. This book contains “a wealth of ideas, practical suggestions and inspiration for couples who care about their marriage and want to make it stronger, deeper and more fulfilling.” In this book, Dave and Claudia show you how to plan and implement your own personal encounter weekend. Once there, you can enrich your marriage with the host of fun and practical exercises the Arp’s provide. You’ll have the opportunity to gain a better understanding of each other, improve your communication, deal with real issues, and reaffirm your love and commitment to one another.

• 201 GREAT QUESTIONS -Compiled by Jerry Jones, published by NavPress www.navpress.com. Whether you’re traveling with family, eating lunch with a friend, or getting together with a small group this book is one you’ll want. You’ll have the time of your life learning more about people you thought you knew—particularly your spouse. Buy this book now.

• WONDERFUL MARRIAGE -by Lilo and Gerard Leeds, published by Benbella Books (Review or Buy This Book Now). In this book you will find many helpful marriage tips and insights which the Lilo and Gerard have shared from their 57+ years of experience together, telling what it takes to make a marriage wonderful. It’s actually a marriage resource that can be enjoyed by those who are considering marriage, as well as those who are newly married, and beyond. We’ve found this to be a very good book and recommend it highly. And even though it isn’t a Christian book, we only found two quotes we objected to in the entire book, but the rest of it lines up fine scripturally.

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