Marriage Strengthening Resources
Here's a creative new approach to getting men interested in improving their marriages.
The Marriage Playbook combines your love of sports and love for your spouse in this out-of-the-box teaching tool that will help strengthen your team and build an all-star marriage. Using sports terma and analogies, The Marriage Playbook challenges husbands to set the tone at home, stressing that when men lead the way to better communication, their wife follows because whe bongs for that
oneness with him.
El Matrimonio: Estrategia y Tactica Donde va el matrimonio
El Matrimonio: Estrategia y Táctica se diseña para ayudar a los matrimonios en los mejores y en los peores tiempos. Todos los equipos pasan tiempos difíciles y si ustedes están en crisis, un cambio de jugadores no tienen que ser la única respuesta. Ustedes pueden reajustar a su equipo para crear unicidad en su relación. Si su equipo está fuerte y ganando partidos en vida, el diseño de un libro de estrategias puede ayudarles a guardar de caer en malos hábitos, acomodarse a la situación o bajar la guardia.
Unique new resource........
Facebook and Your Marriage... is the first book of its kind...insightful answers to real questions married Facebookers ask (or should be asking) to help their marriage survive and thrive on the world’s most popular online social network.
From Claudia and David Arp
~ 10 Great Dates to Energize Your Marriage - DETAILS
This widely-used program for churches & communities combines fun with marriage skills & opens doors for other programs. If you are the church on the corner offering fun dates and free or low-cost childcare, they will come!
10 Great Dates is an exciting, proven, award-winning program that is low-key, effective, easy-to-lead, and husband-friendly. Combining fun dates and marriage education skills, this video curriculum gives couples time-out to build their marriage and enrich their relationship.
Dates include: o Choosing a High-Priority Marriage o Learning to Talk o Resolving Honest Conflict o Becoming an Encourager o Finding Unity in Diversity o Building a Creative Love Life o Sharing Responsibility and Working Together o Balancing Your Roles as Partner and Parent o Developing Spiritual Intimacy o Having an Intentional Marriage
Contains a short chapter to read before each date and a dating guide with pre-date preparation, date night tips, chapter summary and duplicate tear-out dating exercises. Each couple needs only one book.
~ The Second Half of Marriage - This small group DVD resource for empty nesters and those whose nest may have refilled or never empted -designed to facilitate this rediscovery and rebuilding for the empty nest years. The second half of marriage can be a time of incredible fulfillment, no matter what challenges you've previously faced. Couples can rediscover each other and build a more personal, satisfying and romantic life together.
You can: Renew your love ~ Reinvent your marriage ~ Make the rest the best
Sessions include: 1. Letting go of the Past and Focusing on the Future 2. Creating a Marriage that is Partner, not Child-Focused 3. Building an Effective Communication System 4. Using Anger in a Creative Way to Build Your Relationship 5. Building a Deeper Friendship 6. Renewing Romance and Intimacy 7. Relating to Aging Parents and Adult Children 8. Growing Together Spiritually
~ 10 Citas Extraordinarias Para Vigorizar Su Matrimonio DVD Curriculum - En Espanol
10 Citas Extraordinarias is based on the award winning book and program, 10 Great Dates to Energize Your Marriage, by David & Claudia Arp. The video introduction is 10-15 minutes and leads into each great date. After the video introduction, each couple is given time to go on their own "great date". Providing childcare will make this program a hit in your church and community!
African American Couples
~ 10 Great Dates for Black Couples - You're looking at an exciting, award-winning program that is easy-to-lead, effective and husband-friendly! Combining fun dates and marriage educations skills, 10 Great Dates give couples time-out to build their marriage and enrich their relationship. Designed for use with the book, 10 Great Dates to Energize Your Marriage as the participant's guide, here is everything else you need to launch your group (or just the two of you) on your great dates. ". Providing childcare will make this program a hit in your church and community.
You'll learn how to: Communicate better ~ Process anger & resolve conflict ~ Set realistic goals ~Build a creative sex life ~ Develop spiritual intimacy & Balance busy lifestyles
Basic Training: Men, Women and Marriage - Rozario Slack, DMin, Nisa Muhammad DETAILS
Two straight-talking curricula developed in the crucible of the Black experience. Teach Black men and women the principles and skills to create and sustain successful marriages.
The 10 Rites of Passage - Charles Lee-Johnson, MSW This abstinence, fatherhood and marriage education program teaches at-risk youth responsibility to self, family and community with a focus on long-term life goals. DETAILS
Additional Resources
Married and Loving It - Barbara & Terry Petty - DETAILS
The purpose of Married and Loving It! is to teach relationship building skills through a series of five classes to couples so their relationship will be strengthened as they develop a happy, healthy marriage. The objectives of Married and Loving it! are to help couples identify communication skills including love languages, give couples guidelines for establishing a sound financial situation, address anger issues and conflict resolution in a marriage relationship, discuss the role of in-laws, extended family, and other factors that influence the marriage relationship.
For Singles and Single again
~ 10 Great Dates Before You Say "I Do" for dating and engaged couples DETAILS
~ How To Avoid Marrying A Jerk - John Van Epp, PhD DETAILS
Great marriages begin long before the wedding. This program is designed to provide singles with a plan for pacing a relationship and exploring the key areas that foreshadow what that partner will be like in marriage. It teaches a way to build a healthy relationship that keeps the head and heart working together.
Learn the 5 keys to successful mate-selection, and how to avoid the "love is blind" attachment-syndrome.
Other Resources (according to issue)
FINANCES
> Money Habitudes is a game-like tool that helps people talk about the difficult topic of money—and do it in a fun, nonjudgmental and constructive way. Using the cards builds trust and rapport and shows people how their habits and attitudes—habitudes—related to money affect how, why and when they spend, save, give, invest and go into debt. In addition, the cards help people better achieve their goals and interact with others Money Habitudes cards are guaranteed to start those conversations and get to the real issues. When couples can talk about money, they can talk about anything! DETAILS
Also: 10 Tips to Talk to Your Honey about Money - DETAILS
Ten Tips for Teaching Kids Money Management - DETAILS
Books by Terry Hargrave
> Boomers On The Edge DETAILS
Where can you go when you've been pushed to the edge? The baby boomer generation has found itself in a perfect storm of new and difficult challenges. Aging parents need care. Adult children are moving back home. And just when boomers thought they could retire, economic realities such as meager 401(k) plans and crushing medical expenses are forcing boomers by the thousands back into the workplace.
As a boomer, you will have to face at least one of these situations and perhaps even juggle all three.
Boomers on the Edge explores the unique challenges that lie ahead and shows how you can survive and even flourish. This book is filled with practical advice, and it is also rich in encouragement.
Author Terry Hargrave helps you see the opportunities behind today's changing circumstances.
Now is a new chance to build a legacy of wisdom and connection with your parents, learn new responsibility as a parent to older children, and deepen your faith in the face of financial realities.
By embracing the emerging landscape of tests and changes, you will discover the rewards of developing a servant's heart, and you will come to see God's faithfulness as never before.
> Loving Your Parents When They Can No Longer Love You
We live in the age of aging. Because of this, there are a number of challenges presented to the family among the most complex is the job of caring for frail parents. It's a confusing, stressful, and exhausting time. But it can also be a time of remarkable spiritual growth.
Loving Your Parents When They Can No Longer Love You helps you navigate your role as caregiver with God's grace and guidance.
And it alerts you to the difficult issues you may face, such as: Legal and financial decisions ~ How much care will be needed and when ~ Evaluating different living options ~ Depression, dementia, and Alzheimer's disease ~ Caring for a parent who has mistreated you ~ Accepting and planning for death Most important, this book helps you embrace care-giving as a spiritual journey that will deepen your faith and strengthen your character.
It not only opens your eyes to the realities of care-giving; it also teaches you how to allow God to change your life for the better.
> Strength and Courage for Caregivers
Taking care of a family member who is ill, disabled, or dying requires courage, strength, commitment, and love. Now Terry Hargrave, an expert in counseling and care-giving, offers you help with a devotional written with your specific needs in mind. The morning prayers and evening reflections in this book are short and to the point.
Strength and Courage for Caregivers weaves together powerful stories, practical advice, and the restorative promises of Scripture, reminding caregivers that they are not alone in this important yet all too often unacknowledged and underappreciated work.
