Elevate Your Marriage. Read a Book.
Reading books are a great way to improve communication and connection in a marriage. These 4 books, will help point your marriage toward a deeper relationship with Christ.

Angrily Ever After: When the Fairytale Ends and Marriage Gets Real
Feelings of anger and negative emotion can creep into any marriage. Whether those feelings stop by to visit or they decide to stay for the long term the presence of negative emotions can be destructive to a relationship. This book is the culmination of 3 years of study on how the Bible instructs us to address and then rid our hearts of anger. God’s word has a lot to say about our anger and what it is doing to us and therefore our marriage.
The anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. James 1:20
Identify Anger. Address Anger. Heal Anger. Prevent Anger.

Elevate Your Marriage: 7 Practices of Spiritually Intimate Couples
Develop Christ Centered structure to intimately connect your marriage with Christ:.
Christ Centered Goals: “Our goals make sense to us, that’s why they are our goals”. Develop Christ Centered goals that reshape your relationship.
Christ Centered Vision & Mission Statements: “When a couple stands at the altar they can’t see year 25 of their marriage, Christ does”. Align with Christ’s vision for your marriage,
Financial 10 Commandments: “You can spend the next 20 years figuring it out and arguing about money, or you can spell it out now”. Identify your Financial 10 Commandments

Husbands, Wives, God Weekly Devotions: 52 Weeks of Enriching Devotions
The husbands and wives of the Bible become like good, old friends to your marriage. They have been where you are, they relate to the common struggles of your marriage and then they point you back to Christ.
In this 52 week devotional you meet a biblical couple every week. Reading of them will deepen communication and intimacy in your own marriage. Each week has a short introduction, followed by prayer and discussion points.
Note: A great book that has connected individual couples and/or church groups for more than a decade.

Husbands, Wives, God: Introducing the Marriages of the Bible to Your Marriage
The challenges you are facing today, God has been leading couples in and out of since the beginning of time and that same God is available to your marriage - NOW”.
The couples of this book, like Job & his wife, or Abraham and Sarah, they get you and they let you know you are not the first couple to go face what you face because, “your marriage story is in the Bible”.
This book and included study guide have been used with individual couples and church groups for more than a decade!