Love Like You Mean It by Bob Lepine

 

Here is the book summary:

Every year, millions of men and women stand before friends and family to pledge their lifelong love to each other. Do they know what they’re getting into?
 
Unfortunately, many people have a shallow, superficial idea of what marriage is. As a result, many marriages don’t last, and many more married couples are trudging along looking for something more.
 
Love Like You Mean It gives husbands and wives a biblical understanding of what real love looks like in marriage by unpacking the ten attributes of genuine love listed in 1 Corinthians 13. Bob Lepine, marriage and family expert and host of the nationally syndicated radio program FamilyLife Today, helps husbands and wives discover that it’s not primarily emotions that define marital love, but actions and decisions that fuel emotions and cause marital love to grow.
 
Every person who is married, would like to be married one day, or wants to understand more about the biblical vision of marriage will find what they’re looking for as they dive deep into Love Like You Mean It.

And now, my review:

My husband and I were so encouraged by the well-put-together read of Love Like You Mean It by Bob Lepine.  First off, the lay out is so on point.  It walks you through the Scripture of 1 Corinthians 13.  If you know 1 Corinthians 13, you know what’s coming and sometimes you even cringe knowing what is coming because you know it’s going to hit close to home.  We also found that this goes beyond marriage to other relationships and situations as well.  It’s a read that is simple and will have you talking and communicating with each other.  I highly recommend this marriage/life read.

I received this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.  

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The Will of a Man and the Way of a Woman by Robert and Pamela Crosby

Here is the book summary:

While a man possesses a unique God-given motivational propensity for exercising a strong will in life, a woman conversely possesses a unique God-given propensity for discerning the appropriate way of life. Through ups and downs, these magnetic tensions have helped husband and wife writing team, Robert and Pamela Crosby, learn to balance, bend, and blend in their marriage--to appreciate the balance their differences bring, to bend more appropriately in response to each other, and to move toward a more joyous blend that can only emerge out of two quite different ways somehow turned into one. Simply put, where there’s a WILL, there’s a WAY. The Will of a Man & the Way of a Woman invites you and your spouse to harness the magnetic draw of your differences and blend better in life and love.

Here's my review:

Such a great marriage read!

What a refreshing non-fiction marriage book that leaves me encouraged and hopeful.  I really enjoyed this read because I feel that they have something with this idea/saying of “The Will of a Man and The Way of a Woman”… They had me drawn in by the personal accounts they share in the book, they had me laughing because they are so on track, and they had the challenges all laid out.  They share a quote by someone at the beginning of every chapter and I found those refreshing and well placed within the book.  This book is encouraging for the soon to be married, the newly married all the way up to the ones who have been married for years.  I think wherever you are on your marriage journey you will be encouraged by theirs words and also helped to “see” the truth in their book title.   

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Barbour Publishing in exchange for my honest review.

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