Book Recommendation: Sacred Marriage

Over the Holidays, I did read a couple of books in preparation for our upcoming messages series, “Biblical Perspectives on Love & Marriage.” One of those resources was Gary Thomas’ book, Sacred Marriage, which I really enjoyed. Rather than your normal “here’s how to have a great marriage” books, Gary looks at marriage from the perspective of, “how can the marriage relationship help us to grow in our relationship with God.”

On the cover, the question is posed, “What if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy?”

Here’s a brief excerpt that lifts up one of the fundamental ideas raised in this book; that marriage forces us to deal with our own brokenness, weaknesses, and sin.

Kathleen & Thomas Hart write, “Sometimes what is hard to take in the first years of marriage is not what we find out about our partners, but what we find out about ourselves. As one young woman who had been married for a year said, ‘I always thought of myself as a patient and forgiving person. Then I began to wonder if that was just because I had never before gotten close to anyone. In marriage, when John and I began… dealing with differences, I saw how small and unforgiving I could be. I discovered a hardness in me I had never experienced before’.”

Pick up your copy today from the Bucket bookstore: Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas