We hope that through our recent Relationships Series, Relationship status: It’s Complicated, you have understood why relationships are simultaneously glorious and painful!
Relationships matter because we are made for them. And we constantly need to invest in our most important relationships.
Here is a list of further recommended resources with their links if you desire to keep growing in the area of relationships:
MARRIAGE
- Preparing for Marriage: discovering God’s plan for a lifetime of love – Dennis Rainey et al
- The Meaning of Marriage – Tim & Kathy Keller
- For Men Only: a straightforward guide to the inner lives of women – Shaunti & Jeff Feldhahn
- For Women Only: what you need to know about the inner lives of men – Shaunti Feldhahn
PARENTING
- Batteries Not Included: rediscovering gospel-powered parenting – David & Sandy Houston (a nine part series on parenting both with video and notes)
- Shepherding a Child’s Heart – Tedd Tripp
- Grace-based Parenting – Dr Tim Kimmel
- Simple Parenting – Chuck & Sherry Quinley
- Give them Grace – Elyse Fitzpatrick
RELATIONSHIPS
- Singleness: the biblical guidelines for dating, sex & romance (mp3) – Tim & Kathy Keller
SEX
- The_Gospel_and_Sex_(pdf) – Tim Keller
- Intended for Pleasure – Ed Wheat (M.D.) & Gaye Wheat
- Intimate Issues – Linda Dillow & Lorraine Pintus
- Counterfeit Gods: the empty promises of money, sex and power, and the only hope that matters – Tim Keller
ABUSE & ADDICTION
- How_Porn_Became_the_Norm_(pdf) – Pamela Paul
- Wired For Intimacy: How pornography hijacks the male brain – William Struthers
- The Wounded Heart: hope for adult victims of childhood sexual abuse – Dan B. Allender