Help Our Marriage is in Trouble!

It’s hard staying together as a family these days. Families face a non-stop barrage of challenges that come against them from all different directions. Communication, sex, finances, kids, menopause, mid-life crises…the list goes on. Pentecostal pastors need to be ready to speak to these issues from a distinct biblical and pneumatological position.

Resources

Marriage Counseling: A Christian Approach to Counseling Couples
This book, by Everett L. Worthington, Jr., PhD., devotes two chapters to the role of the marriage within family systems. This inclusion sets it apart from other marriage counseling texts which focus exclusively on marital dynamics. It's 
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    Christian Marital Counseling: Eight Approaches to Helping Couples
    Another helpful book by Everett L. Worthington regarding Christian premarital counseling.
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Healing Your Marriage When Trust is Broken - Author Cindy Beall (of Life.Church) helps families heal when marital infidelities strike. This is a timely book about a common problem besetting families today. Her follow-up book, Rebuilding a Marriage Better Than New, continues the story and gives valuable information on how to rebuild after healing. 
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​Growing Love in a Christian Marriage: The Pastor's Manual, Third Edition
​Excellent resource for pastoral marital counseling by married Methodist authors  Jane P. Ives and S. Clifton Ives. 
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Quiet Time for Couples: A Daily Devotional - Authored by H. Norman Wright, this is an excellent devotional for couples. It's value for Pentecostal pastors is it's ability to bring couples together for private worship and Spirit-led conversation.
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​This is H. Norman Wright's website. It contains over seventy resources for couples and families. 
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Christian Spirituality of Marriage Possible Only by Living According to the Spirit - In a series dedicated to the spirituality of married life, Pope John Paul II's 1984 speech is refreshingly Pentecostal.