Dreams and Demands: 6 Studies for Individuals, Couples or Groups

by Allender, Dan B., Pllc

• ISBN13: 9780830821334
• ISBN10: 0830821333
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-01
• Publisher: Intervarsity Pr

Summary

Where do your ideas about marriage come from?Do you expect too much--or too little--from your marriage?Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III have together written this inductive Bible study guide to help couples build healthy and happy marriages. Through six study sessions for individuals, couples or groups, they guide you in uncovering and addressing unmet expectations that you or your spouse may have about marriage.Intimate Marriage Bible studies bring spouses into deeper communion with God and with each other. In marriage a man and a woman are called to leave their families of origin, to weave their individual lives into a unity and to cleave to each other. How can fallen human beings even begin to contemplate this ideal--God's ideal?These studies will help you take small but real steps toward honoring the image of God in each other and living out God's goal for marriage. As you explore and respond to Scripture together, you will discover strength and beauty in your marriage and become even more intimate companions.

Author Biography

Dan B. Allender (Ph.D., Michigan State) is president of Mars Hill Graduate School near Seattle Tremper Longman III (Ph.D., Yale University) is Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California

Table of Contents

Welcome to Intimate Marriage Bible Studies	p. 5
Fruitful or Barren? Genesis 30:1-8	p. 9
For Richer or for Poorer: Proverbs 30:5-9; Matthew 6:19-34	p. 15
Jealousy: The Passion to Protect-or Destroy: Song of Songs 8:6-8; 1 Corinthians 13:4-6	p. 23
Feeling No Connection: Ecclesiastes 1:8-10; 9:7-10	p. 30
Wounded Heart: 2 Samuel 13:1-22	p. 36
It Takes a Church: Selections from Proverbs	p. 44
Leader's Notes	p. 49
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