By Laurie Salmon. Preventative measures are shown to be an essential part of health and wholeness in these chronicles of the life-giving experience of healthy family activity and community-building in a camping experience. … Read more
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By Ian Rennie. God has prepared us for marriage by creating us with gender. And He has given us instructions for successful marriage in the Bible. We need to believe God, rather than the experts. Matthew 19:1-9 is very specific about leaving our parents and becoming one with our spouse. … Read more
Prayer Helps to Keep the Bloom in Marriage
By Esther Mcllveen. Prayer enhances marriage tremendously. Praying together provides intimacy and affects physical, psychological and spiritual closeness. … Read more
Life Begins at Forty
By Howard Mcllveen. Women go through a mid-life phase that is inevitable. It is hormonal and chemical. The “problem” is not nearly so easy to identify or localize for men. … Read more
Encouragement – The Essence That Gives Us Buoyancy
By Esther Mcllveen. Children and adults alike blossom and grow when the atmosphere is full of encouragement — when we determine to seek to draw forth each other’s gifts and delight in them. … Read more
Daddy, I’m Pregnant, by A dad named Bill
Reviewed by Ronda Bosch. Premarital sex with someone you love is condoned by 80% of Canada’s teenagers, and on a first date 28% say yes to petting and 11% continue to sexual relations. Then what happens in your church or in your home when the word is out: “I’m pregnant”? … Read more
Celebrating Marriage Today
By Roy D. Bell. Among married couples, there are two distinct groups. In one, at best, there is hunger for what is not happening; at worst, a personal and family disaster. The other group has individuals and couples in personal difficulty but who are committed to their marriage … Read more
Preventing Divorce, by Greg and Candy McPherson, and Bobb and Cheryl Biehl
Reviewed by Kit Schindell. This book promotes communication by offering over 300 non-threatening, even fun questions for couples to ask each other … Read more
Building a Christian Home
By Bob Harvey. A Christian home can’t be built without the aid of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is severely limited in what he can do in your life unless you regularly spend time with him. … Read more
Married for Good, by R. Paul Stevens
Reviewed by Daniel and Sandi McDougall. Real marriage is founded on an unconditional covenant to belong together for life. This is not a ‘how-to’ book, although one will gather many ideas about how-to. It is a ‘what-does-it-mean?’ book and a ‘why-are-these-things-important?’ book. … Read more
On Being Family: A Social Theology of the Family, by Ray S. Anderson and Dennis B. Guernsey
Reviewed by Greg Dallimore. Anderson and Guernsey suggest little research has been done in seeing the family, not as individuals, but as an entity which interacts within itself. Individuals, therefore, interact with each other as a system. This book is not designed for the average Christian reader, but for professionals ministering to the family. … Read more
A Brother’s Impressions
By Mark Dickens. The marriage of Mark Hayden Lane and Lynn Catherine Dickens, whose relationship was centred around their devotion to Jesus as Lord of their lives, was a wedding which whetted guests’ appetites for the marriage supper of the Lamb … Read more
The Wedding Program
By Rev. J. H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. The Wedding Program for the marriage of Mark Hayden Lane and Lynn Catherine Dickens is presented as a model for all those considering marriage. … Read more
“Unless the Lord Builds the House …”
By J. H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. We all need to work at our marriages and family lives every day of our lives. Thank God that He is there to sustain and help us. If He builds and we build, what a building it will be! … Read more
Arise, My Darling: A Song
By Lynn Lane. The words and music of this song are adapted from the Song of Solomon and are suitable for a wedding … Read more
The Mystery of Marriage: As Iron Sharpens Iron, by Mike Mason
Reviewed by Mike Cheney. This book is full of earthy, meditative, and spiritual richness which evinces in the reader the clear connection between the practical and the mystical without going to great lengths to explicitly describe that connection. … Read more