The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: A Handbook to Marriage

by G Wright Doyle

Overview

Obstacles and challenges are a normal part of married life. Here's how you get through them.

This book will lead you to understand what happens when two people tie the proverbial knot. The trials and obstacles that inevitably follow are nothing unusual--how they are handled is what helps distinguish a successful marriage from an unsuccessful one.

Specific advice about handling finances, keeping house, sexual relations, bringing up children, and other very important matters will not be found here. Instead, The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful focuses on the relationship between husband and wife, for from this flows the motivation, energy, and wisdom to deal with the problems and challenges facing married couples. Unless you make this relationship your main concern, all your efforts in other areas of married life will be out of balance and ultimately unsuccessful.

If you are seeking a successful and fulfilling marriage, or the restoration of a failing one, you will find meaning and hope in the joys of learning and practicing God's blessed plan for husband and wife.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611532937
Publisher:	Torchflame Books
Publication date:	07/24/2018
Pages:	146
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

G. Wright Doyle received a B.A. in Latin from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1966; a B.D. (M. Div.) from the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1969; and a PhD. in Classics from the University of North Carolina in 1975, with a dissertation on St. Augustine. He studied Mandarin Chinese at the Taipei Language Institute in Taiwan (1976-1978, 1980-1981). From 1980 to 1988, he taught Greek and New Testament at China Evangelical Seminary, Taipei. From 1989 to 2015, the Doyles lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, where they reached out to Chinese Christians. In 2015, They moved to Texas. Wright now focuses on writing, encouraging and coaching people in the U.S., England, Taiwan, and China through telephone, Skype, and email. He continues to travel to Asia almost annually. Wright is the author of Reaching Chinese Worldwide and Christ the King. He is the co-author of China: Ancient Culture, Modern Society; English editor of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity (bdcconline.net); editor of Builders of the Chinese Church, editor and co-translator of Wise Man from the East: Lit-sen Chang; co-editor (with Dr. Carol Lee Hamrin) of the Wipf & Stock series, Studies in Chinese Christianity; and principal contributor to globalchinacenter.org and reachingchineseworldwide.org. He supervised the translation of Gingrich and Danker's Greek-English Lexicon into Chinese, and prepared an abridgment of the Chinese edition of Carl Henry's God, Revelation, and Authority. Wright has also written Christianity in America: Triumph and Tragedy; Jesus: The Complete Man; and The Lord's Healing Words. Seven of his books have been translated and published in Chinese.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Dedication

The Good: God’s Original Plan for Marriage

In God’s Image

Mutual Admiration

One Flesh

Sex and the Self

Devotion: God and His People

The Scriptural Importance of Marriage

Recipients of Revelation

Male and Female

Differing Desires

Companionship

Leaving Parents

Loving Leadership

A Suitable Helper

“More Precious than Rubies”

Children

Dominion

The Bad: What We Have Done to Marriage

God’s Image Defaced

Neglecting God’s Revelation

Male-Female Conflict

Loving Leadership?

A Suitable Helper?

Failure to Leave Parents

Failure to Be Fruitful and Take Dominion

Eros Defiled

Cleaving to Another

The Downward Spiral

The Beautiful: A Deeper Purpose for Marriage

Love This Man, This Woman

Humility and Forbearance

Mutual Delight in God’s Image

Recipients of Revelation

Responders to Revelation

Leaving Parents: Repentance and Renewal

Cleaving to Your Spouse

Reducing the risks of adultery

Loving Leadership

Submission

Reclaiming Fruitfulness and Dominion

Communicating Love

Confronting Conflict, Denying Divorce, and Seeking Help

Perseverance and Hope in God

Conclusion

The Bible and Divorce

The Purpose of Pain

The Biblical Teaching on Divorce and Remarriage

The words of Jesus:

The words of the Apostle Paul:

The Psychological Case Against Divorce

What Should we Do with a Difficult Marriage?

Brief Replies to Some Common Reasons for Wanting a Divorce

Dealing with past Divorce and Remarriage

Overcoming Infidelity

Reaction

Repentance and reconciliation

Forgiveness

Rebuilding

Marriage Counseling

Recognizing Strongholds

Breaking Free from Sexual “Addictions”

About the Author

Resources

Some Helpful Books

My top picks

Marriage

Dealing with addictions to pornography and sex