Marriage is a holy covenant that is based on Christ's unbreakable promises to the Church. This covenant is made explicit by Christ, who reminds husbands to love their spouses as much as he loves the Church. Marriage is a manifestation of God's magnificence.Love is the glue that holds a marriage together. God should be the firm foundation on which all marriages are built. Families that are rooted and grounded in Christ are strong pillars of society....

Short stories by William (Bill) Evenhouse, theFolksinger. A focus on family covers the ordinary to extraordinary. From kidnapping and murder to strip dancing and divorce, the author never loses the linkage of love. These stories were written over a span of twenty years and range in location from the USA to Nigeria. Transcending personal experience, they clearly arise out of it. The author has been a teacher, a linguist, a recording artist, and a songwriter,...

Most people have always been interested in sex, love and marriage. Now, this entertaining and informative book explores the surprisingly varied and energetic sex and love lives of the women and men of Queen Elizabeth's England. A range of writers, from the famous, such as Shakespeare, John Donne and Ben Jonson, and lesser-known figures popular in their time, provide, in their witty stories, poems and plays, vivid pictures of Elizabethan sexual attitudes...

In the vein of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, an intimate, deeply reported and revelatory examination of love, marriage, and the state of modern India-as witnessed through the lives of three very different couples in today's Mumbai. In twenty-first-century India, tradition is colliding with Western culture, a clash that touches the lives of everyday Indians from the wealthiest to the poorest. While ethnicity, class, and religion are influencing the...

From blushing bride to wife in waiting...MAKING SURE OF SARA-BETTY NEELS: Having fallen in love with Sarah at first sight, Dr. Litrik ter Breukel vowed to go slow because of her youth and innocence. But perhaps he'd taken things too slow-it seemed to him that she'd found another man! Now it was up to Sarah to put him right, and it was up to Litrik to propose! SOMETHING BLUE-EMMA GOLDRICK: What could a girl say when her ex-husband turned up out of...

Marriage today isn't what it used to be: for better, not for worse. As same-sex weddings are becoming more common, the classic love-story happy ending is taking on a decidedly new twist, everyone has a fresh role to play, and supporters and opponents of gay marriage alike are finding themselves in the midst of a revolution that's redefining marriage, both as a personal choice and as an institution, as we know it. In “Here Come the Brides!”, editors...

Sex is worth celebrating. It is one of God's loveliest gifts to the human race. But the loveliness of sex is ruined whenever it is found outside the proper context of marriage. And God knows what powerful temptations come our way in the area of sex. The Song of Solomon is a celebration of sex and love within marriage, as this book explains. Jonathan Bayes draws out the practical advice implicit in the Song for husbands, for wives, and for courting...

The course of true love never did run smooth... Val Walker is looking forward to starting a family, her best friend Cissie is expecting her second child, and newly engaged Janice is looking forward to wedded bliss. But the road to happiness isn't easy. Val struggles to fall pregnant with her longed for first baby, Cissie's husband starts taking an interest in a new female colleague, and Janice is torn between leaving her widowed father and younger...

A bride wants to run. The best man wants to help her. But when they must honeymoon together as if they're the happy couple, will a series of fake events which turn into a fake relationship entice them both back to the altar, only this time for real?

Winner of the Coveted 2011 National Indie Excellence Book ward!What happens when a middle-aged couple with no previous backpacking experience, decides to test their 14-year marriage and spend six months hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine in one continuous hike? Will their motto of "Quitting is not an option" be a blessing or a curse?Travel with "Windtalker" and "Mom," as they wrestle with their personal weaknesses and capitalize on...