Devotions for Dating Couples
Building a Foundation for Spiritual Intimacy
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4.4 • 34 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
If you are like most dating couples, you are looking for more than just a companion—you want a soul mate! This dynamic book will help you discover how to make your most important love relationships—with God and your potential mate—strong, lasting, and radiant.
The essence of a true soulmate relationship is that of deep spiritual connection and a shared commitment to God. Learn to enrich your inner lives while building a strong foundation for a lasting marriage as you focus on basics of love, prayer, Bible study, forgiveness, and more.
Relationship experts Ben Young and Samuel Adams, authors of The Ten Commandments of Dating and The One, give user-friendly tips for nurturing your personal walk with God and enhancing your spiritual connection as a couple through in this 9-week devotional. As you read through the daily lessons for individuals and the weekend studies for couples, you will:
Become a great lover by learning to love God firstDevelop the essential disciplines of a lasting relationshipFocus on the important things in lifeDiscover a sense of spiritual purpose and meaningUnderstand that grace is not just for "beginners" – it is for you, every day
Whether you are dating seriously or engaged to be married, these daily personal devotions and weekly couple's devotions will help you discover the way to lifelong love.
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Young, host of the syndicated radio show The Single Connection, and Adams, a clinical psychologist, present a nine-week course of daily devotionals for committed Christians involved in long-term relationships and aiming toward marriage. Weekly "disciplines" focusing on foundational spiritual themes-love, prayer, simplicity-are divided into daily mediations meant to be read in solitude. On Saturdays, suggest the authors (The Ten Commandments of Dating), couples should spend the day together and discuss their thoughts about the week's theme; Sundays they ought to attend church. The Monday-to-Friday anecdotes, which often use the prosaic to illustrate the profound (the shame of a messy dorm room, for instance, teaches the importance of "healthy self-talk"), can feel a bit judgmental and preachy. But each week's summary questions will help partners reconnect with their spiritual selves, and may even settle questions of compatibility. Successful relationships take work, the authors remind us. Their somewhat didactic approach, however, might turn off some readers, and the length and intensity of the course may mean that others lose steam partway through.
Customer Reviews
Must Read
This was exceptional, the best devotional I’ve ever read. Ever. Great for you and your partner, and also individually.
Great experience
This was a good experience to go through with your dating partner. As a couple though we did go through some up and downs but that was due to Christ working through this devotional and bringing issues we had to the surface. I know that my relationship with Christ has grown as well as my relationship with my girlfriend. So if you want that more intimate relationship with Christ and your relationship with you significant other to grow I suggest you give this a read.