The Mingling of Souls
God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption
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4.7 • 146 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
The Song of Solomon offers strikingly candid—and timeless—insights on romance, dating, marriage, and sex. We need it. Because emotions rise and fall with a single glance, touch, kiss, or word. And we are inundated with songs, movies, and advice that contradicts God's design for love and intimacy.
Matt Chandler helps navigate these issues for both singles and marrieds by revealing the process Solomon himself followed: Attraction, Courtship, Marriage ... even Arguing. The Mingling of Souls will forever change how you view and approach love.
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Defining marital love as the mingling of souls, Chandler (The Explicit Gospel) proceeds to chart a course through the narrative poetry of the Song of Solomon. Using the Old Testament's "book of love" as guide, Chandler leads couples (and singles looking for love) along the path of "a gospel-centered marriage," through the stages of attraction, dating, courtship, engagement, marriage all the way to sitting on the back porch with the grandkids around. The book's advice is unapologetically counter to prevailing notions of love, dating, and marriage, firmly entrenched in a complementarian and neo-Calvinist view of sexuality. Chandler's vision of God's design will leave many people wondering if they can aspire to such heavenly standards in earthly relationships. Still, he is gentle with his rebuke, giving relevant, humorous, and eminently practical advice. Conservative Christians will find Chandler's words on continuously kindling the fires of love hopeful and helpful. Others may also glean some advice from a guy who sounds like he is there in the trenches with you.
Customer Reviews
Amazing advice
To build your relationship on Christ is the the most important you could do for yourself and your future wife/husband.
Fantastic read
Me and my fiancé read through this book with our pre-marital councilor couple and found it to be full of great wisdoms and sweet truths about what marriage is and what it means, without pulling punches. This is the type of book I’m excited to read years into our marriage and look back on how the Lord has blessed it as well as what we can do to continue honoring God and each other through our marriage.
The Mingling Of Souls
This is a great book to help anyone, no matter what stage of life they are in. I found it to be just what I needed in helping me to realize how God views the relationship between a man and a woman. Thank you Matt for writing this book on a subject that many shy away from. It is essential that young adults learn about this subject the way God intended it and not how the world has perverted it. Keep up the good work!