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The Intimate Marriage Curriculum Kit

Dan B. Allender & Tremper Longman III (Authors)

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Binding: Vinyl Binder
Page Count: 2130
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN#: 9780830821303

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Watch a video overview of The Intimate Mystery (book).

Description: Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III have together designed this curriculum kit to help married couples--one-to-one or in small groups--to build healthy and happy marriages. The kit includes everything you need to lead a course in your small group or church: Allender and Longman's thought-provoking book, copies of seven different study guides, a leader's guide and a DVD to introduce and enhance the study sessions. The Intimate Marriage Curriculum Kit will be especially helpful for newlyweds or young married couples who are just beginning their new life together.

After the shower gifts and the wedding ceremony, how does your church support married couples? With an ever-increasing divorce rate and highly pressurized lifestyles, our churches need to find ways to help couples and families improve their quality of life. We need to help the marriages in our churches become the witness to the world that God intended them to be. In The Intimate Mystery Dan Allender and Tremper Longman write:

"No one plans to divorce. No one would consciously stand at the altar saying, 'I'll give this a try for a day or two, and if I don't like it then I'll just get a divorce.' Yet many couples begin the divorce process well before the marriage begins. It can happen as simply as both parties believing that a marriage is forever but also highly disposable like a diaper of a used car. Or it can begin soon after the marriage, when one person assumes, he or she is supposed to make me happy. And if I'm not happy, it is always fully the other person's fault.

Marriage, like a journey, can get just a few compass points off, and in a fairly short time it will stray from the path we are meant to follow and miss the destination we are designed to pursue. It may be as simple as this: if you don't know where you are going, you will never arrive. And if you don't know how to get there, then even knowing where you are meant to go will do you little good. We need to know God's destination or goal and the process by which we can arrive at God's destination."

Set Includes All of the Following Individual Titles:
--Intimate Marriage (DVD)
--Intimate Marriage Leader's Guide
--The Intimate Mystery (book)
--Communication (study guide)
--Dreams and Demands (study guide)
--Family Ties (study guide)
--Forgiveness (study guide)
--The Goal of Marriage (study guide)
--Male and Female Sexual Intimacy (study guide)

Intimate Marriage (DVD)
Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III have together designed this DVD containing 3- to 5- minute discussion starters you can pair with the study guides that make up their Intimate Marriage Bible Study series.

Intimate Marriage Leader's Guide
The church should be the place where marriage is the strongest, but again and again both statistics and personal experience reveal that Christian marriages have all of the same problems faced by the rest of the world. How can churches redeem marriages and remake them so that they transform individual souls and reflect the glory of God? This leader's guide is for church leaders--small group leaders, pastors and worship leaders--who want to have an impact on the marriages in their church.

Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III will show you, step by step, how to put together the materials in the Intimate Marriage Series to create a powerful marriage emphasis experience for your whole church--even singles. If you are leading a small group of married couples, using this guide will extend your confidence and help you avoid pitfalls that are unique to a couples group. Allender and Longman identify key principles for helping individuals grow, actions and attitudes for effective leadership, how to set goals in a group, how to stay productive, and how to deal with the unexpected with grace and wisdom. They also recommend other Bible study resources to take you deeper into the topic of each group session.

If you are a pastor, you will find resources to guide you through a church-wide marriage emphasis. You'll find a vision for planting small groups of laypeople who can support and encourage each other in their marriages. And you'll find extra research assistance, like notes on the Bible texts used in the series and sample sermons to give you ideas on how to preach through a series on marriage (with sensitivity to singles). If you are a worship or drama leader, you will find a drama that you can freely reproduce and perform in your church to further illustrate the key themes of this marriage series.

The church is about relationship. As your church works through the Intimate Marriage Series, men and women will receive the resources they need to grow the kind of marriages that last, that challenge them to personal transformation, and that draw those around them into deeper relationship with Christ.

The Intimate Mystery (hardcover book)
Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III have together written this brief, simple and charming introduction to help couples build healthy and happy marriages. Their model follows the "leave, weave and cleave" imagery of the Bible: leave your parents, weave a life together and cleave to each other.

This book is part of a kit that includes everything needed to mentor individual married couples or to lead a group discussion. It will be especially helpful for newlyweds or young married couples who are just beginning their new life together.

36 weeks of Bible Studies (also included in the Kit)
 Intimate Marriage Bible studies bring spouses into deeper communion with God and with each other. In marriage a man and a woman are called to leave their families of origin, to weave their individual lives into a unity and to cleave to each other. How can fallen human beings even begin to contemplate this ideal--God's ideal?

 These studies will help you take small but real steps toward honoring the image of God in each other and living out God's goal for marriage. As you explore and respond to Scripture together, you will discover strength and beauty in your marriage and become even more intimate companions.

 Communication
Do you know how to listen to your spouse? How can you "give life" to your marriage with your words? Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III have together written this inductive Bible study guide to help couples build healthy and happy marriages. Through six study sessions for individuals, couples or groups, they help you explore differences that might hinder communication and learn strategies that can strengthen your marriage.

Dreams and Demands
Where do your ideas about marriage come from? Do you expect too much--or too little--from your marriage? Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III have together written this inductive Bible study guide to help couples build healthy and happy marriages. Through six study sessions for individuals, couples or groups, they guide you in uncovering and addressing unmet expectations that you or your spouse may have about marriage.

Family Ties
Are your expectations for marriage your own--or your parents'? What do you want to bring into your marriage from your past, and what do you want to leave behind? Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III have together written this inductive Bible study guide to help couples build healthy and happy marriages. Through six study sessions for individuals, couples or groups, they lead you to examine how your early experiences of family and your current family relationships can influence your marriage relationship--for better or worse. 

Forgiveness
What happens when you fail your spouse? How does forgiveness work in marriage? Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III have together written this inductive Bible study guide to help couples build healthy and happy marriages. Through six study sessions for individuals, couples or groups, they encourage you to examine dynamics of conflict and forgiveness that can keep your marriage strong.

The Goal of Marriage
What is marriage for? How does God answer that question? Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III have together written this inductive Bible study guide to help couples build healthy and happy marriages. Through six study sessions for individuals, couples or groups, they lead you through an overview of their model for marriage, following the "leave, weave, cleave" imagery of the Bible: leave your parents, weave a life together and cleave to each other.

Sexual Intimacy
What does God say about sex in marriage? How can you overcome cultural myths and personal "baggage" about sexuality? Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III have together written this inductive Bible study guide to help couples build healthy and happy marriages. Through six study sessions for individuals, couples or groups, they lead you to discuss with your spouse healthy ways of expressing sexuality within marriage.

Male & Female
What do gender differences mean for your individual identity? What do they mean in your marriage? Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III have together written this inductive Bible study guide to help couples build healthy and happy marriages. Through six study sessions for individuals, couples or groups, they guide you in exploring assumptions about gender roles and differences that may affect your marriage.

"A far cry from the 3-steps-to-a-better-marriage advice we have been swallowing for years...this material is real food for marriages that hunger for honesty, intimacy, spiritual depth and lifelong fulfillment."
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