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The Intimate Mystery: Creating Strength and Beauty in Your Marriage

Dan B. Allender

Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III have together written this brief, simple and engaging introduction to help couples build healthy and happy marriages. Following the "leave, weave and cleave" imagery of the Bible, they help couples learn how to leave their parents, weave a life together and cleave to each other.

Book Details

  • Publisher: IVP Bible Studies
  • Publish Date: Jan 30th, 2009
  • Pages: 144
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Enlarged/Expand - 0002
  • Dimensions: 8.14in - 5.56in - 0.41in - 0.38lb
  • EAN: 9780830837243
  • Categories: Christian Living - Love & MarriageChristian Ministry - AdultChristian Ministry - Counseling & Recovery

About the Author

Longman III, Tremper: - Tremper Longman III (PhD, Yale University) is Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He is also visiting professor of Old Testament at Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and adjunct of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. He lectures regularly at Regent College in Vancouver and the Canadian Theological Seminary in Calgary. Longman is the author or coauthor of over twenty books, includingHow to Read Genesis, How to Read the Psalms, How to Read Proverbs, Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation, Old Testament Essentials and coeditor of A Complete Literary Guide to the Bible. He and Dan Allender have coauthored Bold Love, Cry of the Soul, Intimate Allies, The Intimate Mystery and the Intimate Marriage Bible studies.
Allender, Dan B.: -

Dan B. Allender (PhD, counseling psychology, Michigan State University) is professor of counseling at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. He taught previously at Grace Theological Seminary and Colorado Christian University. A speaker and writer, his books include The Healing Path, To Be Told, How Children Raise Parents, The Wounded Heart and Leading with a Limp. With Tremper Longman, he wrote Bold Love, Cry of the Soul, Intimate Allies and the Intimate Marriage Bible studies.

Praise for this book

"Allender and Tremper don't sugarcoat the problems and pain that can arise in marriage, but offer a beautiful and poetic picture of hope."--Relevant Magazine, July/August 2014