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Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Vendor: Judson Press Publication Date: 2009 | Dimensions: 8.5 X 5.5 (inches) ISBN: 0817015663 ISBN-13: 9780817015664 |
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This wonderful book serves a need in the African American community for help in strengthening and healing our marriages and relationships. The author provides honest examples that will be a blessing to those who are considering marriage and those who are already on the journey. The message is clearwhether your marriage is strong already or deeply troubled, God can make it better and can help to deepen your spiritual and emotional intimacy.
Nancy Boyd-Franklin, PhD, author of Black Families in Therapy: Understanding the African American Experience
Marriage ROCKS brings a much needed, relaxed, hopeful, encouraging, and transformative teaching style addressing central issues impacting African Americans. Christian women and men in dating, engaged, or marital relationships will find sensitive, open guidance through the mystery of the concepts of partnership and covenant taking them into the joy that God has in store for each of them, their marriages, and their communities.
Dr. Lorraine Blackman, Associate Professor, Indiana University, School of Social Work
Written for the couple themselves, this book and its companion leader's guide are also practical tools for clinicians, pastors, and lay leaders who work with African American couples for whom biblical concepts are important components for conceptualization of self and other. Dr. Arnold draws on his personal and professional expertise to develop a biblical and theoretical twelve-step counseling model.
Elizabeth Johnson Walker, ThD, LMFT, Associate Professor of Pastoral
Care and Counseling, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Marriage ROCKS for Christian Couples is an extraordinary resource. If implemented by couples and leaders, Arnold's biblically sound method and strategy for married couples could revolutionize the way we approach ministry to couples and families. All Christian couples who work through this book will be blessed tremendously by his meticulous biblical reflections and insightful wisdom on married life, from sexuality to finances and parenting.
Dr. Johnny B. Hill, Assistant Professor of Theology, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and author of Multidimensional Ministry for Today's Black Families
Foreword writer Edward P. Wimberly, PhD, is a prolific author and recognized leader in the field of pastoral care in the African American church. He is the Jarena Lee Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling and Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, GA.