What are you reading?

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(This isn't exactly related to the thread, but I thought it'd be more appropriate to post here.)

Does anyone have any recommendations for a book regarding how a husband should lead his wife, preferably in a biblical context? And not regarding common platitudes, but that really goes in-depth on the relational aspect, and on developing and maintaining a deep emotional connection / emotional intimacy.

The main reason I ask is because I would like to share it with a family member who I've had a burden for. I don't want to go into too much detail. But even though he and his wife get along well for the most part, there are still challenges they're having, and have lost that emotional connection with each other. I would also like to take this to heart myself.

Anthony7 said:

Does anyone have any recommendations for a book regarding how a husband should lead his wife, preferably in a biblical context? And not regarding common platitudes, but that really goes in-depth on the relational aspect, and on developing and maintaining a deep emotional connection / emotional intimacy.

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Here’s four suggestions:

The Meaning of Marriage by Timothy Keller
Kingdom Man by Tony Evans
The Mingling of Souls by Matt Chandler
Husbands and Fathers by Derek Prince

Tony did a series that may be a better option. Kingdom Man, Kingdom Woman, and Kingdom Marriage.

All four are excellent reads. I like the idea of both digesting godly truths and working through the marriage book together if possible. They’ll have a better mindset going in.

~Bella

LaBèlla said:

Here’s four suggestions:

The Meaning of Marriage by Timothy Keller
Kingdom Man by Tony Evans
The Mingling of Souls by Matt Chandler
Husbands and Fathers by Derek Prince

Tony did a series that may be a better option. Kingdom Man, Kingdom Woman, and Kingdom Marriage.

All four are excellent reads. I like the idea of both digesting godly truths and working through the marriage book together if possible. They’ll have a better mindset going in.

~Bella

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Thank you for the recommendations, Ms. Bella, as well as for the latter suggestion. It's much appreciated.

These books address the emotional connection between a couple?

Anthony7 said:

Thank you for the recommendations, Ms. Bella, as well as for the latter suggestion. It's much appreciated.

These books address the emotional connection between a couple?

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You are most welcome. I’m happy to assist

If you’d like a book that focuses on the emotional connection alone, Love & Respect by Emmerson Eggerichs is ideal.

As for you, the other suggestions would satisfy your desire for biblical support for the author’s perspectives.

~Bella

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The Father’s Bargain with the Son by John Flavel (1600s). I love this short story, as it's a powerful picture of God's justice, as well as His unfathomable love and mercy:

Father: My son, here is a company of poor miserable souls, that have utterly undone themselves, and now lie open to my justice! Justice demands satisfaction for them, or will satisfy itself in the eternal ruin of them: What shall be done for these souls?


Son: O my Father, such is my love to, and pity for them, that rather than they shall perish eternally, I will be responsible for them as their Surety; bring in all thy bills, that I may see what they owe thee; Lord, bring them all in, that there may be no after-reckonings with them; at my hand shalt thou require it. I will rather choose to suffer thy wrath than they should suffer it: upon me, my Father, upon me be all their debt.


Father: But, my Son, if thou undertake for them, thou must reckon to pay the last mite, expect no abatements; if I spare them, I will not spare thee.


Son: Content, Father, let it be so; charge it all upon me, I am able to discharge it: and though it prove a kind of undoing to me, though it impoverish all my riches, empty all my treasures, (for so indeed it did, 2 Cor. 8: 9. “Though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor”) yet I am content to undertake it.

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Im reading a book called Having a Mary heart in a martha world.
Its about slowing down and truly embracing Jesus.

To kill A Mockingbird

"Teaching What You Don't Know" by Therese Huston

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The Diary and Journal of David Brainerd.

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Rene Loup said:

The Holy Bible. I finished the Gospel of Matthew and Mark and I'm halfway through Luke. I intend to do John afterwards.

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I'm glad you're able to read the scriptures again. And now, with fresh eyes. I am amazed that it is impossible to plumb the depths. The scriptures just keep giving and giving. It goes without saying, I suppose, but I have never read another "book" like it. God is so good to us.

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I'm having another go at "The Lion of Judah: How Jesus Completes Biblical Judaism and Why Judaism and Christianity Separated" by Rabbi Kirt A. Schneider.

And for fun and to have exposure to various examples as an aspiring author, I'm reading "Half Finished" by Lauraine Snelling. After that I'm going to read "Living Lies" by Natalie Walters. I'm trying to get a feel for good fiction written about women that is isn't primarily a romance.

For holiday inspiration and just looking into what works in the structure, but not content, for women, I'm reading the cheap books about "I want a boyfriend/husband/perfect-life for Christmas" novellas. It is hard to find adult Christmas books that do not involve whirlwind romance and "my life is incomplete, miserable, and falling apart without a perfect man" mentality.

I finished the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Very good hard sci-fi story

Since Halloween is this week I am going to H. P. Lovecraft's story At the Mountains of Madness