Sacred Marriage
by Gary Thomas
What if God designed marriage to make us holy more than happy? Thomas treats marriage as spiritual discipline: learning to love, to forgive, to serve, to persevere. Widely influential and a deliberate counterweight to fulfilment-focused marriage books.
Read it if…
you want marriage framed as formation rather than satisfaction.
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Skip it if…
you are in an abusive marriage; this frame can be misused and Thomas later said so.
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Three things you will actually use
- Holy more than happy.
- Difficulty is the curriculum.
- Serve, and watch what happens to love.
Do this first
Read the chapter on marriage as a school of forgiveness.
Our verdict
Holy more than happy.
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