Defending Your Marriage
Description
Is your marriage under attack?Sometimes it can feel like the world is trying to tear your marriage apart. Internal conflicts or external pressures might make you wonder if something sinister is going on. How can you tell if you'refacing spiritual opposition? And what can you do about it?Tim Muehlhoff provides a straightforward resource for protecting your marriage from the threats of the evil one. He looks at what Scripture says about spiritual warfare and how our everyday struggles have deeper spiritual realities. And he provides practical steps for guarding our marriages with the whole armor of God.In our marital challenges, we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against powers and principalities that try to separate us from God and each other. But fear not. Learn to stand firm in Christ and trust in the Lord to deliver us from evil.
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Tim Muehlhoff (PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) is professor of communication at Biola University in La Mirada, California, where he teaches classes in family communication, interpersonal communication, persuasion, and gender. Muehlhoff and his wife, Noreen, are frequent speakers at FamilyLife Marriage Conferences, and Tim also serves as a speaker and author with Biola's Center for Marriage and Relationships. His books include I Beg to Differ, Marriage Forecasting, and Winsome Persuasion, which received a 2018 Christianity Today book award of merit in apologetics and evangelism.
Content
Foreword by Clinton E. Arnold Introduction: When Your Marriage Is a Target 1. The First Step: Making Sense of Our Adversary 2. Why Would Satan Care About My Marriage? 3. How Can I Tell If This Is Spiritual Warfare? 4. The Serpent Was Crafty: Understanding the Tactics of Satan 5. Fighting Back as a Couple: Utilizing Our Spiritual Protection 6. Our Greatest Defense: Prayer: Energizing Our Spiritual Protection 7. Taking the Devil's Perspective: Insightsfrom C. S. Lewis Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes
