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Making Your Marriage a Fortress

Strengthening Your Marriage to Withstand Life's Storms

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Making Your Marriage a Fortress

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How to keep your marriage together when the trials of life threaten to rip it apart.

It's not a question of if your marriage will face trials. It's a question of when. Illness or injury. Job loss or financial burdens. Addiction. Anxiety. Infidelity. Loss of faith.

Whether you've been married for five months or fifty years, it's within you and your spouse's power to ensure your marriage is prepared for those seasons and situations—a place of refuge and safety for both of you.

In Making Your Marriage a Fortress, Gary Thomas, bestselling author of Sacred Marriage, guides you and your spouse in how to fortify your marriage ahead of time, so that it can withstand any storm or difficult season. You'll:

  • Discover helpful and practical principles to strengthen your marriage.
  • Learn to detect the warning signs of trouble and how to act on them together.
  • Understand how the present state of your marriage—good or bad—is magnified during a crisis.
  • Gain spiritual insight about God's view of marriage and how to live it out in all circumstances.

Every marriage will face setbacks and seasons of disappointment, but this book will help you keep your marriage strong. . .for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and health, till death do you part.

©2022 Gary Thomas (P)2022 Zondervan
Family Marriage & Relationships Spiritual Growth Marriage
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Bring the tissues

I am reading this getting ready to get married after a painful previous marriage. I couldn’t get through the chapter about losing a child without reliving my loss. My last marriage died with the death of my twins. I fear making mistakes in this new marriage but seeing that family survive gave me hope.

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Practical

I loved all the practical stories and examples. Gary’s writing and delivery is so good.

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What a great book

Gary does a wonderful job of bringing clarity to many topics in marriage. I appreciate the view given from different couples situations. With Godly recommendations and advice. Every marriage can benefit from this book. Thankful for Gary’s heart for marriages.

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Love the writing style

It's not about the problems its about the principles as Gary says! Sooo relatable in each chapter and story. I love the journalists style approach to digging into what makes each of these marriages strong to withhold the trials of life.

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A Must Read for Married Couples

Semper Paratus. Always ready. That’s the Coast Guard motto and the title of the sermon our pastor gave on our wedding day twenty years ago this month. She talked how deeply in love we were that day, but cautioned us to be prepared, semper paratus, for the storms that come. And they do. So timely that this book was released this month!

Life can throw a curveball toward a marriage anytime. I found this book enlightening as Thomas covers a wide range of issues that can negatively impact a marriage. These include the stress and energy of raising children, busyness, in laws, boundaries, emotional and physical affairs, coping with the death of a child, loss of health, career, business travel, deployments, pornography, financial loss, loss of home and more.

I found the book an easy listen, engaging, and finished it in just over a day. Thomas shares examples of issues real life couples have faced and have overcome, or found ways to cope in the storm. It’s inspiring and a great book to have in your toolbox when those storms arise. I’ll be more prepared having read this book. Recommend for married couples at any stage.

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Book club recommendation

My husband and I started to attend a married couple book club, the group has more than 10 years of reading and sharing life.
Making Your Marriage a Fortress was the book we started with them and was really helpful every chapter allowed us to enrich the content by sharing our own experiences.

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Eye Opening

Good information stressing the importance of communication and sticking together as steam to become stronger than before

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