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Geddert's study of a few controversial issues--love your enemies (nonviolence), sexuality, divorce and remarriage, homosexuality, money and possessions--demonstrates how the discerning community can work toward consensus.

Copyright 2008 Herald Press

Relationships can feel like ties and binds interacting and intersecting with all we do. The stresses and strains of these interconnections often leave little room for laughter.

It Takes Two to Tangle invites you to take a lighter look at these intersecting relationships that constitute your life. It's an invitation to perceive, enjoy and express what is amusing about parenting, vacationing together, managing busy schedules, communication with your spouse and children, assembling all the multitudinous parts that should constitute a swing set and planning a romantic evening together that just may include a chimney fire.

In this treading lightly through the ties and binds of relationships, you will find as Joseph Addison has so aptly stated that "cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Copyright 1999.

Copyright 2004 Herald Press.

Gerald W. and L. Marlene Kaufman offer another way to find real contentment in marriage. They suggest that you take a rain check on the fantasies. They know that all couples have stresses from work, children, finances, and may distractions. The Kaufmans help you find ways to manage your life. They especially want couples to be realistic about each other when the mystery and intense romance disappears.

This book is about discovering the wonderful things that occur in the daily routines of marriage. Things that many couples miss because they chase impossible dreams and fantasies. For example, the quiet of an evening together after the kids are in bed. Sometimes without a word being said! Maybe the closeness comes form an unsolicited back rub. Mainly they are close because nothing else is allowed to come between them. That is when they discover a richly ordinary marriage. What the Kaufmans call Monday Marriage.

Copyright 2005 Herald Press

Gentle advice from a well-known pastor who has counseled many couples through the years. Now he brings together into one book his insights about marriage after many years of experience and counseling. His helpful advice and practical anecdotes fill this attractive book with warmth and encouragement.

Herself a second wife, Marth Stahl talks straight about the preparation required for those women who are marrying a widower. Because they're older and considered "wiser," such couples tend not to take the care needed for happiness and satisfaction in their marriages.

Stahl married for the first when she was in her late 40s. The marriage turned out well, but it presented her with situations she hadn't imagined before: How to date privately in a small community? (There are tricks!); What about premarital counseling? (What's a young pastor to tell two romantics twice his or her age?); What to do with the first wife's things, and photos from the first marriage?; How to handle different expectations about money, sex and vacations?; How to survive personality quirks, and daily likes and dislikes?.

Stahl writes from her own life. She draws, too, on 40 responses to a questionnaire she sent to second wives who share her Christian faith.

Copyright 2005 Good Books.

Our situation relates to the removal of boundaries in contemporary society. Saying "no" has become out of step with a world that worships the concept of the indiscriminate "yes." Authority figures have been replaced, and we are in search of our own "space" and self-esteem. We do not want to be inconvenienced by restrictions.

Freedom and wholeness come when we choose to live within boundaries. We seek compassionate limits drawn by the civil society and the church. We need boundaries that connect to our covenant with God. These help us in our relationships with each other and speak to our long term good.

This book celebrates contained freedom that places a fence around us from the time we are born till the time we die.

Harvey Yoder emphasizes areas of relationship maintenance often ignored in other similar books. These include the importance of a solid support network of friends, family, and congregational family; and the need to take seriously Jesus' teaching about a joyful and simple lifestyle. Charmingly illustrated by Lee Eshleman.

Copyright 2007 Herald Press