Dorothy Littell Greco - Making Marriage Beautiful Lifelong Love, Joy, and Intimacy Start With You

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With careful precision, Dorothy Greco examines the complexities, pain, and beauty inherent in our marriages and guides us chapter by hope-filled chapter into the wisdom needed to cultivate marriages that overflow with love and beauty.

Marlena Graves (married 16 years), author of A Beautiful Disaster

A remarkably honest and profoundly wise road map for real marriagethe kind that survives relational ups and downs, twists and turns, and disappointments and doubts long enough to become a beautiful reflection of the life-changing, love-giving Christ. Greco paints this real-marriage landscape with uncanny skill, deft insight, and fearless power. Five stars!

Patricia Raybon (married 41 years), award-winning author of I Told the Mountain to Move and Undivided

Dorothy Greco offers deep yet extremely practical ways to build a Christ-honoring, thriving relationship. This book will speak life-changing truth straight into the heart of your marriage.

Jeffrey P. Bjorck, PhD (married 26 years), psychology professor at Fuller Theological Seminary and licensed psychologist

Making Marriage Beautiful is full of goodness and truth, and is one of the wisest and most comprehensive books on marriage Ive ever read.

Karen Swallow Prior, PhD (married 31 years), author of Booked and Fierce Convictions

I tend to avoid marriage books. Often, their idealism sends me into the sloughs of guilt and despond. Not Grecos book. She offers an honest, literate, and biblical marriage playbook that is as inspiring as it is doable. Because of this lovely book, Ill be looking for outbursts of beauty in marriages everywhere. Even in mine.

Leslie Leyland Fields (married 39 years), author of Crossing the Waters

Making Marriage Beautiful is a unique, remarkably engaging, and vulnerable treatise. It shows me how, even after thirty-one years of marriage, Ive got more to learn.

Rev. Ray Kollbocker (married 31 years), the senior pastor of Parkview Community Church in Glen Ellyn, IL

This book is honest, humbly written, and wise. Rather than formulas or edicts, Greco has given us a gospel-centered theology and ethic of Christian marriage. But its about more than marriageultimately its about the good news that Jesus rescues and transforms sinners like you and me.

Amy Simpson (married 23 years), inner strength coach and author of Anxious

Greco uses her brilliance as a writer and a creative wordsmith to convey a winsome and challenging message about marriage. This is just not another book on Christian marriage. This is a must-read for anyone wishing to gain insight and instruction on their marriage journey.

Dr. Virginia Friesen (married 40 years), author of Raising a Trailblazer and coauthor of The Marriage App

Making Marriage Beautiful offers readers a wise book that veers wide of clichd fixes. Dorothy Greco tackles the kinds of issues that sabotage real relational growth. This book will benefit newlyweds as well as couples whove been together for decades.

Michelle Van Loon (married 37 years), author of Moments & Days

Dorothy Grecos wise and pastoral book offers probing questions at the end of each chapter, which I particularly like. These questions (and this book) will be a tool for self-understanding, spiritual formation, and by Gods grace, marital growth.

Jen Pollock Michel (married 20 years), author of Teach Us to Want and Keeping Place

With humor, warmth, and honesty, Greco calls us to be not only better spouses but better individuals and better followers of Jesus.

Dorcas Cheng-Tozun (married 11 years), Inc.com columnist and Christianity Today contributor

Dorothy Greco has generously opened her heart and her marriage for us to mine her hard-won wisdom. Her gospel-centered perspective combined with real stories of couples makes me recommend this book to anyone who longs to build a beautiful marriage!

Suzanne Burden (married 8 years), coauthor of Reclaiming Eve and pastor

Dorothy Greco wades into a myriad of marriage challenges with a candid discussion of her own marriage. Readers who long for a stronger, more meaningful marriage partnership will find plenty of wisdom, help, and encouragement here.

Carolyn Custis James (married 36 years), author of Half the Church and Malestrom

Dorothys smart and sensitive words direct me to Jesus for grace and offer tools and testimonies to spur me on to love my wife better.

Andrew Comiskey (married 35 years), pastor and author of Strength in Weakness

Dorothy Greco invites us to see how marital challenges become invitations for spiritual transformation.

Kelli Trujillo (married 17 years), editor of Christianity Today

Dorothy Greco brings a refreshing female voice to the marriage conversation: candid, thoughtful, wise, and well researched, with helpful examples from actual marriages, including her own. A solid resource for couples, pastors, and congregations.

Sarah Arthur (married 16 years), coauthor of The Year of Small Things

Dorothy has done us all a great service by inviting us into her marriage journey with insight and courage. Christophers vulnerability and stories make this book required reading for men who want to experience deeper delight in their marriage.

Brian Doerksen (married 32 years), pastor, worship leader, and songwriter

In Making Marriage Beautiful , Dorothy Greco offers a grace-filled, clear-minded, and motivating look at modern marriage.

Andrea Palpant Dilley (married 11 years), contributing editor of Christianity Today