100 Best Christian Dating Books of All Time

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Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People book cover1

Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

Bob Goff

5.0
New York Times Bestseller!

What happens when we give away love like we're made of it?

In his entertaining and inspiring follow-up to the New York Times bestselling phenomenon Love Does, Bob Goff takes readers on a journey into the secret of living without fear, constraint, or worry. The path toward the liberated existence we all long for is found in a truth as simple to say as it is hard to do: lov
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life book cover2

Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life

Henry Cloud, John Townsend

4.8
Having clear boundaries is essential to a healthy, balanced lifestyle. A boundary is a personal property line that marks those things for which we are responsible. In other words, boundaries define who we are and who we are not. Boundaries impact all areas of our lives: Physical boundaries help us determine who may touch us and under what circumstances -- Mental boundaries give us the freedom to h
Boundaries in Dating book cover3

Boundaries in Dating

Henry Cloud, John Townsend

4.7
Boundaries in Dating offers illuminating insights for romance that can help you grow in freedom, honesty, and self-control as you pursue a healthy dating relationship that will lead to a healthy marriage.

Dating can be fun, but it's not easy. Meeting people is just one concern. Once you've met someone, then what? What do you build? Nothing, a simple friendship, or more? How do you set smart limit
Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age book cover4

Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age

Ben Stuart

4.7
ECPA Bestseller

Navigating the Four Critical Seasons of Relationship

The vast majority of young people will still pass through the key phases of singleness, dating, engagement and marriage in their twenties. Yet they are delaying marriage longer than any generation in human history. Why?

For the first time in history, the average age for an American woman having her first child, 26, is younger than
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The Sacred Search: What If It's Not about Who You Marry, But Why?

Gary Thomas

4.7
What if you stopped looking for a “soul mate” and started looking for a “sole mate”—someone who will live out with you the great purpose of God? What if dating isn’t about finding “the one” but making a wise choice so you can better serve the One who loves you most? What if God didn’t design relationships to make you happy but to make you holy? In The Sacred Search, Gary Thomas will transform the
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Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

Elisabeth Elliot

4.6
Very few books on dating have stood the test of time like Passion and Purity. Its much-needed message remains strong and hopeful in an age when doing whatever "feels right" is common practice. Using her own life as an example, Elisabeth Elliot guides singles of both genders and of any age on how to put their love lives under the authority of Jesus Christ.
Passion and Purity covers dating issues su
Love & Respect book cover7

Love & Respect

Emerson Eggerichs

4.5
A Marriage Book with a Difference!

A Revolutionary Message: "I've been married 35 years and have not heard this taught.""This is the key that I have been missing.""You connected all the dots for me.""As a counselor, I have never been so excited about any material.""You're on to something huge here."

A Simple Message: A wife has one driving need--to feel loved. When that need is met, she is happy. A
The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God book cover8

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

Timothy Keller

4.5
There is a new cover here



Based on the acclaimed sermon series by New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller, this book shows everyone—Christians, skeptics, singles, longtime married couples, and those about to be engaged—the vision of what marriage should be according to the Bible.

Modern culture would have you believe that everyone has a soul mate; that romance is the most important part o
Not Yet Married: The Pursuit of Joy in Singleness and Dating book cover9

Not Yet Married: The Pursuit of Joy in Singleness and Dating

Marshall Segal

4.5
Life Is Never Mainly about Love and Marriage. So Learn to Live and Date for More.

Many of you grew up assuming that marriage would meet all of your needs and unlock God's purposes for you. But God has far more planned for you than your future marriage. Not Yet Married is not about waiting quietly in the corner of the world for God to bring you "the one," but about inspiring you to live and date for
31 prayers for my Future Husband book cover10

31 prayers for my Future Husband

Jennifer Smith

4.4
Praying for his heart. The anticipation to one day get married is a beautiful experience that should not be rushed. In your waiting, purpose to pray for your future husband and what he is enduring through right now that will contribute to your future marriage. This resource takes you on a journey of learning how to pray for his heart through thirty-one specific prayers for him.
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The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption

Matt Chandler and Jared C. Wilso

4.4
This edition has a new cover

The Song of Solomon offers strikingly candid—and timeless—insights on romance, dating, marriage, and sex. We need it. Because emotions rise and fall with a single glance, touch, kiss, or word. And we are inundated with songs, movies, and advice that contradicts God's design for love and intimacy. Matt Chandler helps navigate these issues for both singles and marrieds
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When God Writes Your Love Story

Eric Ludy and Leslie Ludy

4.3
In their most popular book, bestselling authors Eric and Leslie Ludy challenge singles to take a fresh approach to relationships in a culture where love has been replaced by cheap sensual passion. When God Writes Your Love Story shows that God's way to true love brings fulfillment and romance in its purest, richest, and most satisfying form. This new edition includes an extra chapter from Leslie L
Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't book cover13

Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't

Henry Cloud, John Townsend

4.3
Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend offer solid guidance for making safe choices in relationships, from friendships to romance. They help identify the nurturing people we all need in our lives, as well as ones we need to learn to avoid. Safe People will help you to recognize 20 traits of relationally untrustworthy people. Discover what makes some people relationally safe, and how to avoid unhealthy
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Love That Lasts: How We Discovered God’s Better Way for Love, Dating, Marriage, and Sex

Jefferson Bethke and Alyssa Bethke

4.3
In Love That Lasts,New York Times bestselling author of Jesus > Religion Jefferson Bethke and his wife, Alyssa, expose the distorted views of love that permeate our culture and damage our hearts, minds, and souls.

Drawing from Jeff’s “prodigal son” personal history and from Alyssa’s “True Love Waits” experience, the Bethkes point to a third and better way. Blending personal storytelling with biblic
The Man God Has For You: 7 traits to Help You Determine Your Life Partner book cover15

The Man God Has For You: 7 traits to Help You Determine Your Life Partner

Stephan Labossiere

4.3
YOU DESERVE AN AMAZING MAN! So, where is he? Does he even exist? I can tell you that he does and that he is out there, chosen by God Himself and waiting for you to discover him. But there are things that you will need to do in order to recognize and receive this man, and that's where The Man God Has for You: 7 Traits to Help You Determine Your Life Partner comes in. Inside these pages is a guide n
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The New Rules for Love, Sex, and Dating

Andy Stanley

4.3
“Are you the person the person you are looking for is looking for?"

—Andy Stanley



Single? Looking for the "right person"? Thinking that if you met the "right person" everything would turn out "right"? Think again.



In TheNew Rules For Love, Sex & Dating, Andy Stanley explores the challenges, assumptions, and land mines associated with dating in the twenty-first century. Best of all, he offers the m
The Four Loves book cover17

The Four Loves

C. S. Lewis

4.3
A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God—part of the C. S. Lewis Signature Classics series.

C.S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chron
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30 Days to Taming Your Tongue

Deborah Smith Pegues

4.3
Certified behavioral consultant Deborah Pegues knows how easily a slip of the tongue can cause problems in personal and business relationships. This is why she wrote the popular 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue (850,000 copies sold). Now in trade size, Pegues's 30-day devotional will help each reader not only tame their tongue but make it productive rather than destructive.

With humor and a bit of ref
Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change book cover19

Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change

Paul David Tripp

4.3
We might be relieved if God placed our sanctification only in the hands of trained professionals, but that is not his plan. Instead, through the ministry of every part of the body, the whole church will mature in Christ. Paul David Tripp helps us discover where change is needed in our own lives and the lives of others. Following the example of Jesus, Tripp reveals how to get to know people, and ho
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I Kissed Dating Goodbye

Joshua Harris

4.3
Updated hardcover edition 2003
Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex book cover21

Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

Michael Todd

4.2
A candid, inspiring guide to finding lasting love by getting real about your relationship goals--based on the viral sermon series about dating, marriage, and sex.

Realer than the most real conversation you've ever heard in church on the topic, Michael Todd's honest, heartfelt, and powerful teaching on relationships has already impacted millions. Michael believes that relationships are the epicenter
Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul book cover22

Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge

4.2
Every woman was once a little girl. And every little girl holds in her heart her most precious dreams. She longs to be swept up into a romance, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, to" be" the Beauty of the story. And yet―how many women do you know who ever find that life?

Most women think they have to settle for a life of efficiency and duty, striving to be the women they "ought" to
Keep Your Love On: Connection, Communication and Boundaries book cover23

Keep Your Love On: Connection, Communication and Boundaries

Danny Silk

4.2
Keeping your love on. It s a hard thing to do. Sometimes it s the hardest thing to do. But if you want to build healthy relationships with God and others, learning to keep your love on is non negotiable. Adults and children alike thrive in healthy relationships where it is safe to love and be loved, to know and be known. Yet for many, relationships are anything but safe, loving, or intimate. They
Together With Christ: A Dating Couples Devotional: 52 Devotions and Bible Studies to Nurture Your Relationship book cover24

Together With Christ: A Dating Couples Devotional: 52 Devotions and Bible Studies to Nurture Your Relationship

Chelsea Damon

4.2
Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been book cover25

Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been

Jackie Hill Perry

4.2
"I used to be a lesbian."

In Gay Girl, Good God , author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless, experienced gender confusion, and embraced both masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. But was she supposed to
The Five Love Languages Singles Edition book cover26

The Five Love Languages Singles Edition

Gary Chapman

4.2
Gary Chapman's core message has hit home with over 5 million people as it focuses on humanity's deepest emotional need: the need to "feel" loved. This need is felt by married and singles alike. Dr. Chapman now tackles the unique circumstances that singles face, and integrates how the same five love languages apply in their relationships.
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True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of your Life

Debra K. Fileta

4.2
In True Love Dates, Debra Fileta encourages singles not to kiss dating goodbye but instead to experience a season of dating as a way to find real love. Through reading powerful, real-life stories (including the author s personal journey) and gaining insights from Fileta s experience as a professional counselor, readers will discover that it ispossible to find true love through dating.

Christians ar
Learning the Virtues: That Lead You to God book cover28

Learning the Virtues: That Lead You to God

Romano Guardini

4.2
Grow Beyond, Thou Shalt NotLearn how to cultivate virtue so that you'll please God in what you do not just in what you don't do. Here are ways to make the key virtues that lead you to God a permanent part of your character.
You and Me Forever: Marriage in Light of Eternity book cover29

You and Me Forever: Marriage in Light of Eternity

Francis Chan and Lisa Chan

4.2
Marriage is great, but it's not forever. It's until death do us part. Then come eternal rewards or regrets depending on how we spent our lives. In his latest book, Francis Chan joins together with his wife Lisa to address the question many couples wonder at the altar: How do I have a healthy marriage? Setting aside typical topics on marriage, Francis and Lisa dive into Scripture to understand what
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Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship

Joshua Harris

4.2
Purpose Driven Romance

The last thing singles want is more rules. But if you're looking for an intentional, God-pleasing game plan for finding a future spouse, Joshua Harris delivers an appealing one. A compelling new foreword, an all-new "8 Great Courtship Conversations" section, and updated material throughout makes this five-year revision of the original Boy Meets Girl a must-have! Harris illust
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Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing

Jay Stringer

4.2
Unwanted. It describes how we feel about some of the things we do. We don't wake up in the morning looking forward to giving our evening over to pornography. We don't leave the house each day eagerly anticipating our next one-night stand. These are unwanted behaviors on our part, no matter how compulsively we pursue them.

But "unwanted" also can describe how we feel about ourselves--both as a conse
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BECOMING MR. RIGHT

Michael J Daniels

4.2
How a Wife Speaks: Loving Your Husband Well Through Godly Communication (How They Speak) book cover33

How a Wife Speaks: Loving Your Husband Well Through Godly Communication (How They Speak)

Selena Frederick

4.2

God cares how wives speak to their husbands.The nearest, clearest, and best opportunity every wife has to improve her marriage is becoming a better communicator. Couples who learn to speak, listen, and understand one another experience growth in every other aspect of their marriage, including their unity, intimacy, priorities, and more. So, why not devote yourself to mastering the craft of biblica

The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows book cover34

The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows

James Bryan Smith

4.2
For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women book cover35

For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women

Shaunti Feldhahn, Jeff Feldhahn

4.2
Finally--You "Can"Understand Her!
Women: Complicated and impossible to understand? Do you love and want to please the woman in your life, but just can't seem to figure her out? That was before "For Men Only." Now at your fingertips is the tool that will unlock the secret to her mysterious ways. Through hundreds of interviews and the results of a scientific national survey of women, this book demon
How a Husband Speaks: Leading and Loving Your Wife Through Godly Communication (How They Speak) book cover36

How a Husband Speaks: Leading and Loving Your Wife Through Godly Communication (How They Speak)

Ryan Frederick

4.2

God cares how husbands speak to their wives.The nearest, clearest, and best opportunity a husband has to improve his marriage is to become a better communicator. Couples who learn to speak, listen, and understand one another experience growth in every other aspect of their marriage, including their unity, intimacy, priorities, and more. So, why not devote yourself to mastering the craft of biblica

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52 Uncommon Dates: A Couple's Adventure Guide for Praying, Playing, and Staying Together

Randy Southern

4.2

We know we should do it. We talk about it and acknowledge the benefits; yet most couples find praying together is somewhat awkward, intimidating, or something we lack the time for. It's time to experience a breath of fresh air... in prayer.

52 Pray Dates ignites a prayerful and playful connection in a way that feels natural for couples to schedule and relate to real life. Fun, creative, and spiritu
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The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

Matthew Kelly

4.2
Build the strong, deeply powerful relationships you’ve always desired in this inspirational guide to intimacy from Matthew Kelly, bestselling author of The Rhythm ofLife.

We all crave the heartwarming, incomparable connection of intimacy. But oftentimes, this complete, unrestrained sharing of ourselves is too daunting a task. Now, in The Seven Levels of Intimacy, Matthew Kelly explains step-by-step
A Beautiful Year with Jesus (LB): The Daily Devotional For 365 Days in the Bible | Bible Study Guide for Spiritual Growth book cover39

A Beautiful Year with Jesus (LB): The Daily Devotional For 365 Days in the Bible | Bible Study Guide for Spiritual Growth

Alabaster Co.

4.1

A Beautiful Year with Jesus is a 365-day daily devotional for women, crafted to combine Scripture, prayer, and contemplative imagery into a peaceful rhythm of daily connection with God. Created with simplicity and depth in mind, this one-year devotional is especially suited for those who long to connect with God but struggle to find the time.Each entry is short, meaningful, and easy to engage with

Tying the Knot: A Premarital Guide to a Strong and Lasting Marriage book cover40

Tying the Knot: A Premarital Guide to a Strong and Lasting Marriage

Rob Green

4.1
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What Did You Expect?: Redeeming the Realities of Marriage

Paul David Tripp

4.1
A longtime Christian teacher and counselor calls engaged and married couples to a grace-based lifestyle of daily reconciliation, marked by six practical commitments. Marriage, according to Scripture, will always involve two flawed people living with each other in a fallen world. Yet, in counselor Paul Tripp's professional experience, the majority of couples enter marriage with unrealistic expectat
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Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

Linda Kay Klein

4.1
From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity’s purity culture has had on a generation of young women—in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir.

In the 1990s, a “purity industry” emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a dangerou
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Addicted to Pain: Renew Your Mind & Heal Your Spirit from a Toxic Relationship in 30 Days

Rainie Howard

4.1
Addicted To Pain Book Description The obsession of a toxic or abusive relationship can have the same enticement as drugs or alcohol. The pattern echoes time and time again: a new significant other draws you into a new relationship that starts off loving and alluring only to develop into a hurtful or abusive cycle. People who have a healthy understanding of "true love" do not tolerate this kind of
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Lord, Prepare Me to Be a Godly Wife: Becoming God's Best While Waiting for Your Boaz

Tiffany Langford

4.1
A time traveling romance -

from the author's description:

"As a virtuous wife, does it include tolerating his cousin, enduring his concubines, bearing his mother?

If you will not let me live freely, why would I let you live in satisfaction?

Did fate let women time-travel so she could learn the three morals and four virtues?

Rather than act like a coward and live, it would be better to live in satisfac
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Theology of the Body for Beginners: A Basic Introduction to Pope John Paul II's Sexual Revolution

Christopher West

4.1
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Chasing Happily Ever After: Building Blocks To A Better Relationship

Brian E Wallace

4.1
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Go Bravely: Becoming the Woman You Were Created to Be

Emily Wilson Hussem

4.1
As a young Christian woman, do you struggle with insecurities and feel bogged down by the pressures and expectations of society? Do you find it challenging to take care of yourself and be a faithful daughter of God?

Emily Wilson Hussem used to feel the same way. In Go Bravely, the Catholic musician and speaker offers twenty bits of advice that will equip you to tackle your deepest concerns about r
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When Dreams Come True: A Love Story Only God Could Write

Eric Ludy, Leslie Ludy

4.1
This daringly real, intensely moving love story gives vision and hope to everyone in search of a love worth waiting for. In their bestseller When God Writes Your Love Story, Eric and Leslie Ludy described the breathtaking perfection of God's plans for each young person and offered fresh guidelines for being Christlike in relationships with the opposite sex. When Dreams Come True shares the Ludys'
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Live Original: How the Duck Commander Teen Keeps It Real and Stays True to Her Values

Sadie Robertson

4.1
Sadie Robertson—former star of A&E’s Duck Dynasty and daughter of Willie and Korie Robertson—shares her outlook on life as she opens up about herself and the values that make her family what it is.

Sadie Robertson represents everything that a well-adjusted teenager should be, even while growing up in the spotlight on Duck Dynasty. She exhibits poise, respect for her family and friends, and a faith
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Sex, God, and the Conservative Church: Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy

Tina Schermer Sellers

4.1
Sex, God, and the Conservative Church guides psychotherapy and sexology clinicians on how to treat clients who grew up in a conservative faith--mired in sexual shame and dysfunction--and who desire to both heal and hold on to their faith orientation. The author first walks clinicians and readers through a critique of Western culture and the conservative Christian Church, and their effects on intim
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Fill These Hearts: God, Sex, and the Universal Longing

Christopher West

4.1
The bestselling author, speaker, and teacher of John Paul II's Theology of the Body explores the yearning we all have for God and each other.

Fill These Hearts is a book about desire. Not trivial wants or superficial cravings, but the most vital powers of body and soul, sexuality and spirituality, that haunt us and compel us on our search for something. Weaving life-altering lessons together from c
Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone book cover52

Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

Joyce Meyer

4.1
Wild Things: The Art of Nurturing Boys book cover53

Wild Things: The Art of Nurturing Boys

Stephen James, David Thomas

4.1
Playing off the themes in the Caldecott Medal-winning children's book Where the Wild Things Are, this informative, practical, and encouraging guide will help parents guide boys down the path to healthy and authentic manhood. Wild Things addresses the physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of a boy, written by two therapists who are currently engaged in clinical work with boys and their parents
Her Cowboy Billionaire Bull Rider (Christmas in Coral Canyon #5) book cover54

Her Cowboy Billionaire Bull Rider (Christmas in Coral Canyon #5)

Liz Isaacso

4.1
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Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating

Christina Lauren

4.1
Hazel Camille Bradford knows she’s a lot to take—and frankly, most men aren’t up to the challenge. If her army of pets and thrill for the absurd don’t send them running, her lack of filter means she’ll say exactly the wrong thing in a delicate moment. Their loss. She’s a good soul in search of honest fun.

Josh Im has known Hazel since college, where her zany playfulness proved completely incompatib
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Free Looks Good on You: Healing the Soul Wounds of Toxic Love

Christy Johnson

4.1
How do you let go of the pain when love turns toxic, when rejection, betrayal, abuse or addiction have shattered your soul? Love isn’t supposed to hurt, but if you’re tired of the heartache, it’s time leave the past behind and find emotional freedom in relationships.

The truth is…letting go of the past is easier said than done. Those that mean well may have advised you to pray harder or give it to
The Year of the Bride: Supernatural Strategy for Marital Breakthrough book cover57

The Year of the Bride: Supernatural Strategy for Marital Breakthrough

Tiphani Montgomery

4.1
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Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.

John Mark Comer

4.1
You’ve heard people say “Who you are matters more than what you do”. Does the Bible really teach that?

In Garden City, popular pastor and speaker John Mark Comer gives a fresh take on our calling and our purpose, with a surprisingly counter-culture take. Through his creative and conversational style, Comer takes a good look at Genesis and the story of a man, a woman, and a garden. He unpacks God’s
Ready or Knot?: 12 Conversations Every Couple Needs to Have Before Marriage book cover59

Ready or Knot?: 12 Conversations Every Couple Needs to Have Before Marriage

Scott Kedersha and Gary Thomas

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The wedding day is just one day in the life of a couple. But God's design is for marriage to last a lifetime. So how can someone know that the person they're with is the one they can truly build a life with--especially when so few marriages around them work?

Pastor Scott Kedersha has worked with more than 5,000 premarital couples to prepare them for the biggest decision of their lives. In Ready or
Couples Bible Study Workbook: A 4-in-1 Practical Guide for Married Couples to Strengthen Their Relationship Through Scripture, Prayer, and Real-Life Applications book cover60

Couples Bible Study Workbook: A 4-in-1 Practical Guide for Married Couples to Strengthen Their Relationship Through Scripture, Prayer, and Real-Life Applications

Eliana Grace

4.1

Marriage takes love—but it also requires faith, communication, intentional growth, and spiritual unity.Couples Bible Study Workbook is more than a devotional. It’s a practical 4-in-1 Christian workbook for couples designed to help you strengthen your relationship with God at the center.Whether you are newly married, rebuilding connection, or simply wanting to grow deeper together, this guided work

The Path Between Us: An Enneagram Journey to Healthy Relationships book cover61

The Path Between Us: An Enneagram Journey to Healthy Relationships

Suzanne Stabile

4.1
Most of us have no idea how others see or process their experiences. And that can make relationships hard, whether with intimate partners, with friends, or in our professional lives. Understanding the motivations and dynamics of these different personality types can be the key that unlocks sometimes mystifying behavior in others—and in ourselves.

This book from Suzanne Stabile on the nine Enneagram
My Dear Hemlock book cover62

My Dear Hemlock

Tilly Dillehay

4.1
Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others book cover63

Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others

John C. Maxwell

4.1
America's leadership expert teaches that if your life in any way connects with other people, you are an influencer. Whatever your vocation or aspiration is, you can increase your impact with Maxwell's simple, insightful ways to interact more positively with others. Watch your personal and organizational success go off the charts!
For Women Only: What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men book cover64

For Women Only: What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men

Shaunti Feldhahn

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Discover the Truth He Wants You to Know

The man in your life carries important feelings so deep inside he barely knows they’re there, much less how to talk about them. Yet your man genuinely wants you to “get” him—to understand his inner life, to know his fears and needs, to hear what he wishes he could tell you.

In her landmark bestseller, For Women Only, Shaunti Feldhahn reveals what every woman—
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Girl at the End of the World: My Escape from Fundamentalism in Search of Faith with a Future

Elizabeth Esther

4.1
I was raised in a homegrown, fundamentalist Christian group—which is just a shorthand way of saying I’m classically trained in apocalyptic stockpiling, street preaching, and the King James Version of the Bible. I know hundreds of obscure nineteenth-century hymns by heart and have such razor sharp “modesty vision” that I can spot a miniskirt a mile away.

Verily, verily I say unto thee, none of these
31 Prayers For My Future Wife: Preparing My Heart For Marriage By Praying For Her book cover66

31 Prayers For My Future Wife: Preparing My Heart For Marriage By Praying For Her

Aaron Smith

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5-Minute Weekly Devotions for Couples: The Simple 52-Week Devotional Blueprint for Christian Relationships to Build Unshakeable Spiritual Intimacy, ... to God Together (Growing Together in Grace) book cover67

5-Minute Weekly Devotions for Couples: The Simple 52-Week Devotional Blueprint for Christian Relationships to Build Unshakeable Spiritual Intimacy, ... to God Together (Growing Together in Grace)

Steps of Grace

4.1

Stop Drifting Through Your Marriage and Start Growing Toward Your Legacy—In Just Five Minutes a Week.Most Christian couples start with a vision of a Christ-centered home, praying together and seeking God’s will. But life gets loud. Schedules clash. And the spiritual connection that once came naturally slowly begins to feel like "one more thing" on an overstuffed to-do list.Updated 2026 Edition — T

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In Defense of Purity

Dietrich von Hildebrand, Leo Scheffczyk, Alice von Hildebrand

4.1
A probing meditation on the nature, value, and beauty of purity, In Defense of Purity is not a book of sexual ethics, nor a "how-to" guide to purity--but for readers with open minds and hearts, the book promises to be transformative.

When Dietrich von Hildebrand converted to Catholicism in 1914, he was surprised to find that, despite an abundance of books on the dangers of impurity, there were prac
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Unpunishable: Ending Our Love Affair with Punishment and Building a Culture of Repentance, Restoration, and Reconciliation

Danny Silk

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2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ revealed the Father to humanity, not as an angry punisher of sinners, but as a merciful forgiver bent on reconciliation with His lost sons and daughters. Through Christ’s perfect sacrifice, the Father ensured that inside this reconciled relationship with Him, nothing we could ever do could separate us from His love. He made us unpunishable. Yet the body of Christ stru
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Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy

Donald Miller, Webb Wilder

4.1
New York Times bestselling memoirist Donald Miller takes readers on his year-long journey to learn to abandon performance-based relationships and find real intimacy.

After decades of failed relationships and painful drama, Donald Miller decided he'd had enough. Impressing people wasn't helping him connect with anyone. He'd built a life of public isolation, yet he dreamed of meaningful relationships
Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out book cover71

Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out

Jim Burns Ph.D

4.1
Practical advice and hopeful encouragement for the tough yet rewarding transition to parenting grown kids.

If you have an adult child, you know that parenting doesn't stop when a child reaches the age of eighteen. In many ways, it gets more complicated. Both your heart and your head are as involved as ever, whether your child lives under your roof or rarely stays in contact.

In Doing Life with Your
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How to Have Your Life Not Suck: Becoming Today Who You Want to Be Tomorrow

Bianca Juarez Olthoff and Christine Caine

4.1
Do you ever just want someone to help you figure life out--to tell you how to win at work, what guys to stay away from, and what jeans rock your body shape?This book is the perfect cocktail of sass and down-to-earth guidance to navigate your way to the life you want to live.

With so much information at your fingertips, real success, good dates, and true friendships can often feel out of reach. Pack
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Breakthrough: The Miraculous True Story of a Mother's Faith and Her Child's Resurrection

Joyce Smith

4.1
The impossible true story about the powerful impact of prayer that inspired the major motion picture starring Chrissy Metz, Topher Grace, Dennis Haysbert, and Josh Lucas.
Through the years and the struggles, when life seemed more about hurt and loss than hope and mercy, God was positioning the Smiths for something extraordinary--the death and resurrection of their son.

When Joyce Smith's fourteen-
Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married book cover74

Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married

Gary Chapman

4.1
“Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage.”

With more than 35 years of experience counseling couples, Gary has found that most marriages suffer due to a lack of preparation and a failure to learn to work together as intimate teammates.

So he put together this practical little book, packed with wisdom and tips that will help many deve
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Redeeming Sex: Naked Conversations about Sexuality and Spirituality

Debra Hirsch, Gabe Lyons

4.1
Nothing has exposed the gap between the church and the broader society quite like the cultural argument over sexuality. Relationships, identities, orientations and even seemingly straightforward concepts such as gender have cut battle lines between the church and the world. In the fog of war and the cloud of conflict, it's increasingly hard to see our way clearly. There is hope, however. Debra Hir
Is It Abuse?: A Biblical Guide to Identifying Domestic Abuse and Helping Victims book cover76

Is It Abuse?: A Biblical Guide to Identifying Domestic Abuse and Helping Victims

Darby Strickland, Sarah Zimmerman, and christianaudio.com

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Relationships: A Mess Worth Making

Tim S. Lane

4.1
With penetrating insight and practical applications, Relationships: A Mess Worth Making identifies how to work through the most stubborn problems that plague any contemporary relationship - be it marriage, parent-child, or friendship.
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God Where Is My Boaz

Stephan Labossiere

4.0
It's time to get the love and relationship GOD has had waiting for you all along. “GOD Where’s My Boaz” is a woman’s guide to understanding what is hindering her from receiving the love and relationship she truly deserves. A straight forward and easy to read book that will help you with:

- Spiritual and self growth
- Recognizing & overcoming the obstacles in love
- Becoming empowered, encouraged,
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A Love Letter Life: Pursue Creatively. Date Intentionally. Love Faithfully.

Jeremy Roloff

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

More than 2.3 million people watched as Jeremy and Audrey Roloff shared their vows and committed their lives to each other. Now for the first time, the former co-stars of TLC's hit show Little People, Big World share their imperfect, resilient, and inspiring love story.

As Jeremy and Audrey write, if you can fall into love, you can fall out. True love is something you cho
Fierce Marriage: Radically Pursuing Each Other in Light of Christ's Relentless Love book cover80

Fierce Marriage: Radically Pursuing Each Other in Light of Christ's Relentless Love

Ryan Frederick

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Ryan and Selena Frederick were newlyweds when they landed in Switzerland to pursue Selena's dream of training horses. Neither of them knew at the time that Ryan was living out a death sentence brought on by a worsening genetic heart defect. Soon it became clear he needed major surgery that could either save his life--or result in his death on the operating table. The young couple prepared for the
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You Are Enough: Is It Love or Your Need for Validation?: Overcoming People Pleasing And Emotionally Unavailable Relationships

Rainie Howard

4.0
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Winning with People

John C Maxwell

4.0
Ask the successful CEOs of major corporations, entrepreneurs, top salespeople, and pastors what characteristic is most needed for success in leadership positions, and they'll tell you-it's the ability to work with people.

Some people are born with great relationship skills, but those who are not can learn to improve them. In Winning with People Maxwell has translated decades of experience into 25 P
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God Where Is My Boaz?: A woman's guide to understanding what's hindering her from receiving the love and man she deserves

Stephan Labossiere

4.0
You are the woman a good man is praying for ❤️

God Where Is My Boaz? is your guide to preparing to receive the love and man you desire

THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU:

Gain much more clarity on what has and is stopping you from experiencing an amazing relationship with a great man.

Receive practical and spiritual guidance to becoming the woman God created you to be.

Establish healthy relationships with a foun
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Our Bucket List Adventures: A Journal for Couples

Ashley Kusi

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Our Bucket List Adventures: A Journal for Couples

Our Bucket List Adventures is the perfect bucket list journal for couples. With this couples journal, you'll be able to:

1. Create 50 unique bucket list goals you want to accomplish together. More specifically, there is an activity section for couples to brainstorm before choosing their bucket list items together.

2. Journal your bucket list adventure
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Loveology: God. Love. Marriage. Sex. And the never-ending story of male and female.

John Mark Comer

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In the beginning, God created Adam. Then he made Eve. And ever since we've been picking up the pieces. Loveology is just that—a theology of love. With an autobiographical thread that turns a book into a story, pastor and speaker John Mark Comer shares about what is right in male/female relationships—what God intended in the Garden. And about what is wrong—the fallout in a post-Eden world. Loveolog
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When Sorry Isn't Enough: Making Things Right with Those You Love

Gary Chapman

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“I said I was sorry!”

Even in the best of relationships, all of us make mistakes. We do and say things we later regret and hurt the people we love most. So we need to make things right. But simply saying you’re sorry is usually not enough.

In this book, #1 New York Times bestselling author Gary Chapman and Jennifer Thomas unveil new ways to effectively approach and mend fractured relationships. Even
Loving Him Well: Practical Advice on Influencing Your Husband book cover87

Loving Him Well: Practical Advice on Influencing Your Husband

Gary Thomas

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Women: you’re not alone in your marriage. You never have been, and you never will be. While it may not always feel like it, God desires for you to have a relationally healthy, emotionally engaged, and spiritually mature husband with whom you can share your days.

In Loving Him Well, Gary Thomas builds on concepts from his bestselling book Sacred Marriage to reveal the inner workings of a man’s heart
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Joy Fueled: Catalyzing a Revolution of Joyful Communities (LK10 Core Values Book 1)

John C. White

4.0
The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse: Recognizing and Escaping Spiritual Manipulation and False Spiritual Authority Within the Church book cover89

The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse: Recognizing and Escaping Spiritual Manipulation and False Spiritual Authority Within the Church

David Johnson

4.0
In a breakthrough book first published in 1991, the authors address the dynamics in churches that can ensnare people in legalism, guilt, and begrudging service, keeping them from the grace and joy of God's kingdom.Written for both those who feel abused and those who may be causing it, The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse shows how people get hooked into abusive systems, the impact of controlling le
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Waiting and Dating

Myles Munroe

4.0
Offers view for every believer who wants a fulfilling marriage relationship. This work offers advice on the subject of finding the one with whom you will spend the rest of your life. It helps you learn: the importance of sharing your faith in God; the need for personal wholeness; the importance of true friendship in a relationship; and more.
Every Man's Battle: Winning the War on Sexual Temptation One Victory at a Time book cover91

Every Man's Battle: Winning the War on Sexual Temptation One Victory at a Time

Stephen Arterburn, Fred Stoeker, Mike Yorkey

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A down-to-earth, step-by-step plan to help men overcome sexual temptation deals with pornography, adultery, and other issues leading men astray. Original.
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Soul Mates by God: Let God Be Your Matchmaker

Brad Tabian and Nicole Tabian

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Soul Mates by God is a practical life transforming dating guide that will show you how to cooperate with God to experience his best.Are you single and really wanting to be married? Do you wonder if you will ever find that special person with whom you can spend the rest of your life? Does God have an ideal soul mate in mind for you? Begin your adventure with God to discover his will for you. Unload
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Resolving Everyday Conflict

Ken Sande, Kevin Johnson

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Men, Women and the Mystery of Love: Practical Insights from John Paul II's Love and Responsibility

Edward Sri

4.0
"Love and Responsibility brilliantly sheds light on the mysterious dynamics between men and women and challenges us to live those dynamics better." — From the Introduction

Father Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) published Love and Responsibility in 1960, the fruit of his pastoral work, particularly among young people. His analysis of the true meaning of human love is life-transforming and practica
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The Love, Joy, Peace Workbook: A Couples Bible Study

Kim Bowen

4.0
The Cowboy Who Called Back: Grumpy Cowboy Sweet Romance & Small Town Saga (Three Rivers Romance™ Book 5) book cover96

The Cowboy Who Called Back: Grumpy Cowboy Sweet Romance & Small Town Saga (Three Rivers Romance™ Book 5)

Liz Isaacson

4.0
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Intimate Deception: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Betrayal

Dr. Sheri Keffer

4.0
Nothing destroys trust like sexual betrayal. Beyond broken vows, a woman who discovers that the man she loves has been viewing pornography or having an affair must deal with devastating blows to her self-image and self-worth. She must grapple with the fact that the man she thought she knew has lied and deceived her. She may even bear the brunt of shame and judgment when the people around her find
Better Man, Better Marriage: Awaken Your Inner Hero and Move from Passive to Powerful in Your Most Important Relationship book cover98

Better Man, Better Marriage: Awaken Your Inner Hero and Move from Passive to Powerful in Your Most Important Relationship

Jeff Borkoski

4.0
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Second Chance Ranch

Liz Isaacson

4.0
Do Squire and Kelly have enough patience and faith to make their second chance possible? After his deployment, injured and discharged Major Squire Ackerman returns to Three Rivers Ranch, anxious to prove himself capable of running the cattle operation so his parents can retire. Things would be easier if the ranch wasn't missing 1.6 million dollars, which forces Squire to hire Kelly, the girl who r
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Lady in Waiting: Becoming God's Best While Waiting for Mr. Right

Jackie Kendall

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With humor, honesty, and biblical truths, the authors help point women to being the right woman and not just finding the right man. By studying the biblical character Ruth, women learn the characteristics that every woman of God should develop. This expanded edition of the original best-seller includes a personal journal and study guide.

You hold in your hands a fresh and exciting way to enhance yo