Marriage - Pre-Marital

10 Great Dates to Energize Your Marriage

Synopsis
This curriculum kit is organized around ten dates that couples will go on to learn five basic skills and five advanced skills to revitalize their marriages. The kit, a video curriculum for individual married couples or groups of any size, includes 2 75-minute videos, 1 48-page leader's guide, 1 copy of 10 Great Dates to Revitalize Your Marriage, and 2 videos. The book and the leader's guide are available separately. 10 sessions; 150 minutes.

Description
For Groups of any size; Individual couples

Date 1: Choosing a High-Priority Marriage

Date 2: Learning to Talk

Date 3: Resolving Honest Conflict

Date 4: Becoming an Encourager

Date 5: Finding Unity in Diversity

Date 6: Building a Creative Love Life

Date 7: Sharing Responsibility and Working Together

Date 8: Balancing Your Roles as Parents and Partners

Date 9: Developing Spiritual Intimacy

Date 10: Having an Intentional Marriage

From the creators of Marriage Alive Seminars . . .

TEN FUN-FILLED COUPLES NIGHTS OUT--THAT WILL ENERGIZE MARRIAGES

You're looking at an exciting, proven, and FUN approach to building thriving marriages--through ten great dates. Drawing on the best tips from their popular, worldwide Marriage Alive Seminars, David and Claudia Arp help spark fresh romance through memory-making evenings built on key, marriage-enriching themes.

Here is everything you need to launch your group--or just the two of you--on "alone at last" dates the get couples playing together, working together, and growing together as they explore the full potential of their marriage.

Leading your own Couples Nights Out group is as easy as making the coffee, plugging in the videotape . . . and letting the Arps take it from there. Get ready to experience marriage enrichment at its best--fun, focused, and fruitful!

The 10 Great Dates to Revitalize Your Marriage curriculum contains:

2 75-minute videos

1 Leader's Guide

1 copy of 10 Great Dates to Revitalize Your Marriage (participant's guide)

Item :	0310213509
Price:	$89.99
Format:	Curriculum Kit

Boundaries in Marriage

Synopsis
This is a complete resource kit--containing 1 VHS video, 1 DVD, 1 Leader's Guide, 1 Participant's Guide and 1 softcover copy of Boundaries in Marriage--for groups of all sizes which will encourage the kind of spiritual and emotional growth and character development that enables marriage--within God's boundaries--to be fun, spiritually fulfilling, and growth producing.

Description
Improve your relationship with your spouse! Gain life-changing insights on:
What boundaries are, why they're vital to a healthy marriage, and how each partner can establish them
How values form the structure and architecture of marriage
How to protect a marriage from intruders, whether other people or personal idols
How to work with a spouse who understands and values boundaries and a spouse who doesn't
It Takes Two Individuals to Become One Flesh
Only when a husband and wife know and respect each other's needs, choices, and freedom can they give themselves freely and lovingly to one another. Boundaries in Marriage gives the couples in your group the tools they need. By applying the powerful biblical and relational principles presented in this ZondervanGroupware, couples can make a good marriage better and even save one that's headed for disaster.
Created by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend, authors of the best-selling book Boundaries, this kit maximizes interaction, support, and insights within your group and minimizes the preparation required of you as leader. Exercises and activities in each of the eight sessions help partners connect principles with marriage-strengthening application. Boundaries in Marriage will pay huge dividends in your church or group, or wherever couples desire to understand the friction points or serious hurts and betrayals in their marriages so they can move beyond them to mutual care, respect, affirmation, and intimacy.

Boundaries in Marriage sessions:
1. What's a Boundary, Anyway?
2. Applying the Ten Laws of Boundaries to Marriage
3. Setting Boundaries with Yourself
4. Values One and Two: Love of God and Love of Spouse
5. Values Three and Four: Honesty and Faithfulness
6. Values Five and Six: Compassion and Forgiveness, and Holiness
7. Resolving Conflict in Marriage
8. Some Warning Signs to Help Your Marriage
Boundaries in Marriage kit includes:
1 105-minute VHS & DVD included use either one
1 Leader's guide*
1 Participant's guide*
1 Boundaries in Marriage softcover book*

Item :	0310246121
Price:	$99.99
Format:	Groupware - Adult

Mentoring Engaged and Newlywed Couples

Synopsis
Drawing on tests conducted with 300 couples and on their own experience as counselors and as a couple, the Parrots use this proven curriculum for training seasoned couples to help engaged couples and newlyweds navigate the challenging months of early marriage. The kit, which includes 1 45-minute video, 1 participant's guide, 1 leader's guide, and 1 copy of Questions Couples Ask, can be used in churches of any size. All components except the video are available separately. 5 sessions.

Description
There's a powerful way your church can combat divorce, and it uses a resource you already have: experienced married couples. In this proven marriage mentoring curriculum, Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott provide a dynamic approach for seasoned couples to help engaged couples and newlyweds navigate the challenging months of early marriage. Drawing on tests conducted with 300 couples and on their own experience as counselors and as a couple, the Parrotts supply the tools needed to effectively recruit, screen, and train mentoring couples. Whether your church is large or small, these six groundbreaking sessions can make a huge difference in the health of its marriages. Complete with guidebooks and a copy of the Parrott's handy and informative book, Questions Couples Ask, the Mentoring Engaged and Newlywed Couples Curriculum is powerful, preventive medicine to ensure that healthy beginnings not only stay healthy, but flourish.

5 sessions; 1 45-minute video.

Item :	0310217075
Price:	$59.99
Format:	Curriculum Kit

Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts: A Marriage Curriculum for Engaged, About-to-Be Engaged, and the Newly Married

Synopsis
This complete premarital curriculum, for use by groups or individual couples, helps couples prepare for strong, lasting marriages. It includes two videos with eight half-hour sessions by the authors, 1 copy of each of the workbooks (1 for men and 1 for women), 1 leader's guide, 1 hardcover copy of "Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts", and 1 softcover copy of the 80-page "Marriage Mentor Manual: How You Can Help the Newlywed Couple Stay Married" (0310-50131-8) and 2 videos. 8 sessions.

Description
Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts (SYMBIS) is the first comprehensive marriage preparation program specifically designed for today's couples. It's also the first program for couples developed by a couple. And Les and Leslie Parrott are no ordinary couple. As marriage counselors and teachers, they're on the cutting edge of marriage research and education. Each year they teach a blockbuster relationships course to hundreds of college students. They see the struggles and dreams of couples up close. And they reveal the flaws and foibles of their own relationship in order to show how challenging -- and rewarding -- marriage can be. The Parrotts show young couples the skills they need to make the transition from "single" to "married" smooth and enjoyable. Designed for couples and small groups, the SYMBIS curriculum includes the following: - Two videos with eight half-hour sessions by the Parrotts - Separate men's and women's workbooks full of exercises and self-tests to help couples apply what they learn - A leader's guide that shows small-group leaders how to successfully conduct the SYMBIS program - A hardcover copy of the book, Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts - A copy of the Marriage Mentor Manual, a guide to helping young couples establish mentoring relationships with experienced couples after the wedding Based on up-to-date information from two marriage authorities, the Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts curriculum offers today's couples a complete marriage prep program for a lifetime together. Start with it today, while your love is fresh -- and save your marriage before it starts.

8 sessions; 2 videos

Item :	0310204518
Price:	$159.99
Format:	Curriculum Kit

The Second Half of Marriage : Facing the Eight Challenges of the Empty-Nest Years

Synopsis
In this curriculum David and Claudia Arp help empty-nesters overcome eight marital challenges to make the rest of their marriage the best of their marriage. Includes 1 leader's guide, 1 participant's guide, and 2 videos totaling 120 minutes. 8 sessions.

Description
The second half of a marriage can be a time of incredible fulfillment, no matter what challenges a couple previously faced. Couples can rediscover each other and build a more mature, satisfying, and romantic life together. The Second Half of Marriage curriculum kit is a unique resource designed to facilitate this rediscovery and rebuilding.

The Second Half of Marriage Curriculum Includes:

2 - 60-minute videos with 9 session launches

1 - Leader;s Guide

1 - Participant's Guide (includes complete text of The Second Half of Marriage)

Additional Leader's and Participant's Guides sold separately.

Item :	0310236843
Price:	$79.99
Format:	Curriculum Kit