
The Deep-Rooted Marriage
Cultivating Intimacy, Healing, and Delight
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Dr. Dan B. Allender
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Dr. Steve Call
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Becky Allender
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Lisa Call
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What if you could experience a marriage that is not just good, but truly life-giving? Therapists Dan Allender and Steve Call show how deeper intimacy can bring more healing and delight.
Every relationship has its highs and lows, but we often don't know what to do with our "lows," or how we ended up there. What is creating friction, exacerbating our pain, and standing in the way of intimacy?
More often than not, it is the stories of our past drifting into the present. But if we are willing to look at them closely, we will be able to write a new story for the future.
With more than seventy years of therapeutic experience combined, Dan Allender and Steve Call demonstrate how God is inviting you and your partner to a wild faith journey with the hope of transformation. With personal stories, key psychological insights, and practical advice, The Deep-Rooted Marriage will help you:
- Address past trauma, giving you greater courage and compassion to engage your present struggles.
- Disrupt cycles of conflict based on shame, judgment, and resentment.
- Create safety when feeling threatened and offer attunement, empathy, and honor toward differences.
- Adopt humility, honesty, kindness, curiosity, defiance against what divides, and intention to bless.
- Learn practices that cultivate emotional intimacy, generating new goodness between you and beyond you.
Marriage is not about merely getting along or resolving conflict through compromise. It reveals who you are and invites you to who you can become. Marriage offers a space for you to experience what you are made for—honor and delight. And it is the ground from which redemption is meant to grow, where, together, you can reflect God's image more and experience a taste of heaven.
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God wants to reveal himself through your story. Discover how he has written your life so far and how he is leading you into the rest of your story. Everyone wants clearer guidance from God on what to do with their future. In this insightful book, therapist and Professor Dan Allender shows you how to listen to the stories of your life and identify the themes that God has written there.
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Thought Provoking and Inspiring
- By michelle deuz on 04-10-21
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The Healing Path
- How the Hurts in Your Past Can Lead You to a More Abundant Life
- By: Dan B. Allender
- Narrated by: Dan B. Allender
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
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Don't waste your pain. None of us escapes the heartache and disappointments of life. To live is to hurt, and we all have the wounds to prove it. Regardless of how we've been hurt, we all face a common question: What should we do with our pain? Should we stoically ignore it? Should we just "get over it"? Should we optimistically hope that everything will work out in the end? If we fail to respond appropriately to the wounds that life and relationships inflict, our pain will be wasted; it will numb us or destroy us.
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So much missing
- By Jonathan on 07-20-19
By: Dan B. Allender
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The Cry of the Soul
- How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions About God
- By: Dr. Dan B. Allender, Dr. Tremper Longman III, Joni Tada - foreword
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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All emotion - whether positive or negative - can give us a glimpse of the true nature of God. We want to control our negative emotions and dark desires. God wants us to recognize them as the cry of our soul to be made right with Him. Beginning with the Psalms, Cry of the Soul explores what Scripture says about our darker emotions and points us to ways of honoring God as we faithfully embrace the full range of our emotional life.
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Challenging and insightful.
- By Miriaculous on 09-12-21
By: Dr. Dan B. Allender, and others
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Healing the Wounded Heart
- The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation
- By: Dan B. Allender
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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First published in 1989, Dan Allender's The Wounded Heart has helped hundreds of thousands of people come to terms with sexual abuse in their past. Now, more than 25 years later, Allender has written a brand-new book on the subject that takes into account recent discoveries about the lasting physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual ramifications of sexual abuse.
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Beautiful!
- By Amber on 10-25-17
By: Dan B. Allender
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The Marriage You Want
- Moving Beyond Stereotypes for a Relationship Built on Scripture, New Data, and Emotional Health
- By: Dr. Keith Gregoire, Sheila Wray Gregoire
- Narrated by: Dr. Keith Gregoire, Sheila Wray Gregoire
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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Based on the findings of their meticulous research, Sheila Wray Gregoire and Dr. Keith Gregoire dispel the pervasive myths about what makes a happy marriage. Rather than relying on gender stereotypes, they look at what actually creates intimacy, emotional health, and connection, asking deeper questions that lead to real healing and growth in your relationship with your spouse.
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Trauma-informed, data-supported, egalitarian Christian marriage advice
- By Anonymous User on 05-13-25
By: Dr. Keith Gregoire, and others
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The Toxic War on Masculinity
- How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes
- By: Nancy R. Pearcey
- Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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How did the idea arise that masculinity is dangerous and destructive? Bestselling author Nancy Pearcey leads you on a fascinating excursion through American history to discover why the script for masculinity turned toxic—and how to fix it. Pearcey then turns to surprising findings from sociology. Religion is often cast as a cause of domestic abuse. But research shows that authentically committed Christian men test out as the most loving and engaged husbands and fathers. They have the lowest rates of divorce and domestic violence of any group in America.
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A lot of good stuff, with one issue.
- By Jared Hageman on 07-26-23
By: Nancy R. Pearcey
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Sabbath
- The Ancient Practices Series
- By: Dr. Dan B. Allender, Phyllis Tickle - foreword
- Narrated by: Henry O. Arnold
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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Dan Allender's lyrical book about the Sabbath expels the myriad myths about this "day of rest," starting with the one that paints the Sabbath as a day of forced quiet, spiritual exercises, and religious devotion and attendance. This, he says, is at odds with the ancient tradition of Sabbath as a day of delight for both body and soul. Instead, the only way we can make use of the Sabbath is to see God's original intent for the day with new eyes. In Sabbath, Allender builds a case for delight by looking at this day as a festival that celebrates God's re-creative, redemptive love.
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JOY!
- By Kim on 02-13-23
By: Dr. Dan B. Allender, and others
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Healing What's Within
- Coming Home to Yourself—and to God—When You're Wounded, Weary, and Wandering
- By: Chuck DeGroat
- Narrated by: Chuck DeGroat
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
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We can’t always control what happens to us. But we can discover how to heal the hidden hurt it leaves behind. Not knowing what to do with your suffering and fearing you'll be hurt again, you’ve learned to cope, to numb and suppress the ache within. It doesn’t have to be this way. In Healing What’s Within, therapist and professor Chuck DeGroat invites you on a compassionate journey inward to return and retune to the life God created you to live.
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How worldly this book is
- By Gretchen B. on 10-18-24
By: Chuck DeGroat
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The Great Sex Rescue
- The Lies You’ve Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended
- By: Sheila Wray Gregoire, Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach, Joanna Sawatsky
- Narrated by: Sheila Wray Gregoire
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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Based on a groundbreaking in-depth survey of 22,000 Christian women, The Great Sex Rescue unlocks the secrets to what makes some marriages red hot while others fizzle out. Generations of women have grown up with messages about sex that make them feel dirty, used, or invisible, while men have been sold such a cheapened version of sex, they don't know what they're missing. The Great Sex Rescue hopes to turn all of that around, developing a truly biblical view of sex where mutuality, intimacy, and passion reign.
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Controversial message from questionable material
- By Sarah on 06-30-21
By: Sheila Wray Gregoire, and others
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Leading with a Limp
- By: Dan B. Allender PhD
- Narrated by: Dan B. Allender PhD
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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This audiobook reveals the glorious weaknesses of today's new breed of leader, as well as the Bible's most famous ones. It supplies practical direction to anyone who aspires to be a more effective leader, showing that a "limping" leader can be the person God uses to accomplish amazing things.
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The Real Deal
- By John Glisson on 11-08-09
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God, Sex, and Your Marriage
- By: Dr. Juli Slattery
- Narrated by: Dr. Juli Slattery
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
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Many Christian books talk about sexual issues within broader works on marriage, but few resources comprehensively and biblically guide couples specifically on sexual intimacy. God, Sex, and Your Marriage challenges the common assumptions couples have about sexuality and presents the richer biblical narrative of sex as a metaphor of God’s covenant love. Dr. Juli Slattery applies that biblical framework to the practical challenges in sexual intimacy. Godly sexuality extends far beyond sexual purity and calls us to sexual integrity.
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From a sex addict: this book changed my heart
- By Amazon Customer on 07-21-22
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The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
- Creating a Marriage That's Both Holy and Hot
- By: Sheila Wray Gregoire
- Narrated by: Sheila Wray Gregoire
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Whether you're about to walk down the aisle or you've been married for decades, this revised and expanded edition of The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex by popular blogger and award-winning author Sheila Wray Gregoire will lead you on a wonderful journey of discovery toward the amazing sex life God designed you for.
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Wish I’d had this sooner
- By Amazon Customer on 05-26-23
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The Connected Life
- The Art and Science of Relational Spirituality
- By: Todd W. Hall, Curt Thompson - foreword
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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The pandemic has only exacerbated what was already a startling trend: loneliness and disconnection have been on the rise for a long time in our society. We long for a deep sense of meaning to make sense of our lives, but we don't know how to find it. Even worse, we often search for it in unhealthy ways that hinder the very thing we're desperate for: genuine relational connection.
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Our Early Attachments Affect Our Relationships
- By Elias Rademacher on 12-29-22
By: Todd W. Hall, and others
This is one I’ll return to again and again!
- Ivy
Fantastic Work
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The absolute truth of every word, and hope that it pours into every one who will read!
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Great insights
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Amazing!
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Incredibly beautiful, healing, and hope-giving
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Insightful and practical.
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