The Music Of Marriage: How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

Do you want lasting companionship for your marriage? Turn hopelessness and frustration into certainty and fulfillment, and discover the score God has written so that your marriage will not be diminished by time or circumstance Nashville-based performing songwriters Bob and Evy Smith offer key biblical principles that will keep the music playing in your marriage

Download original songs for free (www.themusicofmarriage.com) and upload these themes to your marriage: Encounter the Divine Melody, Develop Relational Dynamics, Find the Rhythm of Love, Resolve Marital Dissonance, and Discover Harmonic Companionship.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Prelude

PART I. BALLAD FOR A BROKEN WORLD

1. A Cultural Lament

2. Conformity Vs. Transformation

PART II. THE DIVINE MELODY

3. There Is A Love

4. The Present Tied to the Future

PART III. HARMONIC COMPANIONSHIP

5. The Friendship Connection

6. A Covenant Of Companionship

7. Oneness

8. Deception of the Private Sphere

PART IV. RELATIONAL DYNAMICS

9. Anything More Than You

10. Marriage As A Conversation

11. Grace Space

12. The Divine Role Call

PART V. RESOLVING MARITAL DISSONANCE

13. A Brand New Love Song

14. Strategies for Resolving Conflict in Marriage

15. The Conflict Resolution Continuum

16. Demolishing Strongholds

17. Vanquished Hope & Restoration

PART VI. THE RHYTHM OF LOVE

18. Love's The Little Things

19. Manners

20. Spheres of Love

21. Speaking The Truth In Love

PART VII. HOW DO YOU KEEP THE MUSIC PLAYING?

22. Reflections

23. The Ripple Effect

24. Write the Music of Your Marriage

Postlude

Foot Notes

Endorsements