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Christian Classics

Church Life & Pastoral Care

Faith Classics · Curated by Category · With Introductions

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The Meaning of Marriage
Timothy Keller with Kathy Keller
Church Life & Pastoral CareContemporaryIntroductory
Timothy and Kathy Keller's 2011 book, from a sermon series on Ephesians 5: marriage as covenant rather than feeling, shaped by the gospel of Christ's self-giving love, with chapters on singleness and on complementary roles.
The Five Love Languages
Gary Chapman
Church Life & Pastoral CareContemporaryIntroductory
Gary Chapman's 1992 bestseller: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service and physical touch. Learning to speak your spouse's love language fills their "love tank" — the most practical book on this path.
Shepherding a Child's Heart
Tedd Tripp
Church Life & Pastoral CareContemporaryIntroductory
Tripp's widely translated guide (1995) from Proverbs 4:23: behaviour flows from the heart, so parenting aims not at mere compliance but at leading children to the gospel, with practical counsel for each stage from infancy to the teenage years.
Quest for Love
Elisabeth Elliot
Church Life & Pastoral CareContemporaryIntroductory
Elisabeth Elliot's Quest for Love (1996), a companion to Passion and Purity: thirty chapters built on letters from readers about singleness, waiting, purity, failure and grace, and marriage, with the love stories of missionaries such as Adoniram Judson and Hudson and Maria Taylor. Chinese edition 1998.