Not sure where to start?
Try our reading paths — books in order, with a guide for each step（3）→
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gary Thomas's Sacred Marriage (2000; Chinese edition 2006) asks: what if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy? Marriage as a spiritual discipline in which we learn to love, forgive, persevere, pray and serve.