While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Christian Relationship books.
- 1. The Relationship Principles of Jesus (2018)
- 2. Love One Another (The Importance and Power of Christian Relationships) (2013)
- 3. The Mingling of Souls: God’s Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption (2015)
- 4. Becoming Mr. Right: A Young Man’s Guide to God-Honoring Relationships (2017)
- 5. No More Fighting: The Relationship Book for Couples: 20 Minutes a Week to a Stronger Relationship (2018)
- 6. Divine Sex: A Compelling Vision for Christian Relationships in a Hypersexualized Age (2015)
- 7. Relationships: A Mess Worth Making (2006)
- 8. Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships: God’s Prescription for Enhancing Your Love Life (2015)
- 9. Men Are Finders, Women Are Choosers: Your Biblical Guide to Discovering Divine Relationship (2018)
- 10. Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends (2016)
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1. The Relationship Principles of Jesus (2018)
What would you give to radically improve, even transform, what matters most in your relationships? You can thrive in your career, acquire wealth, or build a great reputation. But if your relationships aren’t thriving, nothing else matters.This 40-day journey will bring new depth and health to your marriage, your family, and your friendships. Saddleback Church teaching pastor Tom Holladay helps you explore and begin to practice six foundational principles including how to give your relationships the highest value, love as Jesus loves you, and…
2. Love One Another (The Importance and Power of Christian Relationships) (2013)
Christianity is a religion of relationships. Jesus said that the work that he came to do would be judged by the manner in which his disciples related to one another (John 13:34-35). The whole Bible is about life-changing relationships. This series features seven lessons on the most vital of all Christian attributes-love. This topic is timely, relevant, challenging, insightful, compact, comprehensive-and is desperately needed by every disciple because it deals with having, maintaining and deepening godly relationships. Messages: 1. Love: Damaged by Worldly Relationships 2. Love: Defined by One Another Relationships 3. Love:…
3. The Mingling of Souls: God’s Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption (2015)
The Song of Solomon offers strikingly candid—and timeless—insights on romance, dating, marriage, and sex. We need it. Because emotions rise and fall with a single glance, touch, kiss, or word. And we are inundated with songs, movies, and advice that contradicts God's design for love and intimacy. Matt Chandler helps navigate these issues for both singles and marrieds by revealing the process Solomon himself followed: Attraction, Courtship, Marriage … even Arguing. The Mingling of Souls will forever change how you view and approach love. #9,518 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #7 in Hebrew…
4. Becoming Mr. Right: A Young Man’s Guide to God-Honoring Relationships (2017)
This book provides a clear roadmap for young men as the pursue God-honoring relationships. You will learn how to apply Scripture to the important issues in life, and realize the goal of Matthew 6:33: “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”…
5. No More Fighting: The Relationship Book for Couples: 20 Minutes a Week to a Stronger Relationship (2018)
No More Fighting offers fast strategies to stop fights now and build a stronger relationship long-term.All couples fight―but a little guidance goes a long way to tackling the issues that trigger fights in the first place. No More Fighting offers couples fast and effective strategies to overcome common relationship problems and build lasting love together.In just 20 minutes per week, couples will learn how to effectively speak and listen to each other as they confront critical relationship issues. From reconciling different values to navigating intimacy issues and…
6. Divine Sex: A Compelling Vision for Christian Relationships in a Hypersexualized Age (2015)
The digital revolution has ushered in a series of sexual revolutions, all contributing to a perfect storm for modern relationships. Online dating, social media, internet pornography, and the phenomenon of the smartphone generation have created an avalanche of change with far-reaching consequences for sexuality today. The church has struggled to address this new moral ecology because it has focused on clarity of belief rather than quality of formation. The real challenge for spiritual formation lies in addressing the underlying moral intuitions we carry…
7. Relationships: A Mess Worth Making (2006)
Hope for messy, conflict-ridden relationships. Your best friend is suddenly cool and distant. Your spouse can t stop complaining about your bad habits. Your son refuses to talk to you. What are you supposed to do? Plans A, B, and C might be to shut down, lash out, or get out. But consider Plan D: Recognize that God has the last word on those messy, conflict-ridden relationships. He can use them to make you into someone who can give and receive love with God and others. Impossible? Idealistic? Not really. In Relationships: A Mess Worth Making, Tim Lane and Paul Tripp show you how God does it, and how it can happen for you….
8. Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships: God’s Prescription for Enhancing Your Love Life (2015)
God wants his children to have a lasting relationship and great sex–the results of a deep, meaningful love that is rooted in commitment. Now updated and with a fresh new cover, Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships helps readers walk a path to true love that is more fulfilling than they ever imagined. "There’s a better way to find love, stay in love, and grow in intimacy for a lifetime," says Chip Ingram. It’s God’s way. Whether single or married, happy or searching for hope, readers will discover that by following God’s prescription, they can create a love that lasts. #85,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1300…
9. Men Are Finders, Women Are Choosers: Your Biblical Guide to Discovering Divine Relationship (2018)
Men are Finders, Women are Choosers is a wonderful book that tells the real-life story of two ordinary people trusting God to help them discover one another. This book is not only a remarkable love story, but it also provides an inside view of how God can be intimately involved in our search for true companionship and a blessed relationship in marriage! The story in these pages is a blend of entertainment, biblical instruction, and spiritual revelation from God’s Word. Relationships are challenging…but with God, you can realize and find another…
10. Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends (2016)
If you are going through a painful breakup or divorce, you may feel like the life you once knew is crashing down around you. You need help to gather the pieces and “rebuild” yourself from the ground up. Rebuilding features Bruce Fisher’s “divorce process rebuilding blocks,” a proven-effective, nineteen-step process for putting one’s life back together after divorce.Now the most widely-used approach to divorce recovery, the “rebuilding” model makes the process healthier and less traumatic for those who are divorcing or…
Best Christian Relationship Books Worth Your Attention
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Genesis and download some christian relationship books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Rebuilding a Lazy Testimony: True Story of One Who Rekindles a Relationship With God After a Loved One Leaves the LDS Church
Author(s): Taft Givens; Christian L. Richards; Mason Q. Wilcox; Ensign R. Callister; Mary Patrick Anderson
ID: 2574890, Publisher: Seeds Planted in Jesus Christ Press, Year: 2019, Size: 266 Kb, Format: epub
Environmental and Microbial Relationships
Author(s): Irina S. Druzhinina, Christian P. Kubicek (eds.)
ID: 1533020, Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2016, Size: 7 Mb, Format: pdf
God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships
Author(s): Matthew Vines
ID: 1166731, Publisher: Convergent Books, Year: 2014, Size: 2 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are absolutely record-breakers according to The Wall Street Journal, others are written by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.