Marriage Matters: Extraordinary Change Through Ordinary Moments
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
In Marriage Matters by Winston T. Smith, readers find a hopeful resource on the transcendent purposes of God at work in their marriages. This powerful, transformative book addresses the extraordinary way God works in the seemingly mundane moments in a marriage. By offering practical help and biblical insight, Marriage Matters helps couples consider their own expectations and reactions when things go wrong.
Change begins with seeing day-to-day interactions from a different perspective, taking simple steps to love each other more effectively, and then learning how to take those steps over and over again. Interactions that used to devolve into pointless annoyances and fights can become an opportunity for God’s activity and love to become increasingly evident and powerful. The principles in this book will take your marriage to extraordinary places and lead you into a deeper relationship with an extraordinary God.
Don’t settle for an ordinary marriage. Learn to live out God’s extraordinary love in your most intimate relationship.
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- Helps couples discover the transcendent purposes of God at work in their marriages
- Offers practical help and biblical insight to consider expectations and reactions in marital conflicts
- Guides couples to see day-to-day interactions as opportunities for God’s love to be evident
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Section 1: God Is in the Ordinary Moments
- 1 Marriages Change in Ordinary Moments
- 2 Ordinary Moments Reveal Our Problems with God
- 3 Worship: Extraordinary Love for God
- 4 Living in Jesus’ Extraordinary Love
- 5 God’s Dream for Your Marriage
- Section 2: Extraordinary Love in the Details of Marriage
- 6 Person or Object, Honor or Manipulation?
- 7 Honesty Is Important
- 8 Being Honest about Yourself
- 9 Speaking the Truth to Your Spouse
- 10 God Is Up to Good in Conflict
- 11 Moving Forward in Conflict
- 12 Foundations of Forgiveness
- 13 Forgiveness in Marriage
- 14 Understanding Your Role
- 15 Intimacy and Sex
- Section 3: Staying on the Path
- 16 Growing in Grace
- 17 Your Actions Make a Difference
- 18 Knowing Your Story
- Notes
- Scripture Index
Winston Smith shows us how the transcendent purposes of God are at work in the midst of the seemingly mundane moments of our marriage. There is perhaps no greater garden in which the fruit of the Spirit grows in our lives than the garden of our marriage. Winston helps us see how God is at work in every aspect of our marriage to bring our need for His grace in our lives to the surface and, in the process, to conform us to the image of His Son.
—Bob Lepine, Cohost, FamilyLife Today
Marriage Matters is a biblical look at the spiritually formative aspects of marriage; true to Scripture, insightful, and convicting in all the right ways. Winston Smith has written a fine volume on the way God uses marriage to shape our souls.
—Gary Thomas, Author of Sacred Marriage and Pure Pleasure
Marriage Matters is a helpful resource for couples to understand God’s purposes for marriage as well as to think through their own expectations and reactions when things go wrong. I especially liked Section 2 where the practical application of biblical truths was fleshed out in specific ways. The chapter, ‘Person or Object, Honor or Manipulation,’ should be mandatory reading for every married person.
—Leslie Vernick, Counselor; speaker; author of How to Act Right When Your Spouse Acts Wrong and The Emotionally Destructive Relationship
- Title: Marriage Matters: Extraordinary Change Through Ordinary Moments
- Author: Winston T. Smith
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subject: Marriage › Religious aspects--Christianity
- ISBNs: 9781935273615, 1935273612
- Resource ID: LLS:MARRIAGEMATTERS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-07-03T21:01:08Z
Winston T. Smith, MDiv, is a counselor and faculty member at the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF) and has extensive experience as a marriage and family counselor, and teaches seminary students how to counsel couples. He has been counseling for more than fifteen years and holds a Master of Divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary.