The Color of Marriage: 15 Principles to Improve Your Marriage
By Joe Robinson
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The Color of Marriage was written so that you and I would learn the habit of making a conscious effort to live out the word of God in our marriages. When you trust in the word of God and consciously live it out, you will find real life solutions to the various conflicts and challenges of your marriage. These are the kinds of conflicts and challenges that will prevent your marriage from reaching its greatest potential if they go unresolved. If these conflicts and challenges go unresolved long-term, they will ultimately diminish, damage, and even destroy your marriage and many times your character as well. I believe there would be fewer divorces in the Christian Community if we had the biblical principles of The Color of Marriage hidden in our hearts and ready for use during our times of conflict and challenge.
Joe Robinson
Joe & Rhonda Robinson are Marriage Replenishment Specialists at The Color of Marriage, a nonprofit Christian Marriage Counseling/Coaching organization founded by Joe and his wife Rhonda. At The Color of Marriage, Joe and Rhonda work side by side helping couples fix and strengthen the broken and weak areas of their marriages using their exclusive Marriage Replenishment Program. Together, they have helped more than 1000 (and counting) spouses and couples with their marriages and relationships. They also have a helpful blog on their website at www.thecolorofmarriage.com. Their latest publication, “Move Your Marriage to Greatness” is a continuation of Joe’s initial publication, The Color of Marriage “15 Principles to Improve Your Marriage”. The intent of both publications is to provide couples with practical biblical principles and concepts that will help them and show them how to get better at marriage one day at a time, and as a result, move their marriages to greatness. Joe & Rhonda’s achievements include, using the same principles that are taught in their publications to transform their own marriage through the leading of the Holy Spirit. They have also gained above average wisdom from the Word of God through schooling, practical application, and private devotions. Lastly, they both graduated from Point University with a BS degree in Christian counseling, psychology and human services with a minor in biblical studies and also from Liberty University with a MA degree in counseling and human services with a minor in life and marriage coaching. Joe is originally from Chicago, Illinois. He spent 8 years in the US Navy and one year in the California Army National Guard. He loves to write about anything pertaining to helping couples fix and strengthen the broken and weak areas of their marriages. Joe has a close and personal relationship God, is in love with his bride, he is the father of seven children, and the proud grandfather of three granddaughters. Rhonda was raised in Flint, Michigan. She has a close relationship with God and is in love with her groom. She is the mother of 7 and the grandmother of 3 wonderful granddaughters. Rhonda enjoys gardening and organizing events and indoor/outdoor spaces.
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The Color of Marriage - Joe Robinson
© 2015 Joe Robinson. All rights reserved.
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Published by AuthorHouse 01/19/2015
ISBN: 978-1-4969-5649-1 (sc)
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CONTENTS
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
My Story
The 15 Principles
Let Your Marriage Represent The Color of Marriage
Following God’s Plan for Your Marriage is Foundational
Make an Effort to Change Old Destructive Behaviors
Your Marriage Will Not Get Better Without Learning
God Knows What is Best for Us at All Times
Do not Let Your Selfishness Corrode Your Marriage
Choose a Suitable Time to Talk about Challenging Topics
Communicate with your spouse without the hostile language
Don’t Let the World Pull You In
Pray and Expect God to Help You Resolve Your Unresolved Conflicts
Be Willing to Change
Do not let your prior experiences destroy the trust and intimacy of your marriage
Do not let your prior experiences destroy the trust and intimacy of your marriage: Part II
God will test you in the areas of your marriage where He requires you to change or grow
God Can See Things That You Cannot (Walk In The Spirit)
DEDICATION
I would like to dedicate this book to my late mother Odelle Harris who made heaven her home when this book was only a thought in my mind and a mere conversation with others.
I would also like to dedicate this book to my wife Rhonda who encouraged me to start the blog that lead to the writing of this book. You can find that blog @ www.thecolorofmarriage.com
Lastly, I would like to dedicate this book to everyone that took the time to read my ideas when I asked them to and to all the married and engaged couples that my wife and I was given the opportunity to help in one way or another.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I thank my God, Lord, and Savior Jesus Christ for giving me the desire to write this Christian marriage-learning guide. I pray that this learning guide will help many married, engaged, and potential couples obtain a healthy long-lasting biblical marriage that pleases God and brings Him glory. I also thank my wife Rhonda and my children Precious, Gabrielle, Joe Jr., John, Christopher, Lil Rhonda, and Jaron (that is all of them) for being patience while I took time away from them to write this book.
INTRODUCTION
I would like to first thank God for giving me the vision, the wisdom, and the ability to make this Christian marriage-learning guide available to you. This learning guide was designed to help married, engaged, and potential couples obtain