Tying the Knot

A Premarital Guide to a Strong and Lasting Marriage

By: Rob Green

Narrated by: James Clement

Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

Advised by both tellers of fairy tales and harbingers of doom, many engaged couples simply don't know what to expect from marriage, so they focus their anxious energies on the wedding day. Rob Green, a pastor, counselor, and veteran of many premarital counseling sessions, shares that the joy, fun, companionship, and love couples hope for before marriage are not only possible, they are actually God's plan for marriage. But none of these wonderful things happen automatically when you tie the knot. A strong and satisfying marriage must be intentionally built on Jesus.

Tying the Knot offers soon-to-be-married couples a practical vision of Christ-centered marriage that is realistic, hopeful, and actionable. This nine-session study guides couples through issues like conflict, expectations, communication, finances, and intimacy, showing how each can be successfully resolved with Christ at the center of the marriage.

Knowing the stresses and needs of a couple in their season of engagement, Green has helpfully designed the study to require a manageable (and healthy) 60 minutes of at-home work per session, with questions and exercises to build communication and intimacy at the end of each chapter. Tying the Knot also includes an appendix for mentors, making it easy for a married couple, lay leader, or counselor to lead an engaged couple through the book.

Field-tested and recommended by multiple counselors in a thriving counseling practice, Tying the Knot has already guided many couples into a stronger and more joyful union. Let this nine-week pre-marriage study reorient your life and marriage around Christ, so you both will experience all the blessings of marriage as God designed it.

• Presents a day-to-day vision of Christ-centered marriage that is realistic, hopeful, and practical
• Demonstrates clearly in just nine chapters or sessions how issues like conflict, expectations, communication, finances, and intimacy can only be successfully and satisfyingly approached with Christ at the center of a marriage
• Field tested and recommended by multiple counselors in a thriving counseling practice
• Highly practical and accessible for couples, requires about 60 minutes of weekly at-home work
• Includes chapter-by-chapter exercises and questions for couples to do separately and together to build communication and intimacy
• Includes an appendix for mentors to guide couples through the book

©2016 Rob Green (P)2021 Upfront Books

Great book!

I really enjoyed this book! I listened to it in preparation to officiate a wedding. Planning on having the couple work through it. Very Christ-centered and practical

Essential Truth for Healthy Marriage

Rob Green is a godly man, with decades of counseling experience, pastoral practice, and biblical study. This book distills a solid path toward beginning marriage on the right—Christ-centered—foot. The book is great!

The audio book reader left some to be desired. While he varied his tone for biblical citations,theat tone was often "breathless" or "airy" in a manner discordant with the passages being read. This is why I've given the performance four stars.

Thoughtful Life and Marital Advice

Advice focused on becoming good worshipers and lovers of God, and from that also becoming good and loving spouses.

Stays close to the Bible and all the difficulties and wonders contained within.

misogynistic and patronizing.

out of touch. the paternalism and misogyny is like nails on a chalkboard in 2021