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You both love God, and your marriage is still hard. Start with the idea that changes how you see it: marriage began before the first wedding, and Christ belongs in the middle of it.

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The Middleman Effect

Why do husbands and wives who genuinely love God sometimes find themselves drifting apart?

That question started this book. The answer isn’t a new technique for communication, conflict or intimacy. Those matter, but the author argues they aren’t the foundation.

The free chapters walk you through that foundation, one step at a time, so you can decide for yourself whether the rest of the book is for you.

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The Preface, the Introduction and the first three chapters of Part One.

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Preface and Introduction

Why this book was written, and why a wedding can include God without being centered on Him.

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Marriage Began Before the First Wedding

A marriage older than the world, and why the story starts long before Eden.

2

The God Who Never Left the Marriage

The forgotten witness: what it means that God was present at your wedding and is still in the room.

3

Why Two Became One

A fresh look at Genesis 2:24, more than a verse for wedding ceremonies.

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If the first chapters resonate, the full book continues with the Middleman Effect itself, then communication, conflict, intimacy, parenting, money, and what to do when one spouse isn’t following Christ.

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