Trueface Life App: The Marriage Collective - Join HERE!
We’re here to develop both community and point you to resources that can encourage your marriage. Marriage Mosaic & the ministry of Trueface have resources to help build up your marriage. We also see God at work in other ministries and want to share their resources with you. We'll be here in a posture of humility to learn and grow and we know you will be too. Here are some things to consider in the Marriage Collective.
We’re here to develop both community and point you to resources that can encourage your marriage. Marriage Mosaic & the ministry of Trueface have resources to help build up your marriage. We also see God at work in other ministries and want to share their resources with you. We'll be here in a posture of humility to learn and grow and we know you will be too. Here are some things to consider in the Marriage Collective.
Video Series
Emotionally Healthy Relationships - Video Series and workbook
This video series and workbook give a person the practical skills to love well and grow in emotional health.
This video series and workbook give a person the practical skills to love well and grow in emotional health.
Book Recommendations
Marriage
Grace-Filled Marriage - Tim and Darcy Kimmel
A great read filled with practical stories of how to apply grace in marriage. A deeper understanding of God's grace will help marriages thrive, not just survive. This book is great for all seasons of marriage, including pre-marrieds.
How We Love - Milan and Kay Yerkovich
Whether your married, engaged or getting married, hands down, this is a life-long resource that's a game changer! Not only will you find this resource helpful for your marriage- but for ALL your relationships...if you're willing to get a little uncomfortable.
reconnect - Steve Call
In Steve Call's book, reconnect, you'll explore needs, the battle of shame, triggers, connection in conflict and the element of play. We often hear that couples who pray together stay together. It is also true that couples who play together, stay together! A great small group read or perfect for 1:1 conversation starters with our spouse.
The Deep Rooted Marriage - Dan & Becky Allender with Steve & Lisa Call
In The Deep-Rooted Marriage and its companion guide, therapists Dan Allender and Steve Call offer profound insights into building a marriage that transcends mere satisfaction, promoting deeper intimacy and healing. These resources navigate couples through the complexities of interpersonal relationships, addressing past traumas to enhance present struggles with greater courage and compassion. Through key psychological principles and personal anecdotes, the authors help partners disrupt harmful cycles of shame, judgment, and resentment, fostering a safe space for empathy, attunement, and respect for differences.
Boundaries in Marriage - Cloud and Townsend
Discover why Boundaries are vital for a healthy marriage. This book helps couples better understand areas of friction and hurt and move past them with care, respect, affirmation and intimacy for one another.
7 Principles for Making Marriage Work - John Gottman
This book is filled with 40 + of research on marriage relationships. The principles and practical exercises are life giving for all marriages.
Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts - SYMBIS
A great resource for engaged and newlywed couples to help build a solid foundation of lifelong love and respect.
A great read filled with practical stories of how to apply grace in marriage. A deeper understanding of God's grace will help marriages thrive, not just survive. This book is great for all seasons of marriage, including pre-marrieds.
How We Love - Milan and Kay Yerkovich
Whether your married, engaged or getting married, hands down, this is a life-long resource that's a game changer! Not only will you find this resource helpful for your marriage- but for ALL your relationships...if you're willing to get a little uncomfortable.
reconnect - Steve Call
In Steve Call's book, reconnect, you'll explore needs, the battle of shame, triggers, connection in conflict and the element of play. We often hear that couples who pray together stay together. It is also true that couples who play together, stay together! A great small group read or perfect for 1:1 conversation starters with our spouse.
The Deep Rooted Marriage - Dan & Becky Allender with Steve & Lisa Call
In The Deep-Rooted Marriage and its companion guide, therapists Dan Allender and Steve Call offer profound insights into building a marriage that transcends mere satisfaction, promoting deeper intimacy and healing. These resources navigate couples through the complexities of interpersonal relationships, addressing past traumas to enhance present struggles with greater courage and compassion. Through key psychological principles and personal anecdotes, the authors help partners disrupt harmful cycles of shame, judgment, and resentment, fostering a safe space for empathy, attunement, and respect for differences.
Boundaries in Marriage - Cloud and Townsend
Discover why Boundaries are vital for a healthy marriage. This book helps couples better understand areas of friction and hurt and move past them with care, respect, affirmation and intimacy for one another.
7 Principles for Making Marriage Work - John Gottman
This book is filled with 40 + of research on marriage relationships. The principles and practical exercises are life giving for all marriages.
Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts - SYMBIS
A great resource for engaged and newlywed couples to help build a solid foundation of lifelong love and respect.
Parenting
The Cure for Parents - Lynch, McNichol and Thrall
This book takes the relational principles of God's grace and applies them to parenting. The result is lifelong loving relationships developed through parenting.
Grace Based Parenting - Dr. Tim Kimmel
Grace Based Parenting is not another manual full of impossible standards; rather it is a new map for learning to see ourselves and our children through God’s limitless tenderness – to raise our kids the way God raises us.
How We Love Our Kids - Milan & Kay Yerkovich
Having problems with your kids? What if you are the problem and you just can’t see it? How We Love Our Kids offers a unique approach, to help you as a parent transform your kids by making specific changes in how you love. It’s the only book specifically for parents that reveals the unseen forces that shape every interaction with your kids.
• Identify which of the five love styles you have.
• Discover the surprising dynamics that shape your parenting.
• Get rid of your “buttons” so your kids can’t push them.
• Create a close connection with your kids that will last a lifetime.
• Learn the seven gifts every child needs.
This book takes the relational principles of God's grace and applies them to parenting. The result is lifelong loving relationships developed through parenting.
Grace Based Parenting - Dr. Tim Kimmel
Grace Based Parenting is not another manual full of impossible standards; rather it is a new map for learning to see ourselves and our children through God’s limitless tenderness – to raise our kids the way God raises us.
How We Love Our Kids - Milan & Kay Yerkovich
Having problems with your kids? What if you are the problem and you just can’t see it? How We Love Our Kids offers a unique approach, to help you as a parent transform your kids by making specific changes in how you love. It’s the only book specifically for parents that reveals the unseen forces that shape every interaction with your kids.
• Identify which of the five love styles you have.
• Discover the surprising dynamics that shape your parenting.
• Get rid of your “buttons” so your kids can’t push them.
• Create a close connection with your kids that will last a lifetime.
• Learn the seven gifts every child needs.
Spiritual Formation
The Cure - Lynch, McNichol and Thrall
The best resource for discovering and living out of our new identity in Christ. Filled with the relational principles of applied grace.
Lay It Down - Bill Tell
A bold declaration of the overwhelming grace of God. Freedom from a life of performance and striving to earn God's approval. Critically important truths for marriages contained in this book.
The Allender Center - The mission of the Allender Center is to foster redemption and healing in individuals, couples, and communities by helping them tell their stories with awareness and integrity while also training leaders and professionals to engage the stories of others with courage, artistry, and care. In fulfilling this mission, we are committed to:
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality - Pete Scazzero
This book addresses the fact that spiritual maturity is inseparable from emotional maturity. It is impossible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. This book guides couples in the hard work of becoming emotionally mature as they walk with Jesus.
The best resource for discovering and living out of our new identity in Christ. Filled with the relational principles of applied grace.
Lay It Down - Bill Tell
A bold declaration of the overwhelming grace of God. Freedom from a life of performance and striving to earn God's approval. Critically important truths for marriages contained in this book.
The Allender Center - The mission of the Allender Center is to foster redemption and healing in individuals, couples, and communities by helping them tell their stories with awareness and integrity while also training leaders and professionals to engage the stories of others with courage, artistry, and care. In fulfilling this mission, we are committed to:
- Boldly engaging the impact of trauma and abuse on the human heart
- Providing healing and teaching to individuals, couples, and communities
- Training professionals to listen and enter into stories in a way that facilitates the transformation and hope of the gospel
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality - Pete Scazzero
This book addresses the fact that spiritual maturity is inseparable from emotional maturity. It is impossible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. This book guides couples in the hard work of becoming emotionally mature as they walk with Jesus.