Truths to rich to take in all at once. Highly recommended.

This book is unbelievably incredible. Piper fleshes out a true foundation for marriage that is not only glorifying to God, but also roots husbands and wives in joyful, grace-filled love. It is a must read for everyone. Married, single, divorced, remarried. Please read it!!

I would say right now, outside of the Scriptures, it's my favorite book. The advice Piper gives about marriage has it's roots saturated deep in gospel soil. He paints the beautiful picture of how it was Christ's hands that were nailed to cross, even though they never touched sin. And you & your spouse's sin went to the cross with Christ, and so now, as believers, the call is to engage one another, not in reaction to each other's flaws & failures, but in response to the Substitutional Savior who gave Himself up for you. Great encouragement. He deals much more with the foundations of marriage than practical everyday examples. At the same time, He is very honest about the heights & depths of marriage, even his own. Not exactly sure yet where I stand on His complete prohibition of divorce & remarriage (except in the case of death) in chapter 14. Good things to ponder though. And I found the Bonhoeffer excerpts in the start of every chapter to be very rich & encouraging as well. Recommended read, for sure.

This book is written to help teach you biblically what marriage is and should be like. It strips away, early on, your 'culture induced' misconceptions of what marriage should be and replaces them with what God says it was designed to be. Phenomenal book! I am reading it for the second time with my college study.