Move Your Marriage to Greatness: Helping Couples Understand and Live out God’s Plan for Marriage

By Joe Robinson and Rhonda Robinson

No matter where your marriage is at right now, Move Your Marriage to Greatness will show you how to start achieving extraordinary accomplishments that are uncommon in many marriages today. These are the extraordinary accomplishments that many couples set out to achieve, but only those who are willing to move their marriage to Greatness, will achieve, and continue to achieve throughout the duration of their marriages. These accomplishments include, but are not limited to, following God’s plan for marriage, being a faithful husband, being a faithful wife, better communication, becoming one with your spouse, becoming friends with each other, being an example that others can follow, and more. If you are looking to have an extraordinary marriage, one that’s not typical and ordinary, then Move your Marriage to Greatness is for you. Let us help you get on the pathway to an extraordinary marriage that you will never forget.
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• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 23, 2019
• ISBN: 9781728328447

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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Published by AuthorHouse 09/23/2019

ISBN: 978-1-7283-2845-4 (sc)

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Move Your Marriage to Greatness

When You Move Your Marriage to Greatness

Turning the Potential Greatness of Your Marriage into Reality

Pain, Change, & Marriage Greatness

A Consumerism Approach To Marriage

Following God’s Plan for Marriage

Dispelling Beliefs

Questionable Situations

Opposing Opinions

Learning to Forgive

When You Apologize

Thoughts, Feelings, & Emotions (Beware of the Invasion)

DEDICATION

Rhonda and I would like to dedicate this Marriage Replenishment workbook to all of our clients who trusted us to help them move their marriage to greatness. Thank you for being open and honest during our time together, completing your homework assignments, and putting the feedback that was given into action, so that you could get the results that you were looking for.

Most importantly, we are thankful that you took the time to hear from God, so that He could heal your marriage through the process that He taught us, which has also healed our marriage and continues to help us fix and strengthen the broken and weak areas of our marriage.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you, Lord, for giving me this opportunity to make this Marriage Replenishment Resource available to help couples fix and strengthen the broken and weak areas of their marriages and relationships. I consider it to be an honor to be used by you and to have the privilege of operating this ministry along with my lovely wife. I pray that every page of this Marriage Replenishment workbook will be encouraging, beneficial, and worthwhile to everyone that reads it.

INTRODUCTION

When husbands and wives willingly learn, practice, and live out the principles and concepts of this Marriage Replenishment workbook