Sacred Marriage - Gary Thomas

Title: Sacred Marriage
Author: Gary Thomas
Genre: Christian non-fiction
Rating: 2.5/5
# pages: 304
Date read: August, 2015

Your marriage is more than a sacred covenant with another person. It is a spiritual discipline designed to help you know God better, trust him more fully, and love him more deeply. Scores of books have been written that offer guidance for building the marriage of your dreams. But what if God s primary intent for your marriage isn t to make you happy... but holy? And what if your relationship isn t as much about you and your spouse as it is about you and God?

Everything about your marriage--everything--is filled with prophetic potential, with the capacity for discovering and revealing Christ s character. The respect you accord your partner; the forgiveness you humbly seek and graciously extend; the ecstasy, awe, and sheer fun of lovemaking; the history you and your spouse build with one another--in these and other facets of your marriage, Sacred Marriage uncovers the mystery of God s overarching purpose.


Very obviously written by a male for a male audience. He does try to make it generally relevant, but only succeeds about half the time.

He makes several good points, but gives very little practical advice. It's all put in general terms with very little - if any - time spent on how to put the advice into everyday use.

At the end of the book I had a very hard time remembering any specifics about what I'd read. Obviously not a book that spoke to me on any significant level. That's not to say I didn't find it applicable - I just missed insight into how to apply it.