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What Are the Best Books for Premarital Counseling?

October 10, 2026
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Pastor Mike Fabarez: says our son is preparing to get engaged currently is at a church and they don't have a minister. Do you have any good suggested books on premarital counseling? Yeah, well, the one I like to use, which is a very interactive book in our premarital. We've got a whole schedule of premarital. If you just contact us at Compass Church, we can send you an outline of what we suggest even if you don't have a pastor. Have somebody. It could be you, could be someone else that takes your kids through a series of topics cuz they're going to have to learn about leaving and cleaving and what that means, the implications for finances and making budgets and all the rest.

Have to learn about what it means to be a husband and a wife, all those things. So you can get a hold of us. You can get that through Focal Point. Just go to pastormike.com, hit the email link. We can send you a list of topics that we cover, all of us as pastors here at our church to help people get ready for marriage. But the book I would suggest that's helpful, I think Wayne Mack is the author and it's just called Preparing for Marriage and it's a good little book that helps people be interactive with one another about a variety of topics that a lot of dating couples have never talked about.

So maybe that's a good place to start. Get our outline and if you are a seasoned Christian and you've been married for a while, you should be able to help someone that's about to enter into marriage by going through all the things that we would suggest and we even have a reading list there. We make them memorize some verses that are very important in marriage and you can catch all of that at pastormike.com. All right, very good. If you want to talk to me about anything on your mind related to the Bible, the Christian life, if you have a question, something's confusing you, some dilemma that you're facing, give me a call 877-913-5357.

That is the number to call or you can go to YouTube, you big YouTubers, and there you go. We would love to have your questions there. Let me read what we got going on here. Yeah, wow. Ricky, you're asking a question there. I'd have to pull out my atlas to make sure of that. That's that's not one's not on the top of my list, but you know I can suggest a brand new version of the Moody Atlas that's just come out, but you can find all this in any atlas. I'll have to get that. I wish we had a break.

We don't have a break because we don't have any commercials, but I can get back to you tomorrow, Ricky, I promise or

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