Love & Respect Devo

The Love & Respect Experience Devotional by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs

This is a very nice leather looking devotional book with 52 entries on based on the Love & Respect train of thought. It begins each one with a short bit of scripture, a couple of pages of discussion, then a prayer, action and discussion questions in an appendix. The book boasts that it is “A Husband Friendly Devotion that Wives Truly Love.” There are several introductions and appendixes that go more in depth about Love & Respect (which no, are not the only things important in marriage but it is a good thing to be aware of and focus on). It is also very grace-filled. It is suggested you can do the book with your spouse or alone (and don’t pressure your spouse to join and there is no commandment that Thou Shall Read the Bible and Pray Together Every Day).

Some thoughts: my husband liked the thought (from the intro) that guys like devotionals that help them with God not touchy feely stuff to manipulate them to do better in their marriage, but then he says a lot (not all) of it goes on to do just that. Also while one should be reading scripture outside of a devotional book, if someone is not, this book is pretty short on bulk scripture.

This book can either be something nice on your shelf or I believe something that can truly make a marriage much better. But it is up to each person to see if they want to spend the time to actually praying, doing the action and discussing with their spouse and allowing God to transform them. (I got this book free in return for this review from Thomas Nelson's Publishing's Book Sneeze)