Love That Lasts: How We Discovered God’s Better Way for Love, Dating, Marriage, and Sex
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In "Love That Lasts", New York Times bestselling author of "Jesus > Religion" Jefferson Bethke and his wife, Alyssa, expose the distorted views of love that permeate our culture and damage our hearts, minds, and souls. Drawing from Jeff’s “prodigal son” personal history and from Alyssa’s “True Love Waits” experience, the Bethkes point to a third and better way. Blending personal storytelling with biblical teaching, they offer readers an inspiring, realistic vision of love, dating, marriage, and sex. Young people today enter adulthood with expectations of blissful dating followed by a romantic, fulfilling marriage only to discover they’ve been duped. They learned about love and sexuality from social media, their friends, Disney fairy tales, pornography, or even their own rocky past, and they have no idea what healthy, lifelong love is supposed to be like. The results are often disastrous, with this generation becoming one of the most relationally sick, sexually addicted, and divorce ridden in history. Looking to God’s design while drawing lessons from their own successes and failures, the Bethkes explode the fictions and falsehoods of our current moment. One by one, they peel back the lies, such as the belief that every person has only one soul mate, that marriage will complete you, or that pornography and hook-ups are harmless. A Note to Our Readers A Few Things to Remember 01: Where Is the Love? (The Black Eyed Peas) 02: What Makes You Beautiful (One Direction) 03: Slow Dancing in a Burning Room (John Mayer) 04: Riding Solo (Jason Derulo) 05: Fake Love (Drake) 06: Lucky (Jason Mraz) 07: Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen) 08: Bleeding Love (Leona Lewis) 09: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Taylor Swift) 10: When I’m 64 (The Beatles) 11: At Last (Etta James) 12: Stay with You (John Legend) 13: All of Me (John Legend) 14: Let’s Get It On (Marvin Gaye) 15: Let’s Talk About Sex (Salt-N-Pepa) 16: Just the Way You Are (Bruno Mars) 17: Unpack Your Heart (Phillip Phillips) Now What? Acknowledgments Notes Additional Resources About the Authors
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