Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?

Sacred Marriage asks a searching question: what if one of marriage's central purposes is to make believers holy rather than simply happy? Gary Thomas explores how daily life with a spouse exposes pride, invites forgiveness, and creates repeated opportunities to practice sacrificial love, prayer, service, and faithfulness.

Drawing on Scripture, church history, and lived experience, the revised edition treats marriage as a spiritual discipline. Its perspective can help couples move beyond consumer expectations and see ordinary conflicts, responsibilities, and acts of care as part of God's work of forming Christlike character.