Additional Details ------------------------------ Bullet point: "7 Seeds of a Breakthrough Marriage is about real issues, real challenges that every marriage must overcome. Gary and Nate take you behind closed doors, to some of the most intimate issues marriages face. It is here where you will discover how to focus on what really matters and experience a love that lasts a lifetime." -- Mark Batterson, New York Times best selling author of The Circle Maker, Lead Pastor of National Community Church Product description: "7 Seeds of a Breakthrough Marriage is about real issues, real challenges that every marriage must overcome. Gary and Nate take you behind closed doors, to some of the most intimate issues marriages face. It is here where you will discover how to focus on what really matters and experience a love that lasts a lifetime." -- Mark Batterson, New York Times best selling author of The Circle Maker, Lead Pastor of National Community Church "The Seven Seeds of a Breakthrough Marriage addresses the escalating tide of relational struggle in our culture today. Gary and Nathan provide married couples in every season of life a plan that works. They embrace a long range plan for relational success that is pro-active, preventative, and proven. I am so excited about this book and the practical advice wisdom it has to offer every married couple" -- Shawn Johnson, Lead Pastor of Red Rocks Church Marriage is no ordinary challenge. In fact, it's a task like none other. Only in marriage are we called to willingly, intentionally weed and work the soil of two joined souls in the hope of growing a garden that never dies. If we intend to succeed, we'd better be willing to get our hands dirty. In this book based on the marriage-growing principles, Gary Bruegman teaches couples in every season from newlywed to nearly-divorced. A plan is offered to hold back and battle the withering rot of toxic expectations, fear-based reactions, betrayals of trust and more.Gary and colleague Nathan Harrup identify seven "seeds" that save and heal marriages, no matter the condition. Weaving stories with time-tested principles, a guidebook comes together to challenge the idea that any marriage is beyond repair, and to prove there is hope of a breakthrough - even for the most tires and defeated of marriage gardeners.