{"id":1249,"date":"2011-08-30T09:16:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T13:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielgoepfrich.com\/couples-who-pray\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T18:13:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T22:13:01","slug":"couples-who-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/couples-who-pray\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Couples Who Pray"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Couples Who Pray:
The Most Intimate Act Between a Man and a Woman<\/a><\/h3>

Squire Rushnell, Louise DuArt<\/h3>

(Note: <\/em>This book was provided free for review by the publisher. This did not affect the review in any way.<\/em><\/p>

As a part of Thomas Nelson\u2019s BookSneeze<\/a> book review program, I get to choose books that the publisher will send me to read and review here on my blog. I thought that Couples Who Pray<\/em> would be good for both my wife and me and as a resource to offer to other couples.<\/p>

I was wrong.<\/p>

To be honest, I was pretty disappointed in this book. It wasn\u2019t at all what I had expected. In fact, there were several places it fell short.<\/p>

1) A big letdown had to do with the claim on the top of the cover: *Includes the 40 Day Prayer Challenge*.<\/em><\/p>

\u201cThat would be great!\u201d, I thought. Unfortunately, the \u201c40 Day Prayer Challenge\u201d is little more than, \u201cWe challenge you to pray for 5 minutes a day for 40 days.\u201d Didn\u2019t need a book for that!<\/em><\/p>

2) The whole premise of the book seems to be, \u201cIf you pray for just 5 minutes a day with your spouse, everything will just be better.\u201d<\/em><\/p>

There is no question that prayer is important or that it can solve marriage and home problems, but it doesn\u2019t just magically happen. Of course, they don\u2019t claim that exactly, but the stories they recount of their famous connections seem to make that case.<\/p>

3) And that\u2019s the other thing. I don\u2019t mind hearing stories from other people, especially people who I admire or respect for one reason or another.<\/em><\/p>

And this book is full of them (Denzel & Pauletta Washington, Scott & Tracie Hamilton, and Gavin & Patti MacLeod to name a few). But when you put too many of them together, one right after the other, it quickly turns into a bad late-night commercial: \u201cThese pills\/steps\/programs worked for us, and they can work for you, too!\u201d<\/em><\/p>

Overall, this book didn\u2019t come across as a book about prayer as much as a self-help book that happened to feature prayer. Because of this, I can\u2019t give it more than 2 stars.<\/p>

If you are<\/strong> interested in reading it for yourself, you can find out more about Couples Who Pray<\/em> at Thomas Nelson<\/a> or Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Couples Who Pray:The Most Intimate Act Between a Man and a Woman Squire Rushnell, Louise DuArt (Note: This book was provided free for review by the publisher. This did not affect the review in any way. As a part of Thomas Nelson\u2019s BookSneeze book review program, I get to choose books that the publisher will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[118,23],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-otcc","tag-titus"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"widget-thumbnail":false,"rpwe-thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_single":false,"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Daniel Goepfrich","author_link":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/author\/dgoepfrich\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Couples Who Pray:The Most Intimate Act Between a Man and a Woman Squire Rushnell, Louise DuArt (Note: This book was provided free for review by the publisher. This did not affect the review in any way. As a part of Thomas Nelson\u2019s BookSneeze book review program, I get to choose books that the publisher will…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}