MADE TO BE LOVED: Enjoying Spiritual Intimacy with God and Your Spouse
Steve & Valerie Bell

You can have the rich, emotionally satisfying marriage you’ve always dreamed of…but you can’t achieve it without the One who made you to be loved.

Do you want more—more meaning, more caring, more understanding in your marriage? The answer is simple, yet many Christians end up trapped in hollow, hurtful marriages. Steve and Valerie Bell were well on their way to having such a dissatisfying union when they learned the key to a fantastic marriage: spiritual intimacy.

Sharing the tools that worked for them, the Bells have worked out seven spiritual intimacy exercises to help you form a greater attachment to God and your mate, including:

•Listening to the Voice that says, “You were made to be loved.”
•Practicing outward and visible signs of grace
•Realistic, doable ways to welcome God into your marriage

“Steve and Valerie Bell take spiritual intimacy out of the realm of ‘religious disciplines to be performed’ and put it into everyday life where it can be experienced. Made to Be Loved both stimulates the desire for intimacy and points the way with practical ideas. The personal honesty of the authors gives hope to the most timid and challenge to the veteran.”
—Gary D. Chapman, Ph.D. Author of The Five Love Languages

“As we read Steve and Valerie’s book, many faces come to mind of folks whose marriages could be helped, saved, and transformed by the Bells’ realistic, deeply spiritual wisdom and do-able suggestions. Then our faces appear in our minds—this book is for us, too. Made To Be Loved is honest, alive, and full of counsel that will actually make a difference. Our opinion? You really ought to read this book.”
—Rachel and Larry Crabb

“Steve and Valerie have opened their hearts in a powerful way to help all of us move more closely to God and to each other. If authentic intimacy with our Lord and your spouse is what you long for, then this book is what you’ve been looking for.”
—Martie and Joe Stowell