Choosing to Love: The Odyssey of a Relationship - Softcover

Cook, Jerry; Cook, Barbara

9780830708970: Choosing to Love: The Odyssey of a Relationship

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0830708979 ISBN 13: 9780830708970

Publisher: Gospel Light Pubns, 1982

Here is an honest look into marriage relationships through the eyes of one couple who has diligently searched the mind of God to find out what He intends this relationship to be. Their insights into the meaning of submission without domination and the conflict between fulfilling expected roles and being themselves make this book for every married couple, young and old. The authors inspire the reader to ponder his individuality and gifts and to rethink the whole meaning and purpose of marriage. Together they present an exciting and refreshing hope for the institution of marriage.

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About the Author:

JERRY COOK (1938-2014) was the former senior pastor of East Hill Church in Gresham, Oregon, where his perspective on the role of the church in the world helped expand East Hill Church from a handful of people to more than 4,500. Jerry also served as an associate pastor at Eastside Foursquare Church in Bothell, Washington, and maintained a teaching and church-consulting ministry. Jerry also authored A Few Things I've Learned Since I Knew It All (coauthored with Stanley Baldwin), Choosing to Love (with his wife, Barbara), and The Monday Morning Church: Out of the Sanctuary and into the Streets. Surrounded by family, Jerry passed away on January 11, 2014.

Barbara Cook, a 2011 Kennedy Center honoree and member of the Theater Hall of Fame, has starred in eighteen Broadway shows. She received a Tony Award nomination in 2010 for Sondheim on Sondheim, fifty-three years after winning a Tony for her performance in The Music Man. Now in her late eighties, she continues to perform as a cabaret and concert singer.

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