{"id":26,"date":"2007-12-10T10:30:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T18:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2007-12-10T10:30:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T18:30:46","slug":"looking-at-myself-before-loving-someone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/2007\/looking-at-myself-before-loving-someone-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Myself Before Loving Someone Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/covers\/looking.jpg\" alt=\"Looking at Myself Before Loving Someone Else\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" width=\"191\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The grim wreckage of failed marriages is all too common in today&#8217;s culture. Marriages fail because people fail. Marriages often fail because people have not been prepared for either courtship or marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation of an enduring marriage is Christian character. It is not enough to seriously want the &#8220;right one.&#8221; First, one must be the right kind of person.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at Myself before Loving Someone Else was written to help youth prepare for courtship, to challenge them to develop personal godly character before courtship, before seeking a life companion.<\/p>\n<p>This workbook for youth and parents will help prepare young people for courtship and lifelong, joyful marriages that glorify God. <\/p>\n<p>63 pages. Paperback. Christian Light Publications. John Coblentz.<\/p>\n<p>Published in 2002.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"green\">For more details as well as the option to buy:<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/313.shtml\">Looking at Myself Before Loving Someone Else<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grim wreckage of failed marriages is all too common in today&#8217;s culture. Marriages fail because people fail. Marriages often fail because people have not been prepared for either courtship or marriage. The foundation of an enduring marriage is Christian character. It is not enough to seriously want the &#8220;right one.&#8221; First, one must be [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-products"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zSU2-q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}