The Mystery of Marriage: 20th Anniversary Edition

Meditations on the Miracle

De: Mike Mason

Narrado por: Simon Vance

Meditate on the spiritual significance of marriage.

In the 20th anniversary edition of this Gold Medallion Award winner, Mike Mason goes on a poetic search to understand the wondrous dynamics of committed love. In highly listenable, first-person style, Mason’s writing stimulates listeners’ thoughts and prayers and propels couples to deeper intimacy.

“A marriage is not a joining of two worlds”, says the author, “but an abandoning of two worlds in order that one new one might be formed.” Rich chapters on “Otherness”, “Vows", “Intimacy”, “Sex”, “Submission”, and an all-new chapter on “Oneness” lift listeners to view the eternal, spiritual nature of this faith-filled, “impossible”, wild - yet wonderful - frontier.

“An outstanding achievement. Rarely has a book aroused in me so much enthusiasm as has the combination of wisdom, depth, dignity, and glow that I find in these chapters.” (J.I. Packer)

“Absolutely exquisite. It reaches down deep into our innermost being, revealing, revitalizing, rewarding. A real classic.” (Gigi Graham Tchividjian)

“A drop everything book. Mason deals with the stunning paradoxes of the mystery, the problems, and the glories of marriage. I don’t need to read any other book on the subject.” (Elisabeth Elliot)

Story behind the book:

"Over the 20 years since its publication, many couples have told me that they’ve read my book aloud to each other. This always amazes me and gives me great joy. I’m also amazed that many single people have read it. Either way, my goal is for hearts to be warmed by the mystery of divine love. I want couples to enter into deeper intimacy by thinking together about the mystery of marriage - about how their love, besides being a gift of God, reflects the very love He has for Himself in the Trinity.

"For God is not a bachelor, and throughout the Bible marriage is a supreme picture of the nature of God’s love and of His kingdom. I want people who read my book to feel so soaked in these wonderful, divine mysteries that it deepens their reverence for marriage and inspires them to greater love." (Mike Mason)

©2010 Mike Mason (P)2020 Random House Audio

An awakening depth

Over 30 years ago, when my husband and got engaged engaged, we read this book together. It opened our eyes to the depth, breadth, width and height of what holy living means, and the significance of that life in marriage. For a recent anniversary, my husband and I repurchased it to read again, this time with decades of life experience since that young couple we were at first reading. Tears flowed as each chapter awakened us to the reality that the treasure of marriage is one of the joyous mysteries God allows us to discover, the deeper we are in it - both with Him and with our spouse. It is one of the most meaningful books, reminding us of how our love relationship with Christ truly is a spiritual and sanctified one that we get to live out with each other in the physical and sacred space God has ordained called marriage. Thank you, Mike Mason, for the thoughtful and transparent way you have penned each page, from the foreword by J.I Packer to The Lover’s Hermitage.” We especially thank you for adding the “Oneness” chapter to the reprint, signifying that a Christlike marriage is a mystery that awakens us to the depths of it.

Jesus Cenered

Love this book. Highly recommend. Very well performed as well. The mystery of marriage is a wonderful masterpiece.

Mystery of Marriage Revealed

This was very Explicit about marriage compared to Christ and the church. excellent understanding of why marriage should be with one person and divorce should not be considered as an option.

Too flowery

It was okay. but I just didn't enjoy the book. It was way too flowery and at certain times I thought slightly inaccurate. He took forever to say things that could be said much simpler and clearer.