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With their trademark insight, humor, and candid personal perspectives, Bill and Pam Farrel reveal the truths about the sexual relationship in marriage and what husbands and wives need to know to keep the embers burning.Sex is like fireworks!why a little skill turns marriage into red-hot monogamyHow sex works best emotionally, physically, and physiologicallyHow to avoid the pleasure thieves that steal your chance for fulfillmentThe Farrels present difficult-to-discuss topics and biblical truths in universal language with sensitivity, fun, and understanding.For newlyweds, golden anniversary celebrants, and all couples in betweenthis book inspires the gift of romance and passion to fuel lives with love.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 janvier 2006
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736935036
Langue	English

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Real ideas that real-life couples can put into practice immediately-that s what I love about Red-Hot Monogamy! All the biblical truth and godly love life advice I ve ever heard-and more-is simply and beautifully wrapped up in this one practical book. Speaking at marriage conferences about my own lost-and-found love, I ve been recommending great books on sex for years. Not anymore! Bill and Pam s perspectives make Red-Hot Monogamy perfect for everyone-profitable for difficult, good, or even great marriages! I wish I d had it years ago-for my own marriage enrichment and to recommend to others. And I thought my married love life sizzled before reading this book!
Nancy Sebastian Meyer, national speaker and author of Beyond Expectations: Finding Joy in Your Marriage
Bill and Pam Farrel know what it takes to make red-hot monogamy a priority. This book not only tells you why investing in your marriage is important, it tells you how to make it happen! Practical, humorous, creative, and chock-full of ideas to make your love life all it can be, Red-Hot Monogamy is a book all married couples need to read!
Jill Savage, founder and executive director, Hearts at Home, and author of Is There Really Sex After Kids?
After reading Red-Hot Monogamy, I was convinced and convicted that sex could be even better! This is a great resource to spice up your marriage and help your intimate relationship be more of what Godintended. Thank you, Bill and Pam, for your encouragement NOT to settle for lukewarm. Red-Hot Monogamy can help any couple turnup the heat!
Kendra Smiley, conference speaker and author of several books, including Be the Parent (Moody, January 2006).
What a wonderful book! I could have used this over the past 20 years and will be using it in the years to come.
Steve Arterburn, bestselling author of Every Man s Battle and Healing Is a Choice
Why settle for lukewarm lovemaking when you can have red-hot monogamy? Bill and Pam have done a great job addressing a wide range of sexual topics without making it feel like a how-to hand-book. Tank you for not over spiritualizing or dancing around difficult topics. Red-Hot Monogamy is full or real ideas, tips, and suggestions to make married sex fun, regardless of what phase of life you may be facing.
Marita Littauer, president, CLASServices Inc., speaker, and author of The Praying Wives Club and Love Extravagantly
Red-
Hot
MONOGAMY
BILL PAM FARREL
HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS EUGENE, OREGON
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION . NIV . Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.
Verses marked NASB are taken from the New American Standard Bible , 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. ( www.Lockman.org )
Verses marked MSG are taken from The Message. Copyright by Eugene H. Peterson 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.
Verses marked NKJV are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Verses marked GNT are taken from the Good News Translation-Second Edition 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by permission.
Cover photo davies and starr / Stone / Getty Images
Cover by Left Coast Design, Portland, Oregon
Published in association with the literary agency of Alive Communications, Inc., 7680 Goddard Street, Suite 200, Colorado Springs, CO 80920.
RED-HOT MONOGAMY Copyright 2006 by Bill and Pam Farrel Published by Harvest House Publishers Eugene, Oregon 97402 www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Farrel, Bill, 1959-
Red-hot monogamy / Bill and Pam Farrel.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7369-1608-0 (pbk.)
ISBN-10: 0-7369-1608-3
1. Sex in marriage-Religious aspects-Christianity. 2. Spouses-Religious life. I. Farrel, Pam, 1959- II. Title.
BV4596.M3.F375 2006
248.8 44-dc22
2005026892
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Printed in the United States of America
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M y angel, my lover, and my best friend, You have taken me to heights I never knew existed, You helped me see possibilities I never dreamed I d see.
T hank you for making red-hot monogamy an incredible journey!
Bill

W e ve had 25 years of red-hot monogamy how about at least 25 more?
Y our love has given me wings to soar.
Y ou have been my mirror, and I am forever grateful.
Y our angel,
Pam

We love because God first loved us.
1 JOHN 4:19 GNT
Sex! What Makes It Red-Hot?
H OW TO C REATE S OME S TEAMED H EAT!
Bringing the Honeymoon Home
M AKING S EX A P RIORITY
The Great Escape, Part 1
R EST AND R ELAXATION FOR A LL A REAS OF L IFE
The Great Escape, Part 2
R EJUVENATING AND R EENERGIZING L OVE
Come on, Baby, Light My Fire, Part 1
I DEAS TO F AN THE F LAME
Come on, Baby, Light My Fire, Part 2
C REATIVE C ONNECTIONS
Sizzling Sex
I GNITING P ASSION
Browsing in the Wonder of Each Other
W HAT T URNS ON A M AN AND W HAT T URNS ON A W OMAN
N OTES
M EN A RE L IKE W AFFLES -W OMEN A RE L IKE S PAGHETTI
M ORE G REAT B OOKS FROM B ILL AND P AM F ARREL
A BOUT THE A UTHORS
1

O n a cold, clear January night, the stars flickered in the sky like individual candles calling lovers into one another s arms. Inside, the lights were romantically dim. Music softly serenaded lovers as they reminisced over 25 years of memories.
Anita Renfroe then stepped to the podium in the ballroom and announced, We are here tonight to celebrate the righteous red-hot monogamy of Bill and Pam Farrel. The crowd laughed as we looked at each other in shocked amusement.
While we were recovering from her statement, our oldest son, Brock, stepped to the podium to say grace at the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Dinner Gala we were sharing with 300 of our closest friends. He introduced himself by saying, Hi, everyone. I am Brock Farrel, the first product of my parents righteous red-hot monogamy.
At that moment the concept for this book was conceived. It was embarrassingly awesome to have our love referred to as red-hot monogamy. In our hearts we know this is the dream of every married couple. We were created as sexual beings with an incredible capacity for pleasurable experiences. We were created with an intense desire to be connected to another human. We were also created with incredible emotional potential. As a result, sex can be the greatest source of pleasure on earth or it can be the greatest source of disappointment and insecurity. Red-Hot Monogamy is our attempt to help you develop a love life you will love.
I S I T R EALLY T HAT R ED- H OT?
You may wonder why we chose to write this book. What would possess a couple to boldly take on such a personal topic as marital sex? Well, it really chose us. We have been teaching on relationships since we were newlyweds. Our first published book, Pure Pleasure: Making Your Marriage a Great Affair, was coauthored with Jim and Sally Conway. It was motivated by the chaos and fallout of the sexual revolution. We wondered how people could be so inundated with sex in the culture, on TV, in magazines, and on the Internet, and yet be so dissatisfied and hurting in their own private sex lives. The main point, we emphasized, was that sex is not an event-sex is a relationship . In Red-Hot Monogamy, we pick up the conversation and will give you practical, personal tips for creating the kind of sex life that really works.
We have a lot of fun with the topic, but we actually think sex is a serious matter. So many lives can either be destroyed or enhanced by the way sex is used. It is a lot like atomic energy. Plutonium can be used to produce abundant energy or to enhance medical science. In less scrupulous hands, that same plutonium can be detonated in a bomb that destroys everything in its wake.
Yes, sex is powerful, and, as with everything beautiful that God created, Satan tries to steal, distort, and misuse sex as a weapon against the heart of man. Take music. It has stirred the hearts of every generation of men and women. It can inspire confidence, lower stress, and set incredibly romantic moods. Yet look at musicians such as Curt Cobain and Janis Joplin, who died from misusing drugs in some melodic, tragic lostness.
Or how about medical research that has discovered the cure for polio and made possible things such as limb replacement surgery and organ transplants? These are all great things, yet that same scientific field created the means for the destruction of human life in abortion. Dancing is another example. Dance form, like ballet, is a beautiful art. However, dance can be distorted and misused, as it is in strip clubs around the world. Sex is the same. It is a gift to be valued and protected so it cannot be used as a weapon.
We must make a choice regarding sexual expression. We will either utilize it as a deviant, destructive power or we will harness its potential to keep love alive and vibrant in our marriage relationships.
In a marriage, sex is the spice that rescues our relationships from becoming mundane pursuits of chores. Adult life is filled with responsibilities. We have mortgages to pay, yard work to maintain, laundry to clean, cars to service, and so on. But none of us got married so we could load up on chores. We got married out of hope. We got married because we believed there was some kind of magic between us. We got married because we believed we could have great sex together. A satisfying sex lif