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Created to Be His Help Meet: Discover How God Can Make Your Marriage Glorious | 
 enlarge | Author: Debi Pearl
Publisher: No Greater Joy Ministries
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  209 reviews
Sales Rank: 2599
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 297
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 1892112604
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.8435
EAN: 9781892112606
ASIN: 1892112604
Publication Date: December 1, 2004
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Somewhere over the passing years and changing culture, women have lost their way. This book was written to lead them bck home. Regardless of how you began your marriage or how dark and lonely the path that has brought you to where you are now.
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 Very suprised! July 23, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Wow...I am really suprised at the negative ratings of this book. I am a christian and found it a very helpful in taking a good look at my attitude and my attitude toward my husband. I thought it was a wonderful book and very inspiring. I even bought the cd's and play them in my car. I have not been "recruited", nor do I know the Pearl's personally on any level. I bought the book to become a better wife and better follower of Christ. I would highly recommend it. Especially to those wives like myself that have trust issues and are constantly berating thier husbands for silly mindless things. For those of you that didnt enjoy the book, for whatever reason, I would suggest Joyce Meyer marriage books. She is more 'women liberated' and may be more up your alley. I enjoy both and incorporate thier thoughts into a well-rounded christian lifestyle. I think many women are so dominant in todays times that Pearl's book can feel offensive. A true follower of the Word, would be open to this book as well as many other christian teaching books. God Bless you all and happy reading!
This Book is GREAT! July 23, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Don't listen to the bitter women who couldn't handle what God's Word says. This book has great reminders about how God created men and women different. It is all Biblically sound information. I know of many marriages, personally, that have been saved by women reading this book! Give it a try!
 This Book is Trash July 22, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I was reading a five star review of this book that claimed that not one person who left a one star review had tried following Debi Pearl's advice. I am one who DID follow Debi's advice and I'm only giving the book one star because I can't give it zero or negative numbers.
I was apprehensive about trying her advice, but was very open to it. My husband said this book has been the most damaging thing to our marriage so far. I tried following the advice for a couple of months and all it did was make me and my husband miserable. My husband actually turned "mean" because he was frustrated with me and had no idea what had come over me. When he asked me about it I cried and said I'd tried so hard to please him and showed him the book. He read some of the things in the book and it made him so angry he wanted to burn it. He told me it was a damaging book and that I was not to read it anymore. I had borrowed the book, so we did return it, but if it had been mine we would have burned it.
The book is complete and utter trash and should be used for kindling to start a fire. Before anyone says that I must not have followed the advice properly, I followed it to the letter and even asked people I knew who followed the Pearl's teachings about some things.
By the way, I thought that everyone might want to know why there has been a sudden increase in the five star reviews of this book. The Pearl's have publicly solicited five star reviews in the latest "No Greater Joy" magazine, stating that those of us who are giving this book bad reviews on Amazon are taking away the rights of people to have a good marriage. Obviously not many of their followers cared enough to give their book rave reviews before now.
Please do not read this marriage and spirit damaging book.
What Marriages need in today's time!!!! July 22, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Amazing book! She offers in your face approach to what God says about our roles as wives. ALthough sometimes hard to hear, it cannot be argued b/c it comes straight from the Bible! It changed our marriage and made us so much stronger. Just learning the type of husband I have, made me see how blessed I am and how I need to show him love and appreciation. My Mr. Steady and I will be forever grateful!!!
Very Authoritative Convincing Teaching, but Biblical...? Sadly, No. July 22, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Is this book written well---in a way that grabs the readers attention and holds it? Yes. Does this book have gems of wisdom in it's pages? Absolutely. Is this book founded on a solid base of Scripture?
NO.
This book does apply a fringe-group's *interpretation* of Scripture, but that's different from being solidly based on Scripture.
Does applying the principles in this book make marriages happier? You bet it does, for many marriages! But not for the right reasons. Marriages are made happier because, for example, the wife no longer questions anything her husband does----OF COURSE it takes out a lot of conflict, no suprises there. But that's a much different thing than saying the marriage is *healthier.*
A healthy marriage is made up of two full adults who learn to work and walk together as they follow Christ. It's like a team of oxen pulling under the yoke of Christ, together, just like the picture given to us at the end of Genesis chapter 1. The Pearls, however, set up a one-line system---the man goes the direction he sees fit, the woman follows the man. Eve stands behind Adam in their version of Genesis 1...
There are so many problems with this book that it's hard to even start, but the most troubling ones to me are the many authoritative teachings about the way God designed men and women...because most of those authoritative teachings are NOT in Scripture at all.
I would recommend that readers proceed with caution. Just because a book sounds good, and just because it "works" (ie, less conflict, happier husband), doesn't make it God's way.
For example, my toddler would be a lot happier if I gave him whatever he wanted whenever he wanted it...but that wouldn't make the relationship a healthy one. The same goes with a relationship between two adults.
YES, honor the man you married. Love him. Have fun and smile. Enjoy your sex life. Those are all *good* things and those are all things that Debi teaches.
It's the rest of the stuff in this book... some of it is honestly dangerous, VERY dangerous, for women in abusive situations. So much pressure is put on the woman...if the relationship is good, it's because she's doing things right, and if the relationship is bad, it's all her fault. All the pressure for having a happy marriage is squarely laid right on her back.
For the woman in an abusive home, this is about the *worst* thing she can hear (that's what her abuser tells her all the time, and now Debi's words are telling her that God sees it the same way)...along with the admonition that the woman who *trusts God* will make the mature wise decision to STAY in an abusive situation.
There are so many things in this book that are just so sad. The negative aspects outweigh the good and make me grieve for all the women under the weight of these false teachings.
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