Book Review: The Love and Respect Experience

This devotional is based on the popular book by Emerson Eggerichs.  It has a great subtitle to get men to pick it up.  It says, "A Husband Friendly Devotional that Wives Truly Love." Why will men love it?  First of all, instead of becoming overwhelmed with 365 daily devotionals, this book only has one per week.  Second, the devotions tend to be short at only about 2-3 pages.  Third, it is easy to use as each devotional ends with a simple prayer prompt and an action step.  For those interested in using it in a small group or to go more in depth, Eggerichs also includes discussion questions for each week in the appendix.

What about the content?  I have not read Eggerichs book to compare, but I would assume based on the content of the devotionals that this would be a great resource for the person who does not like to read.  From my perspective, I think I understand many of the concepts from Eggerichs book by just reading the 52 devotionals.  Therefore, this can be a great help to marriages in smaller chunks that reading the whole book.  Eggerichs illustrations are helpful for any marriage no matter the stage.

I would recommend this devotional for couples.  Not only does it get couples praying and reading Scripture together, but it also gives them skills to help improve their marriage.  Since Christmas is only a few weeks away, this would be a great gift for the married couple in your life. 

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