Ask any married couple about the challenges of sharing life together and you’ll hear a litany of interpersonal issues. Communication, wounds, and hardships can weigh heavily on husbands and wives. Today, add the external pressures from living in a hostile, anti-Christian, anti-family culture. Without a firm foundation, couples can collapse under these difficulties.

The good news is that through the Sacrament of Marriage God gives husbands and wives all the grace they need to overcome even the insurmountable. Drawing from the wisdom gained from their own thirty-five years of marriage, Peter and Debra Herbeck guide couples in strengthening their bond of marriage through the limitless grace offered to all by Christ.

In Lessons from the School of Love: Cultivating a Christ-Centered Marriage, fortify your marriage with encouragement and scriptural wisdom as you learn how to approach your spouse with the love and respect that will transform their heart—and your own!

Peter Herbeck is the Executive Vice President and Director of Missions for Renewal Ministries. Peter is the co-host of the weekly television show The Choices We Face and the host of the daily radio show Fire on the Earth. He is a frequent conference speaker and is the author of When the Spirit Comes in Power and co-author of When the Spirit Speaks and Touched by God’s Word, with his wife Debbie. Peter holds a BA in Philosophy from St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota and an MA in Theology from Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit, Michigan. 

Debra Herbeck is the Founder and Executive Director of Pine Hills Girls’ Camp and is also the Founder and Leader of Be Love Revolution, a ministry that exists to help young women encounter Christ and be His love to all they meet. Debbie has written several books and is a frequent author and speaker for Blessed Is She and contributing writer for Undone: Freeing Your Feminine Heart from the Knots of Fear and Shame. Debbie and Peter live in Ann Arbor, Michigan and have four children and ten grandchildren.

“With honest realism and beautiful vulnerability, Peter and Debbie tackle the difficult questions of marriage from a Christian perspective. I am certain that every Catholic couple will benefit immensely from reading it, discussing it, and implementing it in their marriages and families.”
Bishop Scott McCaig, CC
Military Ordinary of Canada

“This is a beautiful and timely book. Every chapter is filled with wisdom gleaned from the Master of Love, Jesus Christ, and applied to the daily struggles within marriage. . . . I will recommend it enthusiastically to all the married and engaged couples I know.”
Bob Schuchts
Author of Be Devoted and Founder of the John Paul II Healing Center

“Peter and Debbie Herbeck are sharing the inside scoop on living a life with and for Jesus. This is my new handbook for implementing beautiful habits, traditions, and truths of the faith into my marriage and family culture. Peter and Debbie are courageous witnesses to the love and joy of a life lived with Jesus and I can’t thank them enough for this gift they’ve given the Church and the world, and most especially, to my husband, my children, and me.”
Jenna Guizar
Founder and Creative Director of Blessed Is She

“An honest, hope-filled story of a family in love with Jesus Christ that witnesses to the drama of marriage and redeeming power of God.  In these pages, you will see how Jesus Christ can make the ordinary extraordinary if we are intentional and truly desirous of Him.”
Curtis Martin
Founder and CEO of Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS)

“Short, easy to read, personal, and honest. This is not a theoretical tome on Catholic marriage but a real-life sharing of a real-life couple and their family that many will be inspired and helped by.”
Ralph Martin
President of Renewal Ministries

“If put into practice, the wisdom found in these pages can lead any docile couple to the next level in their marriage, in their parenting, and in their relationship with God.”
Fr. Mathias Thelen
President of Encounter Ministries and Pastor of St Patrick Catholic Parish

“I believe all married couples and couples contemplating marriage need to read this short but impactful book by Debbie and Peter Herbeck.”
Danny Abramowicz
Former NFL Player and Host of Crossing the Goal

“We have known Peter and Debbie since before they were married and have seen them live out the words in this book in their marriage and family for many years. We highly recommend this book to couples. It will strengthen your marriage and deepen your relationship in the Lord.”
Randall and Therese Cirner,
Authors of Ten Weeks to A Better Marriage