THE GOD CENTERED HUSBAND

A Weekly Email to Help You Love God and Your Wife
By Doug Hanna

🧠 WISE WORDS

💥 WHAT IS A GOD CENTERED HUSBAND?

A God Centered Husband must be quick to confess. God’s glory, not our own, is our aim, so we never have to defend ourselves. We confess our sins with confidence in Jesus’ grace, not our ability to change.

Are you a God Centered Husband? Why do you feel the need to hide?

🛠️ ONE QUICK TIP FOR MARRIAGE

A weekly check-in with your wife that actually fosters open communication

Checking in and creating space for intentional, unhurried conversation is important — but challenging. Using the same questions every week gets old. Here’s a flexible format for a weekly check in that works.

Each spouse comes with two things:

1. Something to Share — Whatever you want, as long as its honest. Maybe it’s something you’re excited about, something that’s been hard, or something that happened to you recently.

2. Something to Ask — An intentional, open-ended question to foster discussion. Maybe it’s a back-burner parenting issue, seeking advice on something, or a get-to-know-you or checking-in question.

That’s it. You and your wife have both of those things prepared and set aside a time to have that conversation every week.

📕 ONE VERSE + ONE SENTENCE

“Let Israel celebrate its Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.” (Psalm 149:2)

God made us and that’s amazing.

📚 RESOURCE HIGHLIGHT

Are you completely missing the point of sex?

One survey of 22,000 Christian wives indicated that 95% of husbands say they reached a climax in most sexual encounters with their wives while only 48% of women said they reached a climax most of the time.

In other words — in many Christian marriages, spouses (especially men) are failing to serve one another sexually. Sex is meant to be unifying and mutually pleasurable, but far too often it’s one-sided and selfish.

I think the reason this happens is because we’re really confused about what sex is and how it’s supposed to function in our marriages. Men, if you want to see your sexual relationship thrive, you need to put your wife’s needs first.

My book, Sex and Self-Forgetfulness, is available for pre-order now. If you want to strengthen your marriage, deepen your intimacy with your wife, and make sex better than ever (for BOTH of you!), I hope you’ll pre-order a copy today.

Pre-Order Sex and Self-Forgetfulness wherever books are sold.

💬 A CONVERSATION STARTER

Ask this question and listen to what your wife has to say:

• What’s the most romantic thing I’ve ever done for you?

🔥 PRAYER FIRESTARTER

Prayer life feeling cold? Light it up again with this prompt:

• God, when you do ______, I am...

❤️ REMINDER: JESUS LOVES HIS BRIDE

Marriage is a picture of Christ’s relationship and his bride, the church. When we seek to grow as husbands, it can be easy to feel discouraged that we have failed to “love our wives as Christ loved the church” while forgetting that we are the bride whom Christ has loved.

“So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.” (Matthew 19:6)
You are one with Christ. No one and nothing can snatch you away from him because you are part of him.

• 1 friend signs up = Praying for Your Wife interactive tool (Helps you brainstorm what to pray for so that you stop saying the same things every day and pray for your wife with real energy and passion)

• 5 friends sign up = God Centered Husband Bible Study Workbook download (a hands-on, six-session study)

• 25 friends sign up = Physical copy of the God Centered Husband One-Year Journal sent to your house (US only).

• 50 friends sign up = Signed copy of my new book Sex and Self-Forgetfulness sent to you (US only).

• 100 friends sign up = Marriage book bundle (an Amazon gift card to get some choice resources)