A national campaign devoted to strengthening this country’s marriages is teaming with pastor and best-selling author Tim Keller and his wife, Kathy, for a free live Webcast Tuesday evening to discuss the couple’s new book, The Meaning of Marriage.

Fully titled, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God, the book releases on the same day. Let’s Strengthen Marriage, a nearly two-years-old group, is hosting the live streaming event in its continuing effort to raise the issue of marriage to the national agenda.

Keller, who is the founder and pastor of New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, wrote the book with his wife of 36 years. His other books include The Reason for God, The Prodigal God, and Counterfeit Gods.

Keller believes marriage was created by God to bring people closer to Him and to bring more joy into their lives.

“We often find out that, especially in our culture today, people have an unrealistic idea of marriage – either unrealistically good or unrealistically bad. They’re actually seeking marriage not very wisely and they’re not making good decisions about who would make a good prospective marriage partner,” said Keller in a video talking about the book, which is based on one of his sermon series.

“[On] the other side, I often heard from people who felt that marriage wasn’t interesting to them. It seemed like nothing but misery. They almost had too pessimistic view of marriage,” he said.

“When we started talking about what marriage could do (in his sermon series on marriage), especially, about what marriage can be like if you are friends, if you share Christ, if you help each other move toward becoming the persons Christ is seeking to and will make you through His word and the Spirit, it gave them a new idea of adventure about what marriage is all about,” Keller explained.

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