Lesson 1
Restoring Hope to Your Marriage
Recover a biblical vision for marriage and learn why hope is essential for patiently pursuing God’s design.
Course reading: Chapter 1 — Restoring Hope to Your Marriage
Marriage · Free Course
Building a Great Marriage
Faith, Forgiveness, and Friendship
Build a hopeful, loving, and enduring marriage through biblical foundations of faith, forgiveness, oneness, intimacy, trust, and lasting love.
Instructor: Pastor Paul J. Bucknell
Free Digital Course Book Included
Everyone who enrolls receives the complete digital course book, Building a Great Marriage: Finding Faith, Forgiveness and Friendship, written by course instructor Paul J. Bucknell and his wife, Linda Bucknell. The private PDF and EPUB links are sent only in the official email or WhatsApp welcome after enrollment.
How the course works
Each session combines the participant handout, one chapter from the course book, one or two video teachings, private reflection, and a seven-question quiz. A score of 6/7 passes. If a quiz is not passed, the entire seven-question quiz is retaken from the beginning. Reflection answers remain private.
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Choose Email or WhatsApp. Your official welcome provides your private My Progress link and free digital course-book links.
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Use the private My Progress link from your official welcome. If you lose it, enroll again with the same email address or WhatsApp number; the course backend reuses your existing record and sends/creates a fresh welcome rather than making a duplicate.
Course Lessons
Faith
Lesson 2
Unconditional Love — Life Principle #1
Learn how God’s covenant love becomes the pattern and power for a husband’s faithful, self-giving love.
Course reading: Chapter 2 — Unconditional Love
Lesson 3
Humble Submission — Life Principle #2
Explore humble submission as an expression of trust in God, a gentle spirit, and respect for His order.
Course reading: Chapter 3 — Humble Submission
Lesson 4
Oneness Forever — Life Principle #3
Strengthen the lifelong covenant of oneness by rejecting separation thinking and cultivating exclusive devotion.
Course reading: Chapter 4 — Oneness Forever
Forgiveness
Lesson 5
Understand and Overcome Conflicts
Trace recurring conflict back to self-seeking desires and learn to pursue God’s purposes and marital harmony together.
Course reading: Chapter 5 — Understand and Overcome Conflicts
Lesson 6
Resolve Crises and Avoid Conflicts
Learn to recognize the moment before a crisis becomes a conflict and deliberately seek God’s way together.
Course reading: Chapter 6 — Resolve Crises and Avoid Conflicts
Lesson 7
Replacing Marital Bitterness with Forgiveness
Identify hidden resentment, deal promptly with anger, and pursue forgiveness and reconciliation in truth and love.
Course reading: Chapter 7 — Replacing Marital Bitterness with Forgiveness
Friendship
Lesson 8
Cultivate Intimacy in Marriage
Develop intimacy of heart through personal sharing, mutual understanding, deepening commitment, and other-focused love.
Course reading: Chapter 8 — Cultivating Intimacy in Marriage
Lesson 9
Develop Trust in Your Marriage
Build trust through acceptance, valuing one another, humility, belonging, devotion, and personal change.
Course reading: Chapter 9 — Developing Trust in Your Marriage
Lesson 10
Love Never Fails: Building a Lasting Marriage
Finish by receiving God’s love afresh and practicing the enduring love that bears, believes, hopes, and perseveres.
Course reading: Chapter 10 — Love Never Fails
Certificate of Completion
For the certificate track, watch all 16 required videos, complete the assigned course-book chapter for each of the ten lessons, and pass every seven-question quiz with 6/7 or higher. The participant handouts are important lesson resources but do not require a separate completion checkbox. When the private course record is complete, My Progress opens the certificate request for BFF review.