Title: Intimate Anatomy

Why I wrote my book: 3 reasons: I believe God wanted me to; It documents my first-hand experience; After viewing other marriage related publications for three decades, I felt the need for this very concise yet easy to use format which also requires user involvement and not just reading the book.

A little about myself and my book: My wife and I wrote the Intimate Anatomy workbook. We are former missionaries and have a heart to minister. We plan on returning to full time missions, perhaps in a new venue. We left missions due to severe and prolonged (over two decades) health issues with my wife. These experiences birthed first-hand revelation on what it means to love my wife as Christ loved the church (Ephesians 5). It also prompted deep times of crying out to God for His strength in our weakness. It also reinforced our experience and conviction that relationship between husband and wife is directly patterned after Biblically defined relationship between Christ and the church, who is refered to as the bride of Christ in Scripture. All of this came together over ten years and we copyrighted a diagram of this parallel in 2006. Prompting to write a workbook about came in 2007, which we copyrighted in 2008. I learned about Bethany Press later in 2008, got everything together (our own website online, set-up with Believers Press / STL-Distribution, ISBN, bar code, Bowkerlink, etc.) in 2009 and published Intimate Anatomy January 1, 2010. We now present the workbook and related discussions to individuals, couples and groups.

My favorite part about working with Bethany Press/BelieversPress: Common faith in Jesus Christ and passion to spread the Gospel.

A tip for others: Do your homework: apply yourself to learn alot from other people and the way things work without compromising the gift God gave you– even if it seems unpopular (just make sure it is holy and wise).