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Why closing the back door of your church is even more important than opening the front door wider.

In Sticky Church, author and pastor Larry Osborne offers a time-tested strategy for doing so: sermon-based small groups that dig deeper into the weekend message and tightly velcro members to the ministry. It's a strategy that enabled Osborne's congregation to grow from a handful of people to one of the larger churches in the nationwithout any marketing or special programming. Sticky Church tells the inspiring story of North Coast Church's phenomenal growth and offers practical tips for launching your own sermon-based small group ministry.

Topics include:
Why stickiness is so importantWhy most of our discipleship models don't work very wellWhy small groups always make a church more honest and transparentWhat makes groups grow deeper and sticker over time
Sticky Church is an ideal book for church leaders who want to start or retool their small group ministryand velcro their congregation to the Bible and each other.

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"This 31-day reading from the book of Proverbs from the New International Version of the Bible will speak to your deepest needs as you engage with Gods Word. Practical and insightful, these devotionswritten by the staff at trusted ministry Walk Thru the Biblewill fill each day with wisdom and understanding about who God is and what he has intended for the lives of his people. NIV 2011. The New International Version (NIV) translation of the Bible is the worlds most popular modern-English Bibleeasy to understand, yet rich with the detail found in the original languages. "

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365 Devotions to Embrace What Matters Most

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Rediscover Joy and Passion in Your Life (A 365-Day Devotional)

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Reclaim your passions, your relationships, and your joy through daily reminders of what really matters.

365 Devotions to Embrace What Matters Most invites you to uncover the essence of a meaningful life. This daily devotional companion offers you practical and heartfelt insights to focus on life's most valuable treasureslove, purpose, and relationships. It speaks to your soul, reminding you to live fully engaged and wide awake.

Life is a precious gift, yet the grind of daily demands can cloud your vision, making life feel like a never-ending cycle of obligations. From appointments to grocery shopping, we can get bogged down in busyness and end up sleepwalking through life, completely missing the beauty and wonder all around. But it is never too late to live the wide-awake, passionate life you long for.

365 Devotions to Embrace What Matters Most invites you to reclaim your passions, your relationships, and your joy through daily reminders of what really matters. Each page offers you accessible yet profound insights for how to make small but meaningful changesprioritizing rest, practicing humility, giving generously, or simply regaining wonder for God's creation. This devotional will gently guide you to become the kind of person you want to be, living deliberately and grasping the eternal beauty in the present moment.

Each daily entry features a short but profound meditation that will guide you to reflect on your life and the world around you, along with a Scripture verse to help you ground your heart and mind in God's Word. For a few moments each day, spend a little time meditating on the things that matter:
Who you are, why you're here, and what you should do about it.How you see the world.How to free yourself from the rat race.The importance of your relationships.What's wrong and how to make it right.How to become a better human being

365 Devotions to Embrace What Matters Most gives you daily reminders that life is precious and beautiful. Whether you long for rest, deeper connections, or a renewed sense of meaning, this devotional empowers you to pause, reflect, and walk a path rich with purpose and delight. Get ready to embrace what really matters most, and start living with intention, wonder, and joy!

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How Working for King Jesus Gives Purpose and Meaning to Our Jobs

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Find Gods vision for your job.
Reclaim Gods vision for your life.
Many Christians fall victim to one of two main problems when it comes to work: either they are idle in their work, or they have made an idol of it. Both of these mindsets are deadly misunderstandings of how God intends for us to think about our employment.
In The Gospel at Work, Sebastian Traeger and Greg Gilbert unpack the powerful ways in which the gospel can transform how we do what we do, releasing us from the cultural pressures of both an all-consuming devotion and a punch-in, punch-out mentalityin order to find the freedom of a work ethic rooted in serving Christ.
Youll find answers to some of the tough questions that Christians in the workplace often ask:What factors should matter most in choosing a job?What gospel principles should shape my thinking about how to treat my boss, my co-workers, and my employees?Is full-time Christian work more valuable than my job?Is it okay to be motivated by money?How do you prioritizeor balancework, family and church responsibilities?Solidly grounded in the gospel, The Gospel at Work confronts both our idleness at work and our idolatry of work with a challenge of its ownto remember that whom we work for is infinitely more important than what we do.

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Gaining the Skills for Honest and Meaningful Communication

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Full of practical tips and how-tos, this book will help you make your relationships better, deepen your intimacy with people you care for, and cultivate more love, understanding, and respect between you and others.

Successful people confront well. They know that setting healthy boundaries improves relationships and can solve important problems. They have discovered that uncomfortable situations can be avoided or resolved through direct conversation. But most of us don't know how to have difficult conversations, and we see confrontation as scary or adversarial.

Authors Henry Cloud and John Townsend take the principles from their award-winning and bestselling book, Boundaries, and apply them to a variety of the most common difficult situations and relationships in order to:
Show how healthy confrontation can improve relationshipsPresent the essentials of a good boundary-setting conversationProvide tips on preparing for the conversationShow how to tell people what you want, stop bad behavior, and deal with counterattackGive actual examples of conversations to have with your spouse, your date, your kids, your coworker, your parents, and more!
This book is a practical handbook on positive confrontation that will help you finally have that difficult conversation you've been avoiding. Includes a discussion guide.

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The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context.

The book of Joshua recounts major transitions in the lives of God's chosen people and speaks of subjects that are difficult to comprehend, such as war and ethnic cleansing. Robert Hubbard navigates through these chapters, probing beneath the surface of the biblical text to apply the timeless themes of the book of Joshua to our lives in the twenty-first century.

To bring the ancient messages of the Bible into today's context, each passage is treated in three sections:
Original Meaning. Concise exegesis to help the reader understand the original meaning of the biblical text in its historical, literary, and cultural context.Bridging Contexts. A bridge between the world of the Bible and the world of today, between the original context and the contemporary context, built by discerning what is timeless in the timely pages of the Bible.Contemporary Significance. This section identifies situations that are comparable to those faced by the original audience and explores personal, cultural, and societal applications of the passage to those situations. The author also alerts the reader to problems they may encounter when seeking to apply the passage and helps them think through the issues involved.
This unique, award-winning commentary is the ideal resource for today's preachers, teachers, and serious students of the Bible, giving them the tools, ideas, and insights, they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.

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Insightful Dates for Finding the Love of Your Life

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In Is This the One?, Steve Arterburnan award-winning author and the founder and chairman of New Life Ministries, the largest faith-based broadcast counseling and treatment ministryhas created a "how to" plan for happier, stronger marriages. He contends that living in a "no regrets" relationship can be as simple following this spiritually solid and personally drawn plan before the first "I do" is even spoken.Host of the number one Christian radio broadcast, New Life Live!, Arterburn draws a painfully personal portrait of the devastation divorce has on a family. Rather than aiming at marriages already in jeopardy, Arterburn focuses attention on the beginning of relationshipsbefore the commitment, before the emotional investment, before the children. He prescribes three sets of ten carefully devised dates designed to help couples reveal their true colors and clarify whether or not they are a compatible match. This practical, personal, and positive plan can impact marriagesand ground the skyrocketing divorce rateas no other book has.Is This the One? is a must read for engaged or dating couples, happy singles, concerned parents, and anyone who wants to make better decisions about who to marry and who to leave behind.

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Images are frequently used in the Bible to describe God and his relationship with his chosen people. Without an accurate understanding of the images, we cannot comprehend the profound biblical revelations they communicate. Understanding these cultural vehicles of communication comes by learning the cultural background of those who created them. Timothy S. Laniak illuminates this background for readers from the ground up with his archaeological and anthropological explanations of the contexts the authors lived in. Suitable for students, pastors, and lay leaders, the Zondervan ebook Images of God and His People links these cultural characteristics with the images of God with corresponding images of his people found in the Old and New Testaments. This complementary approach reveals a rich relationship between God and the people he loves and calls into his service.

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Cape Refuge, Southern Storm, River's Edge, Breaker's Reef

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New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstocks Cape Refuge series is now available in one volume.

Cape Refuge

When Thelma and Wayne Owens are found murdered in the warehouse where they held their church services, their son-in-law Jonathan is arrested for the crimebut his wife Morgan and her sister Blair, Thelma and Waynes daughters, are confident that he didnt do it and set out to find the real killer.

Southern Storm

Police Chief Cade disappears after hitting and killing a man with his car. Without a trace, without a note, without taking clothes or his car or moneyhe is gone. When a witness says she saw Cade getting into a blue Buick with a woman before his disappearance, the newspapers report that Cade left town to be with her. But Blair Owens believes something has happened to Cade, and shes determined to find him.

Rivers Edge

Mayoral candidate Ben Jackson seems to have the election locked. But when Jackson's wife turns up murdered, things begin to shift. Was this the act of a jealous lover? A dangerous client? Or is this all about the election?

Breakers Reef

A teenage girl is found murdered, and the scene matches one in a book by a famous mystery writer who just moved to the island. This murder has a connection to Hanover Houseand the residents there might never be the same.

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In every generation, the Christian church must interpret and restate its bedrock beliefs, answering the challenges and concerns of the day. This accessible overview walks readers through centuries of creeds, councils, catechisms, and confessionsnot with a dry focus on dates and places, but with an emphasis on the living tradition of Christian belief and why it matters for our lives today.As a part of the KNOW series, Know the Creeds and Councils is designed for personal study or classroom use, but also for small groups and Sunday schools wanting to more deeply understand the foundations of the faith.Each chapter covers a key statement of faith and includes a discussion of its historical context, a simple explanation of the statements content and key points, reflections on contemporary and ongoing relevance, and discussion questions.

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Questions You Can't Ask Your Mama About Sex

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This is not your typical birds-and-the bees discussion. Inside this book is an exploration of the real questions you have about sex and your sexualityall the ones youre too afraid to ask out loud (especially to your parents. Shudder.). Drawn from actual questions and with totally honest answers about what is and isnt okay to look at, think about, and do, this book breaks down what God really has to say about keeping your clothes on.

Lets face it, the sex talk you got and the messages you hear at church arent always that helpful when it comes to what is really going through your mind (or bothering you elsewhere) in real life. And asking those questions is not exactly easy when you want a real answer instead of, Youll go blind. But in these pages, no topic is off-limits, and the answers youll see are a real discussion of what you want to know (and exactly what the Bible does and does not say on the topic), or even what it means if youve already experimented. From pre-marital sex to masturbation to the temptations of porn and what it means to be a technical virginand questions about homosexualityQuestions You Cant Ask Your Mama About Sex is a go-to handbook for the things you need to know but dont want to ask out loud.

Questions You Cant Ask Your Mama About Sex:
comes from authors with decades of experience on the topics of relationships and sex, who have been featured on The TODAY Show, Good Morning America, The Daily Show, Anderson Cooper 360, as well as in The New York Times and Buzzfeeduses a straight-forward approach to answer over 50 questions teens have askedgoes beyond how far is too far? to look at the nuances and real things you wonder about and facedone though straight-forward and honest discussion

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Happily ever after begins today. The honor of your presence is requested at a year of weddings . . .

A January Bride

Madeleine Housers pen-pal friendship with a lonely widower has taken an unexpected turn.

A February Bride

Allie left the love of her life at the altarto save him from her family curse.

A March Bride

Susanna found her prince, and happily ever after is just around the corner. But first, they must pass one final test.

An April Bride

Weeks away from the wedding, Stella and Marshall must choose between faith in their past love or a very different future than either imagined.

A May Bride

Ellie has prepared for her wedding all her life . . . but she's forgotten the most important part.

A June Bride

The reality show ended with an engagement, so why doesnt this feel like the fairy tale Wynne thought it would be?

A July Bride

In a moment of total panic, Brendan left Alyssa at the altar. What will it take for him to win her back?

An August Bride

As far as Kelsey Wilcox is concerned, her last cowboy was the last cowboy.

A September Bride

Annie is ready to call this new town home, but one handsome policeman is ready to stand in her way . . . even if it means walking her down the aisle.

An October Bride

What if the only way to make your fathers last wish come true . . . was to marry the man of your dreams?

A November Bride

Can a decades-long friendship marred by romantic missteps ever lead to happily ever after for Sadie and Erik?

A December Bride

What started as a whim turned into an accidentaland very publicengagement in Chapel Springs this holiday season.

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Denise Hunter, Deborah Raney, Betsy St. Amant, Rachel Hauck, Lenora Worth, Meg Moseley, Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Beth Wiseman, Debra Clopton, Kathryn Springer, Katie Ganshert, Beth K. Vogt

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Walking with God in the Desert Discovery Guide

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Experiencing Living Water When Life is Tough

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Are you going through a difficult period of life?

Filmed in the desolate places of the Holy Land, such as the Sinai Desert, Wadi Nasb, Judea Wilderness, Mount Sinai, Negev and En Gedi; the twelfth volume of the That The World May Know series beckons you to follow Jesus and discover the astounding truth of what it means to be a Christian: its only when we are totally dependent on him that we find God is closer than ever and can experience his amazing grace and provision.

This discovery guide includes passages of Scripture explored in the DVD (sold separately); questions for discussion and personal reflection; personal Bible studies to help you deepen your learning experience between sessions; as well as sidebars, maps, photos, and other study tools.

Lessons include:
Join the Journey Filmed in the Sinai DesertIts Hot Here and Theres No Way Out Filmed in Wabi NasbHelp is Here Filmed in Wadi NasbWhen Your Heart Cries Out Filmed in the Judea WildernessThey Were Not Wandering Filmed on Mount SinaiEars to Hear Filmed in NegevTheres Hope in the Desert Filmed in En Gedi
Designed for use with Walking with God in the Desert Video Study (sold separately).

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THAT THE WORLD MAY KNOW

Join renowned teacher and historian Ray Vander Laan as he guides you through the land of the Bible. In each lesson, Vander Laan illuminates the historical, geographical, and cultural context of the sacred Scriptures.

Filmed on location in the Middle East and elsewhere, the That the World May Know film series will transform your understanding of God and challenge you to be a true follower of Jesus.

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Ray Vander Laan, Stephen and Amanda Sorenson

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Collected Words of Mike Yaconelli for Youth Workers

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Scripture is full of the voices of prophets who convicted, irritated, edified, exhorted, chastised, instructed, encouraged, and proclaimed the Truth. Many followed these prophets; many hated them; some dismissed them; others laughed at them; still others wanted them silenced. The same could be said of Mike Yaconelli.  Like the prophets of old, Mike was a blend of the sacred and the profane, the outspoken and the insecure, the gentle lamb and the roaring lion. This paradox lives on in his writing and in his recorded words. In Mike Yaconelli youll discover a bold, passionate, and ultimately prophetic voice reminding us to stay focused on Jesus, to hold life lightly, to walk together as we love kids, and to devote ourselves to an outrageously gracious God who loves our souls into being.  If youre in youth ministry today, its likely thatsomeway, somehowMike Yaconelli played a part in it. Much of the playfulness, creativity, and humility that exist in youth ministry were first nurtured by the life and work of Mike Yaconelli. Reactions to Mike Yaconelli are rarely neutral. He forces you to react, to feel, to think and to question:  He loved youth ministry, but at the same time he wanted to dismantle it; he pastored a church yet proclaimed churches to be dull and stifling. He poked fun at powerful Christian celebrities but was disarmingly open about his own pride and weaknesses. Despite founding one of the largest youth working organizations in the world, Mike advocated for a counter-cultural faith that emphasized small over big, few over many, and silent over loud. His words carry all of these contradictions, leaving readers both inspired and frustrated...often at the same time.  Years after his death, Christians across the globe still turn to the words of Mike Yaconelli to uncover the divine mischief, the shameless truth-telling, the love of kids, and the passion for Jesus that make youth ministry the irresistible calling he claimed it to be.  People turn to Mike Yaconelli not just because of what he wrote, they turn to Mike Yaconelli because of what he aspired to live.

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Experience how the disciples translated Jesus' call to passionate discipleship into language and imagery that the Roman culture would understand.

In the seventh volume of the series That The World May Know, take a tour through the land of the Biblevisiting places such as Aphrodisias, Antioch Pisidia, Lystra, and Cappadociaand understand the Bible's fascinating historical, cultural, religious, and geographical contexts in whole new way.

This discovery guide includes passages of Scripture explored in the DVD (sold separately); questions for discussion and personal reflection; personal Bible studies to help you deepen your learning experience between sessions; as well as sidebars, maps, photos, and other study tools.

Lessons include:
Run! The Passion of Elijah Filmed in AphrodisiasLearning to Walk Like Jesus Filmed in Antioch PisidiaAn Unlikely Disciple Filmed in LystraWhy Christians Suffer: The Weight of Gesthemane filmed in CappadociaDont Forget Us filmed on location in Cappadocia
Designed for use with the Walk As Jesus Walked Video Study (sold separately).

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THAT THE WORLD MAY KNOW

Join renowned teacher and historian Ray Vander Laan as he guides you through the land of the Bible. In each lesson, Vander Laan illuminates the historical, geographical, and cultural context of the sacred Scriptures.

Filmed on location in the Middle East and elsewhere, the That the World May Know film series will transform your understanding of God and challenge you to be a true follower of Jesus.

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Ray Vander Laan, Stephen and Amanda Sorenson

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Mapping the Challenges of Leadership for Christian Women

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The main challenges and strategies of success for CHRISTIAN WOMEN LEADERSAre you showing up for your own life? Or are you watching it slowly drain away, each moment emptied of its potential? At age twenty, Halee Gray Scott was doing things her way when God challenged her with these two questions. Confronted with the brevity of human life, she determined to start living with purpose and passion and help others do the same. For the last seven years, Halee has been studying the lives of female Christian leaders to determine what keeps them from fully flourishing as people of influence. Its not that Christian women cannot or do not want to lead; its that their way is fraught with roadblocks.In Dare Mighty Things, Halee unpacks the results of her research, tackling the top challenges for Christian women, including:What prevents us from seeing ourselves as leadersHow to discern what we are really, truly meant to doHow to navigate between our roles as women and leadersHow the myth that only exceptional Christian women can lead hurts all Christian womenDare Mighty Things is a guidebook for women navigating the difficult waters of leadership. Packed with helpful advice and strategies for success, it will challenge you to claim your God-given potential and lead with confidence, poise, and grace.

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A violent criminal with a knack for evading justice. A beautiful victim with a secret to hide. Between them stands one good cop, torn between justice and the law. This rape case is an exception: The victim is more than willing to testify. And theres abundant evidence to put the suspect behind bars. Just one thing bothers Detective Larry Millsaps. Young and beautiful Melissa Nelson seems to know almost too much about the evidence needed to convict her attacker. The unfolding investigation unearths a brutal track record on the part of the suspect . . . and a stunning revelation of Melissas own haunting past that could do far worse than destroy her credibility. Caught in a deadly conflict between the ironies of the law and the demands of his Christian convictions, Millsaps finds himself protecting Melissa from a psychopathic stalkers lethal game of cat-and-mouse . . . even as evidence collects that could send to prison not an inhuman criminal, but the woman Millsaps has come to love. Justifiable Means is the second book in the Sun Coast Chronicles by award-winning author Terri Blackstock. From absorbing legal drama to lightning-paced action, the Sun Coast Chronicles offers suspense at its finest, tempered with remarkable realism and penetrating insights into the human heart. Look for Evidence of Mercy, Presumption of Guilt, and Ulterior Motives at your favorite bookstore.

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Flickering pixels are the tiny dots of light that make up the screens of life--from TVs to cell phones. They are nearly invisible, but they change us.

In this provocative book, author Shane Hipps takes readers beneath the surface of things to see how the technologies we use end up using us.

Not all is dire, however, as Hipps shows us that hidden things have far less power to shape us when they aren't hidden anymore. We are only puppets of our technology if we remain asleep.

Flickering Pixels will wake us up--and nothing will look the same again.

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The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context.

To bring the ancient messages of the Bible into today's world, each passage is treated in three sections:
Original Meaning. Concise exegesis to help readers understand the original meaning of the biblical text in its historical, literary, and cultural context.Bridging Contexts. A bridge between the world of the Bible and the world of today, built by discerning what is timeless in the timely pages of the Bible.Contemporary Significance. This section identifies comparable situations to those faced in the Bible and explores relevant application of the biblical messages. The author alerts the readers of problems they may encounter when seeking to apply the passage and helps them think through the issues involved.
This unique, award-winning commentary is the ideal resource for today's preachers, teachers, and serious students of the Bible, giving them the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.

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John H. Walton, Gerald H. Wilson, Paul Koptak, Iain Provan

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The reality show ended with an engagement, so why doesnt this feel like the fairy tale she thought it would be?

The Rejection Connection hardly sounds like the place to fall in love, but Wynne Hardy walked off the reality-TV set with an engagement ring. And in the whirlwind of publicity and preparation that follows a TV-bride-to-be in her fifteen minutes of fame, Wynne barely has time to consider how she really feels about her new fiance . . . to say nothing of how she still feels about her ex.

As the wedding plans develop, so too do Wynnes doubts: Is she in love with Andy? Or is this really about Callumthe ex-boyfriend who sent her onto Rejection Connection in the first place? A nationally televised snub might be the best revenge . . . but is it a good reason to get married?

When Callum resurfaces at the worst possible moment, Wynne cant help wondering if shes made a huge mistake. Is her marriage a publicity stunt? And what happens when the cameras stop rolling, and she has a husband she barely knows?