The Battle for Control:

Restoring God’s Design for Peace in Marriage
by Bruce A. Louis

Peace in marriage is not found in winning the argument. It is found when both hearts surrender to God’s design.

In The Battle for Control: Restoring God’s Design for Peace in Marriage, Bruce A. Louis addresses one of the most painful and often hidden struggles in Christian marriage: the battle for control. Many couples are not simply fighting over communication, finances, intimacy, parenting, or household responsibilities. Beneath those conflicts, there is often a deeper spiritual and emotional struggle over fear, trust, wounds, leadership, submission, safety, and surrender.

With pastoral wisdom, biblical depth, and counseling insight, this book helps husbands and wives examine the patterns that keep them divided and guides them toward healing, humility, and restored unity under Christ.

In this book, readers will discover:

• Why control struggles form in marriage and how they damage trust

• How unresolved wounds influence conflict, defensiveness, and emotional distance

• What Scripture teaches about headship, submission, love, honor, and oneness

• How husbands and wives can begin rebuilding peace through humility and surrender

• Why lasting marital healing requires more than behavior change

Whether your marriage is in crisis, quietly disconnected, or simply in need of deeper spiritual alignment, The Battle for Control offers a Christ-centered path toward restoration. It calls couples away from blame and toward honest repentance, renewed trust, and covenant love.

When both hearts stop fighting for control and begin surrendering to Christ, the home can become a place of peace again.