Troy and Sara Groves once said divorce was not an option. But they didn’t anticipate the struggles they’d face with weaknesses, expectations, and bitterness.
The gospel liberates us from the mindset that sex is intrinsic to human fulfillment.
If you're willing to wade into the deep waters, God will help you put the pieces of your broken relationship back together. You can survive—and even thrive.
Instead of focusing on treating the symptoms, identify the underlying "disease" in your marriage with these six suggestions.
Five issues that warrant outside intervention.
Trusting my husband was not an option, but I wondered if I could trust God.
It was one of the biggest conflicts of our marriage. And as I sat there full of anger and self-righteousness, I knew that I hadn't handled it correctly.
In a weary and wavering land, your home can be a place of love, encouragement, and comfort.
You have strengths your husband doesn’t have. It takes a bit of wisdom and skill to help in a harmonious, nonthreatening way.
We need to be grandparents who focus on what matters, on what lasts.
In the minds of most teenagers, there is no universal standard for sexual morality of absolutes beyond a person’s own view as to what makes sexual activity right or wrong.
Even when we see no visible evidence, we can trust that God is at work.
As a grandparent, do you realize you are second only to the parents in your potential to impact your grandchildren spiritually?
At the Atlanta Mission, men are learning from the Stepping Up video series that the first step to transformation is a willingness to change.
In a culture of counterfeits and mistruths, marriage needs to be re-branded as an awesome, noble, and challenging adventure.
A husband and wife often begin drifting apart so slowly that they hardly recognize it's happening.
Your love for your child should define your relationship—just as God’s love defines His relationship with us as His children.
Many couples travel to the “foreign country” of stepfamily living with little or no preparation.
He wasn’t looking for love… but love found him.
It’s easy to fool ourselves about how our words can hurt others.
Training preschoolers can be overwhelming, but starting small will build a strong foundation for more lessons to come.
It's easy to allow unrealistic or harmful expectations about sex to run rampant through my mind. When that happens I need to stop and ask a few questions.
We’ve all done it: We’ve all unjustly taken our anger against one person out on another. The question is, what do we do about it?
We asked our readers to tell us about the fathers in their lives.
As much as we hate it, our children lose control, make poor choices, and deal with shame, grief, and remorse. That’s when they need you the most.
Editor’s note, May 2015: In a recent FamilyLife contest, participants were asked, “What marriage do you most admire, and why?” Here’s a selection of their responses. For more, read “The […]
Many of the concepts communicated in Stepping Up resonate immediately with the prisoners in our group.
The same faith that led Alvin York to be a pacifist also led him to become the most decorated soldier in World War I and a post-war philanthropist.
Your wife's need to be heard is her way of letting you be the caretaker and confidant her mother and friends used to be.
Here are some practical things you can do to guard your children.