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photo of Dr. Greg Smalley pushing his wife Erin on the swings. They have a love that has and will last a lifetime.

Lifetime Love: Advice from Couples Who Made Marriage Last

We’d be wise to listen to those who have been married for a long time. They have important information for us. These five lessons can help us build a strong foundation for a life-long marriage.

A young couple in a kitchen talking to their in-laws. Controlling in-laws trying to run your life is a difficult challenge.

What If In-Laws Try to Run Our Lives?

Relating to controlling in-laws is one of the trickiest problems a marriage can face. If you believe your in-laws are trying to run your life, the following principles might help.

Managing Conflict with your in-laws is very important. Here we see a harmonious family with two in-laws, a young couple and their two kids.

Managing Conflict With In-Laws

You don’t just marry your spouse … you marry their family. And that can be difficult. Learn how to set healthy boundaries and love your in-laws.

A younger couple sits with an older couple on couches in a living room.

How Your Relationship with Your In-Laws Impacts Your Marriage

Do you get along with your in-laws?

A married couple receives a warm welcome from their in-laws. Building in-law relationships is important.

In-Law Relationships

Letting in-laws split, manipulate, or control you by silently acceding to their nutty, neurotic, inappropriate demands isn’t necessarily showing Christian love.

A couple sits with a marriage counselor to learn the keys to a successful second marriage.

How We Built a Successful Second Marriage

Statistics doom second marriages like Jerry and Kelly’s. Seeking premarital guidance from a Christian counseling ministry was the logical choice to proactively protect their marriage.

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4 Animals Personality Test

You can take the 4 animals personality test in a few minutes. The goal is to give you a picture of your and your spouse’s unique, God-given strengths.

A couple with three kids from a blended stepfamily after remarriage navigate crossing a creek by stepping over rocks.

Is Remarriage Right for You and Your Future Stepfamily?

Understanding the challenges of stepfamily living can help you make an informed decision about remarriage.

A reconciled couple consider remarriage.

Dr. Bill Maier on Remarriage

Dr. Bill Maier addresses the issues of remarriage and blended families.

God's intention for marriage is never divorce. Photo of an older married couple in a loving embrace.

Divorce Was Never God’s Intention

Only one man and one woman existed in the beginning. For that very obvious reason, divorce and remarriage were not options in the divine plan for man.

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Avoiding Threats to Your Relationship

There are a lot of problems that can cripple or fatally wound a marriage, whether it’s just starting or yet to come.

Remarriage doesn't wipe away memories and old habits. When such habits arise take time to discuss them, like this couple sitting on this couch.

Remarriage Doesn’t Wipe Away Memories and Old Habits

Remarriage may start a clean relationship slate, but it doesn’t wipe away memories and old habits. Your best response to your spouse’s remarriage mistakes may be uncommonly simple.

A man and a woman celebrate the joys of being remarried.

Dealing With the Past When You’re Remarried

Gil and Brenda Stuart brought memories, habits and history into their new marriage. They learned the importance of acknowledging the associated emotions and being able to talk about them.

Married couple speaking gently to each other

Recovering From an Affair

Whether you or your spouse recently confessed extramarital affair, we want to help you recover from the affair amid this overwhelming pain.

A happy couple embraces in a field at sunset. Building trust in marriage is imperative to a successful relationship.

Building Trust in Marriage

Trust in marriage stands or falls on the quality of its foundation.

A man and a woman sit together holding hands, seeking to overcome the restoration hurdles in marriage many couples face.

Restoration: Four Hurdles in Marriage You Must Face

In order to successfully navigate the road to reconciliation, couples must overcome four essential restoration hurdles in marriage. Understanding these critical issues will help you work through the healing process.

A young married couple celebrates their wedding. Studies show the best age to marry is between the lower to mid 20s.

What Is The Best Age To Get Married?

There is not a great wealth of research on the best age to marry, but there is some good data that can be helpful.

A young couple looking to resolve a conflict in their marriage. The man tries to explain as the wife covers her face in frustration.

How to Resolve Conflict in Marriage

How do you resolve conflict in marriage? Consider these eight strategies based on God’s design for effective conflict resolution.

A man seeks forgiveness and restoration of his relationship with his wife, as they sit next to each other. The man comforts his wife as she looks sad and weeps.

Dr. Bill Maier on Forgiveness and Restoration

In This Series: 1. Forgiveness and Restoration 2. The Freedom in Forgiveness 3. Restoration: Four Hurdles You Must Face 4. Building Trust 5. Understanding Forgiveness 6. Reconcilable Differences: A Real-Life Fairy Tale 7. Dr. Bill Maier on Forgiveness and Restoration Dr. Bill Maier answers some questions on the topics of forgiveness and restoration.What if I …

A man and a woman sit next to each other on a couch, with the man looking away off in the distance while the woman lowers her head and wipes away tears.

Should I Stay Or Go?: When Marriage Vows Are Betrayed

If you’re struggling with the difficult choice of whether to stay in a less than perfect marriage, the answer you seek feels heartbreakingly complicated. Because it is.

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To Step into Your Calling, You Must First See Clearly.

Truth Rising exposes the cultural crisis we face and the bold faith it takes to confront it. Watch the film, then go deeper with a study on Hope, Truth, Identity, and Calling. You were created for this moment.

Choose to see. Choose to believe. Choose to act.