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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.

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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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The Freedom in Forgiveness

If you’re like many people, you may want to be free of past offenses, but you still carry bitter memories of or hard feelings toward those who have wronged you.

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Why Marriage Matters for Adults

Is marriage an old-fashioned, outmoded institution? Is it merely a piece of paper, having no real impact on our lives?

A photo of a man looking apologetically at a woman, whose back is turned. He is longing for forgiveness.

What Does Forgiveness and Restoration Mean?

So what does forgiveness mean? The first step to understanding forgiveness is learning what it is and isn’t.

A joyful couple embracing outdoors, symbolizing God’s plan for marriage based on love, companionship, and commitment.

God’s Design for Marriage

Find the key to making your marriage flourish — just as God designed.

A young couple sit close together in the sun, gazing into each other's eyes.

What Is Intimacy?

What is intimacy? What is the definition of intimacy? Sometimes people will do just about anything to get close to someone they find interesting, intriguing, or just plain irresistible. Is that being intimate? “Our souls crave intimacy.” — Erwin Raphael McManus The Pull of Intimacy Sometimes singles will do just about anything to get close …

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Should Civil Marriage Matter to Christians?

civil marriage (noun) a marriage performed, solemnized, recorded, and recognized by a government official as a civil contract.

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ADHD and Marriage: How to Handle Common Conflict Patterns

When ADHD and marriage go together, you can face repeating conflict patterns. But you can lessen those patterns and strengthen your marriage.

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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.