All Articles for Hardship and Suffering

"Am I being abused?" Psychologist Dr. David Clarke helps identify red flags in a friend's relationship or your own and what to do when you see those signs.

When the abuse starts, enough is enough. Psychologist Dr. David Clarke helps you form a plan to get out so you can assess your marriage for the long term.

Ron and Jody Zappia's marriage almost unraveled after the first year, but they gave their lives to Christ and their marriage another chance. The Zappias share seven principles that bring couples closer together.

Ron and Jody Zappia might have looked like a couple that had it all together, but their marriage was falling apart. The Zappias talk about the day the Lord gave their marriage a fresh start.

Ron and Jody Zappia thought that marriage would be easy. However, jealousy over Jody's corporate success led Ron to look outside of his marriage for fulfillment. The Zappias share how God intervened.

Growing apart in your marriage can feel alienating, frightening. FamilyLife President David Robbins & his wife Meg offer proactive ideas to stay close.

Courtney Reissig talks about the emotional aftermath of her high-risk labor and delivery story. She shares about the faithfulness of God and how she walked the difficult road of recovery.

Hayley DiMarco and Philip Holmes share their journeys of becoming debt-free. Brad Formsma shares some of the joy that is found in giving to others once you're free from debt.

Paul David Tripp and Dennis Rainey help pastors reflect and make sure ministry has not become more important than God or their families.

Lou Priolo, Bill and Vicki Rose, and Tommy and Teresa Nelson tell about the people in their lives who were difficult to love, and how God helped them extend love anyway.

Is your heart hurting? Dave and Ann Wilson explain how God's presence and purpose are often greatest in our darkest valleys.

In the middle of life's storms, it can be difficult to find our way. Dave and Ann Wilson discuss the struggle between trusting what we see versus trusting what God says.

In the game of "Life" you never know what you'll roll, nor where you'll end up. So describes the lives of Scott and Sherry Jennings, Kim De Blecourt, Robertson McQuilkin, and Chuck Colson as they share their stories.

It's easy to want to run away from things that we face in our grief, but Levi and Jennie Lusko contend that, with God's help, walking into what seems so scary can produce the greatest healing.

In the midst of Christmas preparations for church and wrapping presents, Levi and Jennie Lusko tragically lost their five-year-old daughter. They share how God graciously lit their path to healing.

Listening to God's voice as a married couple, Levi and Jennie Lusko left what felt like an easy life to begin a new adventure. Listen as they tell of their ups and downs and the blessing they found in following the Lord together!

How can we have hope when it seems like things can't possibly get any worse? Vaneetha Risner talks about her painful diagnosis, her husband's rejection, and how God faithfully saw her and her family through it all.

The death of someone close to us is one of the hardest things we will ever face. Vaneetha Risner tells the story of how God met her after the tragic loss of her son and the healing his life still brings to others.

Vaneetha Risner tells her story of how God has a purpose for her pain. Hear how she developed polio at 3 months of age and faced overwhelming adversity in her life.

Is your love tank empty? Listen as Bob Lepine and hosts Dave and Ann Wilson share hope of how to get truly filled up again. Join us on FamilyLife Today.

Are you wondering how to keep going in your marriage? On FamilyLife Today, Bob Lepine and hosts Dave and Ann Wilson share about how God can take the ashes of real life and make them beautiful.

Do you catch yourself being rude, irritable, or resentful with your spouse? Bob Lepine, along with hosts Dave and Ann Wilson, share about share about how to make a fresh start, on FamilyLife Today.

Laura Story talks about life with her husband Martin, who suffers from a memory deficit due to a brain tumor. Although challenging, Story sees his disability as God's means of grace.

Laura Story talks about the song, "Indescribable," that launched her career and tells how she's found joy in her circumstances.

We share "storm stories" of other believers, and how they walked through their own storms with hope in Christ alone.

The year 2020 has been a year of forced togetherness--or forced isolation--paired with additional stress. Greg Smalley gives suggestions for ways to manage stress in marriage and grow together, rather than apart.

Dale Kreienkamp talks about the realities of being unemployed. His wife, Deb, shares what she felt as she watched her husband struggle and tells what she did to support him in this uncertain season.

Dale Kreienkamp talks about the variety of emotions a person feels after being laid off. He reminds those who are unemployed that it's going to be okay, but it will be hard, with emotional highs and lows. Ultimately, you'll see God's hand of provision in your life.

When infertility closed the door, Heather DeJesus Yates still trusted God with her dreams. Through a little plant, she realized that she could still live a fruitful life investing in the next generation.

Heather DeJesus Yates talks openly about the steps she and her husband took to start a family of their own. Yates encourages believers to keep their hands open to what God may have for them.

Heather DeJesus Yates talks about her longing to have children and the despair she experienced struggling with infertility. Yates reminds us that Jesus offers us empathy for our pain.

Matthew Arbo wants couples who struggle with infertility to know God is with them. He encourages couples to seek out a counselor or pastor to help process their grief and loss.

Matthew Arbo tackles the tough topic of infertility. Arbo offers words of comfort to those who long for a child.

Jeff and Sarah Walton have learned to make God's Word central to their daily lives. Together they share how God is using their trials to build up and comfort others in the body of Christ.

By the time Sarah Walton was diagnosed with Lyme disease, she and her husband, Jeff's emotional, mental, and physical reserves were at their breaking point. They tell how the Bible became their lifeline.

Not many couples want to pattern their marriage after the book of Job. But Jeff and Sarah Walton, hit time and again with heart-crushing circumstances, began to find great comfort and wisdom in those pages.

Joe and Cindi Ferrini talk candidly about walking through life with their 38-year-old son Joey, who has special needs.

Joe and Cindi Ferrini recall the birth of their son, Joey. First diagnosed with cerebral palsy, they were later devastated to learn Joey was also mentally impaired. The Ferrinis share how they emotionally processed Joey's disabilities.

Bill and Pamela Ronzheimer talk about the journey they took to find healing for their marriage as they dealt with Pamela's past sexual abuse. They share why they'd never go back to the marriage they had before.

Pamela Ronzheimer, joined by her husband Bill, didn't realize she had scar tissue on her soul from past sexual abuse until she started sharing her pain with Bill and others. Pamela tells how their once happy marriage became hell on earth.

Bill and Pamela Ronzheimer tell how their marriage has been affected by Pamela's past sexual abuse. Find out what pushed Pamela to finally reveal her past abuse to Bill.

After dating only five months, and finding out they were expecting, Tim and Kathy Bush got married. They tell how they went from being self-focused to experiencing a Christ-focused marriage.

FamilyLife CEO Chris Herndon and his wife, Mary, remember God's goodness as they reflect on Mary's diagnosis of a brain tumor in 2017. Almost a year later, their son, Charlie, was diagnosed with MRSA, a type of staph infection that is untreatable by many types of antibiotics. Hear the story of God's faithfulness to this family.

When a pandemic strikes, what should Christians do? Perhaps just as importantly, what should we not do. On this special edition of FamilyLife Today, we'll hear from FamilyLife President David Robbins, along with Dave and Ann Wilson and Bob Lepine, as we discuss a Christian response to COVID-19.

Jeremy Camp talks about one of the most pivotal events of his life-the death of his wife, Melissa. Burdened with grief, Jeremy shares how he struggled with God and even his own faith.

Jeremy Camp recalls when he met Melissa, the pretty girl in his Bible study, their on again/off again courtship, and the cancer that had them praying with fervor and grasping for the hand of God.

Christian recording artist Jeremy Camp talks about his early years in the Camp household and his parents' radical conversion to Christianity.