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.