In biological families, when a husband and wife move toward each other, they bring their children with them.
Stepmoms bear a unique burden, and they often neglect their own care. Melanie Anthony offers hope for balance in the midst of the burden.
Ronnie Tyler may have been in love with her husband, Lamar, but she wasn’t that interested in his help with raising her two children. Ron Deal explores the complex nuances of blended relationships.
Gil and Brenda Stuart share how they experienced the pains and joys of remarriage.
Blending family Christmas traditions is very challenging. Bob and Vicki Maday’s respective daughters describe the uncomfortable but inevitable tension that exists in a new blended family’s Christmas traditions.
Bob and Vicki Maday each had adult children when they got married. Bob and Vicki’s adult daughters share the complicated emotions they had to wade through when their parents married and created a new blended family.
Robbie and Sabrina McDonald join Ron Deal and talk about the good and bad surprises they experienced as they were establishing their blended family.
Sabrina and Robbie McDonald married quickly but didn’t take into account the grief her young son was still experiencing since his father’s death. Ron Deal explains how children grieve.
It was difficult for Sabrina to keep the promise to her late husband, to remarry after his death. But today she is Sabrina McDonald. Her new husband, Robbie, joins her to tell their story.
Pastor Dave Wilson recalls one of his Sunday sermons when he publicly apologized to the broken and blended families in his congregation for the church’s weak attempts to reach out to them.
Blended families take up a fair share of the pew space in our local churches today. Dennis Rainey shares a message to illustrate how all of us, as Christians, are a part of God’s blended family.
Tim and Darcy Kimmel talk about sticky situations that make grandparenting sometimes difficult.
Stepmom Terri Clark tells stepparents how to build their home on a foundation of faith.
