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Tim Challies Tells Christians to Stay in Bad Marriages. That Is Dangerous Counsel. Summary: A critique of the January 2026 article To Those Who Married Poorly, including a comparison of Tim Challies’s advice with Jesus’ response to harm and bondage in Scripture. I...
Thousands of Pleas for Help Every week, thousands of people reach out to Focus on the Family, many “experiencing painful and often destructive situations… even incidents of spousal and child abuse,” according to their non-profit disclosures. What Abuse Victims Are...
Why Dr. David Instone-Brewer believes Jesus condemned invalid divorce—not every remarriage Dr. David Instone-Brewer believes that remarriage after a valid divorce is permitted. Note: DRB = book Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible DRC = book Divorce and Remarriage in...
New Stepparent? Build Relationship First, Discipline Second If you are a new stepparent, it is very easy to feel pressure to “step up” and act like a full parent right away. But Dr. Patricia Papernow, in Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships, gives very...
Jesus Gave a Command Against Breaking a Marriage through Marriage-Endangering Sin Not a Statement of Impossibility of Divorce When Jesus said, "let no man separate" he was not saying a marriage can never end in divorce. In Matthew 19:6, the Greek is μὴ χωριζέτω—“let...
The Pushback: “If She’s Depressed, Her Perception Is Altered” When it comes to physical and emotional abuse in Christian contexts, one of the most common pushbacks I see on social media is this: “Abuse is subjective. If she’s depressed, her perception is altered....
Here’s Why That Misery Message Persists—Even When the Data Says Otherwise I often hear church leaders and Christian organizations repeat a familiar warning: Divorced people are miserable. They’re unhappy. They “take their problems with them.” That message doesn’t just...
Checklist: How to Tell if an Abusive or Deceptive Partner Has Really Changed Note: Don't give this list to the abuser or cheater. See why at the end. People often assume that an apology, counseling, religious confession, or tearful repentance means an abusive partner...
When Divorce Is Called “Violence” but Abuse Is Not Dr. Valerie Hobbs, a linguist and senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield in the U.K., has spent years studying how churches talk about divorce. Not theology in theory—but actual sermons preached to real...