Many couples think that their blended family will flow and function like a biological family, only with different people involved.
The admonishment of Ephesians 4 to put off the old and put on the new applies in unique ways to blended families. Pastor Tim Lundy concludes his message on Ephesians 4.
Ron Deal answers some of your most perplexing questions about being a stepfather.
Ron Deal gives insight into the stepdad's role in the family. Hear him tell stepdads positive ways to impact their new families and how to avoid causing division.
Ron Deal, director of FamilyLife Blended, talks to men about the realities of being a stepdad and encourages men to step out in faith, relying on God's wisdom, if they're ready to take the risk.
Barbara Rainey and Tracy Lane encourage families to read more this summer. Ron Deal shares strategies for dealing with the unique challenges a stepfamily faces.
When one of the two partners feels like an outsider, it doesn't just affect the family dynamics.
Lamar and Ronnie Tyler were fed up with pervasive negative images of black marriages in the media. So, the Tylers started their website, which promotes positive images of marriage and family in the black community.
For stepfamilies, family meetings can build much needed family traditions, create memories, and establish a working family identity.
Stepparenting has its challenges. That's what Jerry and Kate Angelo found out when they married and became a blended family of six.
Jerry and Kate Angelo reflect on the issues that thwarted their first marriages, and remember with gratitude the circumstances that brought them back to God and to each other.
Many couples travel to the “foreign country” of stepfamily living with little or no preparation.
Professor and youth minister Kara Powell shares some proven ideas for churches and parents that will help kids develop their own faith.
Youth expert Kara Powell talks about three phrases parents can implement that are especially helpful in building "sticky faith" in their kids.
The terms used to define and describe the blended family experience vary from person to person.
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.
I’m convinced that God uses the stepfamily experience to teach His children about choosing love.
When is it time for stepfamilies and stepparents to graduate to the next stage of life? When is it time for them to stop viewing their relationships as new?
Everyone agreed that stepparents should be acknowledged, but doing so was often awkward for the entire family.
Being a stepmom is hard. Stepmoms Laura Petherbridge, Gayle Grace and Heather Hetchler offer their very best advice for becoming the best stepmom you can be.
What's the biggest mistake couples make when trying to blend a family? Stepmoms Laura Petherbridge, Heather Hetchler and Gayla Grace, share their perspective on this question and more.
Stepmothers Laura Petherbridge, Heather Hetchler and Gayla Grace talk about the challenges they've faced blending a family and becoming effective stepmothers.
Bill and Evelyn Thompson join Ron Deal to talk about their surprising courtship and remarriage, as well as the adjustments blending families has required of them.
Bill and Evelyn Thompson talk about their first phone call and the launch of their budding romance.
Bill and Evelyn Thompson join us to share more about their losses, and their second chance at love
Is your marriage in a "death spiral"? That's how Moe and Paige Becnel describe the first four years of their blended-family marriage. Joining the Becnels is blended family expert, Ron Deal.
The normal stress of the holidays is multiplied for stepfamilies.
What should you consider before getting remarried?
Parenting is difficult enough when it's your own kids, but throw someone else's into the mix and you may have problems.
We vowed to love our spouse forever, but the marriage ended in divorce.
Marriage and family therapist Ron Deal will tell you how to blend a stepfamily so that it comes out just right!
Blending two families in remarriage can be a daunting task.
Terri Clark looks back and recalls the special challenges of blending two households.
Stepmom Terri Clark tells stepparents how to build their home on a foundation of faith.
