Relationships

When it comes to love and relationships, many people go through life with a distorted view. But what if there was a better way? What if our perspective is out of focus? Over the next six weeks, we’re going to see what the Word of God says about love and relationships and how it was truly meant to be seen. Through this study, we’ll uncover the secrets to healthy relationships. 


The Secret: How Do You See Love?

Life is busy and the demands of your day feel never-ending. In this 7-day plan, you'll hear daily encouragement to keep you moving forward, together. Read them as a stepfamily together or separately, but create a space for everyone to share their thoughts.

Daily Encouragement for the Smart Stepfamily

If there ever was a time for men to show up and rewrite the narrative of what it means to be a man of integrity, a good husband and a better father, that time is now. The fad of the absentee Dad is outdated, and we as men have to step up to the plate and be the fathers, husbands and leaders God has called us to be. 

Maximized Manhood

Once the shock of an affair subsides and life begins to stabilize, there’s room to think more clearly about the future of your relationship. Recovery can be a slow journey. It’s about forgiveness and gaining a new perspective about your marriage. And, some days, it will simply come down to the willingness and determination to keep moving forward. With the Lord’s guidance, however, there is hope for recovery.

Infidelity: Road To Recovery, Where To Start

Promises! Who doesn't want certainty? We CAN depend on God! It has been said there are around 1600 promises in the Old and New Testaments. The following verses can help you draw near to the Lord and rest. God's word has promises you want in your heart regarding dating, anger, hope, money, trust, suffering, and even sex. Stop relying on empty promises people make. Lean on God's promises.

God's Promises For The Hungry Heart, Eleven

Being a husband is a great responsibility and a high calling. It can be extremely rewarding if you prioritize your wife above other things. Whether you’re a husband, a soon-to-be husband or a future husband, this is a great study to challenge you to prioritize your wife according to scripture.


UNCOMMEN Marriage, How To Prioritize Your Wife

Marriage is hard. Sometimes it feels like the best way is out, and we feel the relationship cannot survive another day. But the truth is, there is a better, more excellent way. In this 5-day plan, Pete examines the challenges all married couples face and shares how Jesus wants to breathe life and love into your marriage—even when it seems broken beyond repair.

Don't Walk Away From Your Marriage By Pete Briscoe

Prayer doesn’t require a magical formula, but the Bible offers us established patterns in Scripture for how to approach the throne of God and talk with Him about our needs. In this insightful reading plan, Bruce Wilkinson and Heather Hair share unique insights into how you can better pray for your husband.

3 Ways To Pray For Your Husband

Whether or not you've completed our Daily Encouragement for the Smart Stepfamily devotional, here are 7 more daily pieces of encouragement to continue growing your blended family relationships. Read them as a stepfamily together or separately, but create a space for everyone to share their thoughts and feelings.

More Daily Encouragement for the Smart StepFamily

There are so many challenges that come at times of deployment or separation for military couples. In this series, Mike and Lisa Urrutia share openly and honestly about their experiences during Mike’s three deployments, and share practical advice in this plan by Dr. Kim Kimberling. Mike and Lisa have been married 10 years and met in a small group at their church.  

The Military And Your Marriage

Marriage

Waiting for love doesn’t mean waiting to grow. In this 5-day plan, discover how to pray with purpose and faith as you prepare your heart — and your future marriage — for God’s perfect timing. Learn to intercede for your future husband, deepen your relationship with God, and turn your waiting season into one of hope, healing, and preparation.

Dear Future Husband: Trusting God With Your Love Story

Jesus calls us to shine His light and influence others for His Kingdom. Some friends draw you closer to your purpose; others slowly lead you off course. The people you walk with shape your faith. Are your friendships helping you grow—or pulling you back? 

In this 7-day plan, discover how to reflect Christ, resist compromise, and be a light that leads others closer to Him.



Are Your Friendships Fueling Your Faith?

Everyone dreams of a love that lasts but lasting relationships don’t just happen. They are built with the right foundation, effort, and grace. This 3-day plan will help you understand the biblical principles and personal growth needed to build strong, godly relationships that lead to lasting love and healthy marriages. You’ll discover how to invite God into your relationships, communicate effectively, and grow in love that mirrors Christ’s. Whether single, dating, or married, this plan will help you build not just a connection, but a covenant that stands the test of time.

Building Love That Lasts

'KEEPING GODLY RELATIONSHIPS' is a 4-day devotional reading plan designed to help you build and maintain relationships rooted in God’s Word. Through each day’s reflection, you’ll discover essential biblical values for nurturing love, trust, and understanding in all types of relationships—whether in marriage, friendship, or business. This plan will guide you toward practicing godly principles that strengthen your connections, foster harmony, and reflect Christ’s character in every interaction.

Keeping Godly Relationships

Loss can leave you questioning your future, your faith, and your place in God’s plan. Using the story of Ruth, this 5-day plan walks Christian singles through seasons of grief, disappointment, and emotional loss with honesty and hope. Rather than rushing healing, this plan invites you to process pain in God’s presence and discover how redemption unfolds slowly, faithfully, and intentionally. You’ll learn how God rewrites stories that feel broken, restores what was lost, and brings purpose out of pain. If you’re carrying unresolved grief or mourning unmet expectations, this plan will help you heal and trust God again.

When God Rewrites Your Story

Many relationship struggles do not begin in marriage; they begin long before, in unhealed emotional wounds. This 3-day plan is for singles, engaged couples, and anyone preparing for healthy relationships. You will learn how emotional wounds form, how they affect relationships, and how God brings healing. This plan will help you recognise hidden pain, pursue restoration, and step into relationships with wholeness, wisdom, and hope.

Healing Before Marriage 

This 7-day plan introduces the next step in understanding the five love languages: learning to speak the unique “dialect” that matters most to the person in front of you. Through Scripture and practical reflection, you’ll discover why good intentions sometimes fall flat and how empathy brings every love language to life. These daily insights will help you love more clearly, more personally, and more like Jesus.

The Love Language That Matters Most

This 3-day devotional invites you to rediscover biblical love from a practical, motivating, and deeply spiritual perspective. Through well-known passages about love, you will find inspiration to heal, grow, and love more authentically—beginning with the love God has for you.

Love That Transforms

Few areas of life bring as much joy or confusion as dating. This plan helps you navigate relationships with wisdom, boundaries, and God-centered guidance. Each day, explore Scripture, reflect on your heart, and gain practical tools to discern readiness, communicate with love, and build relationships that honor God. Perfect for singles, mentors, or anyone seeking to understand God’s design for love.

Guard Your Heart: A Biblical Guide to Dating

Singleness is truly a gift—a season not to waste, but to lean into with intention and faith. This is a time to lock in with God, grow in wisdom, and discover who you are without distraction. It’s not just powerful; it’s purposeful. And I don’t believe it’s an accident that you’re here. Something in you is craving a fresh perspective, a new way to view this season of your life. God has something new, something life-giving, waiting for you. This is your moment to lean in, trust Him deeply, and embrace the journey ahead with confidence and expectancy.

Single, Secure, & Thriving

Dating

This reading plan is based upon Cindy Beall's book, Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken. Learn how to find hope and healing for your wounded marriage as you navigate the waters of betrayal. Cindy, and her husband, Chris, have walked out their healing by trusting in God's mighty power and encourage you to join them on this healing journey.

Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken

During divorce and other extremely difficult times, there comes a moment when you will wonder if you will ever make it. Over the next 7 days, you will be able to connect with God through prayers, advice, and action plans. Learn to not just survive, but survive and thrive.

Divorce To Healing: Survive And Thrive

The heartbreak, the lost love, the grief and the shame that comes with unwanted divorce doesn’t have to stay forever. You don’t need to go through this alone. In this study, we’ll learn how we can lean heavily on God’s strength despite life’s most troubling events.

UNCOMMEN: Surviving Divorce

What you know is what gets you through. If you don’t know the right things when the rouge winds and tsunamis of life come, you’re going to fall over.  But if our lives are built on the rock solid, bedrock truth of the Bible, we know some unchanging truths.

How To Get Through What You're Going Through

This 15 day reading plan offers biblical insight for personal growth and wholeness from doctors Henry Cloud and John Townsend—bestselling authors of How People Grow and the Boundaries series. The devotions are perfect for those entering new phases of life or dealing with difficult relationships. Readings provide help in translating God’s Word into a plan for staying spiritually healthy.

Henry Cloud & John Townsend - Life Journey

You and your spouse are unique. There has never been another US just like the two of you. No matter where you currently find your US, you can experience more moments of awesome and fewer moments of awful. And it’s easier than you think. Through humor, transparency, biblical wisdom, research, and practicality, Ted Lowe guides you through four, doable, easy-to-understand habits that will help you become... Your Best US . 

Your Best Us: Marriage Is Easier Than You Think

This study will look at how the power of the Holy Spirit can help people through intense marriage trials. It will look at the healing and restorative power of God and how that applies to marriage relationships.


Pursuing Love While Considering Divorce

Toni Nieuwhof is a former divorce lawyer and pastor’s wife who wants to help couples find joy in each other again, even after the lowest lows. She asks, do you wonder if you’re done with your marriage? If you’re seeking one more chance, hoping against all hope that your relationship can be turned around, these devotionals are for you. 

Before You Split

Blending a Family 40-day Devotional written by Moe and Paige Becnel at Blending a Family Ministry is a resource for remarried families. The Becnel’s married in 1989 with 5 children, and were quickly overwhelmed with many issues exclusive to blended families. The plan discusses the cause of the issues many families face, and provides solutions found in God’s Word that fuel family growth. God is for you!

Blending a Family 40 Day Devotional

Divorce

Through the latest scientific research and poignant, personal stories, a father / daughter team help parents and their teenage girls navigate the traps and temptations of the teen dating years.

The 10 Myths Of Teen Dating

It seems like relationships are everywhere you look. Whether you’re in one, waiting for one, or happily single, we can all work on the common denominator in our relationships—ourselves. In this 5-day Plan, we’ll look at what it means to be dateable—and you may be surprised.

Dateable

This reading plan includes seven daily devotions based on Louie Giglio’s curriculum Relat(able): Making Relationships Work. This study will explore what makes us relatable to others, how God can bring peace in the midst of conflict, and how we can help restore relationships that seem broken beyond repair.

Relat(able): Making Relationships Work

Have you ever ditched a friend for a guy? Found yourself jealous because that other girl gets all the dates? Maybe it's time to get lost- in God. Discover how to get so lost in God that a guy has to seek Him to find you. Dannah Gresh traces God's language of love through Scripture to help you seek love the way God designed it to be. 

Get Lost: Love Feast

Shaunti Feldhahn studied thousands of men and women to learn the most important things that matter to an abundant, happy marriage. It turns out, her research findings match what the Bible has said all along. This reading plan highlights those key Biblical secrets that we often miss — and which, once we apply them, usually make an immediate, wonderful difference.

See more of her research, books, or speaking at shaunti.com.