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Stacy Reaoch

Stacy Reaoch is the co-author of Making Room for Her: Biblical Wisdom for a Healthier Relationship with Your Mother-In-Law or Daughter-In-Law. She also writes regularly at her website. She and her husband, Ben, live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with their four children.

God Chose Your Mother-in-Law: Five Reasons for Wives to Lean In

God Chose Your Mother-in-Law

Five Reasons for Wives to Lean In

A wife’s relationship with her mother-in-law can be especially thorny and wearying, but God has given women big reasons to lean in and love well.

To Hurting Wives in Ministry: How God Works Through Heartache

To Hurting Wives in Ministry

How God Works Through Heartache

The wives of pastors often suffer in ways few recognize. So, how do we press on in ministry when we want to walk away?

When God Withholds Sleep: How to Handle Restless Nights

When God Withholds Sleep

How to Handle Restless Nights

God made us to sleep. But when rest evades us for one reason or another, he will use even our sleeplessness to draw us nearer to him.

Let Not Food Destroy the Body: Laying Aside the Weight of Preferences

Let Not Food Destroy the Body

Laying Aside the Weight of Preferences

God has given food an unusual power to bring people together — and to drive them apart. Beware of letting your preferences rob you of love.

Exercise for More of God: Five Reasons to Train Your Body

Exercise for More of God

Five Reasons to Train Your Body

Exercise to steward your body. Exercise to serve others. Exercise to think clearly. Exercise to evangelize. Exercise to delight yourself in God.

When Our Children Are Wounded: Six Reminders for Mothers

When Our Children Are Wounded

Six Reminders for Mothers

When our children are wounded, we often want to pity our kids, criticize the wrongdoer, or harbor bitterness. Here are six better ways forward.

Raising a Family Far from Home

Raising a Family Far from Home

If God has taken you far from family for his name’s sake, he plans to give you the family you need through your local church.

Restore the Sweetness to Your Marriage

Restore the Sweetness to Your Marriage

Sweetness in marriage doesn’t just happen. It takes intentionality, discipline, and patience. Here are five practical ways to pursue it together.

Invite Someone to Sunday Lunch

Invite Someone to Sunday Lunch

The dinner table has a way of breaking down barriers between people. As we sip our coffee and eat our pie, we share about life and faith in Christ.

God Loves Ministry No One Else Sees

God Loves Ministry No One Else Sees

God rejoices in sea creatures and rare flowers that no one but him will ever see. He delights even more in children who serve him gladly in unseen ways.

Give Your Teenager to God

Give Your Teenager to God

Our children’s growing independence should not lead us to fear, but to trust. Even when our kids step out of our reach, they never step out of God’s.

Mothering in a World of Better Moms

Mothering in a World of Better Moms

Our righteousness and rest do not come from providing our children with the most nutritious meals or the best education. They come from Christ.

Should I Be Friends with My Ex?

Should I Be Friends with My Ex?

The best place to go after a breakup is not Netflix or cookie dough, but the word of God.

Get Outside Yourself in Suffering

Get Outside Yourself in Suffering

Suffering tempts us to throw pity parties as we navel gaze. But Jesus calls us to love others in our hurt.

Ready to Commit, Slow to Compare

Ready to Commit, Slow to Compare

A Recipe for Real Community

Church communities look different for every group of believers. But what never changes is our desperate need for one another.

How Much Do You Love Chocolate?

How Much Do You Love Chocolate?

God filled the world with good things. Satan would love to use them to keep you from joy in Jesus. Don’t rob God’s gift of their real joy in him.

Say ‘Thank You’ to Someone Today

Say ‘Thank You’ to Someone Today

If gratefulness rises up in our hearts, but never spills out of our mouths, we are only experiencing the beginnings of real joy.

Happily Ever After

Happily Ever After

Finding Grace in the Messes of Marriage

These short devotionals by John Piper, Francis Chan, and others are designed to shape, challenge, and inspire your own vision of marriage and God.

Depressed and Thankful: Six Ways to Find Joy

Depressed and Thankful

Six Ways to Find Joy

We cannot manipulate our hearts to escape depression. We put our hope in God’s help — and one of the strongest weapons he gives is gratitude.

Rescued from the Sea of Self

Rescued from the Sea of Self

Are you lost in a sea of self-absorption, or are you pushing against the grain to see how God is at work in others’ lives around you?

God Fills Our Lives with Trials

God Fills Our Lives with Trials

The test of faith is not whether we experience trials, but how we respond to them.

Singleness Is Not a Problem to Be Solved

Singleness Is Not a Problem to Be Solved

If you want to make the most of singleness, even while you long to be married, here are a few practical points I learned in my own season of waiting.

The Light at the End of the Spiral

The Light at the End of the Spiral

Many Christians simply join the chorus of conservative America, moaning about the disintegration of our society. Christians have a greater hope, and a higher calling.

Submission Is a Mark of Maturity

Submission Is a Mark of Maturity

How we respond to difficult decisions made by the leadership over us is a test of Christian maturity.

In Defense of Date Night

In Defense of Date Night

Your dates don’t have to look like the Joneses, but don’t go to the other extreme and forget about them altogether.

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