TIL 545: In-Law Relationships (feat. Ryan Trzeciak)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
1. How should we think of in-law relationships and what does the Bible have to say?
2. What are some examples of in-law relationships in the Bible?
3. What conflict can arise from in-law relationships?
4. How do we rightly order God's design and mitigate in-law conflict?
5. How do we see the importance of leaving and cleaving in the Bible?
6. What would you say to a young couple struggling to navigate in-law relationships?
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| 0:00.0 | In-law Relationships on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:15.2 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:19.5 | This week on the podcast I have with me, Ryan Treziak. |
| 0:22.4 | He serves as the pastor of counseling and discipleship at First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, |
| 0:27.4 | and as the director of First Counseling, the biblical counseling ministry of First Baptist Church |
| 0:32.5 | in Jacksonville. |
| 0:33.6 | He's also an adjunct professor in the online biblical counseling program at the Master's University, and he's an ACBC certified counselor with a specialization in marriage counseling. |
| 0:43.1 | He and his wife, Jen, have been married for over 24 years, and they have five children. |
| 0:46.4 | Their oldest son just got married a few weeks ago, and Ryan loves serving First Baptist because of the church's devotion to Christ, its commitment to discipleship, and its passion to obey the two greatest commandments to love God and to love others. Ryan, I'm looking forward to this. I ask you before we got started, is this going to get you in trouble with your in-laws? So this will be interesting as we're listening in. These are some of the unspoken things that we all sort of feel, think, and know, but we're |
| 1:12.3 | a little nervous to talk about. So we're going to be describing this concept of our in-law |
| 1:17.4 | relationships. Marriage really does come with extra family, genuinely. So talk a little bit about |
| 1:23.2 | this concept of in-law relationships and what we might can learn from both experience and the |
| 1:28.6 | scriptures. |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.0 | This is one of the things that I'm actually very thankful to the Lord in terms of my in-law |
| 1:35.7 | relationships on both sides, both with my parents and my wife and Jen's parents and me. |
| 1:41.5 | We've been very blessed with having good relationships with them. My mom actually |
| 1:46.0 | was one who went over and above to try and make sure that she wasn't the typical mother-in-law story. |
| 1:52.8 | So very thankful. And now moving into the other direction where we are now the parents-in-law, |
| 1:57.9 | my son just got married about four or five weeks ago. So it's a new |
| 2:01.5 | territory for us as well in that regard. And so we're very thankful to what the Lord has blessed us with. |
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