Best-selling author and ministry leader Lysa TerKeurst recently announced that she’s remarried just over two years after she filed for divorce from her husband, Art TerKeurst, after 29 years of marriage. The 54-year-old leader of Proverbs 31 Ministries and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, including It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way, announced her marriage in a social media post.
She captioned a series of photos from her wedding, “I want to invite you in to share a new chapter in my life. In January of 2023, I met Chaz. And as the pages kept turning last year, we knew what we’d found in each other was love. A beautiful love that requires work like love always does. But a togetherness that is safe, honest, fun, funny and surrendered to the sacred way God tells us to love and care for each other.”
TerKeurst continued, “We got engaged last fall, which I decided to hold private so I could tell as many people as possible face to face. I got to tell many of you when we saw each other at stores and airports and coffee shops and dinners and FaceTimes. Those were sweet conversations I treasure. And then last week, surrounded by our family and some beautiful mountains, Chaz and I exchanged our vows. As soon as we were announced husband and wife, some fun music started playing. I invited our kids and grandkids to join in as we all danced in the gently falling snow.”
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TerKeurst filed for divorce from Art in December of 2021, publicly announcing the decision in January 2022. She shared that her husband of almost 30 years had engaged in “chosen patterns of behavior that dishonor God and the biblical covenant of marriage.” The couple share five adult children. In 2017, TerKeurst revealed she would be pursuing a divorce from her husband due to his infidelity and struggles with addiction. At the time, she wrote he had “been repeatedly unfaithful to me with a woman he met online” and was abusing substances. However, the couple renewed their vows just over a year later after working to restore their marriage.
She later explained she pursued divorce for a second time after her husband “broke” those renewed vows. A court filing later revealed that Art had spent over $118,000 of the couple’s money on an affair with a woman he met on SugarDaddy.com. TerKeurst wrote at the time, “Over the past several years, I have fought really hard to not just save my marriage, but to survive the devastation of what consistent deception of one spouse does to the other.”
She continued, “It’s brutal and heart-crushing to constantly fear the hurtful choices of someone you love. I’ve had to learn the hard way there’s a big difference between mistakes (which we all make) and chosen patterns of behavior that dishonor God and the biblical covenant of marriage.” In her latest post, TerKeurst emphasized the importance of holding both good and hard times with grace and perspective. She highlighted the significance of viewing life as a continuous story rather than isolated events, maintaining hope in the face of adversity, and trusting in God’s faithfulness.