Instead: Biola at Home Chapels: April 5-11

Chris Grace

Christopher Grace serves full time as the director of Biola University’s Center for Marriage and Relationships and teaches psychology at Rosemead School of Psychology. Chris is a dynamic speaker whose ministry has inspired thousands of people to discover God’s design for relationships and experience the joys of marriage. His approach of integrating biblical principles with scholarly insights from theology, psychology and spiritual formation is designed to equip people with knowledge and skills that will help them build and sustain healthy marriages and relationships. 

Chris earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in experimental social psychology from Colorado State University. He previously served as the vice president for Student Development and University Planning, and the chair of the undergraduate psychology department at Biola University, and continues to serve as a WASC reviewer for colleges and universities in the region.

Alisa Grace

Alisa Grace is the co-director of Biola's Center for Marriage and Relationships. She loves mentoring younger women and newly married couples, speaking at retreats, and providing pre-marital counseling. The Grace’s speak regularly to married couples, singles and college students on the topic of marital relationships, dating and love. With professional training as well as practical experience from nurturing their own marriage, they present foundational and practical insights on how to enhance marital intimacy. Whether doing pre-marital counseling, or discussing marital concepts with couples, their desire is to help others discover God’s design for relationships, and to provide answers to the “mysteries” of relationships and marriage. 

Tim Muehlhoff

Tim Muehlhoff (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is a professor of communication studies at Biola University in La Mirada, California where he teaches classes in family communication, interpersonal communication and gender. Dr. Muehlhoff's main interests lie in the study of interpersonal communication as applied to marital relationships, family dynamics, civil dialogue, social justice, and apologetics. He has authored several books on those topics including his newest, Winsome Persuasion - Christian Influence in a Post-Christian World, which received the 2018 Merit Award in Evangelism and Apolgetics from Christianity Today. 

He and his wife, Noreen, have three sons and are frequent speakers at FamilyLife Marriage Conferences.