Money is such a contentious issue. In the world at large, but specifically within the Christian community.

The love of money is the root of all evil...but does that mean making money is wrong?

Do I really need to tithe 10%?

Is budgeting a lack of trust in God?

There's a million questions that end up becoming quite theological, and it can be tough to find God's peace in the whole conversation.

That's why we brought on Bob Lotich, from Seed Time, to give us an overview from his experience and perspective as a Christian financial expert, on how families can think about money from a Christian perspective and not get totally overwhelmed in the process.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:23 How does a Christian family approach finances differently?

3:37 Avoiding the financial and spiritual ditches

9:39 God-first finances

19:01 Income and Expenses Imbalance

24:31 The biblical tension with wealth

31:04 Real Money Math Budgeting

Resources Mentioned:

Seed Time Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@seedtimepodcast/

Website: https://seedtime.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seedtime/

Simple Money, Rich Life by Bob Lotich: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593193652/

Rocket Money app: https://www.rocketmoney.com/

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

Humans are meant to live in a large, rooted, multigenerational family.

The modern world has destroyed that.

Here are the 3 things I think have most led to the destruction, and 3 solutions I think can help you escape from the trap of the nuclear family. Thank God, we've been able to build a strong, multigenerational family over the past 30 years, and these are not just hypotheses, but things that actually work for us and the families we mentor.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:16 Why is Family So Broken?

1:43 The Largest Variable That Destroyed The Multigenerational Family?

5:32 The Second Big Factor (Revolution)

6:38 The Third Variable

9:34 Solution 1: Homeland

11:22 Solution 2: Assets

13:52 Solution 3: Government

Resources Mentioned:

5 Days To Transform Your Family Into A Team: https://familyteams.com/transform

Take Back Your Family by Jefferson Bethke: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400221765/

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

Our name is Family Teams.

Everything we do revolves around that idea.

But sometimes, it's important to dive into what that PRACTICALLY looks like on a day to day basis as a busy family.

That's why we've invited Brent and Katie Kruithof onto the podcast to talk about build a family team.

They're our expert coaches inside the Family Teams Accelerator (link below...join us!), and they break down a little bit of what they're going to be teaching us on the inside this month, from basic team-building exercises that you can start TONIGHT, to navigating things like sports and intentionality as a family.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:59 Why Team Matters

3:24 Chants and Language That Works

6:31 Bonfires and Hot Tubs

9:54 Projects as a Family

13:27 Sports as a Family?

Resources Mentioned:

Free PDF: Turn Your Family Into A TEAM: https://familyteams.com/teamwork

Family Teams Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

Rob Kenney is best known as the man behind the viral Youtube account, "Dad, How Do I?"

He shares videos explaining things that dads ought to have taught their kids...

How to tie a tie, how to change a tire, how to make good food, etc.

And he hit a nerve when he burst onto the scene in 2020, tapping into the father-hunger unconsciously felt by many young people today.

But there's more to him than just fixing stuff.

He's a Christian, and he wants to share his faith.

In this conversation, we go into how he intentionally stepped into the identity of FATHER, and the backlash he endured from sharing his faith on his Youtube channel, and what it means for Christians today.

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FREE 5 Day Course To Transform Your Family Into A Team: https://familyteams.com/transform

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On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:53 Dad, How Do I? story

3:05 Sharing Faith and How People Interact With Christianity Today

14:53 The Moral Argument for God

23:42 Hard Fatherhood and Fragility

29:58 The Identity of FATHER

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Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Dad, How Do I?: https://www.youtube.com/@DadhowdoI/

Dad's Faith Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dadsfaithchannel

Dad, How Do I? Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063074990

IG: https://www.instagram.com/dadhowdoi/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/dadhowdoi/

TT: https://tiktok.com/@therealdadhowdoi

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

David Nasser narrowly escaped Iran in 1979 after the revolution.

He saw "religion gone wrong" and decided that he hated God.

You'll have to listen to what happened next, but it's one of the most glorious testimonies we've heard in a long time.

David knows only too well that this is a critical moment for the underground church in Iran.

We discuss his story, what's happening in Iran with the church, how we can help, and the biggest lessons on family that he took from the Middle East (compared to our western obsession with hyper-individualism).

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:15 Escaping Iran

5:14 The Gospel for Shiite Muslims

9:29 The Iranian Church

18:16 Family In The Middle East

28:07 How to Understand The Idea of Honor

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Resources Mentioned:

Revival Iran: https://revivaliran.com/

Website: https://davidnasser.com/

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

FREE 5 Day Email Series to Turn Your Family Into a Team: https://familyteams.com/transform/

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Is it better to get a PhD, or have a child?

I found this wild interaction on the "child-free" subreddit, and had to comment on it from our pro-family point of view here at Family Teams.

There's a huge lie in the undercurrent of our society that has convinced so many young women to become hyper-individualistic and focused on self at the expense of children and family, and it's so tragic.

This is a good way to showcase that lie and remind everyone to start celebrating kids and family.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

2:28 Surprising reaction

3:06 The value of a child

4:00 PhD vs Children

6:48 This was missing in feminism

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

There's a ton of talk lately about whether large or small families are better for kids, with most people saying small families are "obviously" better.

This comes on the heels of influencer Ballerina Farm sharing that she's pregnant with her 9th, after which she received pretty hard push back from some people on X.

In this episode, I'll walk you through why you're probably thinking about large families wrong, and explain the family teams way of thinking about this where the larger the family, the larger the blessing.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:15 Blindspots

4:26 Peers vs parents

7:08 Can you expect older children to "parent" younger siblings?

11:02 Living like a family TEAM

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Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

FREE 5 Day Email Series to Turn Your Family Into a Team: https://familyteams.com/transform/

Rebecca Reid X: https://x.com/RebeccaCNReid/status/2028157735892631620

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

One of the things we talk a lot about here at Family Teams is the idea of ASSETS over CAREERS.

In other words, we've found it extremely beneficial in building family teams to find ways to build assets together - especially businesses.

While it's not right for everyone, we think it's right for way more people than are currently doing it!

Jeremy and Kristin Netting join us today to talk about how they've started building family assets, and it goes WAY beyond just "start a business".

We're talking things like how to actually work with your family as a team, how to start training your kids young so they want to be involved, the power of local community and land, and how to navigate the cultural tension of "limiting" your kids' choices.

Absolute must-listen if you're ready to break free from building another man's family assets and start building your own.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

4:37 Rethinking assets and careers as a family team

14:06 Doing things together to get used to building as a team

21:06 Building legacy assets

25:56 Land and local community

29:38 Have a big family!

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Resources Mentioned:

Free PDF on Building Family Assets: https://familyteams.com/assets/

Join The Family Teams Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator/

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

This episode is all about tips on how to train your kids in every stage of their development, from when they're really little, until they become teens and young adults.

The idea is the same - train them up in the way they should go - but the methods are very different depending on age.

Get ahead of the curve with this episode, and set yourself and your kids up for success from 0 to 18.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:38 What's at stake

2:16 Training Little Kids

14:43 Training Tweens

22:23 Training Teens and Young Adults

30:25 More Training Resources

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Resources Mentioned:

Free Child Training Resource PDF: https://familyteams.com/train

Family Teams Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator

King Richard Movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9620288/

Black and White: The Way I See It by Richard Williams and Bart Davis: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1476704201

Whiplash Movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582802/

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

Listening to this episode and then taking some action could be the biggest peace-giving thing you've done in years.

Training your children well is often the difference between "we're done having kids" and "every child we add is a joy and blessing".

Grant and Kelly Stine completely changed the culture of their home in a very short amount of time by going all-in on training their children. They're our community coaches in the Accelerator this month, and give us some incredible, practical tools and stories in this episode.

👉 Join The Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

2:33 Discipline vs. Training

8:37 Early Wins In Child Training

14:04 The First Thing We Successfully Trained

17:52 If You Think It Sounds Like Too Much Work...

23:43 Train Transitions

29:25 Guardrails For Peace and Freedom

31:03 Train Values

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Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

👉 Join The Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator

12 Tips for Training Your Kids: https://familyteams.com/train

Family Revision by Jeremy Pryor: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578526123/

The Skill of Fatherhood: https://familyteams.com/resources/skilloffatherhood/

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

The Bible tells parents to train their children, so you know we take that seriously here at Family Teams.

But did you know there's a different between training your children and disciplining them?

Discipline is part of the training process, but it's certainly not the whole thing.

Learn the systems we use to train our kids to do everything from:

- Cleaning up around the house before dinner,

- Listen immediately and cheerfully

- Quietly put themselves to bed

- Cook meals

- Clean up after meals

...and much, much more!

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:03 System vs philosophy

3:37 3 reasons why you need a framework

5:46 What should your training system look like?

14:02 How to get your kids to clean the house every day

16:49 Organic vs. systems thinking

Resources Mentioned:

Get our free "tips to train your child" PDF: https://familyteams.com/train

Join the Accelerator to go deeper on this: https://familyteams.com/accelerator

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!