Do most men need fatherhood to become the man God wants for them to be?

The conversation around becoming a father is getting framed these days as a "lifestyle choice".

But...

That's ridiculous.

Fatherhood is one of the hardest things you can do, which means it fits in perfectly with how God reveals meaning to us.

You have to go through the Cross to get to the Resurrection.

So why are so many men choosing to forego the incredible, meaningful, and yes, difficult journey of fatherhood?

There are a few people who are connecting a couple of dots here in the secular culture, including Chris Williamson of Modern Wisdom, so in this episode, we react to a few viral takes on fatherhood, and connect ALL the dots to understand God's design for family.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Do Men Need Fatherhood?

1:23 Chris Williamson on Family

11:14 How The Message About Family Got So Distorted

12:46 Richard Reeves: Why Fatherhood Is So Important For Men

18:45 The Cost If We Keep Going Down This Path

26:06 Wealth as Relationships

Resources Mentioned:

Modern Wisdom Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVe38uG4CKU&t=86s

Richard Reeves Clip: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYVjR73J1Rb/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Andrew Bagley Clip: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DVHB3raCday/

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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!

You're busy. You have young kids. You feel like you're barely keeping your head above water most days.

How in the world are you supposed to fulfill the Great Commission as a family?

This is the question that keeps so many Christian families stuck in survival mode, never stepping into the missional calling God has for them.

Mark and Michelle Tiderman have cracked the code on this. With 4 kids ranging from 10 to 18, they've built a family culture where mission isn't an add-on, it's integrated into everything they do.

And the best part? Their approach is so practical and accessible that ANY family can start implementing it today.

In this episode, Mark and Michelle share how they've coached youth sports, served their neighbors, hosted open dinners, and built deep gospel conversations with people in their community, all while raising their kids to see mission as a normal part of life.

You'll learn why your kids are actually an ASSET to your mission (not a liability), how to transition from serving people to sharing the gospel with them, and why focusing on faithfulness over impact changes everything.

If you've been wondering what your family team is actually supposed to DO, this episode will give you the clarity and practical steps you need.

On this episode, we talk about:

00:00:00 Intro

00:00:50 What Is A Family Team Supposed To Do?

00:05:52 How God Chooses Your Trajectory...Through Your Kids

00:09:50 From Service To Sharing The Gospel

00:14:44 Does Mission Detract From Family?

00:16:37 Partnering

00:18:47 Faithfulness Over Impact

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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!

What is most missing in Christian parenting today, as we barrel headlong into the rapidly changing unknown of a broken culture?

Courage.

That's the hypothesis of Isaac and Angie Tolpin, who have spent decades making courageous choices raising their 9 children and walking out God's calling on their life.

Guys this was such an inspirational episode. The Tolpin's ministry, Be Courageous, is so well aligned with Family Teams, and their message is so needed at this particular moment in time.

You will love this episode, packed full of diagnosing why family and culture are here and what to do about it, but also very practical and balanced biblical parenting, marriage, business, and life wisdom that you can put into practice today.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:22 Refugees From PNW Family Culture

3:27 You vs. The Generations

7:43 The Provision Tension With Lots of Kids

13:31 Being A Wife and Mother of a Courageous Husband

18:01 How Dads Can Integrate Their Family In Their Work

27:15 Protecting Kids From Technological Creep

35:01 The AI + Parenting Challenge

41:01 The Key To Courage

Resources Mentioned:

Courageous Parenting by Isaac and Angie Tolpin: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H378533C/

Be Courageous Ministry: https://www.becourageousministry.org/

Be Courageous App: https://www.becourageousministry.org/app

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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!

My 17 year old daughter Kaira just spoke at the national speech tournament in Minneapolis, where her speech was 10th in the nation.

I thought she absolutely nailed the idea of family as a team, and the main tool she's seen our family use to truly create this as a reality in our multi-generational family.

If you've ever wondered what our kids truly think about this stuff - if it actually lands with them and impacts them - I think this shows just how much they're picking up.

Plus, it's a succinct and amazingly delivered argument for our number 1 tool that we recommend to all family teams.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:33 The US Has Become Number 1 (Uh Oh)

2:11 The 3 Words That Broke Western Family

3:21 How To Fix The Family

5:40 Practical Wins

7:45 Practical Tips To Start This Today

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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!

Should we as Christian parents really aim to be kicking our kids out of our home as soon as they turn 18?

This is an EXTREMELY cultural - not Biblical - idea, yet I meet SO many Christians who believe the lie.

Instead of taking the 3 obvious milestones the Bible talks about when it comes to maturing children and our roles as mothers and fathers, we just swallow the cultural lie, hook, line, and sinker, and then wonder what went wrong.

In this episode, we break down the actual lie, where it came from, and then give you the TRUTH of scripture to wield against a culture that wants to destroy families...in this case, especially by taking kids out of the home as quickly as possible and leaving no space for a multigenerational family to form.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:49 Does This Actually Shift at 18?

19:39 Myron Golden on 18

23:30 The 3 Biblical Milestones

30:20 Milestone 1

39:30 Milestone 2

48:10 Milestone 3

53:08 Where To Find The Answer

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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!

99% of the Evangelical Christian world gets this wrong, and it's absolutely destroying our families.

We've fallen into the trap of thinking of the family in secular terms, instead of looking at the Bible and asking what God's vision was for the family, since HE created it.

In this episode I break down 3 of the main critiques against the modern family, and go into the 3 promises of building your family like a TEAM instead of a group of individuals.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 99% Get This Wrong

0:50 The 3 Critiques of the Modern Family

3:49 What Are We Aiming At?

5:29 How Did God Design Family?

12:03 3-Fold Promise of the Family

Resources Mentioned:

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

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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 family compound...

This is such a hot button topic, and often a very emotional topic.

So, we decided to look at 2 competing visions (Willie Robertson vs. Dave Ramsey) and break them down with a nuanced conversation.

Jeremy and Jeff have experienced this first-hand, so they're talking about this from lived experience and hard-earned wisdom.

Should you actually try to build a family compound?

Why or why not?

What questions should you answer first?

How do you know if it'll be a good idea?

Listen to this and see how close the tear-jerking dream is to reality for your family.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Why Family Compounds Are Amazing

4:01 Why Family Compounds Are Terrible

11:47 It Doesn't Just Happen

14:56 The Grandmother Dream

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Andrew Bagley of the Visible Hand says children didn't get expensive...they got unnecessary.

And his argument is right on.

This sounds insulting at first, but watch the clip and you'll understand.

The problem is, he breaks down the problem brilliantly...but doesn't give a solution.

Not only that, but you'll hear it screamed from the rooftops: "children really ARE too expensive!"

So what are you supposed to do about it?

Risk the regret of not having kids? Only have 1 child?

We don't think so.

We want to equip you to live out the Biblical vision for family, which usually includes having kids early and often.

How?

One key shift in how you see family.

Listen until the end to hear our solution, but make sure you truly understand the REAL problem first, without just accepting clickbait headlines about kids costing $300,000 or whatever.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 $300,000 Kids?

4:42 Is More Choice Always Better?

10:10 Not A Single-Player Game

13:01 Family vs. Lifestyle Optimization

16:26 Why God Actually Created Family

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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!

Siblings who don't get along is one of the major reasons why families don't have more kids.

It drives everyone nuts, disrupts the family, makes you feel overwhelmed, and eventually leads adults who SHOULD be best friends to be essentially strangers.

That's why one of the main components of building a family team is creating strong sibling bonds between each one of your kids.

Today's guests have 5 children and have been very intentional about creating systems and rhythms in their family that grow the relationship between each sibling.

Learn their 3 techniques for building strong sibling bonds that lead to a more peaceful home and lifelong closeness between your kids.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:06 Getting Sibling Relationships Right

5:23 Create A Space To Call Out Sibling Wins

8:59 Share Experiences

11:00 Shared Space

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Resources Mentioned:

FREE Sibling Conflict Resolution Script: https://familyteams.com/sibling

Join The Family Team Accelerator: http://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!

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Should marriage start with the assumption that it's essentially a business?

That's a shocking thing to hear for our modern, western ears.

But Adam Lane Smith is right.

Family is supposed to be a productive enterprise.

It's only recently that we've taken all productivity out of the home and become such hyper-individualized atomic units, separated from each other.

In this episode, I argue for God's original design for marriage, and give you 3 dynamics that substantially increase the likelihood you'll stay married in an amazing, godly union.

[This is Part 3 of our Family Team Foundations Series.]

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:09 Marriage as a business?

7:51 I was confused about marriage

9:58 Lasting Marriage Tip 1

14:42 Lasting Marriage Tip 2

21:23 Lasting Marriage Tip 3

Resources Mentioned:

FREE 🎁 - The Family Freedom Blueprint: https://familyteams.com/blueprint

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLesbNPO7c8

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms8RFjkBrsM

Adam Lane Smith on Lila Rose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9qV1P_z-OY

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There IS a way to deal with sibling rivalry and bickering.

And some of the experts like Dr. Becky get a LITTLE bit of the puzzle right...

But they're missing something HUGE.

It goes way, way deeper than "parenting tactics", but it's not new.

In fact, it's how most people, for most of history, lived and thrived in large, happy, productive families.

I'll share the solution to sibling rivalry today, including simple tools you can start using in the next 15 minutes to bring peace to your family.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:11 Dr. Becky Advice

4:01 The ROOT of the Problem

5:22 From Rivals to Allies

8:40 The SOLUTION to Sibling Rivalry

11:11 Simple Tools To Fix This

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Resources Mentioned:

Family Kickball Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v0vWa3pqCs

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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!