The Family Teams Podcast

The modern culture offers no wisdom when it comes to running a family.

In fact, it's designed to burden and disrupt God's good design for family.

In this episode, Jeremy sits down with Justin Kershaw, who's modelled much of his family life around the Family Teams principles. They discuss the 3 major levers Justin has pulled to successfully lead his family in relationships, faith, and business:

- Implementing a weekly Sabbath

- Integrating kids into the business

- Seeing birth order as an intentional gift from God

Justin Kershaw is a husband, father of 5 daughters, and entrepreneur. Make sure to check out the company he runs with his family, Sow Strong Food! (link below)

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:00 Justin's mission, vision, and 5 daughters

7:31 Implementing a weekly Sabbath rhythm

15:10 Integrating your kids into your business

25:44 The importance of birth order (especially in larger families)

37:28 The branding of Sow Strong Foods and building up mothers

Follow Family Teams:

Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams

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

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Family Inc

Sow Strong Food

Justin Kershaw on IG

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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!

Did Protestants miss something when it comes to contraception?

What about hanging our faith on a set of very defined propositions (as opposed to actions and deep inner change)?

This episode with Jeremy Pryor and Phil Cotnoir challenges a couple of oft ignored areas of growth in the Protestant church, by hearing from a couple of influential non-Christians and reacting to some fairly accurate critiques being level against the church.

We can learn about family and faith from those on the borders of Christianity or Christian ideas...but we should also be able to frame the debate properly and not be overly influenced by liberal social experiments just because the culture seems to agree with them.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

2:27 Naval Ravikant on contraception and family

5:58 Reaction to Naval's 3 points

19:18 How should Protestants approach the conversation of kids for young married couples?

22:22 Personal preference vs. theological question

24:40 Jordan Peterson's problem with Protestantism

32:39 Should Jordan Peterson risk being categorized as a Christian?

Follow Family Teams:

Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams

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

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Scott Adams and Naval Ravikant Interview

Family Revision by Jeremy Pryor

God, Marriage, and Family by Andreas J. Köstenberger

Jordan Peterson and Russell Brand Interview

The Family Plan Calendar

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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!

Jeremy is joined today by Jonathan Holmes to talk about why identity is such a hot topic today, and what it means for us as Christian parents of kids facing enormous cultural pressure.

How do we give our kids a gospel-centric identity in Christ? Do we need to spend more time and effort building a family identity to combat peer-pressured identity formation? How can the church start to take back ground on gender, identity, and the Christian sexual ethic?

These topics are hard to talk about, because so many people want to focus solely on the exceptions to the rule, and forgo talking about the general teaching, so it was a blessing to wrestle deeply with these issues with Jonathan.

This conversation needs to be happening way more often, especially for those of us with children being impacted by an outside world heavily influenced by the enemy.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:38 Why is "identity" such an important topic today?

4:32 Identity in the gospel

10:06 Peers vs family in the identity-formation process

14:17 Practical tips to ground your children in a Christ-centered identity

19:30 Can family identity cure a lack of identity culturally?

30:07 Competing ideas about gender, and how the Church should respond

35:47 Family vs individual consequences of "gender identity"

41:57 The narrow sexual ethic of the Bible

Follow Family Teams:

Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams

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

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Fieldstone Counseling

Grounded in Grace by Jonathan Holmes

Family Plan Calendar

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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!

Jeremy is joined by his wife April, and friends Michelle Akrami and Brittany Stewart to discuss the story of Rebekah, Isaac's wife, in Genesis.

How does this story of a mother and her two sons impact our view of motherhood? Did God work through her trying to do things "her way", or did God work in spite of her attempt to ensure her favorite son was blessed?

Whatever the implications, we hope this episode gives you pause to think through what the meta narrative is telling us, and allows you to approach Scripture in a thoughtful and curious way to really let it sink in.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:54 First Pryor granddaughter!

2:30 Rebekah as a mother in Genesis

11:55 Moms react to Rebekah

19:39 Did Rebekah help or attempt to hinder God's plan?

40:38 What can moms take away from Rebekah?

Follow Family Teams:

Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams

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

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Family Revision by Jeremy Pryor

The Family Plan Calendar

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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!

In a culture that constantly attacks manhood and faith, how do we help our boys as they transition into manhood?

How does a father maintain influence in his son's life amidst the chaos of social media, friends, and sports?

Today Jeremy is joined by Stephen Meeks, author of Save The Boys. Stephen helps fathers take their sons through an initiatory rite of passage so that they become men in the best sense of the word.

This process is powerful enough to eliminate the "rebellious teenage years" in a family, because it fosters such connection and responsibility.

Learn what we face as dads in the modern age, plus the CORE process Stephen helps dads lead their boys through, and get equipped to raise your boys into men.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:38 What is Save The Boys?

2:42 Leading Boys Into Their Teens

7:25 Why Are There Certain Age-Related Inflection Points in Our Relationships With Our Kids?

11:40 Showing Your Kids You're On Their Team

14:52 The Boy Crisis

20:15 What Fathers Need To Raise Their Boys

31:25 How To Create Your Own Man About

Follow Family Teams:

Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams

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

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Father Media Group

Save The Boys by Stephen Meeks

Family Inc

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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!

Jeremy is joined by Jason Weening, husband, father of 10, homesteader, and author.

Learn the wisdom that's discovered by necessity when you've got a big family that can help you navigate your own family...whether big or small!

Jason talks about how to manage a family with 10 kids spanning 18 years, how to get your kids to sacrifice for the family without traumatizing them or creating resentment, how he navigates the creative process and successfully published a book, and why we need to get our kids into the game.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:48 Writing a kids book that includes family and mentorship themes

4:01 The inspiration for Jason to focus so much on family and building a large one

7:25 Building a family on mission for the Kingdom

9:34 How to manage a family with 10 kids across 18 years

12:42 Living situations with a big family (and why Jason picked homesteading)

16:30 How to get kids to sacrifice for your family without harming them

22:00 Creative process and output as a dad of 10

28:54 Living a life with mistakes and opting out of a culture of curated perfection

Follow Family Teams:

Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams

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

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Danger in the Jungle by Jason Weening

Above Rubies

Family Revision

Family Plan Calendar

heydads.ca

wehelpmen.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!

It's strange to us that so many conservative Christians hold up the "nuclear family" as an ideal. The nuclear family has failed, and needs to be replaced.

Now, before you think we've gone crazy, let's talk about what it needs to be replaced by...

The TRADITIONAL (or, in Family Teams-speak, the "MULTI-GENERATIONAL") Family.

There's a huge difference.

Jeremy is joined by Tyler Graham and Chris Cirullo to talk about what that difference is, and how to get back to a Biblical blueprint of family that builds up and blesses, rather than tears down and destroys.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:15 Should we really be defending the "Nuclear Family"?

4:37 "The nuclear family has failed" article

11:25 The paradigm shift from modern to traditional family

22:12 Does the nuclear family actually work?

27:31 The traditional family was a business enterprise

31:17 Multiple generations in DAILY contact

33:11 Traditional family as part of a broader congregation

43:09 Do you believe family is a vehicle?

51:04 Take courage and be hopeful!

Follow Family Teams:

Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams

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

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

3mphfatherhood.com

missionfit.co

The nuclear family has failed - Article

Take Back Your Family by Jeff Bethke

Family Revision by Jeremy Pryor

Mere Christianity by CS Lewis

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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!

In this episode of the Family Teams Podcast (Motherhood Edition!), Jeremy and April are joined by Annalisa Barraza and Miranda Foust to discuss the countercultural idea of women actually enjoying motherhood. Then, the group reacts to a short clip from The Spillover podcast and discuss whether we should be sending our kids to preschool.

We hope you notice that, yes, our ideas are often counterintuitive, but it's because something is desperately wrong with the way our culture is doing family. Our goal is to have honest and challenging conversations so that you as a listener can consider things from a new, and hopefully Biblical and multigenerational light. It's not always easy to have these conversations, but it's so worth it if we're going to raise up families that glorify God.

On this episode, we talk about:

00:00 Intro

01:43 Celebrating Kyra's Birthday

03:56 Annalisa's Unexpected Response on Motherhood

06:54 The Struggle Against The Flesh as a Mother

14:26 Maintaining A Joyous Perspective in Motherhood When Things Are Hard

18:12 Encouraging Other Mothers

25:21 The Lifelong Joy of Motherhood

28:45 Should We Be Sending Our Kids To Preschool?

31:02 Debating the Role of Preschool

42:11 Bonus Clip: The Lies of Feminism

Follow Family Teams:

Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams

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

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Family Plan Calendar

Libby

You Are Because He Is by Annalisa Barraza

"How To Raise A Securely Attached Child." With Attachment Specialist Adam Lane Smith | The Spillover

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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!

Jeremy and April Pryor wade into the sensitive topic of what happens in marriages when a wife earns more money than a husband, and eventually becomes the "alpha". This conversation is a reaction to a recent video by Patrick Bet-David.

Is it guaranteed to cause problems? What are the effects on family in a world where this is becoming increasingly common?

This deeply impacts how we raise our daughters and how we work together as family teams, so at risk of offending everybody, we're diving in to explore relationship dynamics and what this means for modern families.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:43 Should couples workout together? 

2:24 Do alpha women destroy marriages?

5:35 We are running multiple societal experiments...what is the impact on the family?

10:18 Is being a workplace leader and a wife incompatible?

20:18 Niceness and agreeability

29:25 Why it's so hard on marriages when women try to "beat" men

33:28 Do women "lose attraction" to husbands who earn less than them?

40:37 When government reforms fix unimportant problems and do more damage to the family

44:33 Raising daughters to want to be moms, and equipping them for motherhood

Follow Family Teams:

Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams

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

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Patrick Bet David Video

Family Inc

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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!

Jeremy and Curt Storring react to Steve Irwin's multi-generational mission, then Jeremy finds the phrase he's been searching for to describe who a great father is today (especially compared to the "fun dad" as shown on Bluey and other modern media).

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:39 Steve Irwin's Multigenerational Family Vision

6:41 Do we all need massive, narrow, world-changing visions?

8:37 Families (not institutions) should be multi-generational vehicles to fulfill missions

10:32 Levels to fatherly visions

16:25 Can a super narrow family vision subtly create disunity in a family team?

20:11 Leading with your mood

24:06 The difference between the modern, Western dad and the Biblical patriarch

31:47 Where are you giving up your agency?

Follow Family Teams:

Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams

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

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Robert Irwin Video

Modern Wisdom Video

Family Inc

Family Revision by Jeremy Pryor

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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!