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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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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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!

This episode explores the reasons why the Protestant church is directly contributing to the destruction of the multi-generational household.

I'll dive into 3 specific issues that I see, and then give steps I think we can take as a church to solve them, so that we stop teaching an unbiblical view of family, which has far reaching consequences.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:07 The church is teaching the wrong idea of family

3:01 3 Ways the church promotes unbiblical family

3:40 Problem 1

8:17 Problem 2

10:20 Problem 3

16:03 How to recover the multigenerational family

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Previous video in the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLesbNPO7c8

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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!

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!