Ever feel like your family is just surviving - keeping up with school, meals, and schedules - but missing a bigger sense of purpose?

In this episode, April and Jeremy get real about what it looks like to move from "just doing family" to becoming a family on mission.

They share the seasons when mission felt impossible, the small ways they started anyway, and the surprising fruit that followed.

You'll hear stories of how their own family mission has shifted over the years and why it forged deeper bonds instead of pulling them apart.

If you've ever wondered how to live with more meaning as a family team, this conversation will help you see what's possible.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:25 Surviving vs Living with Purpose

2:52 3 Models: Family vs Mission

8:35 Early Years: Discipleship & Ministry

13:56 Expanding to Cincinnati & Israel

23:57 Multiplying Multipliers

30:04 Father vs Mother Tension

34:49 Join the Accelerator

Follow Family Teams:

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Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Free Family on Mission Playbook: https://familyteams.com/mission

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

Life on Life Discipleship: https://1kh.org

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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!

God is a good Father who uses holidays and festivals to disciple His children all throughout the Old Testament.

But for some reason these have been lost in modern Christianity.

Now, we don't HAVE to celebrate these holidays, Christ fulfills them all, BUT we've found over the past 10+ years that they are a POWERFUL tool to disciple our kids, follow God more closely, and build deep memories that impact us, our kids, and our communities for a lifetime.

Here's why we like celebrating them, and a quick reminder that our Accelerator is open to join right now for September, where we'll be giving you a full "how to" so you can celebrate your first Biblical holiday - Sukkot - this October without any stress!

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

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

4:20 Why start celebrating the Biblical holidays

6:41 First steps to start

11:08 What Sukkot actually means

18:38 If you're just starting...

23:50 2025 Sukkot Dates

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Resources Mentioned:

Free 1-Pager Sukkot Catechism: https://familyteams.com/sukkot

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!

I want to show you why celebrating a week outside in a handmade booth becomes the most unforgettable family tradition - without feeling like a chore.

We're joined by community coaches Brent and Katie Kruithoff, who previously helped us learn to celebrate spring holidays like Passover and Pentecost. This time, they share how the fall Biblical festival of Sukkot became a unifying, joy-filled anchor for their family's yearly rhythm.

We also unpack the beautiful theology behind Sukkot: dwelling outside reminds us that "this earth is not our home," pointing our eyes to our true forever home with God in heaven.

Ready to reimagine how your family marks time? Tune in to be inspired, equipped, and excited to build traditions that echo into eternity - and learn how to start small, stay consistent, and celebrate big.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

4:20 Why start celebrating the Biblical holidays

6:41 First steps to start

11:08 What Sukkot actually means

18:38 If you're just starting...

23:50 2025 Sukkot Dates

Follow Family Teams:

Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams

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

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Free 1-Pager Sukkot Catechism: https://familyteams.com/sukkot

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!

In this episode, Jeremy reacts to 5 popular clips that show why the modern, western idea of family is so broken.

Learn the Family Teams perspective on a lot of these relevant topics of our day, and see why God's ancient ideas for family are still the best ones today, and finally put your finger on WHY modern society is so broken.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

2:17 Doug Wilson finds the hidden key for unlocking a theology of technology

7:38 Why it's becoming cool to cut off your parents

16:19 The secret war the state is waging against your family

28:11 Steven Bartlett rejects multi-generational legacy

31:15 Is Mark Driscoll against having a multi-generational family?

47:59 James Sexton and Carl Lentz say don't get married young

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@FiveMinuteFatherhood/videos

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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 reacts to a viral Tweet explaining the difference between a mom's conservative and liberal child.

He explains why we needed to invent some moral framework for society after Christian ethics were broadly discarded, and why our culture is suddenly anti-life after choosing "consent" as the moral framework.

This new "religion" doesn't value life, and is leading to the sterilization of the next generation.

Seriously consider what you can do about it as he explains at the end of the episode.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

2:26 The Tweet

5:12 Ideas really matter

7:00 When the innate goodness of life is rejected

16:48 Universities are indoctrinating our children into a new religion

19:15 What do we do about this?

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Tweet referenced: https://x.com/TNG9791/status/1952464911701041457

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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!

Young men are abandoning leadership, being sucked into addiction, and rejecting building a family.

What's at the heart of this? How do we stop it?

Jeremy is joined today by Bryce Bouchard, who leads Noblemen Ministries.

Bryce spent a lot of time working with college-aged men and has seen a lot of the shift over the past couple of decades.

Learn practical steps about re-engaging our young men, encouraging them to walk with Jesus, showing them the good fruit of family, and helping them reconnect with their fathers.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:06 Bryce's ministry background

4:23 Young men abandoning leadership

14:41 Men need a picture and a clear path

18:48 How to help men take on responsibility

22:50 Reaching new men

25:33 When a man starts to honor his father

33:00 The difference between the Biblical man and the Andrew Tate macho "man"

38:55 Young adults delaying family

Build Your Family Team:

Family Teams Accelerator (family coaching): https://familyteams.com/accelerator

Family Inc (build a family business): https://familyteams.com/familyinc

Follow Family Teams:

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

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

The Navigators: https://www.navigators.org/

Noblemen Ministries: https://noblemenministries.com/

Oaks International: https://oaksintl.org/

Noblemen Realms Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9XB9ZV2

Contact: [email protected]

The Oral History of The Office: https://open.spotify.com/show/5T1519uHGVd6Te2xF5tKkR

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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 Akrami's join us today to talk about their journey of bringing the Bible into their home and making it a cornerstone of their life with their kids.

They're our coaches this month inside the Accelerator (familyteams.com/accelerator)!

They cover the big WHY, what their journey looked like as Cameron started to lead in this area, and a couple of tips to make this easy and accessible, instead of feeling overwhelmed.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

3:15 How to get the Bible into your family culture

7:22 Why Cameron engaged as the father of the family

12:55 A desire to get it "right"

21:57 Rhythms

23:08 Scripture Songs

26:17 Just start...and pray

Follow Family Teams:

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

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Free Resource for Getting The Bible Into Your Family: familyteams.com/bible

Family Teams Accelerator: 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 is a question we get asked often.

How do I introduce/share/read the Bible to my family?

Sharing the Bible with your kids is extremely important, but in such a busy world, it's often one of the things that gets pushed to the backburner.

We highly recommend putting some real time and energy into this...not many things are more important.

This is part 1 (the Pryor family experience with younger and older kids). Part 2 comes next week when the Akrami family will give us their best tips.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

2:11 Reading the Bible as a family with little kids

9:53 Morning Bible time

13:47 Literacy level

17:56 Sabbath rhythm for Bible reading

22:04 Bible reading plan

Follow Family Teams:

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Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

How To Get The Bible Into Your Home 1 Pager: https://familyteams.com/bible

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

Pryor Bible Reading Plan: https://www.1kh.org/bibleplan

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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 most common questions I get is, "how do we raise our kids who aren't entitled...especially if we've had success in some aspects of life?"

And it makes sense.

Most of us are who we are because of the struggles we've had to endure to get here. We value what we have, we aren't entitled. But...so many kids (and adults) these days are. Why?

It turns out there's one very basic (but countercultural) thing you can do that will allow you to bless your kids to the moon and back without them becoming entitled.

Listen in as Jeremy and April teach us how to make sure our kids turn out like the Sea of Galilee (abundant, full of life), not the Dead Sea (salty and dead!).

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

3:23 The one move that ensures your kids will not become entitled, no matter how much you bless them

11:43 Answering the biggest critique

23:49 What it's like having your daughters embrace motherhood right away

32:21 "It is as it should be."

Follow Family Teams:

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

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

How To Raise Kids Who Want To Be Parents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqiY6WkKH7U

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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 if you could take the most chaotic thing in your life and turn it into something that actually creates peace in your home?

This month in the Family Teams Accelerator, we're talking about how to use this one unexpected tool usually found in the most boring parts of a business, to turn chaos into clarity at home.

That tool?

Standar Operating Procedures (SOPs).

This is how you train your kids to do what you want them to do. It's how you lead them into actually rising to the level of high expectations. It's how you take the chaos and uncertainty out of teaching them how to behave and how to perform the tasks you want them to perform.

And it's way simpler than you think (otherwise there's no way we'd do it!).

In this episode Jeremy sits down with Blake and Chandler Smith, next month's community coaches inside the Accelerator, to give you a taste of what's to come. Make sure to sign up to join us in the Accelerator this month to get help applying this in your home: https://courses.familyteams.com/accelerator

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

3:55 SOPs are not just boring business things

7:58 Embracing work tools in the home?

14:00 Example SOP (Getting The Kids Ready To Go And In The Car)

19:22 The importance of practice and drills

24:12 Should you really introduce SOPs into your home?

Follow Family Teams:

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

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

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

Free Family SOP Playbook to Combat Chaos: https://familyteams.com/sop

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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!