The Family Teams Podcast

We've been told that cultivating fierce independence in our daughters is the path to their success and protection. But what if that's completely wrong? What if the Bible actually points us toward something radically different? In our modern Western culture, we've bought into the idea that the ultimate goal for raising daughters is to make them fiercely independent from men, from family, from everyone. The thinking goes that if we don't, they'll be vulnerable and taken advantage of. But Scripture tells a completely different story. When you look at peak daughterhood in the Bible, from Ruth to Esther to Tamar, you don't see fierce independence being cultivated. You see something else entirely: fierce loyalty. This isn't about making women vulnerable or unprotected. It's about understanding God's design for how daughters are protected and how they thrive within the family team structure. In this episode, April and I unpack what it looks like to cultivate fierce loyalty instead of fierce independence in your daughters, why this is actually MORE protective (not less), and how this plays out practically in family life. April shares her own story of growing up with a father who cultivated this kind of loyalty in her heart, and how that transferred into our marriage and family in such a beautiful, stabilizing way. We also dive into the book of Ruth (which uses the word "daughter" more than any other book in the Bible) to see how God protects vulnerable women not through independence, but through family loyalty and covenant relationships. If you're raising daughters, this conversation will challenge everything you've been taught and give you a biblical vision for what you're actually cultivating in their hearts. On this episode, we talk about: 0:00 What Spirit Should We Be Cultivating In Our Daughters? 2:54 Fierce Loyalty 4:15 The Biblical Argument 8:48 Modern vs. Biblical Tension 12:08 The Garden Of A Daughter's Heart 22:00 But What If This Feels Really Unsafe? 25:49 Integrated Resources Mentioned: Integrated Mastermind: https://familyteams.com/integrated --- Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams Website: https://www.familyteams.com --- 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!

John MacArthur's answer to Christian singleness? GET MARRIED! And, well, we share his view. There are three destructive lies that have infiltrated Christian culture that are keeping Christians single and - here's why this is so important - destroying their ability to have a family. We'll be unpacking those 3 lies and giving you solutions to get out there and change your future today. Guys, family is not a lifestyle choice. Kids are not a lifestyle choice. Marriage and having kids is the NORMATIVE Christian life. Get married! On this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Attention Singles 0:25 John MacArthur on Singleness 2:56 3 Lies, 3 Truths 3:14 Lie 1: Take Your Time 7:45 Lie 2: Later Marriage Is Normal 10:15 Lie 3: Never Settle 12:46 Bonus Lie: Use Birth Control Resources Mentioned: FREE 5 Day Course on Transforming Your Family Into A Team: https://familyteams.com/transform What Is A Family Team? Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWovOhMvQvR8 --- Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams Website: https://www.familyteams.com --- 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 --- Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams Website: https://www.familyteams.com --- 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 GIFT: 5 Steps To Start A Business and Become A Family Team On Mission: https://familyteams.com/blueprint --- 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 --- 🎁 FREE GIFT: 5 Steps To Start A Business and Become A Family Team On Mission: https://familyteams.com/blueprint --- Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams Website: https://www.familyteams.com --- 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 🎁 - The Family Freedom Blueprint: https://familyteams.com/blueprint 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 --- Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams Website: https://www.familyteams.com --- 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 Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams Website: https://www.familyteams.com Resources Mentioned: Previous video in the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLesbNPO7c8 --- 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/ --- Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams Website: https://www.familyteams.com --- 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. -- FREE 5 Day Course To Transform Your Family Into A Team: https://familyteams.com/transform -- 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 Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams 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 --- 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!