The Family Teams Podcast

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...

What can Star Wars and Pontius Pilate teach us about God's design for marriage? A surprising amount, actually. In this episode, I'm going to dive into one of the most loaded marriage terms in the Bible: "suitable". Do you know what this word actually means in the original Hebrew? It's not at all what you think. In fact, I almost never hear people talking about this. There seem to be 2 camps that c...

Most Christian families look no different than their secular counterparts. But we have the Holy Spirit dwelling within us...shouldn't that make a DIFFERENCE in how we do family? I think our generation lacks the Biblical vision for family that God cast way back in Genesis 1. In this episode, I'm going to walk you through a 5-Generation strategy for fulfilling both the role of the family that God cr...

🎁 FREE GIFT: 5 Days To Transform Your Family Into A Team: https://familyteams.com/transform Why did God invent the family? Even though it's very obviously in the Bible, most Christians today have no idea what the family is for, or why God made it. In fact, the standard answer, at least in our Protestant churches, seems to be that the secular world's version of family is just fine and we don't nee...

We're passionate about the intersection of faith, family, and finances. It's at the core of pretty much everything we do here at Family Teams. So when we get a chance to sit down with someone else who's passionate about the same things, we love to trade notes and benefit from their wisdom. Today we're joined by Derrick Kinney, the "easy-to-understand money guy", who helps families reach their firs...

We've mentioned Erica Komisar multiple times on this podcast, so it's a great pleasure to be able to interview her on today's episode. Erica is a mother, clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, parent coach, and author. She is particularly known for her defense of motherhood and a woman's instinct to mother against our very anti-family culture. This conversation gave a lot of scientific background...

If you spend any time in conservative Christian circles, you're going to think we're absolutely nuts for saying this. Nuclear family is NOT the answer? No. It's not. It's not even close to biblical. And no, we're not advocating for some new invention that makes us no different than the culture we swim in. We believe that God created a much different family unit than the nuclear family, and that th...

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 c...

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 rangi...

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 a...

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...

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 si...

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 fa...

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? Wh...

🎁 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....

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...

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 at...

🎁 FREE COURSE: Transform Your Family Into A TEAM: https://familyteams.com/transform -- 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...

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 chu...

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...

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 a...

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 li...

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 j...

David Nasser narrowly escaped Iran in 1979 after the revolution. He saw "religion gone wrong" and decided that he hated God. You'll have to listen to what happened next, but it's one of the most glorious testimonies we've heard in a long time. David knows only too well that this is a critical moment for the underground church in Iran. We discuss his story, what's happening in Iran with the church,...

FREE 5 Day Email Series to Turn Your Family Into a Team: https://familyteams.com/transform/ --- Is it better to get a PhD, or have a child? I found this wild interaction on the "child-free" subreddit, and had to comment on it from our pro-family point of view here at Family Teams. There's a huge lie in the undercurrent of our society that has convinced so many young women to become hyper-individua...