1000 Houses Podcast

Brent and Katie Kruithof, along with Mark and Michelle Tiderman, give their top 10 tips for how to actually build a family team. These are highly actionable tips that pair really well with the first part of this Housecraft talk (listen to the previous episode of this podcast to hear the 30,000 foot overview of what a family team is and why you should build one!). This is one of the best ways to di...

What type of family are you building? Did you even know there were different family models? In the Western world, we've been duped into believing that the model we all know and grew up in is normal...but it's actually a new experiment over the past couple hundred years. And if we look around, how well is it working? This talk by Mark and Michelle Tiderman, part of our Housecraft series of events,...

When we talk about church gatherings, we often fall into one of two extremes: 1. Super libertarian 2. Super controlled Both ends of the spectrum have value in the right context, but what happens when we go outside the box and stop turning one dial to 100% and the other to 0%? That's what Art Thomas us understand today, as he shares how his organization has built a local house church network...and...

In this episode of the 1000 Houses podcast, Jeremy Pryor engages with author and Family Foundations International founder, Craig Hill. They explore the vital role of families in discipleship, delving into the power of blessings, emotional connections between spouses, and the influence of multi-generational teams. The conversation covers practical habits for family discipleship, insights from Jewis...

The episode features a conversation with Dr. Tom Wadsworth on the historical understanding of early Christian gatherings and worship practices. The discussion explores how the Lord's Supper evolved from the representation of Jesus' sacrifice to being viewed as a sacrifice offered by Christians to God, reflecting broader cultural influences from Judaism and paganism. The podcast delves into the str...

Jeremy is joined by Steve Jellicorse, who's spent decades discipling his family and community through a network of small home churches. He's also been involved in international ministry, using house church as a tool for believers in persecuted parts of the world to met. As a grandfather, pastor, former business executive, and disciple-maker, Steve has a ton of wisdom to share with us today on gene...

In this talk, Lucas Cole and Blake and Chandler Smith teach us the top 10 tips for how to implement SOPs in your home to maximize clarity and minimize chaos. In this episode, we talk about: 00:00 Introduction 2:00 Tip 1: Begin with the end in mind 4:25 Tip 2: Every process has a shelf life 6:03 Tip 3: Simplify 7:35 Tip 4: SOPs are for parents, too 11:31 Tip 5: They WANT this 14:30 T...

In this talk, Blake Smith teaches us how to manage a household effectively using Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Through personal anecdotes and practical advice, he explains how SOPs have transformed his family's culture. The focus is on training children in household tasks, creating order, and fostering responsibility with an ultimate goal of reducing chaos and enhancing family dynamics. In...

Should every father be a prepper? Or should we just trust in God and "not care"? Jeremy Pryor and his wife April discuss this topic, which he writes about in his new book, The Ruling Household. Jeremy reads a section from one of the book's chapters, then discusses how to actually balance this tension that we have to hold as Christians, between being wise and preparing (even for generosity's sake)...

Jeremy Pryor and his wife April answer one of the most common questions they get while discipling through 1KH: "How do I make disciples while I'm in the season of life where I've got little kids?" In this episode, you'll learn 5 practical tips to ensure you're still able to obey Jesus' command to make disciples, without putting your family (or sanity!) at risk. In this episode, we talk about: 1:37...

Jeremy Pryor is joined by Blake Smith to discuss a chapter from Blake's upcoming book, Unicorn Family. Using real-world, startup-based experiences from business, Blake argues that fathers should be the "CEO" of the family. In today's social climate, this is a conversation people want to stop us from having...but lack of clarity and understanding in family leadership is destroying families! With so...

Brent and Katie Kruithof are joined by the Tiderman team (Mark and Michelle) to give their top 10 tips on celebrating Biblical holidays as a family. If you're looking for actionable ways to implement last week's episode about the 7 Biblical festivals, this will help you start your own traditions of celebration. They spend the last 15 minutes answering live Q&A so it's likely that this will cov...

Brent and Katie Kruithof present at a local HouseCraft session, explaining why and how they celebrate the 7 Biblical holidays / festivals. Starting out with a call to intentionality around things we already do, like Christmas and birthdays, they then share how each Biblical festival actually correlates to Jesus, what it meant traditionally, and how they choose to celebrate it in their family to gi...

Today Jeremy and April discuss one big change they've made in their discipleship model that has turned each of their disciples into disciple-makers themselves, which has created a reproductive, "multi-generational" effect, creating tons of new disciples and disciple-makers. This episode is a segment from April and Jeremy's disciple-making course, called Life on Life Discipleship (which you can fin...

Jeremy recently led a Men's Empowerment Workshop at a local church, and this is the presentation he gave on practically building a family culture. With input from his father and son, Jeremy talks about creating a weekly rhythm for your family, the first few tools and tips to do so effectively, how to bring in upstream and downstream generations, and how to craft a weekly family meal that transcend...

In this episode Jeremy Pryor is joined by local city partners James Maasen, Zach Shaner, Chris Cirullo, and Joe Freudenberg to talk about the 5 phases every city partner plans to go through in order to build a local, grassroots disciple-making movement in their city. Not many ministries give you the actual blueprint of what it looks like to fulfill the Great Commission over the course of multiple...

Welcome to part 2 of the 1000 Houses HouseCraft event on Creating a Family Team, presented by Justin and Shelly Wolfenberg and Nate and Katelyn Sallee. The first part of our series covered the overarching why and what when it comes to building a family team. Today's episode is extremely practical, and gives 10 specific tips on how to turn your family into a team, instead of just a bunch of individ...

Welcome to part 1 of the 1000 Houses Housecraft event on Creating a Family Team, presented by Justin and Shelly Wolfenberg. The first part of this 2 part series covers the ancient, Biblical foundation for thinking of your family as a team, and then shows how to utilize work to bless your children. You'll want to listen to this extremely counter-cultural episode, because these are basic, timeless,...

Want a fatherhood masterclass in an easy to digest and format, with all of the questions and tools already laid out for you? Today Jeremy and his guest Chris Knopping, founder of Rad Dad, outline the power of discipling fathers, why it's so important, how to lead a small group of dads into deeper fatherhood skills and rhythms for a more connected and God-centered family life, and the 7 pillars of...

This episode is a recording of one of our HouseCraft Date Night events in Cincinnati! Get an inside look at how we disciple local families to help them start weekly multi-generational meals. You'll learn our top 9 tips that will help you actually pull of a weekly, multigenerational family meal SUSTAINABLY without pulling your hair out and quitting after two weeks. Make sure to listen to last week'...

This episode is a recording of one of our HouseCraft Date Night events in Cincinnati! Get an inside look at how we disciple local families to help them start weekly multi-generational meals. You'll learn the why (including Rhett's vision for when he's 83) and two of the most important tips when it comes to the what and the how. Look out for Part 2 of this conversation coming to the podcast soon! O...

🏠 LEARN HOW TO MAKE DISCIPLES FOR JESUS, IN AND THROUGH YOUR HOME: 1kh.org What does it look like to make multi-generational disciples? Jeremy is joined by Isaac Steckbeck, who's spent 20+ years making disciples for Jesus in Israel, to discuss the importance of disciple making movements, and compare notes on what has worked and what hasn't over the decades. This episode will help you whether you'...

In this episode, Jeremy and April + Blake and Chandler Smith share the two biggest tools they use to cultivate a thriving Romantic Partnership. To learn more about 1000 Houses visit   1kh.org .

In this episode, Jeremy and April share how romance PLUS partnership equal a biblical, flourishing marriage that can influence the generations. To learn more about 1000 Houses visit   1kh.org .

In this episode, Jeremy shares an ancient technology designed to help you and your family thrive and overcome chaos in the home. To learn more about 1000 Houses visit 1kh.org .