Famous at Home

Welcome to episode 4 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating an Emotionally Healthy Marriage .  Joining us for a conversation about sex is our dear friend, a licensed marriage and family therapist whose specialization in graduate school was sex therapy, Laura Dugger. In this episode, Laura talks about how sex makes everything better. Wait until you hear the research! With honesty, vulnerabil...

Welcome to episode 3 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating an Emotionally Healthy Marriage . Difficult conversations in marriage are inevitable. Whether it's parenting, sex, holidays, work schedules, or in-laws, all couples deal with "an elephant in the room." How can we best show up in these conversations? In this episode, Josh and Christi talk about how to talk about hard things in marri...

Welcome to episode 2 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating an Emotionally Healthy Marriage . What is emotional safety? And how do you cultivate an emotionally safe marriage? In this episode, Josh and Christi define and describe emotional safety, talk about what an elephant is in marriage, and how to be your true self in hard conversations with your spouse. They talk about: Approaching conv...

Welcome to episode 1 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating an Emotionally Healthy Marriage .   Have you and your spouse ever looked at each other and wondered, "Who did we marry?" Lewis Smedes once said, "My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed—and each of the five has been me." It's amazing how much we change: sometimes for the worse, sometimes for the better....

Welcome to episode 5 of 5 in our first Summer Series called, On Becoming Great Parents . We hope you download the pdf files that go along with these episodes (found in show notes below) and use them in your small groups, with your spouse, or as a companion guide to the content.  As a parent, what are we truly aiming for? What really is the goal of all this stuff we put into a bucket called “parent...

Welcome to episode 4 of 5 in our first Summer Series called, On Becoming Great Parents . We hope you download the pdf files that go along with these episodes (found in show notes below) and use them in your small groups, with your spouse, or as a companion guide to the content.  In this episode, Christi talks to Josh about honor, our identity as parents, and how the tension of letting our yes be y...

Welcome to episode 3 of 5 in our first Summer Series called, On Becoming Great Parents . We hope you download the pdf files that go along with these episodes (found in show notes below) and use them in your small groups, with your spouse, or as a companion guide to the content. In this episode, Josh and Christi talk about the single greatest thing to being a better parent. Part of it may have to d...

Welcome to episode 2 of 5 in our first Summer Series called, On Becoming Great Parents . We hope you download the pdf files that go along with these episodes (found in show notes below) and use them in your small groups, with your spouse, or as a companion guide to the content. *Note: We originally titled this episode On Motherhood, Healing, and Finding Your Voice. However, we changed the title af...

Welcome to our first Summer Series! This is episode 1 of a 5 part series called, On Becoming Great Parents . We hope you download the pdf files that go along with these episodes (found in show notes below) and use them in your small groups, with your spouse, or as a companion guide to the content.  In this episode, we address how we can enter into our child's world and build their emotional resili...

What if we stop focusing on problems and cultivated the solution? That’s the question driving a major shift happening with Famous at Home.  Josh + Christi are together this week for a behind-the-scenes look at the last few months—the prayer, the wrestle, and the surrender.   In this episode, Josh + Christi talk about the “why” behind the shift, the new offerings coming out as a result, the summer...

What would happen if we could walk into any room bringing our identity, rather than getting our identity from it?    Following up our episode on giving kids joy permission comes an episode on how to experience joy as a byproduct of walking daily with Jesus in our true identity. When we’re not walking in our true identity, we’ll get it from one of three places: what we have what we do or how we thi...

There are so many parenting debates happening right now in the culture at large. Screentime. Discipline. Anxiety.   But what if we’re focused on the wrong things?   Instead of trying to fix and manage the problems, what if we cultivated the solution?   What if the environment we cultivate is the very thing our children need?   In this episode, Josh talks about their current parenting journey, the...

One of our closest friends, Luke Smallbone, who is also one-half of the four-time Grammy award-winning duo For King & Country, joins Josh in the cabin to share stories from his own childhood, which are depicted in a brand new movie hitting theaters everywhere, called  Unsung Hero. Unsung Hero  is a true story about his family's adventure of coming to the States from Austrailia, and the ups and...

Pastor Max Lucado joins us to talk about his new children’s book Just in Case You Ever Feel Alone. Josh’s 9-year-old daughter, Kennedy, joins the show this week to interview Pastor Lucado.  In this episode, Pastor Lucado describes the consequences of anyone’s given worldview, and how the framework we give to our children influences how they view God and consequently sets them up to handle loneline...

Christi joins us this week to walk through insights she's gaining from Isaiah 61. In doing so, she shares more about her heart behind and the process of Tender & Fierce . In Isaiah 61, Isaiah prophecies Jesus as the One to come and bind up all the broken pieces of our heart so that we can heal and live wholeheartedly. What does it mean to experience and walk in that freedom? In this episode Ch...

Should we argue with our kids? How do we set boundaries with them? What kind of parent does it take to raise a strong and loving child? The President of Love & Logic Institute, Dr. Charles Fay joins us to talk about his new book, with colleague Dr. Daniel Amen, Raising Mentally Strong Kids . This might be one of the most light-hearted conversations we’ve ever had around what is arguably the mo...

As a parent, what are we truly aiming for? What really is the goal of all this stuff we put into a bucket called “parenting?” And, at a deeper level, have I thought about how my own spiritual journey influences how my children live out their faith and find purpose for how they live their lives? Does this matter to me as I think about how I’m engaging the task of “parenting?” In this episode, I (Jo...

Christi introduces a phrase God gave her in prayer for what it means to grow into fullness of life as a woman, wife, and mother—tender and fierce. In this episode, she defines both words, describes their function, and talks about how we can reclaim tenderness where we lost it and fierceness where it’s gone sideways. Christi also talks about why tenderness is critical for loving others but has beco...

Christi is back this week! Not only that, we have a new “studio” ( check it out on Youtube ). This week, Christi and I (Josh) sit down and talk about the lessons we’ve learned since God told us to “jump” last year and sell our house. The last six months have been a wild adventure. At first, we thought we’d be RV’ing the country. But, as God would have it, a different path was laid out before us. A...

Dr. Gary Oliver is a modern day Job. Though he holds some titles (theologian, psychologist, therapist), he is a Christ follower at heart, leading men and women into deeper walks with Jesus through Going Deeper Retreats . This episode is like free admission into a mastermind on life’s secrets to finding joy, coming from a man who’s lived through unbelievable loss and heartache. In the span of four...

In 2011, Pastor Davey Blackburn moved from South Carolina to Indiana to plant a church with his wife, Amanda. By late 2015, coming back from a staff retreat, Davey and Amanda were feeling encouraged and seeing the church beginning to establish roots. A few days after that retreat, Amanda, who was also pregnant with their second child, was caught up in a home invasion and shot three times. Their so...

In our fast-paced Western culture, it’s too easy to run to the next “thing” and dismiss the meaning of the previous activity, event, or season. But is this healthy for our souls? Take breastfeeding, for example. Or sending your kids off to kindergarten. Or for your kids, leaving their grandparent's house after an extended vacation. Perhaps moving to a new house. Every one of these moments are beau...

This episode has so much purpose, content, and hope for families. It could even serve as a homeschooling study for your kids. Jordan Raynor says, “Most Christians spend more time thinking about a one-week vacation than they do thinking about eternity…but it inevitably will lead us to settle for these wishy-washy half-truths about heaven.” Raynor goes on to explain, “Here’s why it matters we as adu...

We live such busy lives that we rarely take the time to evaluate how our kids are experiencing us, their parents, in the environment of our homes. In this episode, our two oldest kids join me (Josh), as I ask them questions about how they experience our parenting. As you listen, our hope isn't that you focus on the content as much as you do the essence of the conversation, so that you, too, can ta...

In loving memory of our dear friend, mentor, and father figure, Bill Lokey, we're concluding our 4-part series on the Heart of Leadership (originally recorded in 2020). When we lead, we influence the culture. Whether the culture you're cultivating is at home with your kids, or it's at work, how you show up has a ripple effect on the environment around you. Bill Lokey joins Josh for the final episo...