Christian counsel for the whole household.
The Family Podcast is a warm, faith-centered guide to marriage, parenting, forgiveness, authority, and long-term family formation. Its episodes move from biblical teaching into everyday decisions, from a child melting down in public to a couple facing divorce, infertility, or missed trust.
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The Family Podcast is a Christian family-advice show for listeners who want marriage and parenting counsel grounded in scripture and applied to real household pressure. Its tone is warm and conversational, but the concerns are weighty. Recent episodes return again and again to the question of what a parent is actually called to do. The answer is not merely to manage behavior. It is to shepherd a child’s heart, model authority without harshness, and point the family back to the gospel. Parenting is treated as a long work of formation rather than a daily scramble for control. The show draws heavily on Paul Tripp’s parenting principles, especially the ideas that parents are ambassadors, children need to understand authority, and lasting change belongs to God rather than parental force. That makes the advice practical without becoming technique-driven. A meltdown in Target or on an airplane becomes more than an embarrassing scene. It becomes a test of identity, patience, and long-view discipleship. Marriage episodes bring the same frame to forgiveness, conflict, and trust. Hurt is not minimized. Betrayal, disappointment, silence, repeated arguments, and the temptation to keep a running record of wrongs are treated as real forces inside a marriage. Still, the show presses toward tenderness, responsibility, confession, and repair. Its divorce and remarriage episode with Ross and Sally Anderson tries to handle a painful subject with biblical seriousness and grace rather than easy slogans. Guest-story episodes broaden the format. Kevin and Jennifer Gordon’s two-part account follows infertility, adoption, in vitro, frozen embryos, and pregnancy at 52, giving the show a testimony-like register without losing its practical family focus. The recurring pattern is clear: define the issue, separate what it is from what it is not, bring in scripture, then translate the point into choices a family can actually make. The result is pastoral counsel for homes that want to be challenged without being shamed.
Made for: Parents, couples, small groups, and mentoring pairs looking for scripture-shaped help with marriage, parenting, forgiveness, and family formation. It fits listeners who want warmth, clarity, and practical next steps rather than clinical distance.
What sets it apart: The show connects biblical teaching to ordinary family behavior with unusual consistency. It moves between teaching episodes and personal stories, so abstract ideas like authority, forgiveness, and calling are tested against real marriages, children, infertility, adoption, and hard decisions.
Join Tracy and Bryan Dwyer every week to talk about marriage and parenting and everything that makes for a healthier family. Find resources to continue the conversation with your family, group, or mentor at pursueGOD.org/family.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Concrete family scenarios make its Christian guidance on parenting, marriage, technology, sports, and fertility unusually easy to apply.
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A Christian approach to household authority as patient, character-forming guidance.
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A family story about fertility, faith, and the weight of one last yes.
Kevin and Jennifer Gordon's story rests on the choice facing a final embryo that has been frozen for 20 years, after infertility, adoption, IVF, and a later natural pregnancy.
A pregnancy-at-52 story shaped by adoption, surrender, and trust.
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Practical marriage counsel on forgiveness, trust-building, and the work that follows.
It approaches forgiveness in marriage as a lived choice, not a slogan, and gives weight to the way disappointment, hurt, and missed expectations shape that choice.
A calm, corrective look at encouraging kids in sports without letting pressure take over.
This episode takes on parenting and kids in sports, focusing on the pressure that can quietly build around competition and how parents respond to it.
A steady Christian guide for parents deciding how much phone is too much, too soon.
A Christian family discussion about kids, phones, and social media offers parents a plainspoken way to think about technology without pretending there is a perfect playbook.
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This episode explores Paul Tripp's book on gospel-centered parenting principles, focusing on helping parents point their children to Jesus while acknowledging their own imperfections.
This episode features an interview with Ross and Sally Anderson exploring what the Bible says about divorce and remarriage, blending theological insights with personal experiences.
This episode discusses how parenting should focus on being God's ambassadors to guide children's hearts rather than just controlling behavior, based on Paul Tripp's book.
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Kevin and Jennifer Gordon return for part two of their story.
Kevin and Jennifer Gordon share the unexpected news that Jennifer is pregnant at 52.
The Family Podcast turns to forgiveness in marriage.
Parents are pulled into a conversation about sports, pressure, and how encouragement can shape a child’s heart.
The Family Podcast turns to the digital world and kids.
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