Always Choose Adventure: Faith, Family, and Purpose w/ Dan and Sam Mathews

Marriage After God

Aaron & Jennifer Smith

Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting

4.9 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Aaron sits down with Dan and Sam, a couple passionate about weaving adventure and faith into every part of family life. They share how parenting hasn’t stopped their pursuit of exploration—it’s deepened it. Together, they talk about the importance of viewing marriage as a ministry, prioritizing family as your first disciples, and how community and faith sustain their journey. They also discuss the heart behind their book Always Choose Adventure, encouraging listeners to live with purpose and intentionality, no matter the season.

Takeaways:

Marriage is a ministry, and your family is your first mission field.
Adventure doesn’t end with kids—it becomes even more meaningful.
Community and faith are foundational to a strong marriage.
Always Choose Adventure challenges families to pursue God’s calling with courage and joy.

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Authors of Always Choose Adventure https://a.co/d/i3IPPep

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Keywords: adventure, marriage as ministry, family discipleship, intentional parenting, faith, community, purpose, exploration, Christian living

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0:00.0	Hey, marriage after God, friends. Thank you for your continued faithfulness in listening each and every week. Jennifer and I have often shared with you about how important prayer is in the life of a believer. It's so important, in fact, that we're told this in First Thessalonians. Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. Give thanks in all circumstances for this is the will of God and Christ Jesus for you. It is God's will for us to pray. And we want to inspire you to begin praying for your spouse and marriage every day. This world hates marriage, and so does our enemy, because he knows the power that your marriage is meant to have in this world. He knows that if you and your spouse are praying and chasing boldly after God together, that the impact Christ will have in and through you will be powerful. So we need to be praying more than ever before.
0:38.0	Our heart is to encourage you along with everyone who listens to this show to be praying for your
0:41.1	spouses and your marriages, to be strengthened, renewed, healed, prepared and empowered to do the
0:46.4	ministry that God has for you to do in this world together. So Jennifer and I would love to invite you
0:51.0	to join the thousands of other couples and taking our 31-day marriage prayer challenge. This is a completely free and fun way to build a habit of prayer in your
0:59.4	marriage. All you have to do to join is visit marriage prayerchallenge.com and fill out the registration form.
1:05.2	Once you do that, you will begin to receive an email every day from us during the 31 days
1:09.2	to not only remind you to pray for your
1:11.2	spouse, but we'll also give you various topics and prompts to help you know what to pray for.
1:15.3	We dare your marriage to start praying like never before. Start the challenge today at
1:20.1	marriage prayer challenge.com. We're looking for people who have been blessed by this free
1:24.2	podcast and our free daily marriage prayer emails and who want to help be a
1:27.9	blessing to others. Creating and hosting this podcast and sending out our daily emails do incur
1:32.3	financial cost, and we want to invite you to join our faithful patron team to help financially
1:37.0	support these resources so that they can remain free for all who need them. Please join our patron team
1:42.4	today and become one of the faithful financial supporters who desires to help bless thousands of marriages around the world. Your support will help us pay for the creation, hosting, and promotion of our podcast and daily emails. Thank you, and we hope to see you become a marriage after God patron. Hey friends, I just wanted to talk to you for a few seconds. We're going to get into the content soon.
2:01.4	But if you're new to this show, we just want to invite you to subscribe. We're trying to see
2:04.5	2025 be a year of growth and expansion. We just need people like you to subscribe to our channel
2:10.4	and to share about the episodes that you just are totally in love with on social media.
2:15.4	And then lastly, if you can leave us a review today, we'd greatly appreciate it.
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2:22.1	And so thank you so much for joining us on the Marriage of God podcast.
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