Away Game: A Christian Parent's Guide to Navigating Youth Sports - Brian Smith & Ed Uszynski

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🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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On FamilyLife Today, Dave and Ann Wilson host Brian Smith & Ed Uszynski (Away Game). They guide parents to self-examination, the discipline of silence, and redefining wins by the Fruit of the Spirit—not stats. Reclaim sports as real discipleship.

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0:00.0	This episode is supported in part by the Christian Standard Bible, a translation designed to be faithful to the original text and clear for everyday readers.
0:10.0	We're grateful for their partnership and helping bring gospel-centered content to families like yours.
0:15.6	To learn more about the CSB, visit CSBival.com.
0:23.3	We've been
0:24.1	disciplined to really, really believe at our core that having a third goal
0:29.4	when the other team only has two goals in a six-year-old soccer game
0:34.4	really, really matters.
0:37.2	We're not being disciples in our Christian discipleship spaces about
0:41.1	how to think Christianly in the context of sports.
0:51.3	Welcome to Family Life today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.
0:56.8	I'm Dave Wilson.
0:57.7	And I'm Ann Wilson.
0:58.9	You can find us at FamilyLife Today.com.
1:01.8	This is Family Life Today.
1:08.2	All right, we got Ed Jusinski and Brian Smith back with us to talk about
1:15.2	navigating your child's youth sports world.
1:21.2	What do you mean?
1:22.1	This is awesome.
1:22.9	It's great.
1:23.8	It's just such a hard, complicated topic in our culture today. And I think as Christian parents, we need help navigating this.
1:31.5	Yeah. And we're going to get it. We're going to get help today. So let's go.
1:39.1	Brian and I have been having a great time referencing the story of the prodigal son, who performed really poorly
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