Fighting For Your Family Instead of With Your Family | Craig Thompson | Episode 399
The Speakeasy
The Girl Named Blake
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
This episode continues an unexpected but timely series focused on strengthening families at the start of the year. Blake sits down with Pastor Craig Thompson, author of Fighting for Your Family, for an honest, practical conversation about marriage, parenting, and spiritual warfare.
Too often, the hardest battles feel like they're inside the home—spouses clashing, tension with kids, constant frustration. But Craig reframes the fight: your spouse and your family are not the enemy. The real shift happens when couples stop fighting each other and start standing back-to-back, fighting for their family's mission and future.
Together, they unpack:
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What spiritual warfare actually looks like in everyday family life
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Why humility, prayer, and "going first" matter more than being right
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How fighting your own flesh changes everything
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The power of encouragement, honor, and apology in marriage
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Why community and the local church are essential for healthy families
If you're carrying tension from last year—or want to protect what God is building in your home—this episode offers biblical clarity and tangible next steps. Whether you're married, dating, parenting, or preparing for the future, this conversation equips you to stand firm and fight well.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Speakeasy podcast. You guys got put together like an accidental series this month. |
| 0:06.5 | I love it when he does that. I don't have the forethought, but he does. And so this month has turned |
| 0:11.8 | out to be a bunch of episodes that I think would be really great to listen to with your husband. |
| 0:16.4 | Or even like your boyfriend, whatever, somebody that you are moving forward in life with. |
| 0:21.5 | Because we've talked about opting out of traditional insurance. |
| 0:24.2 | We've talked about how we can use January to prepare for the year ahead of us. |
| 0:28.8 | And now, this week, and spoiler alert, next week, I have two absolute rock star pastors on to talk about family and marriage. This week I am talking with Pastor Greg |
| 0:41.3 | Thompson. He is the author of Fighting for Your Family. And we are talking about spiritual warfare |
| 0:48.3 | and how that comes against families and tries to disable God's plan for moving forward, how we can run on |
| 0:57.3 | mission, how we can be better together. If you look at the cover of his book, it actually says |
| 1:02.9 | fighting with your family, but they scratched out with and replaced it with four. And that's |
| 1:07.5 | really the direction of the conversation that we had today. I know from experience and then |
| 1:13.2 | also just walking through life with people that a lot of the hard stuff feels like you and your |
| 1:18.9 | spouse or you and your family just button up against each other and battling it out. And I can tell |
| 1:24.2 | you also from experience that the good stuff really starts when you get back to back and you realize that your spouse and your family are not the enemy, that there are a lot of other things that you are up against. And that we just like went after it today and talked about how we accomplish that. How do you get back to back? How do you stop viewing these people |
| 1:44.8 | as the problem or the enemy? And sometimes it's humility. Sometimes it's going first, fasting, |
| 1:50.9 | prayer. We just, we covered a lot of ground. And so if this is something that you have been |
| 1:56.2 | struggling with from last year, pulling it into this year. I think this episode will really, |
| 2:00.9 | really speak to you. And if that is not a season that you are in or have come out of or |
| 2:06.7 | have not yet walked into, I encourage you to listen because you still have an enemy that's coming |
| 2:11.6 | for your family. And I think this episode will really equip you to stand firm against him. |
| 2:16.9 | So before we jump in really quick, word from Cozy Earth, they are my absolute favorite |
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