Fighting for Your Family w/ Pastor Craig Thompson

Marriage After God

Aaron & Jennifer Smith

Kids & Family, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Parenting

4.9 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Marriage After God podcast, Aaron sits down with Pastor Craig Thompson to talk honestly about the tension and blessing of balancing ministry with marriage and family. Together they explore the reality of spiritual warfare in the home, the importance of staying grounded in a healthy church community, and the daily choices that shape the spiritual health of a family.

Craig shares from his own experience as a pastor, husband, and father—highlighting the need for intentionality, grace, and constant reliance on the Holy Spirit. Their conversation encourages couples to prioritize their marriage, invest in their children, and stay rooted in biblical community as they navigate the trials that come with Christian living.

In this episode–

Balancing ministry and family requires humility, intentionality, and grace.
Pastors—and all parents—must prioritize their families while faithfully serving others.
Spiritual warfare is real and active in everyday family life.
Forgiveness, grace, and repentance are essential for healthy relationships.
Strong community support fuels spiritual growth and resilience.
Small, daily acts of faithfulness build long-term family health.
Children thrive when they see their parents put family first.
Being plugged into a healthy church strengthens marriages and family dynamics.
Discipleship flourishes within the context of committed community.
The ongoing battle against our flesh is part of following Christ and pursuing holiness.

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Keywords: marriage, family, spiritual warfare, parenting, church, community, forgiveness, pastoral duties, family dynamics, Christian living

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0:00.0	One of the most dangerous things that we can do for our families is to crowdsource our families.
0:04.3	I don't know if you're familiar with that phrase, but if you're crowdsourcing something, you might get a Kickstarter or something like that and put information out and say, hey, we're creating this thing. Would you like to participate? And everybody weighs in. Maybe they give money. They give opinions. One of the worst things we can do is crowdsource our families. We just jump on Facebook and go, hey, my kids dealing with this. What do you think I should do? Oh my goodness.
0:22.2	It's like, hey, world, I'm this. What do you think I should do?
0:21.6	Oh, my goodness.
0:22.1	It's like, hey, world, I'm over here.
0:23.4	Hey, devil.
0:23.8	I'm over here.
0:24.4	Please send me all of your trash.
0:25.9	No, no, no, no.
0:37.5	I need, I need like spiritual people, godly people in the context of a local church. And I'm looking in and I'm saying this is where our struggle is, where you walk with us, will you pray with us, will you bear this burden alongside us?
0:38.1	Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Marriage for God podcast. I'm your host,
0:41.0	Aaron Smith. In this episode, we're sitting down with Pastor Craig Thompson, author of the
0:45.9	impactful book, Fighting for Your Family. Craig shares biblical wisdom on recognizing spiritual
0:51.2	warfare in your marriage, practical strategies for strengthening family
0:54.6	bonds, and why community in the local church is absolutely non-negotiable for spiritual
0:59.6	victory in your home. If you're ready to stop fighting against your spouse,
1:03.7	they start fighting for your marriage. You won't want to miss this conversation.
1:08.0	Before we get started, as usual, don't forget to like and subscribe to our to our show wherever you like to watch or listen to stay updated with new episodes. And also head over to shop.mageaftergodd.com. It's one of the best ways to support this podcast is by buying one of our resources. And not only does it support our podcast, but it supports your marriage by buying one of our devotionals or prayer journals. So if you like to support this show, go to shop.mageaftergodd.com and pick up one of our resources there. So welcome to the Marriage After God podcast, and I pray that you and enjoy this conversation with Pastor Greg Thompson. Pastor Craig, thank you, and welcome to the Marriage After God podcast. Glad to have you. Thank you so much for allowing me to be here, Aaron. I'm excited for this conversation.
1:48.7	Man, I've been interviewing quite a few pastors lately. It's been, it's so enjoyable to do.
1:54.0	I was a pastor for six and a half years in a home church in our house and in some of our, you know, fellowship's houses.
2:00.5	And just recently wound that down for various reasons.
2:06.1	Nothing bad.
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