From Spy to King: Releasing the Assignments of Old to Lead Your Family Into What's New
Famous at Home
Josh + Christi Straub
4.8 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Drawing from Isaiah 43, Psalm 90, and Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, Josh walks through what it looks like to grieve the past well, release the assignments of old, and step fully into the season God has for your family right now.
He further unpacks how sweetening retrospect—or nostalgically living in the past—can breed depression, how anxiety about the future keeps us from the present, and why the mundane drive-time moments are shaping the hearts of your children more than you realize. A practical, honest reset if you're catching yourself distracted or not as intentional as you wish you might be.
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Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:05 A podcast and Straub family update
4:00 What we learned being out of the country and the lessons it’s teaching me
8:45 Upcoming Famous at Home cohorts
10:20 The existential questions about what matters and why we make the decisions we do
15:03 How the nostalgia of the past keeps us from moving into a new season with our kids
21:20 Practicing the presence of the moment without your mind racing
23:40 “Appointing” versus conforming
30:42 How God builds our faith now to prepare us for what He’s preparing for us in the next, new season
34:12 Stepping into the “new season” for your marriage
37:15 Practical ways to “appoint our days” and be present in the moment with our kids
41:00 Number 1 regret of the dying
Show Notes:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And here I was trying to relive something, grieving the loss of my dad, trying to start something again, |
| 0:07.3 | trying to, but it wasn't what God was doing in the new season for my son and I. |
| 0:14.0 | It wasn't the new thing. It was the old thing. I had to grieve that, and I had to do that well, |
| 0:23.8 | but at the time, I was still fumbling through. |
| 0:25.6 | My senses were what was past. |
| 0:27.5 | I'll never forget this moment. |
| 0:30.1 | This was purely a God moment for me. |
| 0:33.5 | I have the video of it, even though I'm driving down the highway. |
| 0:36.1 | I had to snap a pitcher as best I could. |
| 0:40.4 | We left the game early. And I was disappointed and we're driving away from the stadium. And I looked in my rearview mirror and there was a rainbow over this |
| 0:46.9 | entire stadium. And I thought, man, Lord, thank you. Thank you for literally putting a bow across that season of my life. |
| 0:56.9 | You're doing something new, and I have to step into the new. |
| 1:01.4 | I won't lose hope in the night when the fire is growing down. |
| 1:09.0 | I'll just let go and I'll try |
| 1:12.6 | help me walk this road |
| 1:15.6 | and find my way back home |
| 1:18.6 | Find my way back home |
| 1:21.6 | Find my way back home. |
| 1:32.3 | Hey guys, welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast. |
| 1:37.1 | It's a delight to be back with you. |
| 1:39.8 | We've been off for a few weeks just taking a break for our family, entering in a bit over |
| 1:47.6 | Memorial Day weekend. We kind of took a late spring break and just took a little bit of a break |
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