How the Lord’s Prayer Can Transform Your Family with Brad Gray

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Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt stuck in knowing how to disciple your kids? Or perhaps even where to begin?

We’ve got some answers! In this episode, biblical scholar and founder of Walking the Text, Brad Gray joins the podcast to talk about his new book Bringing Heaven Here, and his new feature film now airing on Angel Studios called The Lord’s Prayer.

Brad joins us to talk about what fascinated him so much about the Lord’s Prayer, why it’s the heartbeat of Jesus’ entire ministry, and how it applies contextually to our lives today. As Brad says, “Salvation is never the end game, it’s just the beginning.”

Brad helps us as families begin to see how we can lead our kids to partner with Jesus in bringing heaven here.

**Now playing on Angel Studios, The Lord’s Prayer.

For key highlights of this episode, see time stamps below.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:11 Brad Gray shares his journey into parenting and biblical literacy
6:54 Brad breaks down The Lord’s Prayer
12:45 Brad’s first “ah ha” moment when it came to the Lord’s Prayer
15:44 The familial nature of “Our Father” and what it means for your family
20:51 How the film, The Lord’s Prayer, came about and how you can watch it
26:48 The heartbeat of The Lord’s Prayer — partnering with Jesus in building the Kingdom of heaven
36:12 Coming alongside our kids in hard times
40:40 Where to get started in discipling your kids with The Lord’s Prayer
46:55 How Bringing Heaven Here helps parents implement the Lord’s Prayer with kids

Show Notes:
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Prayer is participatory. And so even like with our kids right now, you know, even my, my oldest who's getting ready to go off to college next year, and he's trying to figure out exactly what am my passion about what do I want to study and all of that. It's like for me to say, Dynion, like God will continue to reveal what he's doing in you and the gifts that he has given and all of this.
0:23.6	What you need to continue to be mindful of is that God wants you to partner with him in what he's already done
0:32.0	and what he's going to continue to do in developing you so that his kingdom will advance through you. You know, so you just see it
0:40.1	much more as we're not God's pet projects. We're partners. He's always looking for people to
0:47.5	partner with and, you know, and that's a big thing that we're imparting upon our kids is God loves you, God knows you,
0:56.0	he's gifted you, and he wants to be in partnership with you.
1:00.3	I won't lose hope in the night when the fire is growing down.
1:08.3	I'll just let go and I'll try help me walk this road and find my way back home
1:33.3	Welcome back to the Famousand Home
1:34.3	We are so delighted to be with you today.
1:37.3	As we end the year here, we are celebrating the coming of Jesus, Advent. And as you know, we have the 25 days of the Christmas
1:47.3	story, which is our family experience, an Advent family experience, so that you can take your
1:53.8	kids through each of the 25 days leading up to Christmas, and each one goes through a character
1:58.8	of the Christmas story and takes you deep into that
2:02.9	and gives you activities for your family. As we think about the coming of Jesus and growing in
2:08.4	Jesus, I've got one of my dearest friends here today, Brad Gray, who has a brand new book out
2:15.4	and a movie coming out. Yes. So I just want to start, Brad, by you first.
2:23.2	Before we even get into that, I would love for you to introduce your family to us. Tell us a little
2:30.0	bit about Brad. My family is the best part. So my wife, Shallon and I have been married for
2:38.6	22 years. And then we've got four kiddos, 18, 16, 14, and 11. So three boys and a girl.
2:48.5	So this is like, is this year three or year four at three different
2:52.3	schools? And then where our oldest going off to college will still be in three different,
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