In the Eswine Home with Zack Eswine
The Family Discipleship Podcast
The Family Discipleship Podcast
5.0 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
- Could you tell us a little about your family and your ministry?
- What resources shape you in parenting?
- Being a pastor and a father, where do you see your roles of leadership overlapping?
- Would you share some of your favorite moments of Christian conversations in your home?
- What do you mean by “double love”?
- What was it like being a parent of a “prodigal child,” and where did you find comfort in the Lord?
- What scriptures do you lean on in your role as a father?
- How can parents fight that temptation to be great or acknowledged either by a spouse, their children, or other parents?
- What can you say to the discouraged parent who wants to lead well, but right now, Jesus just doesn’t seem lovely?
- Can you unpack the temptation for us to be everywhere for everybody all at once and how it connects to the temptation for parents to do everything right all the time?
- Can you think of times when things did not go “according to plan” in the Eswine home?
- What role has the church played in coming alongside your family as you’ve discipled them?
- How did your family navigate the anti-Christian culture around your family or prepare your kids for it?
- Where do you find or look for joy in leading your family to follow God?
- What are some ways that we can pray for you?
- Psalm 71, Ephesians 5:1,
- “The Imperfect Pastor” by Zack Eswine
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Family Discipleship podcast, a podcast of Training the Church. |
| 0:13.3 | There are some flowers you can only see if you go to the desert. As the only place you can see them, there are some joys in parenting that only happen in this season |
| 0:21.1 | in the way that they happen. I thought, well, I have until they're 18. That was, I don't know |
| 0:28.7 | where I got that idea. And then parenting just keeps going. Yeah. It just keeps going. That's true. |
| 0:34.7 | But it shifts. You can make your bed, but not out of love. And so at the end of the day, I'll say it this way, I'd rather an unmade bet by a child who knows how to love. If I have to choose, rather than a child who made their bed, but did so out of a heart that didn't know how to love. |
| 1:07.4 | All right, this is Adam Griffin, and I'm here with my co-hosts, first, the amazing Mrs. Cassie, Brian. |
| 1:08.4 | How are you doing it, Cassie? |
| 1:12.7 | I'm good. I'm a little insecure. We're all in person, just so our listeners know where. |
| 1:14.7 | Yeah. And I came from the soccer fields. |
| 1:20.9 | Oh. So feeling not so fresh or sure. If you remember those deodorant got those commercials. |
| 1:22.7 | So you're good, but you're feeling a little sweaty today? |
| 1:26.5 | Yeah, but my daughter came back at the last quarter of her kindergarten soccer. |
| 1:27.5 | Oh, shout out. |
| 1:29.4 | What's the mascot? What's the team name? |
| 1:29.8 | Lions. Oh, okay. Yeah, we're the Lions. Lady Lions. Ah, the Lady Lions. Did you guys, did your high schools growing up? Did they have different names for the girls teams and for the boys' teams? Was it like lady? Yeah, we did. We were, the boys were bulldogs. and we really spelled it DAWGS, like on our gym floor. |
| 1:44.8 | It was spelled like that. |
| 1:45.6 | We were dogs. |
| 1:46.4 | And then the girls were lady dogs. The boys were bulldogs, and we really spelled it DAWGS, like on our gym floor. |
| 1:44.8 | It was spelled like that. |
| 1:45.7 | We were dogs. |
| 1:46.5 | And then the girls were lady dogs. Lady dogs. Okay, I thought Supreme was going to be like something, kittens or something like that. Okay, it was still dogs. Lady dogs. Well, the voice you're hearing there is my beautiful wife, Chelsea Griffin. How do you doing today, Chelsea? see? I am just happy to be here and I'm doing great. |
| 2:00.2 | Great. Well, what a delight to have with us in person today. |
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