Living What We Believe w/ Heath Hardesty
Marriage After God
Aaron & Jennifer Smith
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Marriage After God podcast, Aaron Smith talks with Heath Hardesty, a pastor, husband, and father who shares his journey from plumbing to ministry. Heath discusses what it means to live an integrated faith—where every part of life, from family to work, reflects a relationship with Jesus.
They explore apprenticeship to Christ as a daily practice of gentleness, prayer, and presence, and the importance of lament and joy in the Christian life. Heath’s book All Things Together invites believers to weave faith through every aspect of their marriages, families, and communities.
Takeaways
- Heath Hardesty shares his journey from plumbing to pastoring.
- Faith should shape every area of life, not just Sundays.
- Apprenticeship to Jesus is about living what we believe.
- Gentleness, prayer, and presence strengthen marriage and family.
- All Things Together explores a whole-life approach to faith.
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- https://www.heathhardesty.org/
- All Things Together: https://a.co/d/9vVNtUE
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Keywords: Heath Hardesty, marriage, parenting, integrated faith, discipleship, apprenticeship, family dynamics, grief, loss, Christian living
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| 0:00.0 | Everyone wants to label the age we're in. |
| 0:01.9 | I call it the age of disintegration. And there's these six big disintegrations. I call it the age of Noah. The age of Noah. There you go. There's all these disintegrations that are at play that we need to be conscious of because they're forming us or deforming us. Welcome back to another episode of the Marriage After God podcast. I'm your host, Aaron Smith. |
| 0:25.6 | Today I'm thrilled to have Heath Hardesty, lead pastor of Valley Community Church in Pleasanton, |
| 0:31.1 | California, and author of his new book, All Things Together on the show. Heath's unique journey from literature major and plumbers apprentice in Colorado to pastoring in Silicon Valley, |
| 0:36.4 | helped lead him to a concern over how fragmented |
| 0:39.2 | Christian faith has become. We talk about this book All Things Together, how apprenticeship to Jesus |
| 0:44.4 | is the way of flourishing in a fragmented world, which we have scripture, storytelling, |
| 0:49.4 | and practical wisdom to show how following Jesus integrates our scattered lives, countering |
| 0:54.1 | digital overwhelm |
| 0:55.2 | and isolation. We'll explore how this idea of apprenticeship with Jesus transforms our marriages |
| 1:00.4 | and parenting, embracing kids as blessings that enhance God's adventure, practicing unceasing |
| 1:06.0 | prayer and compassionate gentleness at home, and living out our faith witness, faithful witness as a family. |
| 1:12.6 | Whether you're navigating loss, large family dynamics, or seeking wholeness in Christ, |
| 1:17.5 | this episode is going to encourage you. |
| 1:20.1 | Before we jump into it, though, I want to invite you, as always, to hit that like button, |
| 1:24.8 | subscribe to our show wherever you watch or listen. |
| 1:28.2 | And also, if you'd like to support this show, please visit shop. |
| 1:31.3 | Dot Marriage AfterGod.com and pick up a copy of one of our books, either one of our prayer books. |
| 1:36.5 | Our newest book, The Marriage Gift, 365 prayers for your marriage, or you can even get our devotionals, |
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