Taking Back Your Family with Special Guest Jefferson Bethke | Ep. 485
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Is your family suffering from burnout and busyness? Do you suspect that there might be a better way to run your home than what you've been doing? Today Jefferson Bethke joins Dr. Kim on the podcast to talk about a biblical vision for families. In some ways, it runs counter to what we're used to, but today Jefferson presents a biblical case for why the "nuclear family" ideal is failing us, and gives simple, practical steps for change.
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
RESOURCES
- For more details, stories and next steps, grab a copy of Jefferson's new book, Take Back Your Family!
- You can also find Jefferson, Alyssa and lots of helpful resources at Familyteams.com, jeffandalyssa.com, and on Instagram @jeffersonbethke
- Your marriage can only be as healthy as the two of you are. The Bible says, "Let us examine our ways and test them and let us return to the Lord" (Lamentations 3:40). Our new Self Check-In Guide will help you do just that!
- We are thrilled to announce we're putting on another Online Marriage Retreat this year! The theme is "Building a Life-Giving Marriage." Registration is open now! And we are offering an additional 10% off when you use code "awesomemarriage10"! Find out more here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and |
| 0:06.8 | practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:10.1 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.2 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimmerling. |
| 0:15.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:18.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:26.6 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast today. We have Jefferson Bethke on the podcast. Jefferson is a New York Times bestselling author. He has written, |
| 0:37.7 | Jesus is greater than religion. It's not what you think. In the newest book, just out, |
| 0:43.0 | take back your family from the tyrants of burnout, busyness, individualism, and the nuclear |
| 0:48.4 | idea along with his wife, Alyssa. They host the real-life podcast, what runs runs on family teams.com. Jefferson, so glad to |
| 0:56.8 | have you. Welcome to Awesome Marriage Podcast. Thanks for taking time to be with us today. Yeah, thanks for |
| 1:01.9 | having me. This is a joy and I appreciate you and all the wisdom and light and awesomeness that's |
| 1:06.6 | going out. So it's a fun to have. Thank. Well think. Well, I love what you're doing. And, you know, we're talking ahead of time and |
| 1:11.7 | you're in Maui, so I'm a little jealous. But, you know, that probably happens with everybody |
| 1:15.6 | you talk about you talk. Exactly. Yeah. |
| 1:17.6 | When I tell someone I live in Maui, no one goes, oh, good for you. |
| 1:20.6 | Yeah. Exactly. And especially when we get in the winter, I'm sure you talked to people back east and go, oh, my gosh, that's great. |
| 1:32.3 | So let's talk a little bit about the book. What led you to write this book? Yeah, good question. |
| 1:45.7 | So, yeah, first chapter delves into that really heavily with our story and stuff. But the Cliff Notes version, obviously, because most people probably listening don't have it, is I answer that exact question where basically nine, nine, 10 years ago, we didn't even have kids yet, |
| 1:49.5 | but we were being mentored by this, really, they're really close to us now. |
| 1:50.8 | Closest mentors love them, they've impacted our life so much, |
| 1:53.0 | but we were stunning to kind of get in this relationship |
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