Could simple faith rhythms at home radically transform the way your family grows spiritually this year?

On this episode of the Collide Kids Podcast, host Christen Clark sits down with Adam Griffin—pastor, author, and host of the Family Discipleship Podcast—to explore the power of Christian parenting and raising Christian kids through intentional family time and everyday discipleship. Together, they unpack practical tips for making faith a natural part of family life, why starting simple matters, and how spiritual growth shapes your family's purpose and inspiration—even in busy seasons.

Resources:

• www.familydiscipleship.com
• @familydiscipleshippodcast
• Website: collidekidspodcast.com
• Instagram: @collidekidspod

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Unexpected Callings in Life: "about eight years, nine years ago, the Lord laid it on our hearts to plant a church, but none of that was planned."

— Adam Griffin [00:07:07 → 00:07:12]

Podcast Beginnings and Leadership Transitions: "Matt Chandler had started that podcast and then he stepped away and I took over with a co host, also named Adam, who's still doing it today."

— Adam Griffin [00:08:41 → 00:08:49]

Filling the Gap in Family Spiritual Leadership Podcasts: "But what we saw, there's a ton of family podcasts, there's a ton of parenting podcasts, but there wasn't one that we really admired that was like, hey, this one focuses on how to lead your family spiritually."

— Adam Griffin [00:09:20 → 00:09:31]

Rethinking Discipleship

"If you combine both of those, that's closer to the definition we would use is saying, for our kids who do not follow Jesus, and for our kids who do, how are we pursuing a life of following Christ? That's much more than just familiarity with the Bible characters and Bible stories. It's more like, how does my faith apply? How do I see the world through a biblical worldview lens, and how do we form that?"

— Adam Griffin [00:10:55 → 00:11:19]

Family Discipleship Without Shame: "I want this to feel like I'm inviting you to a party that you've wanted to go to."

— Adam Griffin [00:16:28 → 00:16:31]

Viral Topic: Embracing the Invitation to Lead

"I pray that as families hear an invitation to lead their homes, they go, oh, I've always wanted to do that."

— Adam Griffin [00:17:07 → 00:17:13]

Viral Topic: Unbreakable Family Traditions

Quote: "One of the great things about my dad is he told us always that we don't wake up on Sunday morning and decide if we're going to church. That decision was made a long time ago."

— Adam Griffin [00:18:21 → 00:18:29]

Viral Topic: The Discipleship Drop-Off in Middle School

"If there's any season of life where it is critical that we are helping our family not just be familiar with Bible stories and Bible characters, but know how their faith applies to decision making, isn't it middle school and high school?"

— Adam Griffin [00:20:12 → 00:20:24]

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What if your family’s favorite Christmas traditions are powerful tools for discipleship and faith at home?

In this festive episode of the Collide Kids Podcast, host Christen Clark sits down with Justin Herman—online pastor at Mariners Church, father of four, and creator of the “Carpooling with Jesus” podcast. Listen in as they swap jokes, share inspiration for Christian parenting, and dive into practical ideas for raising Christian kids, making family time meaningful, and nurturing spiritual growth through everyday life and holiday fun.

Resources:

• Carpooling with Jesus: @carpoolingwithjesus
• Home Alone a Christian Movie Theory: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mpkVVrecsNE
• Website: collidekidspodcast.com
• Instagram: @collidekidspod
• Christen’s Amazon Recommendation List

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Breaking the Routine: "Dad coming to school was not part of the routine."

— Justin Herman [00:07:51 → 00:07:53]

Viral Topic - Turning Complaints into Creation: "And she's like, well, why don't you start your own? And I thought about it for, like, three months, and I put a lot of work into it. And we launched last January, Carpooling with Jesus, which is a daily, short devotional podcast for kids."

— Justin Herman [00:08:28 → 00:08:43]

Viral Topic: What Would Jesus Say at Your Breakfast Table?

Quote: "if Jesus were sitting with you at the breakfast table or riding with you on the way to school, like, what would he say? Like, what would be that thing he would give you to help you start your day?"

— Justin Herman [00:08:52 → 00:09:00]

Viral Topic: Faith-Based Parenting Communities: "It embeds some automatic community of like minded parents who want the best for their kids, knowing that the best for their kids is Jesus."

— Justin Herman [00:12:00 → 00:12:07]

Viral Podcast Giveaway: "If they message me on Instagram and say, hey, you know, I started listening because of Collide, I will mail them some limited edition Carpooling with Jesus stickers for their kids."

— Justin Herman [00:12:50 → 00:13:01]

Viral Holiday Tradition: "When you drive around and see Christmas lights, I think that's a really easy, cheap thing to do, right? Like, it costs no money at all, right? Getting the. Get in the car, bring some snacks, drive around neighborhoods, see Christmas lights, the whole thing."

— Justin Herman [00:17:24 → 00:17:34]

The Real Family Tradition: "So it might not be the same thing we do every year, but every year we do it as a family."

— Justin Herman [00:18:20 → 00:18:25]

How Growing Up Among Bills Fans Shaped My Faith: That one thing shaped more of my thinking around people and around, you know, now as an adult, around ministry that planted seeds that grew into big, beautiful trees of faith, trees of ministry, trees of care for others.

— Justin Herman [00:21:09 → 00:21:25]

The Importance of Parental Guidance: You want more on the ledger of things that your kids experience for the first time to be with you than to be with anyone else.

— Justin Herman [00:23:04 → 00:23:12]

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What if practicing just one tiny habit together could spark powerful spiritual growth in your family all year long?

On this episode of the Collide Kids Podcast, host Christen Clark sits down with Christie Thomas, veteran children’s ministry leader, author, and fellow mom, to talk about raising Christian kids, faith at home, and making discipleship doable... even during the busiest seasons! Hear practical inspiration for building faith-filled family time, why you don’t need to be a spiritual “expert,” and fresh ideas for simple but meaningful spiritual habits during Christmas and all year.

Resources:

• Christie’s Website: littleshootsdeeproots.com
• Book Amazon List: amazon.com/shop/christenclark/list/1RLTNBPSOOZY5
• Website: collidekidspodcast.com
• Instagram: @collidekidspod

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Finding Your Calling: "But when it kind of became official as something that I actually got paid for, when was during my term as a children's ministry director, I did that for most of 12 years. Had a few babies in there, but Most of the 12 years I was doing that. And in that time I started writing things for families to take home and I ended up publishing those take home pages as a book."

— Christie Thomas [00:05:32 → 00:05:55]

Changing Career Dreams: "But yeah, it is very cool that God did take what I loved when I was a child and kind of, I stopped writing probably for 15, 20 years, like creatively and. But then he brought it back into my life."

— Christie Thomas [00:07:49 → 00:07:59]

Letting Go of Parenting Pressure: "I started talking to other families and realized, you know what? This looks different in every family. So even though books are, you know, the, the big names of the day, it doesn't have to look like that."

— Christie Thomas [00:08:55 → 00:09:31]

The Power of Little Things in Discipleship: "I can't take my child's heart of stone and turn it into a heart of flesh, or only God can do that. So I started realizing, well, what can I do? Well, I can do these little things."

— Christie Thomas [00:09:31 → 00:10:07]

Going Beyond Sunday School: "And his teacher, who'd been teaching there for like 20 years, during parent teacher interviews, she says, he knows a lot about the Bible. And I thought, okay, doesn't everybody? Like, we're all Christian school kids here. But he stood out for that."

— Christie Thomas [00:10:29 → 00:10:42]

Viral Parenting Strategies: "I could take that to God and I could say, what's something small? That I could do something that takes like 30 seconds and he would give me ideas."

— Christie Thomas [00:11:41 → 00:11:50]

Parenting Hack for Faithful Families: "the purpose of it is to be an interactive play based devotional...it's also designed for you to sit on one Bible story for a whole week because I originally wrote it to go along with my Sunday school lessons so that families would take this home, they'd have five days of really simple things to do at home that they would actually remember to do because it was simple and short and, and consistent."

— Christie Thomas [00:22:37 → 00:22:56]

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