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Press Pause Podcast

Gospel-Centered Family 22 Episodes Aug 19, 2025

Press Pause is a short family devotional podcast, with episodes under ten minutes, designed to help parents teach their children about Jesus and the Christian faith. It encourages listeners to press pause, ask questions, and have meaningful conversations with their kids. The podcast is produced by Gospel-Centered Family and aims to make faith-based teaching accessible and practical for families.

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S2:E9 - If No One Can Obey God’s Law, Why Did God Give It? Aug 19, 2025 00:08:57 Here's our big question for this week's episode. Q: If no one can obey God's law, why did God give it? A: God gave the law to show us his goodness, to show us our sin, and to show us we need Jesus.

S2:E8 - Why Does God Tell Us, "You Shall Not Covet"? Aug 12, 2025 00:08:50 Here's our big question for this week's episode. Why does God tell us, “You shall not covet”? The answer is, “So we will be content with what we have.”

S2:E7 - Why Does God Tell Us, "You Shall Not Give False Testimony Against Your Neighbor"? Aug 5, 2025 00:07:06 Here's our big question for this week's episode. Why does God tell us, “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor”? The answer is, “So we will tell the truth as God does and not speak evil of one another.”

S2:E6 - Why Does God Tell Us, "You Shall Not Steal"? Jul 29, 2025 00:09:51 Here's our big question for this week's episode. Why does God tell us, “You Shall Not Steal”? The answer is, “So we will not take what belongs to others but instead desire to give.”

S2:E5 - Why Does God Tell Us, "You Shall Not Murder"? Jul 22, 2025 00:09:07 Here's our big question for this week's episode. Why does God tell us, “You Shall Not Murder”? The answer is, “So we will not hate or be hateful to others but rather love and befriend them.”

S2:E4 - Why Does God Tell Us, "Honor Your Father and Mother"? Jul 15, 2025 00:09:03 Here's our big question for this week's episode. Why does God tell us, “Honor your father and mother”? The answer is, “So we will love and obey our parents.”

S2:E3 - Why Does God Tell Us, "Remember the Sabbath Day By Keeping It Holy"? Jul 8, 2025 00:08:08 Here's our big question for this week's episode. Why does God tell us, “Remember the Sabbath Day By Keeping It Holy”? The answer is, “So we will rest in God and remember the finished work of Jesus.”

S2:E2 - Why Does God Tell Us, "You Shall Not Misuse The Name Of The Lord Your God"? Jul 1, 2025 00:08:42 Here's our big question for this week's episode. Why does God tell us, “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God”? The answer is, “So we will honor and respect God's name and character.”

S2:E1 - Why Does God Tell Us, "You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me"? Jun 24, 2025 00:09:52 There are two big questions today. They teach us about the first two of the Ten Commandments. First… Why does God tell us, “You shall have no other gods before me”? The answer is: “Because God is our only King and Lord.” Here’s the second question: Why does God tell us, “You shall not make for yourself an image”? The answer is, “So we will serve God and nothing else.”

Season Two Trailer! Jun 9, 2025 02:59 Ready for a new season of 10-minute family devotionals? Enjoy the trailer for our new season! Season two launches on June 24th, and is available wherever you get your podcasts.

S1:E11 - How Does God Command Us To Live In His Kingdom? Jan 19, 2022 00:09:47 First, we’re instructed to love God, not just with some part of our lives, but with everything we have (our entire heart, soul, and mind). But that’s not all. Jesus reminds us that after loving God, the next most important thing we can do is to love our neighbors as ourselves.

S1:E10 - What Is God's Kingdom? Jan 11, 2022 00:07:01 God’s kingdom is where we live life with God under His loving rule. God’s kingdom is the place where God’s dream for the world comes true.

S1:E9 - Where Do We Learn To Love, Trust, and Obey God? Can We Trust the Bible? Jan 4, 2022 00:09:17 The Bible is true, sufficient, clear, authoritative, and necessary. And those aren’t even the most important things about the Bible. The most important thing about the Bible is that it teaches us about Jesus.

S1:E8 - How Do We Show God's Glory? Dec 21, 2021 00:09:37 God’s glory isn’t one of his characteristics (like his goodness, holiness, strength, or beauty), but is instead the culmination of all His perfections shining forth for the world to behold. God’s glory is the full display of everything that’s good and true about Him.

S1:E7 - How Did God Form the First Man and Woman? Dec 14, 2021 00:09:24 It’s important for us to understand how and why God created Adam and Eve because that’s where we came from. We can all trace our family tree all the way back to them (though it might take a long time on ancestry.com) God gave us the same gift of life and humanity that He gave to them in creation.

S1:E6 - Why Did God Make You? What Is God's Glory? Dec 8, 2021 00:10:54 God wired us to long for and seek glorious things. We’re drawn toward God’s glory when we read in the Bible about God miraculously protecting his people as they crossed the Red Sea. We’re also drawn to God when we wake up to six inches of beautiful, fluffy snow to play in. We can recognize God’s creative hand behind the snow, and we’re in awe of him. We experience God’s glory when we taste an incr

S1:E5 - Is God Great? Is God Good? Nov 23, 2021 00:08:42 We can’t measure God with hours or minutes, because he's eternal. We can't measure him with miles or inches, because he's everywhere. We can't measure God's strength with pounds or tons, because he's all-powerful. Our God is fathomless!

S1:E4 - In How Many Persons Does God Exist? Nov 16, 2021 00:06:32 The Bible teaches us that the one true God exists in three persons. That’s a truth that stretches our brains. You’ve probably learned from math class that 1 + 1 + 1 = 3. So, how can this be? How can three persons be one God? Our belief that God is three—what Christians for centuries have called the doctrine of the Trinity—is incredibly important.

S1:E3 - Are There More Gods Than One? Nov 9, 2021 00:06:18 God showed the people that he is the only God, greater than anything else they were tempted to love or worship. God alone is our almighty Creator, our standard of love, goodness, perfection, knowledge, and truth. No one is like him!

S1:E2 - What Is God Like? Nov 2, 2021 00:08:09 People build rocket ships to fly above the atmosphere and to the moon and Mars. We send satellites to the edges of our solar system, and we build telescopes to see beyond our galaxy. People have never traveled to the edge of the universe, but, even if we could, God is still bigger.

S1:E1 - Who Made You? Oct 26, 2021 00:06:43 God made everything. He made every kind of place—the mountains, rivers, forests, and oceans. He crafted every kind of plant—pine trees, bluegrass, rose bushes, and even the broccoli we eat (or avoid!) God even made the seaweed that grows under the ocean. He made every kind of animal—giraffes, butterflies, aardvarks, and stingrays. And he made you and me.

Welcome to Press Pause! Oct 12, 2021 00:01:56 Every Christian parent wants their kids to grow up loving Jesus with a clear understanding of the gospel, but that’s not going to happen on its own. In the Bible, God calls parents to spend time teaching and modeling their faith to their children. You’ve probably heard this call somewhere along the way on your parenting journey, but we often shy away from following through with those responsi

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