Culture Shock, Calling, & the 401k of Relationships with Josh Bradshaw

Tim joins me for this conversation with our good friend Josh Bradshaw. Josh first came into our lives when he started dating our long time friend, Maggie Amini. Josh and Maggie are now married and recently welcomed baby Ruby into their lives.

And when I first heard Josh’s story, I was enthralled. Sometimes God reminds us through testimony just how creative He is, and today we get to hear all about his childhood years in London, what eventually brought him to fall in love with Jesus, and the wild story of how he landed in Texas where he’s lived and served in different ministry capacities for nearly 20 years. 

This conversation is full of hearty laughs and poignant moments as we talk about everything from culture shock, to pressures high schoolers face today, the 401k that is relationships, and what we pray for our children. Ahh, this is such a good one - I’ve been so eager to share it!

Memorable Quotes:

“My parents were genuinely living by faith.”

“I believed in Jesus from a young age but didn’t really want anything to do with him if he looked like that.”

“I lied my way through the interview. I could just make stuff up because I grew up in church and I wanted to get out of the house, I wanted to do something different, I had no future with this failed high school transcript.”

“I didn’t hear the gospel part, just the soccer part.”

“I think it’s Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller where he talks about how he hated jazz music, and then he talks about how he went somewhere, probably New Orleans, and sees a guy playing jazz music, blood, sweat, and tears and goes - ‘wait that’s jazz music? I like that.’ It was the same for me and Jesus.”

“All of a sudden, my 9-year old brother blurts out - ‘There’s something different about Josh.’ And no one really gave that any thought…but I went upstairs that night and said, ‘Jesus I don’t know what you’re doing, but I’m in.’”

“One of my friends says that his 401k is relationships. And that’s exactly what my life felt like.”

Show Notes:

Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

John 10:10

Psalm 42

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