The Spiritual Discipline of Family: a conversation with Dr. Tom Hamilton

What does it really mean to love without conditions?

In this conversation, Scott sits down with Dr. Tom Hamilton—Bible professor, academic dean, husband, father of eleven, and adoptive parent—to explore love as more than a feeling. Together they discuss marriage, adoption, parenting, and family life as spiritual disciplines designed to shape character, reveal selfishness, and form Christlike patience.

Drawing from decades of lived experience, Tom reflects on unconditional love, the cost of commitment, the formation power of family relationships, and how God uses ordinary, often difficult relationships to make us more like Jesus. This episode challenges modern assumptions about marriage, children, comfort, and success.

Topics include:

• Why marriage is a spiritual discipline, not just a romantic choice
• Adoption and loving without guarantees or outcomes
• How family life exposes and shapes character
• Cultural myths about money, children, and “having enough”
• Why unconditional love must truly be unconditional

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