Peter and Carolyn Haas have been married for 22 years and they have two teenage girls (17 and 15) along with a 12 year old son. As a family they planted Substance Church 14 years ago and Peter and Carolyn serve as Co-Lead Pastors. This Father’s Day conversation with Pastor Peter explores the following topics plus many other helpful insights for us dads:

• discovering his kids’ passions & finding common interests with them 
• parenting with long-term perspective
• breakthroughs resulting in honoring his parents
• fatherhood fails due to anger issues
• modeling humility & apologizing to his children
• vacations that forced their family out of typical rituals

Episode 22 Music: Substance Variant – Greatest Threat (free album online)

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