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- Adventure & Creating Memorable Moments
- Brotherhood & Mentorship
- Experiencing God's Love
- Family Vision
- Foster Parenting & Adoption
- Freedom & Forgiveness
- Grief & Loss
- Identity & Living as Sons of God
- Legacy & Grandparenting
- Littles (0-5)
- Marriage
- Mom Perspective
- Prayer & Hearing God's Voice
- Raising Jesus Followers
- Rhythms & Habits
- Screens & Social Media
- Single Dads
- Talking to Kids About Sex
- Teenagers
- Work & Finances & Generosity
- Young Kids (6-12)
157 | Tech Limits, Pornography and Raising Kids Who Love Jesus (Peter Haas part 3 of 3)
How to raise a kid who loves Jesus? Nightly rituals, helping them find mentors and live in community, and falling in love with God's church.
339 | DA+3 Group Guide: Justin Whitmel Earley
Looking for fresh ideas on building better habits, routines, and rhythms with your kids? Tune in to this week’s DA+3 Group Guide featuring Justin Whitmel Earley. From morning huddles to bedtime rituals, you’ll explore ways to transform everyday moments into meaningful connections with your family.
321 | Inviting God Into Your Pain, Cleaning Up Messes, and Living with Peace (Jeremy Morris: Part 2)
Our conversation with Jeremy Morris continues as he shares insight on healing unprocessed pain, rebuilding relationships, and cultivating peace. Jeremy's healing journey wasn't quick or easy, but through his experiences, you'll see God's faithfulness in restoring his family.
320 | Overcoming Addiction, Discovering Wild Courage, and the Power of Testimony (Jeremy Morris: Part 1)
Shame holds back many men from sharing their stories of redemption. Jeremy Morris once felt this. But he learned that the key to unlocking healing is to have the courage to be seen. In this episode, Jeremy shares his unfiltered testimony and demonstrates the power of vulnerability and wild courage.
302 | Silencing Distractions, Seeing Your Children, and Being Set Apart as a Father (Carlos Whittaker)
Five years ago, Carlos Whittaker joined us on the DadAwesome podcast. A lot has changed since then. With a new perspective of launching his children into the world, Carlos is here to ask the hard-hitting questions. He’ll inspire you to become a father who knows how to be, see, and free.
277 | Engaging Your Daughter’s Heart, Softening Your Own, and Taking Action to Be a Hero (Michelle Watson Canfield: Part 1)
274 | Being a Present Dad in Four Areas, Honoring Others, and Fighting Fatherlessness (David Hirsch)
273 | Saying Yes to Foster Care, Embracing Adoption, and Changing Generations (Stephen Hogue)
263 | Encouraging Your Kids, Discovering Your Identity, and Asking for Forgiveness as a Father (Larry Ross & Harrison Ross: Part 1)
Few fathers are brave enough to ask their grown children for forgiveness. But that’s precisely the conversation Larry Ross had with his son, Harrison. Now, the two men provide a powerful dual perspective about the impact of a father’s choices and how those decisions influence generations to come.
230 | Resilience, Servanthood & Showing Up For Others (Jason Vallotton REPLAY)
“Servanthood is the way to the top. You will never outgrow serving…the more you have the more you’re required to give.”
224 | Slowing Down & Recovering Your Heart (John Eldredge REPLAY)
“Human beings were not meant to live in isolation and we weren’t meant to live in a constant unknown. Learning to let it go (benevolent detachment)… is step one.”
221 | The Love of a Father (Pierre du Plessis REPLAY)
You can’t take out a pair of pliers and change wires and go, there you go, I told you, this is how we can fix you. We’ve got to cultivate what we want, and I think part of us as people looking back at our lives, I think if we don’t get over ourselves early enough, then we take up all the energy to fix ourselves and we ignore to sow what we want in our children. It’s amazing when the kid starts drifting, and you no longer have the reach and control you think you have.
220 | Fathering Like a Boy vs. Fathering Like a Man (Gary Black)
"We have to break the spirit, disciple these kids and send them on risky, crazy adventures so that they can get their own stories so they can keep telling the miraculous amazingness of how good and amazing our Father is."
216 | Fatherhood with 11 Kids & The Giant Five Framework (Chad Johnson)
The world is crying out for men and dads who are on fire. That love what they’re doing and their giving it their all
212 | Key Differences Between Peacekeeping & Peacemaking (Seth Dahl PART 2)
"Peace is the atmosphere of heaven... peace is the oxygen of heaven. It's everywhere in heaven. It is just like righteousness, peace and joy are the kingdom of God. It already belongs to us, Jesus said, I give you my peace, I leave you, not as the world gives..."
210 | It's Gonna Be Great! (Derick Zwerneman)
James 1:2-4 - "Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."
204 | Measuring Legacy, Exploring Anger & Breaking Generational Patterns (Zack Curry)
Don't run away from it. Dive into that because in it, your pain, your weakness actually...Paul said that his power is made perfect and our weakness
203 | My Dad Was The Loudest (Simon Osamoh)
"My son knows because he can always hear me. What he remembers about his games is that my dad was the loudest. My dad was shouting, and it's intentional. The reason why I do that, I scream over every other father there because I want Mason to remember when I'm no longer there. His memory would be, You know what? My dad was the loudest... My dad was the loudest person at my game, and that's the memory, because that's what I never had."
200 | Belly Laughter, Feeling Stuck & Sailboat Fatherhood (Jeff Zaugg)
"When we're feeling stuck, think sailboat, not speedboat. What if the wind is just not blowing? What if this is the time to learn and to be humble and to say, what can I take away from this versus a pointing at all the things that are wrong? What can I experience now that will help me be the dad that my kids need me to be?"
198 | Speaking Blessings, Hearing God's Voice & Exposing our Kids to Missions (Seth Barnes)
There's greatness in you. There's amazing potential in you that you probably have not tapped and that God wants to tap. And he often uses our weaknesses. And that's where we're, you know, his strength shines through our weaknesses.
197 | Stopping the Generational Pass Down of Trauma (Chris Bruno PART 2)
Trauma passes down through generations until someone has the courage to feel it. It's going to continue to pass down through generations until someone has the courage to feel it and to face it into and to process it. Let us be those dads.
196 | Your Story, Deep Brotherhood & Types of Trauma (Chris Bruno PART 1)
We are our best father when we have our best brothers with us. And so we need those guys and those are the guys that you came in and went rafting with, you know, with me... Those are those guys in my life and we need our brothers. But then also sometimes we need someone else who's on the outside who's got some training is a professional in some ways to come along side to create a safe space for a child to unfold.
195 | Tim Olson PART 2 - Abandonment, Identity, and Tools to Speak Life to Our Kids
How we deal with the hurt and wounds of our own father's failures, determines our ability to be good fathers and mothers to our own children.