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293 | Investing into Brotherhood, Choosing Endurance Over Comfort, and the Rock Climbing Analogy (Roger Thompson: Part 1)
For Roger Thompson, discipling other men is life-giving. Between his father’s salvation story and his own childhood, Roger has experienced the empowering nature of brotherhood firsthand. In the first part of this conversation, he highlights the role of endurance and fortitude to encourage you in your fatherhood climb.
291 | Defining Family Values, Living Out Your Faith, and Following Gideon’s Example (Joe Ostrem, Tyler Van Eps, and Dago Darezzo: Part 1)
In this conversation, four fathers sit around a campfire to discuss all things fatherhood. You’ll be inspired and equipped to live out your family values, lead by example, and engage in significant spiritual conversations within your brotherhood.
290 | Being Present Over Perfect, Gamifying Fatherhood, and Staying Curious (Jeff Zaugg)
Jeff Zaugg steps behind the microphone in this episode to share his personal fatherhood journey and how he adds adventure and intentionality to the dad life. Interviewed by Dr. Michelle Canfield Watson, Jeff shares powerful encouragement and insights for fathers in any stage of parenting.
232 | Being a Dad Your Kids Want to be (Tim and Ryan Skoog Part 2)
231 | How One Decision Creates Legacy (Tim and Ryan Skoog Part1)
One of the greatest gifts that my parents and then my dad was able to give me was he wanted to expose me early on to the world, to the needs of the world, to the challenges of the world." "....he did that by taking us to some of the most difficult places in the world.
229 | Becoming Wholehearted (Morgan Snyder REPLAY)
"God is very interested and motivated in the initiation of our children. It’s what makes Him come alive. He has their best interests in mind. And when I put down my agenda, I got curious. I got responsive. The path that my children have chosen and the God has chosen for them is not what I would have chosen in so many ways, but being a student and being attentive and participating has changed everything."
228 | Raising Kids Who Change The World (Mark Foreman REPLAY)
How do I feel about God? Am I satisfied? Comfortable? Cynical? Disappointed? Indifferent? Am I on fire? That torch in my hand will be passed to my children more substantially than any religious education. If I want my children to grow spiritually, I must stay alive.”
226 | Dads Who Dare To Dream (Banning Liebscher REPLAY)
“When I stop dreaming, when I stop allowing my heart to really dream about things that apart from God are impossible, I not longer kind of lean in, I begin to lean back. I don’t engage, I disengage. And I would say the greatest thing in the world you could do for your kids is to be a dreamer that’s pursuing what God has in your life.”
217 | Talking to Our Kids About Marriage. It's On Me! (Chad Johnson PART 2)
"I just want to pour in... I don't want to be the guy who's over on the couch. Whose mailed it in and thinks that everything's going to be great. I want to be 100 percent in the game. Are they on my calendar or are they on my prayer list? Are they people I'm spending time with? I just want to keep honing..."
215 | Creating Ceremonies, Building Life-Changing Committed Friendships & Raising Modern Day Knights (Robert Lewis)
"sons are looking for the substance of life, as I hope to prove they hunger for the best things and in the absence of these anchors, sons drift. But when loving dads add these into the manhood mix, their sons flourish. They become noble men, gentlemen, men of valor, principled men, knights.
211 | Kids Need to Explore Dangerous Stuff Safely (Seth Dahl PART 1)
I'm trying to reawaken something inside you. I'm trying to reawaken something that was lost. And this is who you are and and this is trying to stop it. Keep going. Keep hunting. Do it...
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?"
199 | You Need To Dance (Wayne Francis)
"I think that all of us, as men have to put something in our calendar that scares the living daylights out of us"
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.