Danny Gutierrez serves with his wife and two daughters as missionaries in Peru and I’m incredibly thankful for this conversation. Danny shares about raising their daughter with Special Needs, the move to Peru, the real tensions of raising missionary kids and their family value of resilience. If you’d like to learn more about Danny and Stephanie and their impactful ministry…

https://soundcloud.com/dadawesome/paul015 Paul Hurckman and I had an incredible conversation about family rhythms, foster care, adoption, marriage and raising our kids to cross the street like the Good Samaritan. Music: Propaganda  More about Venture Books Recommended: 1) A Million Miles in a Thousand Years(Donald Miller) 2) The Ragamuffin Gospel (Brennan Manning)

Nick Foulks. Featured Music: Substance Variant (free download) Recommended Books: Raising a Modern-Day Knight (Robert Lewis) The New Strong-Willed Child (James C. Dobson) Episode Transscript: Your children are and even people around you’re off and becoming what you say of them they become the things that you believe about them and what you tell them…

https://soundcloud.com/dadawesome/ross013 “I want to allow my kids to dream, because as Paul wrote in Ephesians, we serve a God who has unimaginably bigger plans and bigger dreams for our lives than we do and if we can’t tap into that even a little, then we are going to stifle God’s creativity” Ross Manders Featured Music: Substance Variant…

https://soundcloud.com/dadawesome/012jj Ephesians 4:29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. Dad Challenge Video – Music Featured on Episode012: Brent Haglund Recommended Resources: Wild at Heart Way of the Warrior Kid WEIRD…

Kevin Klaas: Dad Challenge Video: The Power of Spoken Blessings by Bill Gothard Passport2Purity® Getaway Kit by FamilyLife    

Story of Jesus Washing Feet (John 13) 1) Leaders LOVE 2) Leaders TAKE ACTION 3) Leaders WASH FEET “Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As…

Make It Fun — Family Dance Parties Tell A Story — Daniel and his friends (Daniel 1) Making Moments — (Isaiah 58) Fasting… “to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?” 3 John 1:2 “Dear friend, I pray that…

Make It Fun – Coffee/Cocoa 1-on-1’s Tell A Story – The Very First Bible Story Ever… (Genesis 1&2) Making Moments – “You need to ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” (Dallas Willard) “If we do not regularly quit work for one day a week, we take ourselves far too seriously”. (Eugene H. Peterson) “Sabbath is…

Make It Fun – Build a Rocket Ship Tell A Story: The Rich Sad Man (Matthew 19) Making Moments: GIVE – Hebrews 13:16 “And don’t forget to do good and to share with those in need. These are the sacrifices that please God.” SAVE – Proverbs 6:6-8 paraphrased — Learn From the ants and be…

Make It Fun >> 1­on­1 Time ● Indoor Rock Climbing ● Bouldering at Midwest Mountaineering Tell A Story >> Feeding the 5000 (Mark 6) ­ Tired and hungry Needing Rest and a break from the people Great Ministry Need Compassion Preaching all day long No food and it’s getting late Jesus says “you feed them”…

Make It Fun >> ​Would You Rather Game! Tell A Story >> ​The Prodigal Son (Luke 15) Create Moments >> – How much do I love you? – Love first and love extravagantly – The word “prodigal” means “wastefully extravagant” – Quick to forgive – I’ll never regret expressing extravagant love, party throwing love, patient…

Make It Fun: ­ Exercise together ­ 12000 burpee challenge ­ Races with a timer ­ The family that Planks Together stays together Tell A Story: The Paralyzed Man and His Friends (Mark 2) Create Moments: Friends what friends did you play with today? what makes a great friend? which of your friends do you…

Make It Fun: Serve others together deliver a meal Shovel snow Write cards Record a video Pack a shoebox for Operation Christmas Child Mail a letter to a sponsored kid Donate to Goodwill Tell A Story: The Good Samaritan (Luke 10) Create Moments: We Love Others It starts with us as dads are we loving…

Theme: We Pray Make It Fun: Superhero Training Camp Tell A Story: Peter’s Escape From Prison (Acts 12) Create Moments: Simply pray with your kids Nothing is too small… nothing is too big 1. TELL God what you need 2. THANK God for what He has done (Philippians 4:6) Tip: don’t compliment your child on how…

dadAWESOME set-up Bible verse: (Psalms 78:4) “We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the Lord, about his power and his mighty wonders.” Make It Fun: Go Sledding Tell A Story: David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17) Create Moments: – Do you trust…