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Freedom Of Sonship

Ed Tandy McGlasson

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We explore the freedom of sonship and how being adopted and fathered by God reframes identity, restores courage, and reshapes how we lead our families. Ed shares his father’s story, breaks down key scriptures, and offers a simple way to start living from a secure name.

• Mission to equip men to be present, Christ-centered fathers
• Freedom defined beyond sin avoidance into identity received
• The false naming of sin, success, and failure challenged
• Ed’s origin story and the cost of performance identity
• Ephesians 1 adoption unpacked as chosen and secure
• Romans 8 and John 5 as the pattern of like father, like son
• Practical fathering with God in daily decisions
• Impact on children and grandchildren through blessing and presence
• Prayer for a new beginning and clear next steps
• Resources and community for ongoing growth

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What kind of father do you want to be? What kind of man do you want to become for your family and for yourself? If you've ever wondered how to step into the fullness of your role as a father, husband, and man of God, then you're in the right place. Here at the Father Difference, our mission is to inspire and equip men to be the best fathers they can be. It's a powerful mission. And today, we're going to explore exactly how you can take steps toward that calling. Whether you're a father, a son, a husband, grandfather, single dad, stepfather, or just looking to grow, I believe God has something powerful for you in today's message. Whether you're tuning in live or watching this later, we are so excited to have you here. If this is what you're looking for, then subscribe so you can tune in each week to the Father Difference Live. You can sign up below. And now your host, a husband, father, grandfather, author, and former NFL player, Pastor Ed McGlassan.

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Well, welcome. I need a few more lights on the situation here. Let's see if we can fire those up. For yours truly, I am so grateful to be here. I'm your host, Ed Tane McGlassen. And today I'm going to talk about the freedom of sonship. If you're not familiar with that, we'll get into that. But uh really looking forward to uh sharing this with you. We're uh on the fourth day of February here in the year 2025. So welcome if you're uh tuning in. I'd love to hear where you're from. If you could just let me uh know and you know where where what country you're from, etc. We have people watching this all over the world. And uh welcome, brother Mendez, Michael. Uh good to see you online. I don't I'm not able to see Rumble and all the other places where this is also broadcasting, but would love to hear from you and uh and connect with us, it'd be an awesome thing. So today we're gonna talk about the freedom of sonship and what that really means for you as a dad. If you're gal watching, I I have gals who slip in on this show. And before I get started, welcome, Jessica. You know, I want to share with you that this Thursday at 12 o'clock, I we're having an incredible event online with Rachel, Rachel Yeager. She is absolutely a fireball. And guys, if your wife, if your wife is maybe looking for like a new beginning this year and wants to grow from fitness, nutrition to being a mom to being a businesswoman, et cetera, Rachel is is got got the goods. And we're doing a special show on February the 6th. That's in two days at 12 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. And Rachel is awesome. We're going to actually talk about born for such a time as this, who was part of a prophetic message in the Bible to a woman in the Old Testament who made an incredible difference with her life in the midst of all the challenges that she had. And so that'll be on Thursday. So that's going to be a fun time. So welcome to the Father Difference. If this is your first time or you've been here before, here's my buddy Emma King, one of the best running backs I ever got to play football with from Youngstown State University. We were the fighting penguins. Just imagine singing that fight song at Rams Camp. I don't even remember what it was. It was kind of corny. Hail the old penguin. How's a penguin a beast of prey? I'm not sure exactly. Uh welcome, Ray. Your first time here. Lord bless you. And tonight we're going to talk about the freedom of sonship. GoPens. There we go. Football player fan and all that. So welcome. And so we're going to talk about what that means when I talk about the freedom of sonship. And so I'm going to start out by just asking you a question. What is ultimate freedom to you as a man? If you were to think about what freedom might look like or the kind of freedom that God promises to us, what would you say that freedom is? Some might say freedom from sin, Christ came to set us free, absolutely, from sin and death. But what does it mean to live free as a man? Imagine just the impact difference that you would have if you really felt like you were free. One uh Ray says, freedom in learning my godly identity. That's awesome, right? And uh was played football in hockey. I don't know. I guess you know, one teaches you to fight. I got a bunch of hockey players that that I'm in a Bible study with every week, and they're pro they're pros, and they're they're pretty amazing. And but imagine what it'd be like to absolutely be free, not just free from sin, which isn't an awesome gift that Christ bought for us, but being free to not being dependent upon other people in the world to tell you who you are, or to try to project over you that you're this. And yet I meet men all the time who feel stuck. I'm gonna share this. Uh a friend of mine had one of these crazy prophetic dreams, and it's really powerful. And and it and it really will speak into kind of what we're gonna talk about about how God wants to set us free so that sin doesn't name us. Because ultimately, the devil wants to name you by your brokenness or by your failures. Well, he had this dream in in years ago, and he was he in this dream, he was in an auction hall, and in this auction hall, it was just filled with this just smoke, everybody's smoking cigars, and there's a stage up there, and and these guys had stogies, and and it was just he said it was foul. I mean, the people were just raunchy, and all of a sudden that the curtain gets pulled back and gets open. And they start bidding, and on the stage were were children, and and men were these these vile men were shouting out their bids. And it wasn't money, it was it was sin. And and one guy shouted, Lust! You know, and so and he got the highest bid, and then all of a sudden that child was bought for lust. And and another one was homosexuality, and and that child was was sold for that, and these names were liar, and and all of the names of that that the devil wants to put on us those identities, those places of brokenness. He, if he can capture your heart as a man by naming you by what's broken in your life, you'll live in a prison of not for for much of your life and never understanding what it really means to be free and to be named by God and to be loved by God. And I remember him sharing that, and then he said at the end that Jesus spoke and he said, Who will bid for my children? And he woke up. When I heard that, and that much of what we get to do as fathers and grandfathers is that God has given us an incredible privilege as a man, as a father, as a grandfather, to really help young people discover who God has made them to be. And the freedom of what it means when God names you and blesses your life, versus what sin will do that tries to name you, where it becomes your core identity and everything gets seen through your sin. And part of the devil's plan for you and for me is that we would constantly never get to see who God says us to be. And it's not only sin, but it's also things that we name ourselves by or things that we do. And, you know, me in my life, I mean, much of my childhood was was all about being able to wear one of these jerseys one day and to play football. And if I if I didn't get to get there and do that, that my life would would not would be a failure. I would not live up to what I thought my father wanted me to be, or or my mother wanted me to be. And uh many of you know, you know, it all happens with oh yeah, one of the comments is I want to share this with my adopted daughter and granddaughters. Absolutely. And you can share this. This will be on our YouTube page after this live show. You can get it there, and also it'll be on our YouTube on our website at the Father Difference. And so, you know, part of, you know, part of the thing that the enemy is trying to do with you and with me is not only is he trying to name us by our brokenness, he's also trying to name us by success so that we think that everything is a uh it happened because of who we are, how amazing we are in our life. And yet, how many of you have unrealized dreams of those places where you thought you would go, that if you could get there, you would arrive. And only to maybe build that life, I've I've coached a number of men where their comment to me was, you know, I I've spent my life building a ladder to my dreams. I climbed that ladder and was able to realize some of my goals and dreams in business, but I lost my kids along the way. And I would say to them, Well, how many of you want your children to live that same dream? And they, none of them, they said, please just show me how to get my kids back. And sometimes these are grandpas, sometimes these are fathers. And as we get older in our life and we grow, we realize that the current culture and the confusion that we have out there with this next generation uh falls to us as fathers and grandfathers to do something about this. And the great thing that happens in Christ is that God has given us authority and power many times that a lot of dads don't realize to make an incredible difference with our children. Even if we start out and we break, we break them in the beginning and we do it all wrong. And so if you've been around me, you've you've heard about my story. But tonight I want to share about what it means to really be in this freedom of sonship and what that really means. And so here's the the first slide I want to share with you, just to think about. Tell you a little bit about my story for some of you that have never been there or heard me before. But, you know, it was on May the 28th, 1956, that my dad, Lieutenant J.G. Ed Tenney, he was a test pilot. I actually wear the dog tags around my neck that he took off that night after he read this verse of scripture that I'm going to share with you. And he's reading this next to my mom, who's very pregnant with me, and it says that when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, and Jesus was walking up and down the uh the waves, they were terrified, said, it's a ghost, because they'd never seen anybody walk in the water. Jesus was walking out to them during a storm, and they cried out in fear, and immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, Take heart, it's don't be afraid. And then Peter says, Lord, if if it's you, command me to come to you on the water. And Jesus said, Come. My dad, on May the 29th, 1956, before he fell asleep that night, circled that word come in that story. And the next day went out to test his plane. So the Bible says that Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. Well, long story short, just about one o'clock that in the afternoon, on May the 29th, 1956, my father's plane lost power, was in a crash dive, heading for the beaches of Santa Cruz. He was at Moffitt Airfield Base in Northern California. He was a test pilot for the Navy. And when he realized that if he bailed out, his plane might you know spin out of control and hit the people on the beach. And his last words on worth were, This is November Papa 88 taking it in. And my father turned the plane towards the sea and hit the water at 400 miles an hour. People on the beach didn't know that he was making heroic effort. And so much of my life, you know, I wondered why my dad, you know, how come my dad didn't know not to fly the next day? Or what happened in those last moments? That was the last, you know, that was the last story about my father that my mother told me. And so that's kind of marked me as as his son. And it marked me a couple of ways that number one, he was a hero, and he, you know, died for a country. Number two, that you know, he had some some kind of revelation the night before he died when he circled that word in the Bible. Matter of fact, with my mom there, he looked at it with such a strange look that my mother, having kind of a woman's intuition moment, said, Ed, am I gonna lose you? He said, No, why would you say that? Well, the next morning he died. Now, the next time we get together, I'm gonna tell you the rest of the story. So I'm gonna leave you hanging. Because I want to get to what I really think God wants me to share with you tonight about the freedom of sonship. So, in the midst of that, you know, interchange and losing my dad, you know, it created this moment in me where I needed I needed to have a father. Because true freedom happens when you know whose son you are, and you have a father who's resourcing you and loving you and in your life. I mean, a present father is an incredible, just an incredible benefit and blessing in the life of a of a daughter or son or a stepdaughter or a stepson. I mean, when fathers are in place, cultures change. You look at where dads are in place in our country, you see incredible things happen. And especially when there's spiritual fathers who are there. And yet the absentee dad or children that were father deprived, you know, they suffer in their life. They're not quite they're they're awkward with people. They don't live with as much courage in their life. And yet, God's made you and I in such a way that when we learn to do this one thing with him, it can completely set us free from being named by our brokenness, by our things, by our stuff, by people. I mean, it's it's interesting today, you know, with all the craziness that's been in social media and all those things, that much there's been much talk about what identity is all about. So the world's answer with the devil kind of influencing them is that you are who you want to have sex with. Think about that. Isn't that crazy? Where your sexual identity determines your personal identity, and that's just off the rails, and it just does has no bounds. Well, you know, God's never intended for it to be that way. Because our core identity isn't been made based on who we want to be intimate with that way. God has been the one who's the one who's wanted to name us all along. Now look at this scripture. So, how does he give us freedom of being a son? Well, I love this verse in Ephesians 1, 3 and 5. We're just going to kind of break this down the rest of our time. But it says that long before he laid down the earth foundations, he had us in mind, and he settled on us as the focus of his love. Oh gosh, I love that. Is that the way you see God the Father? You know, even before he said, Let there be light, that he settled on us as a focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago, he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ, and what a pleasure he took in planning this. Ephesians 1. Incredible, incredible scripture. And we're going to kind of break that down. Well, here's the first thing that's in there. Long before the earth foundations. Well, the Bible says in Jeremiah 1:5, before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I consecrated you and appointed you to be a prophet to the nations. Now, God's saying this to Jeremiah. And it says it to us as well is that before God made the earth, he perfectly formed us for who he's called us to be. He's created us to know him and to receive his love and to be free from sin and to live out the life that God's made us for. And that's that's God's plan for how He turns our stories around when we get sideways. You know, the Bible says that God sent his son so that we could experience his freedom. And one of the things about Jesus is that he had this freedom to be who his father wanted him to be and to do what his father wanted him to do. Sorry about for those those things that popped on the screen. I I gotta watch my thumbs up and stuff because I get all these flashes on my screen. There it goes again. It's not that I have some kind of supernatural power that I can make the screen do crazy stuff. But see, God has has done that because he wants us to experience his freedom. And so you know what that means for you and me? It means this. It means that you can't be a mistake. If God knew about you before he said, Let there be light, he's been waiting for the moment of your birth. To reveal his love to us, to reveal his son to us, to break the power of sin in us and forgive us for our sin. But uh not only that, he wants to be a part of your story and help shape you into who he's called you to be. I I love that this next scripture that I share with you is that he's in the way he does that, he, you know, he wants to adopt us into his family. He wants to actually be a father in your story and in my story. Not only save us from our sin through his son, he wants to father us the same way he fathered his own son. And I love this in Ephesians 1.5. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. And what a pleasure he took in planning this. God's always wanted to adopt you. And what's amazing about this picture of adoption, so adoption's different than having a child, because when you adopt a child, if you've ever adopted a son or a daughter, or you're a a dad who's now in a real way being a father to your the the kids of your of your new wife, is that you get to see who they are on the outside before you choose them. And so you could go, well, I don't know if I, you know, you know, you that they look like a lot of trouble. But see, God knew us perfectly before he even made us, and he chose us to be a father to us. Because, see, he knows that when he when he's in that place of fatherhood with us, it sets us free from being owned by anything in this world. He wants you to be successful in your life with him, he wants you to discover his love, he wants you to receive the family inheritance through your adoption. He wants to be a major part of shaping you and leading you and teaching you. And she was so great about that. You could lose your dad like I did, or your dad might still be living and just walked away from being your father, or was a brutal dad, or you didn't know him at all, and you've never known anything about your dad, and and guess guess what? Those things will never limit you when you understand completely that God himself wants to father you and unlock that story he's perfectly made for you to live. Because you're not a mistake. I just love that. Look at this next scripture. Now did he uh plan on adopting us, it said God wants to father us because he's made us for an unending relationship with him. That's what that scripture said. His plan all along was to be our father, and and that's why he sent his son. And I'm being and when I began to understand this, it just blew my mind that God the Father not only sent his son Jesus to save my life, he sent his son Jesus so I could be father by him. And guess who he's gonna make us? Well, we're gonna look like when he's done with us. We're gonna look just like his son. He's gonna father us along the same lines as the way he fathered his son. He took such great pleasure in planning this so that you could live out of that true identity that he's made you for. Not some kind of propped-up false identity that you make yourself, or the way kids today are rebranding themselves so that they can be seen on their social media. And, you know, I think social media is is come around on the earth at this time because there are so many children that are desperate for identity. They're desperate for a dad like you. If you're a mom here for a mom like you, they're desperate to know who they are. And all it takes many times is a is a quest is just uh that you stop by, you you visit with them, you meet them. It's a powerful way you can change the life of somebody. You know, key wants to father us. Here's the next uh slide for you to think about. And he's in in 2 Corinthians 6 18, he says, I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters to me, says the Lord God Almighty. That there was the verse that just completely unlocked it for me. Because I mean, one of the one of the things that you run up against when you're a man and you're you're a father, a young father, is that when you start struggling in your own fatherhood because you didn't have a dad teach you how to be a father, then who are you gonna learn from? That was me, that was my story. And I desperately wanted to not only know that from myself, but I also wanted to be a good dad to my kids. And I would blow it all the time. And and we don't blow it because we don't love our children. We blow it many times because we we start out fathering many times through the model of the way we were fathered. You know, I remember my stepdad saying to me, Well, if it's good enough for me, son, it's gonna be good enough for you. And so I mean, uh, I mean, our family, you know, he he was a wonderful military leader to his men, submarine commander, my stepfather was. But the dilemma was with him is that he he didn't know how to do this with me. Very well. I think he learned that as he got older. But when I was being raised, it was all about performance. It was all about football. It was all about working out, lifting wages, doing your homework, getting good grades, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And so what I took away from my childhood is I took away from, you know, that I got to be a winner for my dad to love me and approve of me. How about you? Hey, we got a another one of God's heroes there watching from Phoenix, Arizona at Luke Air Force Base. Welcome. I love the military. Without them, we wouldn't have the freedom that we have today. I think I think they got a much different commander-in-chief these days. Resource them, Mr. Trump. Well, you know, God, God has has made us in such a profound way that He's made us with a need in us for Him. And we don't have Him in our story, then we're gonna we're gonna build our life around who we see ourselves to be. And problem with that is that you're you're completely alone in that. What if you're wrong? You ever tried to rebrand yourself, it just didn't work? Ever felt alone? I I meet guys all alone all the time that don't have very many intimate friends at all. They try to do life alone. And we just kind of put our head down and do it. I've had those times in my life. I've I've lost a number of my friends in the from the NFL that are no longer alive. Friends in ministry, you know, after being in ministry since I've been 25 years old, when I left football to go into ministry, I've you know buried a bunch of my pastor friends. And it gets incredibly lonely. And who do you talk to when you were trying to discover who you are? That's why there's probably never been a greater need in all of our times in the church where Paul says, you know, get a thousand instructors or say preachers, but few fathers. So goes the fathers in the land, so goes the country. And for America and much of the world, those of you that are watching from New Zealand tonight and Europe tonight, so goes the fathers in your country, so goes your culture. And when fathers get knocked out of the game, and moms are left alone with children, they they struggle with their their sons, with their daughters. Because you need two people to do a great thing. But especially if we're talking tonight, it's about being a father. And so who's teaching you about being a great dad? Well, guess who? The number one guy who wants to teach you is God the Father. And the more you learn to receive from him, the more impact you're gonna have. Think about this. See, he's gonna father you because he wants you to be like Jesus. And it says that he knew what he's doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his son. Romans 8 29. Powerful picture that he wants to shape your life, to trust him, to follow him, to walk with him. And who's had more impact in the history of the world than this man Christ Jesus, the only son of God? Amazing, amazing story, amazing person. But he was being fathered by God. So that's your answer, and my answer is the better we are at learning to be fathered by God, the more impact we're gonna have. Here's another thought just uh to to share with you tonight, and that is see, God the Father wants a like father, like son relationship with you just the way he had with his son. I love this verse in the message. So Jesus explained himself at length in John there. So I'm telling you this straight the son of son can do, uh can't independently do a thing, only what he sees the father doing. What the father does, the son does, and the father loves the son and includes him in everything that he is doing. I just love the picture of that like father, like son relationship that God has had with Jesus and He has with you and wants you to live in. I mean, think about what it would mean to you to learn how to follow the Father around every single day and do what the Father's doing with your children, with your wife, with your new girlfriend, with your job, with your career, with you as a man in a culture. And so the freedom that happens in sonship is that when you're free, because God you have received that God has chosen you to be a son and wants to bless your life, then you're not going to become a prisoner of trying to discover who you are, like too many are today. Or you start trying to get your your name totally from your tribe that you come from, or your your prescribed identity, or your your success, or here's a nefarious one where you name yourself by your failure. And I meet I meet men all all the time in our coaching program here at the Father Difference that name themselves by their failure. And so they they they just figure that God can't really use them. So they stay away. And you know, in a in a lot of the models in in churches, you know, we you know, I did this for years, a local pastor, is that you know, I had guys coming forward to repent all the time. Then I realized one day I wasn't teaching them how to do it. It's like the the only part of of the gospel is to you know bring them forward to confess their sin and and to be saved and born again, which opens the door. But the other part is this this whole understanding that uh for me to really teach them to be a different kind of man or a son or a beloved son, I needed that for myself. That's what we're gonna talk about next week when we get together, is about not only about the freedom of sonship, but you know, how can you really learn to receive this for yourself or for your family? Because it'll it'll change your life. It did me and it did my family, and just be honored to share this. If you come back, make sure you like our channel if you're you're coming here. But before I I get off, I I want to pray with you and I want to ask you who do you see yourself to be today? If I were to say, you know, what is your your core identity? Think about it for a minute. How many of you would name yourself by what's still broken in your life or what you've lost? Maybe it's an an old identity that you still name yourself by, good or bad, or maybe it's your brokenness you're naming yourself by. Imagine what it would be like for you to really learn to receive who God has called you to be. That core identity of sonship that He wants to not only adopt you as a son, he wants to father you. We learned about in 2 Corinthians 6 18. He was going to be a father to us. We're gonna be his sons and daughters, says the Lord God Almighty. Imagine what that would be like in your own story to where you really got good at doing this and receiving. Because that that'll change your life more than anything else you do. Something profound happens when you learn how to receive who God says you are. Because then you don't have to go, oops, I did it again. Sing a Britney Spears song, you can do that. And here's the other caveat and the the incredible benefit of that. The clearer you are about who God has called you to be, the wider the bigger swath, and or let me say it this way, the more impact you're gonna have and helping your children discover that too. Because what we're after here is helping our children really discover who God's called them to be. In a world where they got, you know, 15-second videos, 30-second videos, thousands of them, where they think they got to brand themselves all the time and be this and be that. And the the stopgap or the person that God's put in place to make the biggest difference in that, and moms have an incredible difference. And Thursday, invite your wife to be a part of our show on the difference a mother makes, is a dad who's really clear about who God has called him to be. Well, maybe you've struggled and you've you've come around this channel, or you're watching a replay right now, and you you can honestly say, Man, I I've been struggling about who I am and what God's made me to be. Maybe you've you're in retirement age and and you're living off your pension or your retirement, and you feel like my life's over, I'm not gonna make much of a difference. Well, you know, and let me tell you, there's probably no bigger or more powerful of a voice uh in the world right now than a grandpa who's filled with God's spirit and loves his grandchildren. I mean, I got 14 grannies, and I'm I'm like the the crazy hero, and I love that. I love being in their story, I love blessing them, teaching them art, playing with them, teaching them to run trains. They love trains, they love cars, they love, I mean, a plethora of things, but more than anything, they love being with us as grandpas. And so you're gonna have a whole new beginning in that. So I want to pray for you before we get off tonight. And uh, maybe you find yourself and you wanna you need a new beginning with Jesus because you've been away. Maybe you haven't been at church, maybe you've been suffering, you've been struggling, and uh all you gotta do is ask him in. You don't have to just come completely full circle and completely repent of everything that you've ever done wrong. You don't have to make up for all that lost ground. All you gotta do is take a step. So I just love the honor to pray with you right now, no matter what country you're coming from. And just if you're in that place where you said, Ed, I need a new beginning, just pray this with me. Say, Jesus, right now, I surrender my life again. I want you to heal my story and forgive me from all the the sins and all the places I've run from you in. I want a new name. I want to be the man that you've called me to be so I can become the father my family needs, or the grandpa my children will need, grandkids will need one day. Father, I give you my life. I ask you to to change me, to fill me with your spirit, to make me like your son. In the name of Jesus. The name of Jesus. Amen. If you just prayed there for the first time or you want some more info, send me an email. You can go right now and reach me at my ministry at thefatherdifference.com. You can send me an email there. I think you'll probably throw that up on the screen. Actually, she's traveling, so she's not able to do that. And let me see if I can find all those things. If you just go to thefatherdifference.com, let's see here. Let's let me get you there. You can send me an email right here to Ed Tandy, a blessing of the father. Uh, if you just prayed something and or you want some follow-up from me, I would I'd love to connect with you. And uh and that's my promise. And if you're not, if you've never received my free book, The Difference a Father Makes, that's available at our website, absolutely free for you. We're in uh 233 countries right now being downloaded every single day. So grateful. Uh it's going all over the place because it's a huge ache that men have in the world. And God wants to set us free and help us discover who He's truly made us to be. Thank you so much. There'll be a short video when I end this stream, and would love your support, your prayers to help us get this message out further and further, further. Because if we don't heal the fatherhood kind of epidemic that we have in the world, our children are just going to continue to go sideways. But God's doing something. It's a new day. I'm so grateful. Thank you for your time. It's an honor for me that you're here, that you want to spend a half hour with me. Actually, 46 minutes, got a little long-winded today. We'll see you back here at the same time next week, 5 p.m. Let your wife know about Thursdays. It'd be an awesome thing. The Lord bless you.

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Dear friends, imagine a world where every father feels equipped to lead with faith, love, and purpose. A world where families thrive and communities grow stronger because of devoted, Christ-centered fathers.

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You know, beloved, that is the vision that God's put in my heart for every single family. You know, he is on the move, I believe. He promises in Malachi that before the great and coming day of the Lord, he's gonna do something profound. He's gonna turn the hearts of fathers back towards their children. So the hearts of their children will turn back to their father. That's what God is doing. I meet dads daily who want to learn to be better fathers. Yet many have never been shown how. Too many families are being fractured to bitterness and with parents and grandparents even being canceled. That's why we're launching an online community to quit men to be the fathers that God has called them to be. It's more than a program, it's a part of a movement that God is already doing to reshape fatherhood. It's a sacred calling rooted in the teachings of Christ. And we're calling this the Fatherhood Academy, where men will embark on a journey of healing and spiritual restoration that helps them transform their family relationship. And to make this vision a reality, would you consider partnering with us financially as we continue to reach and disciple every man, dad, and grandpa that comes our way? Your donation will help create a ripple across the neighborhoods, communities, you know, and ultimately our nation, and create each child, here's a division in the unwavering love and guidance of a devoted dad.

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Will you partner with us? Your gift, whether a one-time donation or ongoing monthly support, will help to transform lives. Together, we can equip fathers and grandfathers to lead with faith and create a brighter, hopefully future for generations to come. Click the link to donate today. Thank you for believing in this mission and joining us on this transformative journey.

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