How Dads Win Their Kids' Ears

We explore how fathers move from force to influence by winning their kids’ hearts, not just their ears. Through stories, scripture, and practical tools, we show how tone, modeling, questions, and genuine apologies rebuild trust and open space for guidance.

• Mission to equip men to be present, trusted fathers
• Why tone shapes a child’s view of God
• Listening first and asking questions to build ownership
• Shifting from parent–child control to adult–adult respect
• Modeling the life you want your kids to copy
• Specific apologies that break bitterness
• Humility and forgiveness as family superpowers
• Invitation to join Fatherhood Academy and go deeper

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Chapters

• 0:01 Mission And Welcome
• 1:18 Today’s Focus: Kids Who Listen
• 3:42 The Angry Dad Question
• 6:05 Modeling God’s Kindness As Fathers
• 10:00 Tone, Words, And Kids’ View Of God
• 13:30 Grace Over Perfection
• 16:30 Listening Before Leading
• 20:00 Ask Questions, Not Just Give Answers
• 24:02 Live The Life You Want Them To See
• 27:50 Quick To Listen, Slow To Anger
• 31:55 Wealth Isn’t Legacy, Character Is
• 34:30 Break Bitterness With Forgiveness
• 39:00 A Family Heals At The Table
• 43:30 Rebuilding Trust Through Humility
• 47:00 Fatherhood Academy Invitation And Prayer

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:01

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 McGlass.

SPEAKER_02: 1:17

Well, welcome. Here we are. How dads get their kids to listen. We're gonna be there in just a second. I gotta find out where this banner is. That oh boy, where is the media assets on here? And okay. Hold on with me here. Let me find out where this banner is. There it is. Hide there's your there we go. Here's yours truly. Hi Met Tanya McGlass, and welcome tonight. I'm looking forward to this time. And as in coaching, this is one of the questions that comes up all the time. How do I get my kids to listen to me? And you probably don't have that problem, but I'll share some of my story. It might give you some encouragement. And we'll look at we'll look at the how the how-tos of really the mission with your children is really the mission of recapturing your heart so that they trust you and and and really begin and really let you engage in their story. Because if they're not if they're not engaging in your story and they don't want to be a want you to be part of their story, then you know you got a problem. And so how do you fix that? And so we're gonna we're gonna learn we're gonna learn about that today and and talk about that. And I'd love in the comments, if you got a question or an issue that's happened with you and one of your kids, I'd love to hear from you. You might be tuning in at an at another time frame after we've recorded this. We're actually on Rumble, we're we're on Facebook Live, on both of my pages, we're on YouTube, we're on X, we're on Instagram, and so wherever you're coming from, welcome today. And we're gonna talk about how to do that. So I'm gonna start off by telling you a story, and then I'm gonna get into the notes that we're gonna talk about tonight. And I was at a uh sit-down with a number of different people. It was a radio sit-down live event in an auditorium uh a number of years ago. And you could ask any question that you wanted to ask of the panel. And I happened to be one of those people on the panel. We had James Dobson's son, we had uh a number of different other ministries represented. And so this guy looks at the camera and looks at us, and I'm looking at the camera and no, he was looking at us, and he gets really animated and really angry. He kept trying to get his question in, and I saw his hand come up, and finally he he calls on me and he says, I'll do my best to kind of to to emulate exactly the way he was. And he says, How do I get my kids to listen to me? And I and I I listened to him, and I looked at him, and I said, So can I ask you a question? How often do you use that tone with your kids? And he was just flabbergasted. And I said, Why are you why are you so angry, sir? Because my kids don't do what I say. And I said, Okay. I said, Can I ask you a question? Do you always do what God says to you? And it just kind of busted him. And he goes, Well, and he kind of calms down. He goes, No, I'm I just don't want my kids to turn out like me. And I said, Well, that's a great plan. But what's happening is you're modeling to them exactly the kind of person you want them to be. See, most of us as dads don't understand that the way we treat our kids, the way we speak to our kids, the words we use, it frames for them really a couple of things. Number one, what our expectations are. Number two, it frames for them of maybe who how how God would speak to them one day. Because when you learn to be a really present, loving father, it'll open your kids more to hearing from the Lord than the guy who's mad at them because he won't listen to God. And and what kid in her right mind would want to, you know, to go to a God that's that's that's kind of pissed at them because they're not quite right yet. And yet I didn't know, being a young dad, how vital it was for me to model the way God the Father speaks to me. So I want you to think about for a moment. Maybe you can even comment about this in the comments. Think about those times when you've had like incredible breakthrough with Jesus, where he's spoken to you, where the Father's spoken to you, when a scripture popped out of a sermon. I mean, how did it come at you? And if you look back, you you know, chances are are are really high that it didn't come, it came and it felt like a sledgehammer, but it came with this incredible gentleness and kindness and goodness that ends up changing our hearts. Matter of fact, it says in Romans that it's the it's the goodness of God that leads us to repentance. It's just kindness in Christ. And the only reason why God is able to pour out that goodness upon us is not because we're we get it together, is because he took all the wrath and all the hurt and all the upset stuff, and he poured it out on his son on the cross. All that rage, all that anger got poured out, and Jesus actually really did die in our place so that we could have a new beginning. And that, and and when you begin to really think about and meditate on that the reason that we can hear from God or read the Bible and understand the voice of God that comes through the Holy Spirit and and God the Father, as He speaks into us and leads our life, is because there's nothing that He didn't pay for on the cross, so that He doesn't hold that in front of you to keep you from having access to Him. Because at that moment when you say, Father, forgive me, He's just right there. And even the way that He brings that forgiveness to us, we don't think we deserve it because we didn't have a part in fixing ourselves. Well, welcome then, Goy Music. Welcome to Blessings to you. There's people just popping in from all over the place. And so if you're on Rumble, or actually, I don't see Rumble feed right here, or I would love to find out too where you're from. Maybe that one of the big kahuna things that you want to learn tonight is we talk about this whole thing. How can I get my kids to listen? And how to listen to me and follow me and care about what I say as a dad. Well, the first thing we're talking about is that the way you hear the Lord yourself, the more you learn to hear his voice for you from that incredible place of goodness that he speaks to and his kindness that he speaks to you. Not that his words at times are just incredibly confronting, but just think about, you know, it says in Proverbs that, you know, when you go to confront somebody, you do it with like a setting of silver. You do it in gentleness, you don't do it in superiority because it just blasts that person out. I mean, I I remember the early days of being a dad, and and you know, I was really hard on them, trying to protect them, trying to keep them from doing stupid sins like me. And it doesn't, it didn't really matter how much I how much of the Bible I I quoted to them is the tone that was coming out of my mouth, is the way I was framing who God was, and is that they, you know what they got from me? They got God's pissed at me. And he's not gonna bless my life until I just do everything perfect. And if when you're a pastor of a church and your children begin to do that, you know what they do? They eventually they start resenting going to church because they always feel that they can't do it. And then the added pressure of them being some kind of example of doing everything right puts this incredible pressure on them. And so they think that they're in with God because they do it right. They don't understand the incredible truth of the gospel that Paul teaches us and Jesus taught us that we're in because Jesus did right. While we were still dead in our sins, Romans 5.8 says, right? We're still dead in our sins. And that word dead is graveyard debt. I mean, there's no way you can save yourself. Your sin comes on your life, and it produces death in you, spiritual death, and separation from God. But even though you were born in your you were already dead in your sins, Romans 5.8 says, Christ died for you. So just think about the sacrifice that Jesus made for you on the cross, way before you were born, way before you were looking for it, way before you had anything really to offer him. And it's to begin to think about that. You'll you'll begin to you'll begin to understand how to be a better father. Or if you're a mom listening, a better mom. Because the way we frame the Lord will be the way kids start out really thinking about who God is. And so it's vital in the way you way you you frame him. And and is it too late if I've I've screwed up and done it wrong for years? Absolutely not. It's really amazing, and I and I have dads who started off wrong like I did, and I'd go to my kids and go, you know, dad's been really hard on you. Will you forgive me for doing that because I was wrong? It's amazing how quickly my kids would forgive me when I was honest. If I just said sorry, dad's had a bad, I'm having a bad day, man, bad day of work, a lot of pressure.

SPEAKER_01: 13:49

You don't know how hard it is for me to make a living and support you and here, you don't even clean your room.

SPEAKER_02: 14:01

I know you might think I'm making fun of somebody. That's me. That's the way I treated my kids. You know, I was just, I was manipulating them and I was I was working them because I I really lost touch at times with the fact that it was the God's goodness that that called Edmont Glass and this broken football player out in Kiel Cauley dormitory in room 603 and healed my knee, gave me a new beginning, and gave me a life that I live today. And so when you understand that the way the connect to your kids really flows out of the in a real way, the vine of you being connected to the vine of Jesus. You know, Jesus said, I'm the vine, you're the branches. He who abides in me will bear much fruit. Apart from me, you can do nothing. Nothing. And not only by you, but I've tried to do something for years. I've tried to even super glue my connection of my branch into the vine to prove myself that I am worthy of God's blessing in my life. We can't be, because we're even that is sinful. That even that basically treads on the sacrifice of Christ. And so I have my customary call from my my oldest son every night. I forgot to turn off my ringer. And let me do that right now. And let me let me tell you why that's so important to me as a dad. Is you know, God's done a lot of work on me so that I learn how to to really capture the heart of my kids and keep their hearts. See, they won't listen to you if you don't have their heart. You can have all the truth in the world, you can have all the wisdom of the world, you can have all the money in the world to give to them or resource them. And they won't become the person they really need to be until they understand about the incredible love of God that He He gave us when He sent His Son for us. And they'll never understand really the Christian life if they never learn from dad how to receive from God Himself. And the quickest way for you to cut that off is to be hard on him. Now, I know some of you might think, well, what about discipline? Well, we'll we'll get into all that, but we sort of err on structure. I'm the father of the family, you know, these are my rules. This is the way you're to live. And there's it, there's healthy things of creating a loving boundary for your children about what it looks like to be in a family. But the most important thing you do with them is you need to teach them how to receive from God, how to forgive, how to be forgiven, how to hear from him. And at the core of their most of all of their experience with you as you're raising your children, is a question. What does my dad really think about me? So if you're thinking right now, think about your son or your daughters. How would they answer that question? Somebody might say, Well, my my kids would say I love them. And and that's awesome. What does that look like? And yet they measure what you think about them, where love is really powerful and that's an important building block, but they measure themselves by what they believe you truly think about your children. So, what do you kids think that you believe about them? Sometimes it comes out of our words, right? You know, they did a survey years ago. Bill Glass, one of one of my heroes of the faith, was one of the NFL football players that really help and helped open up prisons. You know, he would go into prisons with some other football players and share about the love of Christ and about the love of the father to these guys. And so he would do a survey in every prison he'd go to, and he would ask the same question. He would say, When you think about your childhood, what was the one thing that your dad or your mom repeated over you over and over again that really framed who you are today? So these guys would think, you know what the number one response was? There's not even a close second. And it was, if you keep living this way, one day you're gonna end up in prison. See, I didn't understand as a young dad that my words can frame the future of my children. And the tone I speak frames for them maybe what God thinks about them. And it also they're they're constantly kind of looking at you. Well, what does my dad really think about me? And if they discern that you don't, you're not proud of them for anything, or they're just you know, they're gonna end up in prison, or they're just gonna, you know, live this crazy life, guess what? That's exactly how they start. So, how do we how do we get our kids to listen to us? And I'm gonna just give you there's some real practical tools tonight that I've learned to use. And I mean, it's changed my relationship with my kids. It's really helped them. And you might say, well, boy, that's enough of what you've already shared. Well, I'll share a few more things with you. And so, so how do how do I get my kids to listen? Well, here's here's the first thing. Listening is really foundational for a healthy relationship. Now, no one's gonna say, no, you're out of your tree. Well, it's true. Your ability to communicate with your wife determines the the level of relationship you have. And you know, it's it at times, I mean, that's that's a really hard deal. But do your kids ever say to you in their teenage years, or maybe younger years, you're not listening to me. And you know, you you respond back, I hear perfectly well. The problem is you're not listening to me. Because we have this idea that our rule book is the master rule book for their life. But here's a little nuance. It's only the master rule book if we live out everything we're asking them to do. Oh, I just moved from talking and sharing to meddling, haven't I? Because it's not the things that I know that frames my life for my children. It's the way I do things. And here's the other nuance: it's the way I do things even when they don't see me, because it's the man we become in Christ and following God that becomes the model of what your expectations are, way more than your words. And yet we're quick to speak and we're slow to listen, which the Bible says we need to do the opposite of that. We should need to be slow to speak and quick to listen, so that we can help our kids navigate who God has made them to be. And so part of the problem that we have is that it's it's really easy for us to give advice when our children aren't asking for device, advice. See, because listening to foundational have a relationship, the the thing that we got to do is we got to ask more questions than we give answers. We ask more questions than we give answers. Think about that. Do that until they come and ask for advice, and even then, answer with a question. I learned this in the way Jesus dealt with disciples. Because if you if you're always giving the answers and trying to be the hero for your kids or my way or the highway, guess what happens? You create this parent-child relationship where you have the power, they don't have the power. And so you, with your force, because you're the dad and you got the food, and you got the house, and you got all this stuff, you can determine you basically listen to me. And so the the conversation is usually one-directional. And Jesus, he was the master at doing this simple little thing that I began to learn and manage, just changes the dynamics of with my children. If Jesus would begin to ask questions, so that relationship with that person would turn to adult, adult. See, in parent-child relationships, you got the power, you got the money, you got the food that they want. And I found with kids, even in their teen years, they might obey their parents when their dad is around, but when they're not with their family, being their own adult, they live by the rules they believe. Well, the secret of raising a healthy kid is to help them discover God's way for them. So they begin to teach you about the things they're learning from him. And it's not, because I I've I've had, I can't tell you how many times I've heard this where parents will come to me and say, I just don't understand. I I did everything I knew to do. I took them to church, I raised them in a Christian home. And I go, really? I mean, was uh so your house was born again? And they go, What? You see, you raise them in a Christian home, so and I know what you really mean is that you raised him, you took them to church, you got them in Sunday school. And then I asked them this question so how how much did you model to them the life that you wanted them to live in Christ? Where it's so believable and so compelling for them that they want to they want to follow God just like you. See, that's the that's the big kahuna point of everything I'm sharing with you today. See, I've learned one thing over and over as a dad, now grandpa. I gotta live the life first so they see it's possible. And then I gotta teach them and share with them how to enter that themselves. And then I celebrate them when they enter it. And I brag on them and other people, and they get it, it gets back to my kids. Hey, I was with your dad today, and man, he just says incredible things about you. It's it's powerful when your children do that. And you know what's even more powerful when your friends that you have tell you that they just met your son and he all he talked about was how proud he was of you being his dad. Isn't that ultimately what you want as a father? You want your children to to excel in their life, but don't you want a a great relationship where they really are receiving from you? Because whether they listen sometimes or appear not to, they are always watching you. And so the the first thing I want to say to you is that you got to live a life you want them to live. And I think it's I think it's in my notes here. I might be jumping way ahead, but and the reason and and that is, you know, you know, James says it this way about this whole understanding of listening, asking questions. My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. That's really hard for us as parents when we don't feel heard. Can I ask you the question? How long and how much have you learned and gone through in your life to come to the point where you are today with God? Some of you might be, you know, recently asking Christ in your life, you might be new to him. But just think about all of the years that you've been following God, all the mistakes, all the all the repentance, all the coming back, all the ways he treated you and loved you and took care of you. Excuse me. And all the gentleness in the way he's treated you. What would change in your relationship with your children right now if you really learned how to be gentle that way? If you really learned how to be affirming that way. If you really learned how to be patient that way. Understanding that you backing off and not putting the pressure on your kids when they're broken, but praying for them and modeling that life and being ready uh to help them, the more you do that with them, the more impact you're gonna have. And that and that's and that's an incredible, incredible truth. I'm gonna share maybe one more thing. We I have a big list. I'm gonna finish this next week because it's such a big, big subject. And I want to honor your time because I am so grateful that you showed up here tonight. But the more you You model the man you want your son to be, or the kind of man you would want your daughter to marry, or become that kind of father that she wants to be like you, and the way you walk with God. That first the thing, the way you open her ears, or your your son's ears when they're uh angry with you, is in the way you treat them, in the way you live that life. And so you don't have to have to love a lot of money to be a good father. Matter of fact, I I I've coached a number of kids that were raised in opulence, and and they they're so screwed up because they they count on the money of the family. They've learned to count on the money and the fun and the things they do, but they've not really learned how to be honest and and count on their dads. Because they're working all the time. And yet our legacy is father's and as grandfathers, it's more than the estates we build, not saying that that's not important. It's about the the true man that you are before the Lord. And let me kind of close with this because I I want to be sensitive to your time. Not only do you ask questions, but the second second part I wanted to share with you tonight is you get really good at showing your kids how to ask for forgiveness. If there's like one thing that you could do that that could have the biggest impact in protecting your family legacy from bitterness, is to model to your children how to ask for forgiveness when you blow it. I was with uh a group of gals that I ministered to here in Southern California, a number of them, you know, they ended up having really bad relationships with their dads. Or no father at all. Even talking about it with them. I was with them last night, and they're just lovely young women, but they just don't know it because their fathers were so brutal. And they just wept, you know, when they started talking about their dads. There was just moments where the Holy Spirit was just breaking through for them because they want to be great moms and they want to have a different story in their marriage than their parents did, many of them. And and I asked them a question, I said, How many of you made the biggest mistakes of your life because you were angry with your dad? You know, all their hands went up. And they started sharing your story and and one just couldn't even get the words out because their persona of how they saw themselves as a young girl, now a mother, was shaped by that the first man of their story. Now you might not realize this, Dan, but you are the first man of your daughter's story, and you might have completely blown it. I got great news for you. It's never too late to repair that. But if there's one one thing I want to leave you with tonight, just kind of in closing, is teach them how to get forgiven by God. And here's what you do you model to them what asking for forgiveness looks like. And you know, I remember when God started showing me about my kids, and I wanted unity and I wanted my kids to be a certain way, and I found myself driving them, treating them like pastors' kids, not my kids, hurting them deeply. But the breakthrough started coming when I learned that the biggest offender in their life wasn't necessarily their bad things they did with God themselves. It was the way I treated them when I got angry, the way I drove them, didn't listen to them. And I I remember, like it was just yesterday, where I'm, you know, frustrated with my kids because they're not listening to me. And I'm just, you know, they're fighting in the other room and treating one another badly. And I heard them, and and my wife said, You need to go in and handle that. And I was I was walking there ready to just, you know, have a family meeting and just drill them for not treating one another well. As I'm walking, the Lord said, Well, you showed them. You showed them how to how to treat be this way. Why don't you ask them how you hurt them so you can ask for forgiveness? Gosh, what a moment that was. Because immediately I'm like, well, you know, I couldn't have been that bad. And so I I trusted what God was leading me to do, and I had no idea what was going to do to my relationship. And I I got I put my kids at the table, and one of my sons said, Oh boy, here comes another sermon. And I said, You know, guys, I know that I've really hurt you at times, is your dad. And I never really I never really asked for forgiveness. Can you tell me what I did so I can ask for forgiveness? And I want to tell you, I mean, that it was like a holy bomb went off in in our den, and my daughters immediately started to tear up and cry. My oldest son just sat back. He'd never seen this side of me. I was big head the evangelist, professional football player, you know, pastor of a church. Now I was just dad. I was just dad. He was broken. And so my daughter, my oldest daughter, Jessica, said, Really? Really? And I said, Yeah. Whatever it is. And she shared her heart and it hit me. Oh man, I did that. And I you don't when forgiveness doesn't happen when you say sorry. Forgiveness happens when you acknowledge what you did and you ask them to forgive you, and that becomes a transaction between you and them where they get to vote on whether or not they forgive you. You give them the choice. And so I I acknowledge, I said, Would you forgive me for doing that to you? I can tell it really hurt you, and I am I'm so sorry that I did that. Will you forgive me? And she paused for about a minute, just crying, and and then she looked at me, she goes, I forgive you, Daddy. And then Mary shares something, and then same kind of thing. And then Edward and Josh and Lucas. Josh was little and something broke in my family. And what broke was bitterness, was laying a foundation between me and my kids. And so when you think about your children right now, is bitterness crept in? You know how you break bitterness? Not by going up to somebody and saying, Hey, you need to stop being so bitter. Well, you break bitterness between you and a person as you go and say, What did I do? Because I can tell you're doing this to me. Is there something that I did that I need to ask for forgiveness for? And I can't tell you how many hundreds of dads that I've coached through this and how they got their kids back. Because what I didn't realize in that moment is that I was modeling to my children what asking forgiveness was all about. And I was laying a foundation of forgiveness so that God's blessing could flow between us and restore our relationship. So think about it for a minute. Which one of your kids do you need to ask forgiveness for? Think about that. Have you ever asked that question? Do you know how you know forgiveness is happening? Because they want to be around you. I mean, you know, there's a there there's a lot of hurt in families today, and modern psychology is kind of stepped in, and kids now are creating boundaries around parents because of hurt. And it's because forgiveness does not come between them. And it's it's demonic, it's wicked. And even for a while, there's people in political parties who I will not mention, you know, have been perpetrating this in separating families so that sons and daughters can listen to the culture more than they do their fathers. That's the devil's plan. So what's our what's our superpower? Humility. And it's a question. I know I've hurt you. Can you tell me what I've done so I can ask for forgiveness? Who in your life do you need to ask it for? Or maybe you have. Or maybe it's new for you tonight. And so I wanted I wanted to share that with you tonight and have you think about it. And we're gonna come back next week and uh and learn some more. But tonight is just about those two things that we talked about. And I'm just uh grateful. I'd love to get comments from you too, and and just a couple of things is that we have a lot of different resources for you that I would be honored to you know share with you. That in our if you've never been in our website, it's a father difference. And we have an online uh fatherhood academy that has personal coaching to really help you get to the next level. And right on our website, and you can go to our website and and uh and you'll see it on our website about the fatherhood academy. It's a it's a brand new thing that we're doing, and it's a place for you as a as a man to become the husband, father, and maybe you're single, the man that God has called you to be. And I'd love for you to be part of our program. Because like after this call here, I'm I'm meeting with my guys online for kind of an advanced coaching time to teach them not only how to work through those issues, but how they can learn to be coaches themselves to the men that they know. Because if we're gonna change the culture of the world where dads have been systematically cut out by the devil and crazy politicians, because they weren't good fathers themselves. So, how are they gonna teach people to do that? But God's gonna do something before the great and coming day of the Lord. He is gonna turn the hearts of us, our dads, towards our children. So that the hearts of our children will turn back to our fathers. It's never too late to heal your family. And so we built a Fatherhood Academy. So, and it'll be a little commercial at the end about this that I just encourage you to watch. I'd love for you to become part of. It's a money-back guarantee, it's a small investment every month, but it gives you some maximum results in your life. And I want to encourage you to think about that. But before we do that, I want to pray with you, Father. I just I pray for every friend that I have right now on all the different platforms. And I ask you right now to heal their relationship with their children and teach them how to be the kind of father that their children call because they want to hear from their dad. They want to know what he knows, and they want their dads to be part of their story. So, Father, I pray you would bring that level of healing with my friends that are watching. And that these little tools they learned tonight. If you've forgotten what they are, go back and listen to the replay. There's some moments I want to listen to because I know that God kind of showed up in our midst here in some profound ways. And Lord, I pray you would we would heal the families of the men that are listening right now in the name of Jesus. And no matter what is happening, even maybe you're in the midst of a divorce or your wife wants a divorce. That question for your children, it's a powerful question to understand how much you've hurt your wife so that you can ask for forgiveness. Imagine what would happen in a world, in our world, if we really learned how to do that. Well, that's God's plan. So I ask you to bless my brothers and sisters, use their lives in profound ways, Lord, to be a light for you, Jesus, in a really dark time in our world. And we pray all these things in the name of Jesus. Thanks for being with me. Thanks for just hanging in there. This was a beautiful, intimate time for me anyway. I'd love your feedback. You can email me at any time. You can go to my website at the fatherdifferent.com, send me an email, let me know what spoke to you, or maybe you got a prayer request. We also have a free book you can get at any time. Right now, this this is going out to 233 countries, and I'm so grateful that it's gone so far, and I'm so blessed by it. And all that to say, watch this little short little video in closing. And uh, I can't, I'll I'll see you next week. The Lord bless you. And uh I'm really excited about how God's going to use you as the model to model to your children who God is really wants them to be, and in the way you ask for forgiveness to bring healing to your family. So that's what we talked about tonight. And when you do that, your children will listen to you. God bless you.

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Here's that little video. 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 mean dads daily who want to learn to be better fathers. Yet many have never been shown how. Too many families are being fractured through bitterness and with parents and grandparents even being canceled. That's why we're launching an online community to quit and 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 as a sacred calling rooted in the teachings of pride. 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 nature, anchoring each child, their division, and 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, hope filled 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.