The Father Difference

How Honest Dads Help Kids Face Struggles With Faith And Courage

Ed Tandy McGlasson

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We explore how dads can help kids open up by modeling humility, telling the truth about weakness, and asking what God is doing rather than forcing results. Stories of mercy, recovery, and practical prayer show a path from silence to trust and from control to connection.

• Creating safety through honest confession
• Breaking the “I can handle it” lie
• Modeling dependence on God like Jesus
• Asking better questions and listening well
• Praying for alignment with the Father’s work
• Navigating addiction with surrender and support
• Recognizing spiritual warfare against families
• Living honorably so children can honor
• Practical steps to rebuild trust at home

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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 McGlass.

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Hey, well, welcome. It's good to be with you. I am your host today on the Father Difference Podcast. And today we are talking about a continuation of last week. How as a dad, we can really help our children to open up to us about their struggles. Because there's one thing that's true, that's true about you, and it's true about me, is that when our children are struggling, or when we're struggling, that struggle intensifies, and we we many times feel hopeless to change in the midst of those kinds of things. Because and and the hopelessness kind of grows because we're made to be to grow inside a community, inside a family, the first unit in our life. And when our children are afraid of letting you in on way where they struggle, they do that because the devil's got them to believe that when they do, you won't respect them anymore. Or maybe some of your style as a dad has been overly disciplinarian to try to get them to become what you think they're supposed to be, and to share failure with you would be a hard thing. And one of the reasons that happens with us as parents is I don't know about you, but I wasn't raised with the with when my dad, my my dad, my birth father was killed in action. My stepfather did the best he could, but I don't re recall a single moment in all the time that I knew him. He's in heaven now, where he came to me and said, Son, I'm really struggling with this in my life. Would you pray for me? And so guess what I didn't do? Well, I didn't share my weakness or my struggle either, because I didn't want to disappoint him. As though the sin that I did as a young man was so far greater than anything. And there was just there was a one moment, a very telling moment, with my brother Dan and my father. And I was the witness to this, but I never really got that same kind of treatment. I don't know if it's because I was an older son, right? I had to carry the family legacy. But my brother Dan, you know, decided he was gonna drive my car that was my dad's car around the parking lot during practice. And he was convinced that he could drive. And so somehow he snuck my keys out of my gym bag and went over, started the car. My dad was actually there uh watching practice, and my brother got going, and he was just a little guy and got confused with the brake and the accelerator. You can already, you already know the end of the story. And so he's he's going towards a telephone pole with a with a big strap wire connected to it. And he lost control. He went back and he went to slam on the brakes, he slammed on the accelerator and launched the car into that big thick cable and didn't snap it, but bent the front of that car in like an accordion. And we all heard the racket and stopped practice, and my my stepdad runs over there, looks at my brother, and I am expecting the same kind of tongue-lashing that I so so deserved, I think, and many times, because I was a rascal. And he looks at his at Daniel, my brother, and he goes, Well, you know, and my brother was just he was already crying, he was shaking. I mean, he was just a young guy, and he said, You know, son, I remember my father going hunting, and he looked at me, threw me the keys, and said, Don't drive the car around the field. You just hang here till I get back from hunting. And me and my buddies were sitting there, we're all young kids. My our dads wouldn't let us go shooting because we were too young. And I ended up starting this car up, but we got in a little race around the cornfield. Tearing up the cornfield, to the chagrin of the farmer that let us go out there and shoot. I end up running into a big rock and demo and almost completely destroying my dad's truck. And he looks at my brother and he goes, You know, son, we all make mistakes. I could not believe my ears. I could not believe my ears that here was, you know, my stepdad showed my brother mercy in the midst of what he was doing. And and yet I never saw that side of him. So a lot of kids come up come away from childhood with different kinds of things, but I want to talk today about why your children are resisting letting you into their struggles. So, right from the beginning, I just want to ask you a big kahuna question as a dad, as a man, and that's this I'm gonna take a drink of water. How often do you let your own sons and daughters know about your personal struggles and how you deal with them? Because we've been talking about issues of addiction. It seems like there's a lot of those today. I mean, I I don't know, maybe it's just the same in every culture, but I'm dealing with parents right now with children, and some of the men I'm dealing with in our coaching time, some of them have real serious addiction issues. We got some issues in our family that we're dealing with, with people that we absolutely love. And part of, you know, part of the part of the secret to being able to help the process with somebody who's struggling is not to point out how broken they are. Well, that's they only know that. Not to point out how they are sabotaging their future. They they're not really clear about all that. When somebody, when one of your children or somebody you love is is stuck in in addiction, it's he's in that place of addiction or in that place of brokenness because he believes something the same way we believe something when we're broken. And you know what that is? And that's this I can handle it. I'm okay. I don't need to talk to my dad, I don't need to confess, I don't need to go to church, I don't need to go to a program. I can handle it. Well, that's the first step into that place of addiction in your life where you you're building a deeper hole for yourself. And the only way out of that, I mean, the only way is to be able to have conversation, even with your children and the way you deal with it, with the truth is, and it's the first step of recovery, is when you say, are able to say honestly, I can't stop doing this, but God can help me. And see, part of part of the reason that our children are in those places of addiction or in those places of struggle in their life is because they are taking on the role of being the God of their own life. And how do I know that? Well, those places in my heart that I've become bound to in the past, or even those things I deal with now, are places where I am seating myself in the place of authority in those places. And when it doesn't matter that people see how I'm broken, it doesn't matter how much they mention that I'm broken. But the secret lies in our transformation is when we really are able to say, I can't stop doing this. Every addict that I've worked with has the same thing. It's the same verbiage that I would say is I can change this. I promise I won't do it again. It might be a son, it might be a daughter, it it you know, it might be a relative, it might be somebody that you care about, it might be a buddy, it might be a friend. And as long as you're in control of the output of your life, because you know, let's face it, most of the a lot of the books that are written out there of people that have are become uber successful and they sell these books. There's a whole lot of human power in what they read. And it's basically, hey man, if you can learn to be powerful like me, you can you can build a multi-dollar million-dollar business in 90 days if you go through my course. And they'll get a few testimonies of people, and they just build on the the momentum of that, where the source of your strength, they might be even praising Jesus, but at the core of your strength is you know, that old Sinatra song, I did it my way. See, the ultimate sin that was offered to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden when God said, You can eat of any tree in the garden. There was no limitations, but the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the day you eat of it, your eyes, you know, you will surely die. That's what God said to Adam and Eve. You're not going to be like partially dead, you are spiritually dead. And I don't think they understood even what death was. They have a limited perspective of death because of animals, they lived for so long. Creation was different than anything that we had. Sin had not entered into the world until Adam and Eve bit into that fruit that God said they do it, and their eyes were opened. And basically, the temptation was for God knows from the devil who was a talking snake, and the day you eat of that fruit, your eyes are going to be open because God doesn't want you to know that you can be the boss of your own life. That's my own English interpretation of that. You get to choose what is good and what is bad. Have you noticed in our world, you know, with people, is that there's there's this value on people saying, Well, I have my own truth. You have your truth, I have my truth. And that that's pretty much level until you start talking about the truth of Jesus that trumps all of our personal truths. And they may, well, I don't believe in that. I don't believe in that. I don't believe that that's a sin. I don't believe that's wrong. I was working with somebody in this past couple weeks, and they said, Well, I don't believe in recovery. I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I said, Well, it seems as though your entire life, your family, you've you've lost connection with your kids, you've you lost your relationship with the birth mother, you're struggling at your job, you're you're sneaking around and drinking, you're still going to church, and I'm sure you're asking God for forgiveness for everything. And you're you're trying to hide how much you drink, you're becoming violent with people, and and your family, your your family is suffering. And if you put all those things together, the chances are really high that you you have an in an incurable disease in your soul that you can't personally heal yourself. And the reason why it's growing in you is because you're in charge. And you know, I remember you know looking at him and and saying, Do you think you're God? You think you can actually will yourself to be a different person? Well, yeah, you would say, Well, where where when does that happen? When have you been able to ever maintain this issue? Well, maybe maybe there's a whole different way. Like what? When you learn how to say the words, I can't, I need help. I can't do it, Dad. I need help. And to bring your children to that point where that they're that brutally honest about where they struggle. That's how I'm gonna I'm gonna talk and give you a few keys today about how to not only open up your own life, to give them a roadmap and of how to be a man, or you know, you as a father, you know, the way you're modeling that to your children will be the starting point of them learning how to deal with those things that want to own them. Because the truth of the matter, and and listen to me when I say this, that we're all we're all guilty of something, and we're all addicted to something that we need to bring before the Lord and not only receive forgiveness, but really receive the power that we need and the help and the community and all those things around us that we need to get well. And that doesn't happen when you think, well, I I can handle this. Those are the last, you know, that that's like the guy who doesn't went and get into the lifeboat on the Titanic because he just figures this thing's unsinkable. I'm just gonna stay back. I can handle this. And he perishes. And there's that moment, you know, on the Titanic when, of course, they didn't have enough lifeboats, is that you had to get in that lifeboat if you won a chance to live. And Jesus is our lifeboat. It's for you, it's for your children, it's for your family. And I'm here to tell you God can do extraordinary miracles when we bring those places in us, and it's really called repentance in the Bible, where we bring what we can't do before the Lord and say, Lord, I can't fix this. I need your help. I can't fix this, and maybe go with a friend to a recovery group, and we'll talk some more about that. And so I want to share with you a couple of slides that will help us kind of navigate this. Now, one of the verses that I love so much, and it's the internal life of Jesus, is he says to his disciples, I say to you, the Son of Man can do nothing on his own accord. In a real way, Jesus was saying, I can do nothing, right? You know, he determined to not come and be Superman, where he just flies in to save the day. That wasn't what Jesus' plan was. Jesus' plan was to come and model to you and to me what a dependent life means on his father and the power and the person of the Holy Spirit. Because if he would have come as a superstar, to where, like some of the movies portray, the organ music goes up when he speaks and all those, you know, kind of moments, a dramatic thing that unfortunately sometimes the church has staged, you know, men of God who are more than human. They're superhuman and can do all these kinds of things. And and and we get entertained, and of course we go, and somebody has a gift of healing, we want to be healed, but it's not the model of the way Jesus did things. Jesus constantly was seeking his father for what he was doing around him, and then he determined to only do what his father was doing. He laid down his right to be God. He was God in the flesh, but he modeled what it's like to follow his father, and then ultimately then calls us to follow him. And so the scripture goes on and says, but he only he only can do what he sees his father doing. So one of the one of the secrets of ministering to your children is asking, we're gonna talk about questions in a moment, but it's staying in this place where you and and this is gonna make this is gonna might be a big light bulb for you, but it's really asking God what He is doing with your son and your daughter versus what you already know they should be doing. I was at a news conference before a big event I did with focus on the family and that and some other speakers. We were at an event, and so the the crowd could ask any questions they want to ask. And after about oh, 45 minutes, a parent directed a question at me, and he said, How can I get my son to to do it right? And I mean, he was just jumping in my grill, you know. And I said, What why are you so mad? Because he's not turning out the way he was raised. So he was you know struggling because his son wasn't listening. Well, well, why would any son listen to a father who speaks that way? And I said, Is that the way that you talk to your son? He goes, Well, yeah, it's he's frustrating. Tell me how I can get my son to do what's right, and I said, Can I ask you a question? Is that the way God talks to you? And he just his shoulders slumped. No. Well, how does God the Father get you to do what he wants? And it just stumps him. And I said, Isn't it doesn't he show you what to do every day? And when you do it, you have like a great day. Doesn't matter if you're attacked, or it doesn't matter if you don't hit all your goals, but you you get this this four-letter word that is one of the most powerful words for us as followers of Jesus. It's a word with W I T H. You move from doing a solitary life for proving yourself to God to doing a life with him, and that's what Jesus came to bring is with most of the system in those days was about all the things that you would do for God. If you really, if you're holy, God will then bless you. If you're you do all these things just right, then God will bless you. And Jesus came who did everything right, and when we learn to let go of the pride of our victories and even a failure and an embrace that we can't without him, we begin to discover the life of what it means to be with him. And when you discover that, you'll be a roadmap to teach your children how to be with God, too. And it'll change your relationship to them. It's incredibly, incredibly powerful. You know, that verse goes on, and it says, For the father, for whatever the father does, the son does likewise. And I just love this. For the father himself loves the son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And so why is it John writing this? Because John sees that Jesus did his life completely different than all the leaders of the day. And he did a life that wasn't about proving that he was the Messiah. He lived, Jesus lived a life connected and only doing what he saw his father doing. Even those impossible things, when he was, he discerned that he was on the way to ending his life and dying on the cross. Imagine the level of humility and obedience and trust that he had with his father to use that horrible moment of suffering that he was going to have to endure for all mankind. And he didn't run away from it. Because he learned to trust that if he follows him and does what he's doing, there will be all the grace that he needs to have to do what God is asking him to do. I found that so true with my own children. And so my prayer began to change from grow my son up so he's not so immature, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, into Father. I pray you would speak to my son today. And you would open scripture so he could discover the things that you're doing with his life. Lord, give him that compass of being loved and connected to you, even when he's broken. And Father, give him the heart to let me into a story. And then give me the grace, Lord, to to treat him the same way you've treated me. Isn't that powerful? That's the that's that's the heart that will begin to shift and open the door to a lost kid or somebody who is there. Because the the other part of this, then when our kids are struggling, they're also battling demonic forces that are doing everything it can to own and demonize your children and separate you. You know, people will say today, well, there seems to be so much more wickedness than in Jesus' day. Well, wicked the devil has always been trying to destroy God's beloved sons and daughters, always. Because he got no birthright. You know, a chief cherubim was banished out of heaven. You know, the book of Ezekiel talks about his fall. And from that moment on, his war has been against the sons of men, against fathers and mothers and families. And if he can destroy the unit of the mother and father, and sons and daughters, and blessing, uh, he can get them. I mean, even the fifth commandment that God gave was this profound potential blessing for your children when they honor their father and mother, honor your father and mother, that it may go well with you in the land and you might find favor. It's the only commandment that is this incredible, that has this incredible promise written right into it, that you get favor as a child when you honor your dad and you honor your mother. And so the challenge for you and me, is dads, and a few of the moms who slipped in there is to live an honorable life so that they're gonna want to have the same kind of relationship with Jesus and the Father that you do. And that is incredibly powerful. Incredibly powerful. And by the way, that's completely possible. It's been Jesus' plan all along. I'm just gonna share a few more scriptures tonight that it's for you to think about. And here's one that, and here's another, you know, here's Paul, one of the disciples of Jesus. And it's around this whole issue of learning how to follow and receive. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling. And my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in a demonstration of the spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. I mean, here's Paul in his second journey into this area. The first time they ran him out on a rail because nobody trusted him, because he was a great persecutor of Christians. And the second time he comes, he comes different after this long time out in the desert where God was preparing him. Paul learned how to receive. Because not only was he going to come back and ministry in power differently, but he was going to be imprisoned. And he was going to write much of the New Testament epistles and letters to the church that were going to last for thousands of years. So God had to do something inside him where he learned that he was not where he came from, that he became who he learned to that God wanted him to be. And so he decided, you know, that, you know, my job isn't to go up there and wow them with my great oratory skills. He said they came with in much fear and much trembling. You know, there's a moment when you're, and if you've been a speaker or shared anything, you know exactly what I'm about to say to you. Is that I've had messages that I got I got so excited about preaching them that I was I was getting saved all over again in the writing of the message. You guys ever do that? Were you just like, man, you had an anointed pen. And then you stand up in front of that crowd of wherever you are, and you realize that what's coming out of your mouth that in your study was these bold and powerful words, and you got visions of big altar calls and the kingdom of God. You know, you might have a, you know, and and yet when you get up there, you feel like a wet blanket. I I remember, you know, one of the first times I shared about the blessing of the father to a men's community. And man, I I ran up there like, man, I was just gonna change the world. It's like the old preacher's son. You know, he's waiting for his time to preach. And and yeah, he had gone to Bible school, came back. He's now an assistant pastor and his dad's big mega church. And and you know, each Sunday he goes, Hey, dad, I'm ready, man. I got a word from God, Daddy. You want to let me go up there and preach the word of God? And so he true story about this kid. And his father goes, No, you're not ready yet. You're not ready yet. And a couple weeks go by. Same kind of thing. Daddy, I got a word from God. If you just let me deliver it, it'll hit with great impact. And father said, No, you're not ready yet. And after bothering his dad now the third time, a few weeks later, he says, All right, son, you just kind of go up there and go do it. So he ran up there and grabbed that pulpit. And the moment hit him, where he wasn't just uh speaking a great sermon he had rehearsed. He was getting ready. He was going up into a place where you had to learn to listen, no matter what you've written, and to hear from God for the sake of those people that are in front of you to love and preach the gospel to. And great communicators learn how to do this. Loud communicators, they don't care what people think, they're just loud and excited about something. And went up there and he froze and he put his head down, so discouraged, and he walked down to the oh, I just I realized I had on my slide. And he walked down, sat down and like this and all discouraged. And his daddy leaned in and goes, son, if you'd have gone up how you came down, you'd have came down like you went up. And that's what happened with me. Man, I was so excited about doing this first men's retreat. I got up there to deliver the goods. And I just I sucked. I I I was just I was so discouraged and didn't realize that I was experiencing the spiritual warfare of the men in that crowd that were listening to me. I had made it all about myself. I was like, I can't believe my joke, nobody's laughing. The jokes don't seem, I'm not getting any feedback. And for speakers, that's hard. And so I'm trying to, you know, do my best. And and I was just, I can't wait to get through this. I come to the end with probably my worst ultra call call for somebody to be saved or to receive a blessing they never got from their father. And I I said something to the effect, I know there's probably nobody here that this meant anything to. I, you know, sort, you know, I struggled getting this message out. But if there's like maybe one person, yeah, I just have one hand. Even if you, you know, it's like, even if the janitor in the back could just give me some love that this is okay. And I said, if there's anybody here, you know, come on up. I'd love to pray for you. And I put my head down and I closed my book to walk off of the stage without looking up. I heard all this noise and looked. And almost the entire room of men had was moving forward weeping. And I was completely shocked. I was like, and the Lord just whispered, He goes, Don't say, It's not about you, Ed. I was letting you feel what every man in this room feels. That's the war that these dads come under all the time. Where they are marginalized, where they're demonized. He's just showing this to me. And the compassion of the Lord grabs my heart. And as I ministered and led, I can't tell you how many of the couple hundred men that came forward, hardly anybody in their seats, weeping and crying, and watching God the Father through the Holy Spirit and Jesus turn these boys in a lot of way who had horrible dad stories into the fathers that God had called them to be with this incredible blessing. And see, that's how God changes us to help us with our kids. We're gonna tie this together around that right now. Then maybe maybe you thought that you just don't have the equipment to be a great dad. Or that your story was too broken. Or maybe you're watching and you really feel like you've messed up too much. Well, I gotta I gotta tell you, you know, this one thing I've learned over and over and over again is a father now, a grandfather of of many grandkids. It's not about how perfect we are, it's about us learning how to go to that perfect one and to get what we need by saying the simple words that are really powerful is Father, I can't do this without you. Could you show me how to do this? Father, I I can't reach my son right now. He's angry with me, show me how I can reach my son. Father, my wife is pushing away, our marriage is lost the passion, show me what you're doing with my wife so I can love her and minister to her. And so when you approach your son or your daughter or God in a way without the answers, and that you're not the answer for them. Really big point, but that God is, and that you model how to take your broke your own brokenness to God, and you let your kids in on that, that'll open the door in their heart more often than not. It might take time because you know, let's face it, a lot of us have been have been equipped to listen to sermons and great teachings, and we translate that into the way we talk to our children with great sermons and great teaching. And the difference of Jesus with some preachers, not all of them, was that he was able to say, Follow me as I follow my father. Follow me as I follow my father. The son does likewise. For the father himself loved the son and shows him everything he's doing. And the reason why that is right in the middle of that verse, it's this amazing nugget. For the father himself loves the son, and the truth of the matter, beloved one, is the father himself loves you and wants to father you so that you can be the father your children need you to be, you can be the grandfather your grandkids and your children need you to be. You can be the husband and love your wife the way God has made you to do that, and what an incredible gift we get as followers of Jesus, where he not only calls us to do something we can't possibly do, but at that moment of saying, I can't, Lord, do this, but you can, and we turn to him that the Holy Spirit will bring the grace of God and the anointing we need to empower you and me to do something we never saw our fathers do with our moms. We never saw we date them in different ways than we seen model. We've learned to follow and do things with our children that we never saw our dad do with us. And the more we live in that space of receiving, the more impact you will make as a father. And so next week we're gonna continue on more of this, even a deeper level of this. And I don't want to let the cat out the bag, but before I get off, before we pray, because I'm gonna pray for you, is that we have something that we've released that I think would be an incredible opportunity for you, for your family, for your kids, and that's our Fatherhood Academy. I'm gonna talk about it at the end, but we've built an academy with online courses and that comes also with live coaching, with yours truly, to help you become the father that maybe you've always wanted to be, or be the father that God has designed you to be. And so we've named it the Fatherhood Academy because when we allow God to father us, right, the same way he fathered his son Jesus, that will equip us to father our children in ways that maybe we have never seen from any other dad. And that's incredibly powerful. And I'm gonna tell you, my life is a testament, testament to being fathered by God. And I think one of the great benefits that God gave me in my life, that's a benefit now, wasn't a benefit in my early story, was that my dad, when he he took off these dog tags and laid them on the bedside table as he was going to test his Fury 3 jet in 1956. Well, I had not been born yet, about a month after his crash, but he was killed in action. So I never had a moment with my dad. I had a stepdad that did his best to love me, but I had this missing piece in me that I thought I was going to be forever broken and forgotten because I didn't have a dad. There's a lot of guys I meet who think that they're gonna be screwed up forever because they carry a wound from their dad and not a blessing. I'm here to tell you that no matter how good your dad was, we all got wounds we carry, because no dads are perfect. But God sent his only son so that when we learn to totally receive him, he opens a door to his father for us that completely changes our life, where we get refathered by God Himself. For I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord God Almighty. Second Corinthians 16, verse 9. That's what God wants, I think it might be verse 18. That's what God's doing. That's what he did with me, that's what he can do with you. And the Father Academy is built around that premise with our podcast, with our online teaching, with one-on-one coaching with me is an option that you can sign up for. But to do that, you got to go to my website and sign up. And we've discounted it for the first hundred new members. We have a bunch of members already around the country. We got members around the country, and all you gotta do is sign up and uh come hang out with us. And I would love an opportunity to just be one of those coaches in your story to help you connect more to the father. Because I know you're watching this because you want to be the best dad you can be, or the best grandpa, or you just want to learn how to love the woman that you have, maybe your wife. This is we have gals that are in our program too. And so girls carry that same wound too. So if you're interested, sign up. And we I would love to uh I see it's gonna throw that up there. Go to the fatherdifference.com, it'll be right there on the screen. So before I get off of here, let me pray for you. And if you've got prayer requests that you want to uh shoot to me or send me an email and say, I would love to get with you. I have some family issues that I I don't want to talk about online, but I I really I need some help. If you're interested in our in our coaching program, your first time with me is free. And all you gotta do is sign up. You can get that right at our website at fatherdifference.com. And I would love to meet with you and see if it's a good fit, if if our services and what we do can really help you. Because, you know, I really believe in one thing the Beatles said, we can get by with the help from a friend. And that's what we do here. So, Father, I thank you for my friends that are watching. I thank you for for the time they've invested tonight to learn about how to become the best dad, or maybe for the gals, the best mom they could be. I pray, Lord, that you would meet them where they are in such a profound way and you would bless them with that same blessing that you're they that everybody saw that Jesus carried. I pray, Lord, that you would restore their relationship with their children and give them the right kind of heart to be present enough to help their children see a model of somebody who's on the way to heaven, who's broken to. Lord, I pray that you would bless them. I pray that you would heal their relationship with their kids. And I just I ask you, Lord, that you would be with them in profound ways and heal their families. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen. Amen. One of the services that uh I offer is helping you with kids that won't talk to you. And uh, I found that the young people, if they like football, they would they'll meet with a football player or maybe somebody other than their dad. If you want some coaching, that's available. You can get a hold of me at my website. Would love to help you. And uh, that's all I gotta say. I'm gonna go have a great dinner, go kiss your sweetheart after you brush your teeth. Didn't you do that when you were dating? Wasn't your breath like crystal clear, evergreen? Then you get married, you know. So, anyway, Lord bless you. I'm so grateful that you're with me. You're here, your time is important to me. And I hope this is a blessing. I love your comments. You can reach out to me on email, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Rumble X. I'm on all of them. So remember, my friends, it's never too late for God to do a miracle in our lives, to be the father we've always wanted, and to make us into the fathers and men that God has destined us to be. Well, check out this video at the end. Thank you for your support. If you want to support us, it would mean the world to us to reach the men that God's leading us to. God 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 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 a movement that God is already doing to reshape fatherhood. It's 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, 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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