Becoming The Father Your Kids Need

What if your best parenting move isn’t a new rule but a new posture—seeing what God is already doing in your child and partnering with it? We dive into a fatherhood reset anchored in Jesus’ own rhythm: “The Son can do nothing by himself; he only does what he sees the Father doing.” That single shift changes how we correct, when we speak, and why our kids finally start to listen. Instead of chasing outcomes with pressure and lectures, we learn to lead with presence, questions, and blessings.

We open with the honest ache many parents feel: repeating what we swore we’d never do, feeling alone, and not knowing how to reach a drifting child. From there, we unpack a practical path forward. You’ll hear how identity is formed not by performance but by blessing, and how a clear rite-of-passage moment can help a son or daughter stand taller as a young adult. We explore why questions—What do you want me to do for you? What do you sense God showing you?—unlock a child’s voice and train them to hear God for themselves. That shift takes us from command-and-control to wise consultation, especially as kids move into their teens and twenties.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Mission And Welcome
• 1:20 Honest Struggles In Dad Life
• 3:10 Fatherlessness And Identity Crisis
• 7:55 God’s Promise To Father You
• 12:20 Jesus’ Model: Do What The Father Does
• 17:30 From Control To Partnership At Home
• 22:10 The Power Of Asking Questions
• 27:10 Blessing, Identity, And Coming Of Age
• 32:20 Keeping Your Child’s Heart
• 36:40 Prayer, Academy Invite, And Support

Transcript

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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 here from sunny California. I'd love to hear where you're from. If you wherever you are today, we're gonna get right into a real exciting discovery about learning to father my children in a new way. How many of you have tried being the best dad you can be? And you just keep blowing it over and over again. I've I've raised my hand. And so we're we're doing my dog's even barking out there. He's given witness to this. And so let me see if I can move that over a little bit. So, anyway, so we're gonna we're gonna get into this. I'd love your questions, and we're gonna talk about this incredible gift that we have. Oh, well, there's a comment. Yes, yours truly is still uh wearing my Rams jersey. We only needed four yards, and and we ended up losing the game. Well, go go for it there, Seahawks. And and so the Rams missed the Super Bowl. Well, we'll we were close. I don't know how your team did, but there was not much crying here. But uh it was uh it was a great game. And so so how are you doing as a dad? How are you, you know, how are you doing fathering your children? How about you? Maybe you're a grandpa and you're you've been fully engaged with your grandkids, and and many times you're you're almost re-fathering them because of issues with your own kids. And so we have a lot of grandpa in our fatherhood academy. That's one of the uh incredible things that we have that is part of what we do. You might say, what is the fatherhood academy? We're gonna connect you to it at the end. Uh, if you want to look at it during our show, you can go to the fatherhoodacademy.com. There's a video there that you can watch that kind of talks about what the Fatherhood Academy is all about. But it's our commitment to helping you become the best husband and the best father you can be. So let's get into what we're going to talk about tonight. Been playing around trying to figure out how to best share the slides. Here's one way, and you get a better picture, and yours truly is down in the corner. You might like me better there or that way. We're we're learning a lot about how to do this because it has two formats now. It's got the right-hand format and this format, and you know, anyway, um we're we're learning a lot over here, yours truly. So let's let's get busy and get into what we're gonna talk about. So when we talk about being a dad and everything, what how you been doing? How you been doing being a father to your kids, speaking life into them? And if I were to ask you this question, how many of you dads promise that you would not do some of the same hurtful things to your children that your dad did to you? How many would raise their hands? Well, guess what? We're we're all all there, you know, in our story. We all make those promises. I won't be, I won't do that. And and yet, how many of you, and you're gonna notice my own hand being raised here, did those same hurtful things to your kids that you promised that you would never do to your children? How can that possibly be with our best intentions and us knowing what to do and not to do? Why do why do we struggle? Why do we get in that kind of place with our children? And you know, part of it is how how many of you had just an incredible dad who taught you how to be a great father? And we get some gals who show up here too. Same principles apply for gals, but how many of you moms? There's a f a few moms that have showed up here in our live stream tonight, and you're trying to figure out the secret of maybe being a mom in a whole different way as we talk to dads about how to be a different kind of father. And you know, part of it is that we start out our parenting journey many times from the way we were fathered or the way our dads fathered us, they were there, whether they're pushing us. Many times a lot of young people they're raised without a data in their story. And so they struggle and how they see themselves. They struggle because they feel alone. And if you look at what's going on around the world, not just the United States, we have a fatherlessness epidemic, like I don't know, maybe higher than any time in history, to where so many young people have been disenfranchised in their own hearts towards their fathers and mothers and grandpa fathers and grandmothers, and they're sort of feel like they're all alone out there. And the only kind of advice they get is from their friends. And many of their friends are in the same hole they are in, and they struggle in their life and they struggle knowing what to do. And so when I talked about a whole new way of being a father tonight, and kind of what I'm focusing on, is that that was one of my that was one of my prayers. And that was, God, I I feel like I'm stuck here. I feel like my kids are going sideways, and I want to learn how to be a better dad. Well, if that's you, or maybe your mom watching this, you want to learn how to unlock your kids. Hang with me. We're gonna get, we're gonna move right into this. And I want to share a couple of I want to share a scripture with you that's incredibly powerful. See if I can do this so it's the same on both screens. Let's try this. Okay, whoops, that's a little bit too small. Let's try this one. Okay, that's bigger. And here it says in 2 Corinthians 6, 18, and here's God's promise to you, speaking to you. Paul's drawing in two Old Testament passages of God's promise to you, and and and Jesus kind of lived this out, and the church was birthed uh right out of this. And here's the scripture. And I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughter, says the Lord God Almighty. Well, that's God's commitment to you, to be a father in your story. You know, how many have lost a dad early in their life and they felt like they've had this missing piece, like they can't quite make it without their dad. And you struggle, you you want to you know, you know, be there and and be there for your kids, and and yet you feel like you're all alone. I meet men all the time. I I meet dads all the time in our our conferences, our events, and they feel so alone in your story. They're not only alone, not having a maybe a dad to talk to, but they're really alone is that they don't have a lot of friends either. They, you know, we have this kind of internal mechanism, kind of the brokenness that we got from the Garden of Eden, that we're gonna earn our living and do our fathering and do our marriage by the sweat of our brow. And we literally are sweating because we're stuck and we're broken in a lot of ways. And yet God's promise uh in that scripture, which is just absolutely so profound, is that I will be a father to you and you shall be my sons and daughters. You know what's so powerful about that promise, number one, is that God has promised to not only fulfill the role that maybe some of you missed, but he is a present, loving father who wants to father you, whether you're a man or a woman, a son or a daughter. His promise is to father you along the same lines as the way he fathered his son Jesus. Because no one had really ever seen anybody live out the story like Jesus did. We never really had a prophet who talked about God as his father in the way he did. He he lived this incredible, connected life, which gave him this amazing boldness and this amazing message that has changed history all the way to the cross and then the resurrection. He was constantly revealing who the father was. And I remember thinking about this years ago, and and it just dawned on me, he he did all this because he wanted us to know that he can be our dad too. He came and died in our place for our sins so we could have access to his father. And when that verse promises, right, and I'll be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord God Almighty. That means that God is out for your good. God is gonna be in your story, God is gonna fix what's broken, he's gonna fix those missing pieces that you have in your life. And so, how do you learn how to do that? Because isn't that why you want to be a good father with your kids? That's why I want to be a good father. I want my children to have a better life than me. I want them to be successful in business and life and family and love and in all those things. I've never met a father who didn't want his kids to be have a better story than them. But when when we uh where we struggle the most, uh, don't you, as a dad, the few moms that are watching tonight, don't you struggle the most in your life by not knowing how to reach your kids? Don't you struggle because they're because they're not listening to you and you got the you got the best rule? You notice how competitive that relationship gets with your sons and and then your daughters, who are all the you know, they're they're intimidating for us guys. Listen, guys, I got nine granddaughters, and there's some of them, they're they're so strong, even as little weans, that it's and it's like their message to me over and over again is you're not the boss of me, Papa. And what what a joy they are, and my grandsons. And and and yet, you know, God has given us these incredible children in our life to make the biggest difference we can possibly make. And so tonight I'm gonna share with you one of those skills that I learned from God that completely opened my heart to my kids, opened my kids' heart back to me, and began to repair relationships and empower them in the way. And it's one of those skills that when you learn to do this as a father, it'll make all the difference in the world in your kids. If you're a mom watching this, this is probably one of the most important things as a mom you learn because uh even in the midst of being a mom, it's so easy to take personally that your kids are not listening to you, to feel bad about you who are as a mom, or as dads as well, you feel bad that you're not able to really connect with your kids. Or maybe you're a dad watching right now and you really feel like you blew it, and your children are a million miles away from you emotionally. They might be across town or across the country or across the world, and you don't know how to re-engage them. Well, I'm gonna give you a secret tonight that I I learned that I saw in the person of Jesus with his, excuse me, with his father that made all the difference in my own life, and I learn this every day. You ready? Can you guess it? Throw it in the comments. I would love to see those comments if you're watching online. So here it is. All right, it's a big, powerful, big kahuna, change your life scripture. You ready for this? Here it comes. And it's right here in Jesus' words, as he describes his relationship with the father and the way he lived his life as a son of God. He said, Truly, truly, I say to you, the son of man can do nothing on his own accord, but only what he sees his father doing. For whatever the father does, that son does likewise. For the father loves the son and shows him all that he himself is doing. Well, when I when I first discovered this verse, it just it it blew me away. You know how scripture sometimes will just boom kind of stick out. Matter of fact, I was just on Kurt Cameron's show on Monday night, and we we were talking about this verse. And the difference that this kind of understanding about how Jesus lived out his story, becoming the savior of the world, starting in human form as a son, right? Laying down his right to be God, limiting himself to do exactly what we can do in him. And he modeled this light. He said, the son of man, remember what that says, the son of man can do what? Nothing on his own accord. Jesus purposely limited his uh, even though he had the right to be God of Flippi and says, he laid down that right and took on the and became 100% human, so that he could model to you and me how we could live out our human lives too in the spirit of God and the power of God. But especially, notice this as we look back at this again, in relationship to his father. But he only does what he sees his father doing. Now, if you've been around me for any time, you've heard me talk about this. It's a powerful thing when we learn to do what the father's doing. It's a powerful thing indeed because whatever the father's doing is power that comes upon you through the Holy Spirit to be able to do what you see him doing. And and what Jesus was doing is that he he was following his father so that you and I could follow him. And when we learn to do that, one of the secrets of being a great father is the more you learn to follow the father and what he's doing around you in Christ, in you and your children in this place in earth or that place of the sphere that you're living in around our world in different countries. Whether you're in France tonight, we have friends in Germany and France and Sweden and Scandinavia and Denmark and Africa, we got people all over the world who tune in to the show. And no matter where you're from, no matter what culture you're from, when you learn how to see what the father's doing, I get this, in you and you partner with him. When you learn to see what the father is doing in your children, and you partner with him, and when you learn to see what God's doing in your wife or your spouse or your girlfriend that you're getting ready to marry, or in your grandchildren, because much of the world is is is command and control. Somebody has the power, you have the money, you won't bless your kids if they don't do it right. So, what do they learn? They learn that with dad, love is conditional on performance. Love's got a hook. My dad will love me if I do it right. And yet, one of the things I discovered, and I bet you've discovered this too, no matter how right I try to be with God, if God held me to that standard, I would never be receive any blessings at all. Because the very good I know to do, Paul even writes this about himself. The very sin that I know I don't do, I do sometimes. Who will deliver me from this body of death? He writes. And how many made New Year's resolutions that you've already broken? Or maybe you made a resolution on Monday this week and it's Tuesday, and you already broke it. And so what happens is parents, we get really discouraged when we're trying to father and mother our children, and we just keep blowing it and doing the same thing over and over again. And yet this verse that we have to look at tonight is is an incredible promise. Because if you learn to see what the father is doing, and then you learn to do what the father is doing, that's what Jesus said. For whatever the father does, the son does likewise. And and and then, you know, John writes in this incredible part that Jesus said, for the father loves the son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And so one of the things that's absolutely true for you and for me, and for you and your children, is that God the Father absolutely loved you so much he sent his only son to die for you. And if he sent his only son to die for you so that you could receive him and have everlasting life, well, guess what? He wants you to have an incredible, powerful family too. And he wants to show you those things. He's working with your kids. Now, all of us have kids that that we struggle with sometimes, and they're and we don't know how to quite break through with. And so we can either come at them like this, or we can come at them the way Jesus got many of us. And what I mean by that, check this out. This is this is something that's been transforming for me in my life. See, the whole secret of being a great Great dad, it's all in that scripture we read that Jesus uh spoke. It's about learning to receive. And so the more we learn to be fathered by God like Jesus was, the more of his blessing we're gonna discover, and the more we will have to give our families. And the key to being fathered by God is learning how to receive from him, just like Jesus demonstrated to us throughout his entire life. I mean, Jesus got up early in the morning to go spend time with the Father and to He studied the scriptures, which are all part of what we have as a tool. He did all those things so that he would recognize when God the Father was speaking to him. And I want to be careful here because, you know, when when when I when I say sometimes that I feel like the Lord spoke this into my heart, it wasn't an audible voice that he talked. I think he's, you know, I think he speaks audibly to people that are the most hard-headed. We see that in the Old Testament. That shocking moment, you know, when when God the Father, you know, he reveals to Joseph what he's supposed to do with this baby and Mary. And I mean, and in Zechariah, you see these times. And so sometimes we think, well, I don't hear God audibly. And it's not an audible voice like you're listening to me, but it's a resounding knowing inside of you as he he brings up a scripture. Because everything that God says to us, that we say the Lord showed me something, needs to be linked with something in the scripture, in the word of God. Because when it's not, it just becomes an opinion. But when it is, and when the Lord began to show me about asking questions, it came right out of this understanding of you know, Jesus was fathered by God. He was loved by his father. And he determined, I can do nothing unless, you know, you show me father, show me what you're doing with my son, with my daughter. And that and that began to make me ask, well, how did Jesus kind of do this this life he had? And and one of the things that that just jumped out to me and the way Jesus was, you know, he was always asking questions of his father. See, when we start asking questions of God, we're we're assuming two things. Well, number one, we just don't know what to do, which is a good thing, because God doesn't want you to prove yourself at all that you got together. He wants to be a part of your story, leading you with your children, with your grandchildren, with your family, with your friends. The most powerful ministry you will ever do is in response to the leading of God in your life. And and not only that, he wants to show you how to partner with him for the person that's right in front of you that you love. And so one of the ways that Jesus did that in the scripture was he asked questions of people. He's trying to determine, you know, where the heart of that person is. I love the story about Bartimaeus. He was a blind beggar and he was on the side of the road and he heard that Jesus was coming. Evidently, being blind, your hearing is really acute, and he's on the side of the road, and he hears that this guy, Jesus, where all the rumors of all the miracles he had done had hit his ear. So he had never physically seen anything, begins to scream out, Jesus, son of David. So anyway, the disciples are just so funny, you know, during this. They started trying to get this guy to be quiet. Like he's interrupting Jesus in the midst of a crowd and and what he's doing, and and he yelled all the more. And Jesus turned to him, it's like a disciples said, Oh, wait a minute, he's calling for you now. And Jesus asked him a question, what do you want me to do for you? I thought that was such an amazing question because isn't it obvious? Isn't it obvious when um you see something really broken with your children and you want to go in there and fix it? Or you heard something about them and you want to confront them. And and uh and so they're not mentioning that. And so part of what Jesus was looking for was a gift of faith in the sky. And that gift of faith many times will be made known to you with your children when you ask them profound questions where they give you an answer. And Jesus said, What do you want me to do for you? And Bartimaeus said, I want to see. I want to see. Man, that was a powerful moment. And guess what happened? God the Father backs up his son in that moment, and the gift of healing flowed through him right into Bartimaeus' eyes, and he was healed instantly. I've seen this happen in my own life when I kind of get out of the way and I step back and I'm asking God, what do you want to do with this person? Well, let's make this personal for what we're talking about tonight. What do you want to do with my son or my daughter? What are you doing here, Father? Show me what you're doing so that I can partner with you. And when we step back from having the immediate answer, and we learn how to ask questions of our kids, that's not only one of the most powerful ways for you to find out how to pray, but it also does something for them that was completely unexpected when I started doing this. Because when Jesus asks questions, it does something to the hearer. Remember when I was starting to learn this, is that when we ask questions, we're helping our children discover the answers for themselves. And when our children learn how to hear from God for themselves, it will give them the tools they need to discover and fulfill who God has made them to be. I just started weeping for the love that I had for my son and started telling him all the things I loved about him. And he was just, he was, he was so overwhelmed by the power of the Holy Spirit and by blessing him and declaring over him that from this moment on, you know, I see you as a man. You are a man of God. I bless him to be a man of God. And I told my whole church in front of him, out loud, all the things that I loved about him. Well, if you if you've never had that experience, I gotta tell you, I write about it in my books and how to become the husband and father your family needs. And I'm gonna tell you, it's one of the most powerful things you can do in the life of your kids because there's something that happens when they hear from you what you love about them. You know, where are kids going to get that today? Where are your children gonna discover their identity? At college, I think not. Too many times, too many ways, college professors are sometimes they're there to find out their own identity. And if they're wacky and they're way out there and they're, you know, they they're they're wanting to show off their own personal choice for their gender. They're just gonna screw up every kid they that they're around because it brings incredible confusion because it's a lie. All that kind of uh gender-affirming care under that envelope is is one of the ways the devil wants to completely destroy the lives and the future of your children, getting them so sideways and screwed up that they I've I've gotten to minister to a couple of men who went almost all the way through the transition of becoming a woman in a gender-affirming way, not that their plemming can ever change. And both of them were severely depressed, devastated, uh very sickly, and God turned their whole story around when they discovered the love of the father for them as a man. Matter of fact, one of the leaders of uh one of the first poster childs that I met in Florida told me how much the I would say not all liberals, but the crazy ones had, you know, celebrated his transition because he was doing it online in front of a million people. And then one day he met a Christian and and who was a friend who said, Man, I've been praying for you. And he said, Have you ever asked Jesus who you are? Who he made you to be? What a great question. And he goes, No, I never have. So he he he he he happened upon a church that his friend was at, sat in the back row, figuring that maybe God might speak to him in a church. And from one of the back rows at the end of the service, he just he just said, Who did you make me be? Am I a man or am I a woman? And he was he was in the process of you know going through all of this crazy horrible what they do to children, care to try to transition him from being a man to a woman or whatever the they end up with. And in the midst of him just at the back row all by himself and just praying, he said, Who did you make me to be? Am I a man? Or am I a woman? And in his own words, and I heard he said this to me, he said this voice hits me, and it was the most it was like pure love. And he said, I made you to be a man, and those words from Christ to him, he discovered Jesus, got saved, got born again, and now can has come out warning young people about the lies of all this gender affirming care that the the the whacked out uh liberals or broken people are are trying to perpetrate on the world. And guess what? It's all all of his fan base who sang his presence, you know, his uh saying, you know, not his presence, but you know, saying his praises for his courage to come out and be different, demonize him. And the in my last conversation with him, because of how outspoken he's been, he was receiving death threats every day. So now they wanted to kill him for saying Jesus made me to be a man. There's war on her children, and so the most powerful voice to help them discover their true safe is you, dad, or mom, if you're watching, in Christ, modeling to them the power of this. And and one of the things we've been talking about and kind of back is that when you when you ask questions and you listen to what your children are saying to you, and you you're you're you're praying on one side, you if they're in a broken place, you're praying fervently for them to come to the truth. And then you're waiting for God's timing to do that in their life, and you're partnering with them. Instead of beating them up when they're broken, you're you're trying to understand. At the same time, you're you're praying for them. It's a powerful thing. And when their kids are younger, they need us to protect them and lead them. But when they get older, they want something, they want something else. When they grow into manhood, they need us to be more like consultants, helping them develop their own set of tools and understanding. And they're going to be far more open to hearing from you when you're asking questions where they get to have a say than when you just kind of dictate over them. And here's a story. Remember, I told you about Edward's passage in our church? Well, I mean, it was an incredible time. When my son got about halfway down the alley, he collapsed under the weight of the power of the Holy Spirit falling on him. Because I think the passage moment, you know, it's a it kind of models barmitzvah from the Old Testament. And the words of a father have great power over the life of a son, the life of a daughter. So do the words of a mom. But when you have that kind of encounter, it solidifies this thing. And Edward, he received something that day. Because the next day, and I'm going to tie this up and we're going to pray. The next day, I kind of fell back into my old uh kind of fathering role and you know, trying to help Edward. And I'm talking to him about get your school done, get this done, do this, do that. And he just looking at me, and he he he takes his his finger and he points it at me and he says, Dad, did I become a man at church yesterday when you blessed me and the spirit of God fell on my life? And I moved from boyhood to manhood in the eyes of God. Did that happen to me yesterday? He just nailed me. He asked me a question. Just like I'm talking about. And I went, yes, son. I'm so sorry. And he looked at me and he puts out his finger and he goes, then you can never talk to me that way again. And he says, Because I'm a man now, dad, and I want you to treat me like one. Oh, I saw that graduation in Edward. Imagine that for your children. When do they discover when they become men? And when they your daughters discover when they become women. To dominate them and be the one to declare into their heart who they are called to be. He wants them to be so full of the life of sin and even the names that sin bring, that they won't ever turn to God for help. Because the the devil couldn't couldn't hit Jesus because he was protected. He had, you know, he when Christ came into the world and became a child, he did everything he could to kill him. He motivated the, you know, he motivated the Pharaoh of the day to kill children. He he did everything he could with Moses all through history. And then when Jesus is there and Herod did everything, wanted to wipe out Christ. And when he couldn't hit him, that same rage of the devil that he's poured out all of his stops to completely destroy the identity that children have. So they live, and this is what he wants to do. So they live in 24-hour day shame and guilt and end up hating who they are. See, nobody talks about the suicide rate of people that go through transgender uh treatment. It's it's uh astronomical. Nobody talks about that. Nobody talks about that same thing with people that are are are living uh the gay or homosexual lifestyle. They don't talk about that. They'll talk about alcoholics and and how much they've shortened their life. But when it has to do with gender-affirming care, that the world wants to do everything to dominate your children so they never discover who they are. And guess what? So that they never have children or grandchildren for you to be part of. The devil hates what Christ is doing in your life. And so, so what? And so our job is to keep the heart of our children. And what we've learned today is the power of asking questions of our children so we don't take away their voice, we let them respond, and we model back to them what a life looks like that's fathered by God, the same way Jesus does. So if we teach them that, their identity will lead them through all the storms they have. They can I can go through anything knowing that I'm a son. But if My name is about what I do for a living. And I'm having a good month. Oh, I love who I am. If I'm having a bad month, oh, what's wrong with me, God? Have mercy on me. I'm a worm. And yet, as a son, that's an identity God wants to give you, give your children, give your grandchildren, as a daughter or a son that that you won't lose because with being a son or a daughter, the ultimate promise, and we're going to talk about this next time we're together, is that God has an inheritance for you through his son Jesus into your life. And that's what us to live in. And so that's what we're going to talk about. So it's the power of asking questions. And let me see, I think. Oh yeah, and let me let me just share this last slide with you. See, you know, as God the Father help you see what he's doing with your kids, and we communicate them by asking questions. We're saying to our children when we ask them questions as teenagers, I really believe in you and your ability to hear from God yourself. You know where I learned that? Because my son Edward, after this time and and starting to change and learn how to not push him, he said to me one day, Dad, I I can't tell you how much it means to me that you're not giving me the answers anymore, and you're letting me discover those in scripture and following God in my own life. It's got it, I've if you honor me, Dad, by trusting that I can hear from God too. See, that's what your kids want from you. Well, you're learning from them, and I learn from him all the time, and and Lucas and Joshua and Mary and amazing Jessica, because they're all walking with God, and I am so grateful that God got me out of the way. And it took a lot of work. Yours truly is has wanted to be a coach and help them. But it's something all it's something altogether. Remember in the NFL, you know, if I was having a bad game, there were some coaches who were yelling at me, and boy, that didn't help at all. And then there's a couple of them who leaned in and said, Man, you got it, Eddie Mac. Go show me what you can do. Whole different deal. Affirmation. Power of that. So let me pray for you and your family. There's we have a little short video at the end. And I am so grateful that you're following us. If you've not uh checked out our Fatherhood Academy, go to my website and that's there for you. We have a special offer right now. It's it's a great place for you to connect. Find out if you go to oh no, not that one, but right one of these here. My gals are not around tonight. We have a coaching program. Here we go. Boom. Here's the right one. Fatherhood Academy. If you you put you type in www.thefatherhood dot academy, there's a little video there. Watch it and see if this is something that will really help you. It's a it's a coaching academy for you as a man. We even have gals who buy a membership and share it with their whole family. This is a membership you can share with your whole family. And there's a coaching piece, there's video, there's YouTube, there's et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And we do all this to help you become the man, husband, or father that God's called you to be, or the the the woman, the uh mom, the warrior that God's called you to be as well. And we have a marriage renewal that that happens in our academy that is incredibly exciting. So if you want to check it out, go there and and before we end, let me pray for you. Father, I'm just uh so grateful for my friends that are online now and those who are still uh there. I ask you to bless all of the too many to to talk about online, but that you would bless all of them tonight. And those those challenges that they have right now, as dads or even moms, I pray you would meet them and that you would they would realize that their whole job is to open themselves to be fathered by you so they can partner with you as you're fathering our children and our grandchildren. I pray, Lord, you would show them the way of following, following Jesus the way he followed his father. And Lord, I pray that you would unlock that in our lives and then make us not only incredible parents and fathers and mothers to our children, but you would make us spiritual fathers and to our neighbors' kids and the friends that are part of the our child our children's relationships and schools and high schools and colleges, and that you would raise up spiritual moms and dads out of this group tonight for the sake of the world and all that you're doing. And I ask you to bless them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We pray tonight. I'm so grateful for them. And I ask you to bless them in Jesus' name. Amen. If you want to connect with me and need some coaching, you can go to my website at the fatherdifference dot com and check out. We have a coaching program, it's part of our academy too, to help you in your Pacific challenge and your family. Love to serve you there. So if we end tonight, I have a short video. I'm gonna bless you with. Can't wait to see you the next time we're together. I think we're together in two weeks, and we'll we'll be here at the same time, same station. 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 meet 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 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. Anchoring each child here's a vision in the unwavering love and guidance of a devoted dad.

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