Restoring A Daughter's Heart

What if the distance from your daughter isn’t a dead end but an invitation to lead differently? We dive deep into a father’s most powerful tools—mercy, curiosity, and a real apology—and show how they can reopen a closed heart and rebuild trust that lasts. Drawing on faith, lived experience, and coaching countless families, we break down why many dads struggle without a healthy model and how easy jokes about emotions or “being right” quietly sabotage connection.

You’ll leave with a repeatable playbook for reconnection: uproot bitterness, build a culture of forgiveness, stop making her pay for mistakes, and keep pursuing her heart with patience. After forgiveness, ask, “How do you want me to be your dad now?” Then run those plays consistently—fewer lectures, more listening, small steady acts of care. Expect setbacks, keep leaning in, and watch trust grow one choice at a time. If you’re ready to trade control for connection and pride for peace, this conversation will guide your next brave step.

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Chapters

• 0:59 Welcome And Mission
• 2:17 Today’s Focus: Dads And Daughters
• 3:08 Why Many Fathers Struggle
• 6:40 Learning To See And Ask Questions
• 9:27 Modeling Healthy Love Without A Model
• 10:58 What Daughters Secretly Need From Dad
• 12:31 Permission And Pursuit In Parenting
• 13:46 The Root Of Bitterness
• 16:28 Culture Wars And Unforgiveness
• 18:11 A Lesson In Compassion: Meeting Ted Kennedy
• 22:45 Why Your Forgiveness Matters At Home
• 25:12 How To Ask For Forgiveness Well
• 28:08 Building A Family Culture Of Mercy
• 30:12 Receive God’s Mercy, Then Reflect It
• 33:41 Practical Steps: Don’t Make Them Pay
• 37:16 Rooted And Grounded In Love
• 39:32 Keep Pursuing Her Heart
• 41:04 Closing Prayer And Encouragement
• 41:50 Vision And Call To Partner

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 today's message. Whether you're tuning in live or watching us later, we are so excited to have you here. If this is what you're looking for, then subscribe to tweet 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 guys, it's good to be with you. I am Steer, I'm still up here in the high Sierras, and today we're going to talk about how to restore your a broken relationship with your daughter. I get a lot of coaching calls about this, a lot of dads who are you know constantly trying to stay out of trouble with the girls in their lot. So how many feel me on this one? Right? That's exactly what we end up going through. So so grateful for you guys and where you're tuning in from. You can uh send me a question in the chat. I would love to hear from you. I can see those comments, and we're gonna get right into uh how to restore a broken relationship with a daughter. So let me ask you guys, why do you think that you struggle with the girls in your story with your daughters? I mean, what why is there is there a reason that you can kind of point to? I mean, and you know, part of this is I know me in the early days, I really struggled, partly because I didn't have a model. You know, I uh these my two daughters that I walked on the aisle, turned around and did their ceremonies because I'm a pastor, love them to death. But to get them to this point of you know, giving them and to an a man of of a great man of of God's choosing, I had to learn how to be a different dad. I had to learn how to father them in a different way. I had to learn how to deal with some of the inadequacies that I had. Because I mean, I struggled because I was intimidated by their emotional gifts. I made fun of them because they were so much more emotionally secure when I was growing up as a teenager in my life, and I didn't know how to even talk to them without getting in trouble. I knew how to deal with guys and football players and all that kind of stuff. But the girls in my life, and and I think some of it was communicated to by my stepdad, and then the really lack of really, really great models, even in the church, of you know, guys who aren't sort of making fun about how scared they are of their wife. You know, it's like the two words that will protect your marriage when you have a long, happy marriage. Yes, dear. I mean, that just makes me my stomach kind of roll over. And I mean, and it's because guys, you know, aren't weren't trained. I I was making fathering about me with my daughters. How about you? I was good at hurting them, and I didn't know how to to ask for forgiveness. I knew how to say sorry, but basically I was trying to father them the same way I was fathering my sons, and I wasn't doing that great of a job either. Hey, it's great to see all you guys tuning in here. Good to see you there, Don. Elaine, you're awesome. There's a super mom right there. I also struggled because I wanted them to stop being so emotional about everything. You know, what is it that that funny, you know, play years ago? I the guy sang that song. I I wish that a woman was more like a man. Oh boy, if you turn a girl into a man, then you get a problem. And so I struggled, not because I didn't want to love them, I just didn't have tools. And here's the other thing. I don't know about if you're like me, I refuse to ask for help because my pride was tied into my ability to solve the girl thing in my life. Kept doing the wrong thing over and over and over and over and over. And I I remember this young uh uh tennis player on Luke's tennis team. He comes over to me before the prom and says, Hey, you're like a wise man, aren't you? And I go, sometimes. It all depends on who you're talking to. And he and he said, you know, I just I just can't get a date.

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I struggle. I I get tongue-tied, I can't even speak.

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And I said, um, I said, can I ask you a couple questions? He said, sure. I said, uh, how good was your dad at teaching you about how to love a girl? He sucked at it. My mom and him didn't make it. Well, if you had any kind of father figures or mentors in your life that were good at loving girls, he says, No, I I just feel like there was something wrong with me. And I and so I talked to him and I said, Well, he says, Is there any advice? I can't get girls to even talk to me in school. And I said, Well, I want you to try something. How many what if you could get two dates to the prompt? He just said that would be a miracle. I said, Well, let me teach you something about girls in high school. They care very much about how they look, who their friends are, and and believe it or not, they're really awkward with boys, too. So when you walk into a classroom and you see a girl you want to talk to, what do you think about? And he looks at me and he goes, Well, I'm wondering if she's gonna reject me too, like all the other girls. I'm wondering what she thinks about me. So he had about five or six things he's listing. And I said to him, The problem is, is you've made you know, connecting to a girl all about you and what your needs are. Here's here's a little nugget secret. Why don't you tomorrow, you got 30 days till the prom. You know, if you see a girl that you're interested in getting to know, just walk up to her and and notice something about her and the way she's compliment her, a way she does her homework. Or, you know, don't just come up to her and go, hey babe, you're just like so hot. You want to go to the prom with me? They're gonna think you're an idiot. But notice something about them because one of the things that girls want more than anything is they want to know that you see them at the deepest level. And when guys begin asking questions, watch what happens. And so I gave him like five or six questions, and next thing, you know, I haven't seen him, and he calls me and he goes, Hey man, I got a problem. And I said, What happened? He said, Well, I sort of did that question thing with two girls, and both of them want to go to the prom. I said, Well, what's wrong with that? Well, who do I choose? I go, you choose both. And he took two dates to the prom and called me the day after and said that was one of the most amazing times in my life. I had two girls to dance with, and I just spent the whole night connecting with them, finding about who they were. I didn't talk about myself the whole night. I go, secret, secret, and so part of what I struggled with was I was constantly measuring myself based on you know my ability to solve the girl thing, my life. And and I didn't have many mentors who were good at loving their wives and daughters, and so even some of the sermons I heard, you know, with there's a lot of joking around about how you know how dumb guys are. And the truth of the matter is that guys aren't dumb about girls, they just they've never had a model. So let's get personal for a second. How good was your dad at dating mom? Did he take him out? Did he take her out much on dates? Did he come home and greet her and and just celebrate her? And and when she wasn't around, how good was he just talking about what he loved about her? See, all those things that we don't end up not getting or receiving, we don't even know they exist. And I you know, I began to learn how to love my wife through really godly men who had learned how to not make the relationship with their wives, and now we're talking about daughters, about them and what they're getting at this. Because on the receiving end, your daughters they got these questions in them, dad. Uh, what does my dad think about me? Am I beautiful? Am I gifted? Will any boy ever like me? They got all this stuff going around in their brain, and yet they're waiting for you to notice them or to see something they do. And when you're not good at doing that, they've they it's sort of just it's kind of cements them in their own opinion about themselves that they're not very beautiful or they're not very there. And so, what do they do? What does a girl do when we're not good as dads, uh connecting with them, or they have really low self-esteem? Well, they go date a project, they go find it's like girls have this magnet sometimes to like the worst guy to bring home to meet to meet dad. And I I even had you know guys come to my house, and one of the deals I made with my daughters was listen, I know that you can probably fall in love really quickly because you love the Hallmark channel. And I must admit I cry sometimes, but I'd rather watch a more war movie and cry. And so, would you trust me as your dad to help you choose the right kind of man? And my daughters, one relented said, Dad, I'm good, I'm covered. And then she struggled and then came back and said, Dad, would you help me? But I had to get permission from my daughter. Everything we do with older older daughters, we got to operate through permission, to where they're inviting you in to help them solve what they're struggling with. And it's such a powerful thing to learn to ask really great questions. And so, one of the things I I wanted to talk to you about, because the first thing, the first kind of building block that needs to be in place with your daughters is this question. How good are you at modeling forgiveness to your children? I mean, how good are you at asking for forgiveness when you blow it? What was your model like in your own family? I mean, did your dad ever come to you and say, you know, son, I'm really sorry that I hurt you and that would you forgive me? And then naming it. Those are powerful moments. And when you model something like that, that can change your entire family and give them away. Because most kids that are sideways with their dad, they have drank that cup of bitterness. Well, when we don't do a great job at that, you know, Hebrews 12, uh, verse 15 says, watch out that no bitterness takes root among you. Whereas it springs up, it causes deep trouble, hurting many in their spiritual lives. Well, man, we got a bitterness epidemic. It's all around politics, depending on the side you are. And it's like, you know, there's this warring thing going on, and there's just no, there's not been a very great model asking for forgiveness when you're wrong. I mean, once that once the last time a politician got up there and said, hey, I shouldn't have done it that way. Would you forgive me? I misspoke. It's always I didn't mean that. You're interpreting it wrong. You're trying to demonize me instead of just owning it. And yet the most powerful model for forgiveness in your daughter's life is you dad. When you learn how to deal with that, your own bitterness by asking for forgiveness, that changes, that can change your whole family for generations. And so, why should I deal with the root of bitterness in my own heart? Well, you if you want to learn how to deal with your daughter, why don't you deal with your heart because you've taught her how to respond to you? I didn't know that. I mean, that was I was like, thank you very much, Lord. If she just do what I say, then her life would be great. Well, it's like remember one time praying about that, and the the Lord kind of had that internal voice. He goes, Well, Ed, you don't even keep your own rules. How are you going to expect her to keep hers? Don't you love it when the Holy Spirit nails you? See, the reason why you deal with your own root of bitterness is that it models to my kids that there are some things you can't forgive. If I do not deal with my bitterness, I'm telling my kids, well, that person you should never forgive. I I I've met some I've met some gals, some moms, who have been mad at their sister for 30 years. Every time they talk about them, they're they're almost want to spit. They're so angry. The problem with bitterness, we pass right on to our kids. Number two, it teaches your kids how to be bitter. I gotta blow my nose, so just hang on with me one second. I'm in the dry weather. Forgive me there. Hopefully, I don't have boogers all over my moustache. That would that would be gross. But we are guys, and we have a tendency to be gross. That's okay. But it teaches your children how to be bitter. When you own that as a dad, it's a powerful thing. When you say, you know, I know that I'm the cause of some of this. Here's the the third thing it makes you want to control everything so you don't get hurt by anyone. Oh man. This is the biggest illusion about holding back forgiveness. This bitterness, what it does is it makes you want to control everything. You want to control the emotional environment in your home. So you don't have any, you know, emotional conversations. I mean, do you find sometimes that your wife it takes her a long time to talk to you about anything because she's afraid you might just kind of blow up? I've been there. You don't understand. And so it was so hard for Jill to learn how to reach my heart because I wanted, and the reason I did it was my pride. I wanted to get it right. I had a lot of pride in trying to do it right. And I know you do too, as a guy. But we need help. We need help to learn how to navigate those emotional waters with our daughter. Because if we don't deal with, if we try to control your daughter so that she doesn't hurt you, guess what? You will lose your daughter's heart, and she'll find some bozo who's got a lot of problems, who she can go and tell everything to. And the next thing you know, she's showing up and she's got goth makeup or XYZ. So you've got to deal with bitterness and in your own heart. And when you do, it begins to open the door. So I love this verse in Ephesians. It says, get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, among with every form of malice. Be kind. Malice is when you kind of build a plan to do somebody in who has crossed you. I mean, just think about your conversations around the family dinner table. If you're talking about people, or you turn on the news and you start naming politicians, and they're just wicked, they're just evil. You know, the devil's just stoked up all of this, you know, political diatribes and gotten two camps, you know, against one another. You might you feel like you're in the better group. The issue is the better group is the one who says, Well, you forgive me for what I said. And that was completely inappropriate. I mean, because we have life and death in the book of James says is we have life and death in our in the power of our tongue. Our tongue, it goes a little thing, it's like a rudder in a ship, can either destroy a life, or this tongue can bless somebody and give them new life. That's the power we have. So it says they get rid of all those things by what? Confessing them. Asking God to forgive you. Be kind and compassionate to one another. I'm not gonna be kind and compassionate, God's a jerk, or et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. The truth of the matter is we're kind and compassionate because of one thing. We forgive each other just as Christ has forgiven you. Okay, that is such a powerful thing for you to get deep inside of you, so you're quick to forgive, you're quick to be kind. And the reason why that is, is because think about all that God has done in your own life. Well, you might say, Well, I'm not gonna forgive that person, they're evil. I can't forgive the devil, right? It's it's so interesting how we do that with people, even political people. I mean, there's some that I completely disagree with, and their lifestyle and their choices and the way they rule, and I can make them kind of the battering ram for my anger or my angst. It doesn't actually change anything, and we're not able to really speak life into that person because our heart is not right. I want to tell you a little story that happened to me. And a number of years ago, I'm on a plane on the way to Boston, and I'm there, you know, and there's One seat left. And it was one of those planes where you get in, you get your seat, and then people kind of fill up around you. It wasn't really assigned seating. And so nobody wanted to sit next to me. I wonder why. I think I'd take probably suck the oxygen out of the row. And so all of a sudden, I'm looking down, and the I hear the captain say, We have one more person coming on. And down the aisle walks Ted Kennedy, center Ted Kennedy. And he's walking down the aisle. And as I'm seeing him, he sees me, I see him, last seat on the plane. He goes, Are we good? And he sits down next to me. And we filled up that rope pretty significantly. I think there was like there was no light between us. I mean, we were stuck together for this flight. And so we started talking. And what he didn't know was, you know, probably about a year or so earlier, I had a dream one night that I was going to meet him, and the Lord put a scripture in my heart for him. And so but before that, as I'm sitting there watching him and talking to him, I learned I learned something because, you know, for years, there's you know, there's been all this political, you know, mumbo jumbo about him and his life and being a Democrat and all this stuff and his dad being wicked. And it'sn't amazing how people will demonize somebody so that he gives them permission to completely cut them out of their life. Because the devil wants to do that with your daughter towards you. So you're not a safe space anymore. And there's this a lot of rubbish out there, even from psychologists who are who are separating families because they think that to heal, you've got to separate and create boundaries around you so that you're never hurt again. Well, according to the Bible, the way to heal is to learn to forgive people the way God's forgiven you. So as I'm talking there, I wanted to share with him this word I had gotten in this dream I had years earlier. But I knew that if I said anything there, it was going to be in the newspaper the next day. So I said, Lord, just give me a place with him. That's just me and him. And so we landed in Boston. It was kind of a puddle jumper from Washington, D.C. to there. And I'm not sure why he ended up flying coach, you know. I think it's just he needed a plane right away to get out of town. And so as we're landing, he looks over at me and goes, You got to pee, I got to pee something bad. I went, Yeah. He goes, Come with me. So we landed, and the captain said, every place stay seated. Senator Kennedy and his team is gonna leave the plane. And so up I go with him down there, and everybody thought I was like security or whatever. And we walked into the airport and they cleared the bathroom, and the security team that he had cleared the bathroom, and there we were there at the white throne, standing against the wall, looking at a picture, doing what men do. And I looked at him and I said, Uh, Senator Kennedy, I think I might have a word from God for you. And he looks over at me and he goes, Can I finish peeing first? I was so excited about talking to him. And so we go and we wash our hands, we're laughing. And he says, What's this word? He'd say, You know, there's a verse in the Bible, it's one of my favorite, that I think is for you and your wife. And it's Isaiah 40, verse 31. For those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength, mount them with wings like eagles, or run and not be wary, and walk and not faint. He said, Tell me that again. I I quoted it to him. And I said, You know, the Lord gave me a dream that I'd meet you, but he also showed me that you and your wife were going to come under some incredibly challenging physical things in your life. But that God wanted you to know that if you wait on him, he'll renew your strength, you will mount up with wings like eagle, you're running up, be weary. And he looks at me and he puts his hand on, he grabs my hand. He says, Tell me your name again. And I told him, and he says, I'll never forget this. Thank you so much. And so I prayed for him, and off he went. Well, my best friend Brian Holloway, who I played football with, ended up calling me and telling me, and he never forgot that the rest of his life. He ended up getting cancer not too far after that conversation, and his health continued to disintegrate with his wife, and they ended up dying a year or two after that moment in that restroom. And I remember walking, you know, hearing about you know his demise and later on and and realizing that you know, when I thought about him as a man, all those kind of my opinions, his politics, chap a quit, all this kind of stuff. But when I met the man who was behind using well, the man who tried to faithfully serve what he knew with his own kind of understanding, he was Catholic and all those kind of things, there was a compassion that came into me from the Lord when I let go of my opinion. I remember even saying, you know, praying when you know, when I was getting ready to talk to him, Lord, I pray that you would speak to me in such a way that I could share with him. And that I wasn't there to judge him, I was there to give him something that you had for him. Because the truth of the matter with your daughters, if you don't make it about yourself, God can use you in profound ways to speak life into your daughter, this going, No more, I don't want you in my life. So let's talk about so we we we forgive like Christ has forgiven us. So why should I forgive? Well, here's you gotta see, if you're not modeling it, your your kids aren't gonna get it. Well, number one, we the reason why you should forgive it teaches your kids there's nothing God can't forgive. When you're going to them and forgiving them and you're modeling that yourself to them by asking for forgiveness, it will change your house. It changes my relationship with all my children. Especially when Big Ed, an NFL football player, said, Would you forgive me for what I just did? See, when we say sorry, it it basically doesn't do much. But when we have a transaction between you and your daughter, where you discover what you've done that's hurt your daughter, and you say, Would you forgive me for doing that? You put that transaction in her hands and gives her an opportunity to do what? To forgive you or not to forgive you. So important. Because being sorry, for the most part, is we don't like being caught, right? But when you ask for forgiveness and you're waiting for your daughter to forgive you, and it might take time, you keep asking until she because she wants to know at the bottom of her heart, does my dad really understand how mad I am and how much he hurt me? And most of us, we we just because we just don't want to deal with it, we just kind of run away, go to our toys, go to our projects, but then our kids are suffering. The second thing there, it'll build a culture of forgiveness in your family. If there's one thing that can change your family exponentially and give your kids an advantage way above most all of the kids they go to school with, is that you would teach them how to ask for forgiveness, how to give forgiveness. Because most of their friends, they don't do it that way. It's an eye for an eye, especially in this age of this little device right here. It might help you get there, but the truth of the matter, it's it's just you know, there's this constant haranguing and you know, and opinions and all this stuff where people are trying to brand themselves. No forgiveness. Number two, it'll number three, it'll protect the love and legacy of your children when you teach them that. Because when they get good at forgiving their friends and their dad the way dad uh has forgiven them and asked for forgiveness, you've now built a legacy where God's blessing can multiply through you to your kids. Because she won't open her heart until she knows you understand. You might say, well, that's impossible. Well, it's not impossible. I've watched it happen with my own kids. And after all these years of coaching and 35 years of plus of coaching men and women and families, when you really understand and you really own it, forgiveness is transferred. And so, how should I forgive? Well, we need to receive God's mercy for ourselves before we can ask for forgiveness from our kids. Because one of the most powerful things that God gives us is mercy when we deserve what? Judgment, when we're wrong. But wisdom from above is first pure, peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy, good fruits, wavering, without hypocrisy. I want to ask you something. When you bring your broken stuff to God, how does he treat you? That's how you know when God's responding to you. Right? It's it's pure, peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy, good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. I mean, I I that just blows my mind. So let me ask you this how do you treat your kids when they blow it? Do you rub your nose in it? You know, I remember I just kind of gross. Hey, we're guys, right? And I remember, you know, when my dad would, my stepdad was teaching us how to house train a dog. He says, Well, you just put their nose into it and smack them. And you know, I was a pretty smart ass kid at times. And I go, Dad, if you do that, he's gonna think he's supposed to eat that. You know what? He wasn't he wasn't all that impressed by my wisdom at that moment, but that model gets transferred, right? But wait, how do we do that? If we receive this mercy for ourselves, or do you not go to God and ask for forgiveness because you want to get your life right? Well, that's just pride. And our pride will cause us to never arrive. And if you want to get into that place of great mercy and forgiveness, just be quick to tell on yourself to God. And even with your kids, you're modeling something that will happen through your grandkids one day. Number two, model God's mercy to your daughter by asking for forgiveness. Powerful thing. When you begin to understand what she's going through, you ask. So here's a question. It's this question has been incredibly powerful for me with my children, with my daughters and my sons. But are there some things I've done that have hurt you that I need to ask for forgiveness for? Oh man, I remember the first time I I did that, and and Jessica and Mary, they shared what I had done as a dad, and it just broke my heart. And when I said, Would you forgive me? They paused for a minute or so, wanting to know if I was serious. Not just trying to get out of trouble. And we would just embrace me, and it was just affectionate. But that's why you model God's mercy to your daughter by asking for forgiveness. The third thing is you you forgive your children, they're hurt the same way God forgives you. I've met a lot of dads in in through the years who they're they want their kids to pay for it because their way is the right way. And if not, you don't want my way, get take the highway and get out of town. See, I love this. God shows his love for us, and that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Gosh, I love that verse. That's the way God deals with us. That's the way God forgives us. And so the application, don't make them pay for it. And you might be saying, Well, what if they keep doing the same thing over and over again? Well, just forgive them the same way that God forgives you when you do it over and over again. Next slide. See that, and so all that to say, I want to just end with this verse and pray for you. When you being rooted and grounded in love, may have the strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth, the length, the height, and depth of God's love, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with the fullness of God. See, that's that's what happens to your heart and your life when you say, God, I need to really learn how to love my daughter back home. And I don't know. There's a lot of other things we can talk about. Sometimes your psychological things are bruising, there's stuff, and but underneath all of it is your willingness to build a culture of forgiveness around you and your daughter, and you keep and here's the secret you keep pursuing, you keep pursuing until she says, Okay, I'll forgive you. Because if you stop pursuing and you just give her space, and I'm not talking about just beating her down till she laments, but you really begin to ask her how she's been hurt by what you've done, so you can ask forgiveness so she understands you get it. Got a dad? So I want to pray for you. I know there's a number of you that probably have uh daughters that are sideways with you, and you're like, oh man, I I need this so much in my own life. And so we're gonna pray, and I'm gonna I'm gonna pray a general prayer for you. And I just want to encourage you to you know watch this again. Go through it here, no matter what platform you're on, and determine to be quick to forgive, quick to ask for forgiveness, and quick to listen, and let your daughter teach you how to be the father you wanted to be for them. That's kind of the last point of all this is just a very simple question. After they forgive you, you say this how do you want me to be your dad then? What are some things that I can do that that would really mean something to you as a dad? And after she's forgiven you, you ask that question, you now have a playbook that you can run those plays and then do that. Well, are you gonna blow it again? Oh, yes, you will, and you ask for forgiveness again, but it's never too late, my friend. So let's pray, Father. Thank you so much for these amazing guys that show up every week from all around the country, outside of the country, those who are gonna watch this in another time. And so, Lord, I pray you'd be with them. I pray that you would use these scriptures and these things to speak to them in profound ways and restore their relationship with the girls in their life, their daughters, maybe even their wife, to do these things and to ask for forgiveness and build a culture of forgiveness around their life, but really seek to understand and know how to recapture the heart of that girl that's eluded you. Father, heal these families in the name of Jesus. And use my brothers who are watching this to step up and to be the godly man that Christ is calling you to be in your family and heal their families in Jesus' name. I pray. Amen. Hey, thanks for being with me from high in the Sierra Mountains here. Keep praying for me. I'm gonna be here for another week or so helping out of church and being a friend to Church on the Mountain, which I love so much here in the high Sierra. They're amazing, amazing people. In Bishop and also Crawley Lake, California. God bless you guys. I'm praying for you. Remember, it's never too late for God to do such a work in you that you see your whole family live out the destiny he's calling for. In Jesus' name. Amen.

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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 to 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 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, 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.