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Friday Focus #19: Fatherhood is Hard... Good!
Welcome to Friday Focus on The Faithful Fatherhood Podcast. This week Brett reflects on the challenge of fatherhood and reminds us that fatherhood is only hard if you're trying to be a good father... so good for...
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49. Reflections of a First-Time Father, with Keith Neal
As time passes, it's easy to forget the feelings, thoughts, and incredible emotions we experienced when meeting our kids for the first time. Yet, it can be valuable to reconnect with that time and remember just how...
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48. Forgiving a Father Who Hurt You, with Pastor James Seiler
All too often, fathers hurt their kids. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally. Either way, the impact is profound. Father woundings run deep, and they hold us back from living the fullness of the life...
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47. Perry is Back! (with Crazy Stories of Adventure...)
Perry Hughes, co-host of the podcast, is currently traveling the western United States with his family, and boy does he have some stories to share! He finally got satellite Internet up and running and was able to...
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46. Fathering the Fatherless, with Seth Johnson
Sometimes the call to fatherhood is sudden and unexpected. Seth Johnson, director of IAMercy, experienced that first-hand when God called him to father the street children of Nairobi, Kenya. What started as a feeding...
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45. Tools for Developing Trust and Intimacy, with Bill McCarthy
One of the goals of a faithful father should be to have a close, trusting, intimate relationship with his kids. Easier said than done. While we might desire — and even strive for — such an outcome, we often lack the...
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44. Practical Solutions for Raising Healthy Kids, with Dr. Matthew Kramer
As fathers, we have a responsibility to steward the health of our kids until they’re old enough to make informed health decisions on their own. Yet, while our intentions might be good, the evidence suggests that we’re...
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Friday Focus #18: Consistency (+ Podcast Anniversary Update!)
Welcome to Friday Focus on The Faithful Fatherhood Podcast. This week Brett talks about the power of consistency when it comes to our fathering, and the fruit that stems from consistently showing up in the lives of...
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43. Honoring Your Body to Maximize Your Purpose, with Dr. Michael Smith
To show up fully as a faithful father, our health needs be on point. More than that, to live out the purpose God has for our lives with energy and vigor, we must steward our bodies well so that they perform for us...
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Friday Focus #17: Where Lies the Victory?
Welcome to Friday Focus on The Faithful Fatherhood Podcast. This week Perry reflects on the verse in Proverbs 21 that talks about the victory belonging to the Lord, and what that means for us as fathers.
"The horse is...
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42. Prodigals and the Heart of a Father
In this episode Brett and Perry continue looking at what we can learn about the heart of a father based on the truth of what we see modeled by God as our Heavenly Father. For insight, they turn to Jesus's "Parable of...
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41. Discerning the True Father-Nature of God, with Heather Johnston
We often project views about the nature of God as our Heavenly Father based on our experience with our earthly father. While that's something to guard against in general, it's particularly important not to conflate...
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