dadAWESOME

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Three Updates & a Challenge:

• This is a prayer soaked podcast - God has a next step for each of us
• 3 Updates:
  1. Season #2 Five Highlights- three dadAWESOME takeaways from _________ (5 episodes in the month of October)
  2. DadAWESOME Foundations - starting October 8th... the foundations of dadAWESOME on 4 Thursday nights
  3. Partnership with Connected Families. Discipline that Connects with Your Child's Heart (Book & Course)
     • 8-Part Parenting course that starts on Oct 6.
     • Use the code: "AWESOME" to Save 15% on the registration fee.
     • https://connectedfamilies.org/dtc/small-groups/

The CHALLENGE

• From part 4 of DA Foundations
• Enjoy your KIDS
• 4 parts of DadAWESOME Foundations

L — I am Loved (You are my son, whom I Love) I — I am Intentional (Time, Marriage, Friends, Church, Mentors, Exercise, Career) F — I am Free (Heart, Forgiven, Pain, hurts, wound, Baggage, Purity, Shame) E — I Enjoy my kids (In you I am well pleased)

• Adding LIFE to the dad life
• Our kids can tell when their dad loves being their dad
• My prayer is that our kids would say, "my dad loves being my daddy and that being a dad is the favorite thing my dad does in life"
• Shiny eyes come when we father with child like wonder... We need to father like a child

* curiosity * Joy * Wonder * Being present * Fully alive

• The Fight for our Attention. For our Awe & Wonder
• John 10:10 "the devil comes to Steal, Kill and Destroy, but Jesus came so that we might have LIFE to the Full (Abundant Life)"
• The devil wants to kill, steal and destroy our wonder and our joy
• We must pay attention to what is stealing our attention
• ENJOY = synonyms
• • love
  • be pleased by
  • appreciate
  • savor
  • be fond of
  • find/take pleasure in
  • rejoice in
  • bask in
  • be amused by
  • delight in
  • adore
  • get a kick out of
• Story of Wonder
• Opening story in Dangerous Wonder by Mike Yaconelli
• A mind shift of intentionality
• It took intentionality to set up this moment of wonder
• Matthew 6:21 (TPT) "For your heart will always pursue what you value as your treasure"
• The more we treasure the dad life the more our heart will pursue more of it
• Our heart will pursue what we treasure
• My prayer is that you would ENJOY the dad life
• You are dadAWESOME
• Your kids can tell when you enjoy being their dad
• Episode 141 - next week will feature the top 3 dadAWESOME Takeaways from John Eldredge
• dadAWESOME Foundations starts on October 8th
  • Use the code: "AWESOME" to Save 15% on the registration fee.
  • https://connectedfamilies.org/dtc/small-groups/
• Jeff's prayer for every dad