Jeff Zaugg unpacks three fatherhood principles in this special bonus episode as we approach the launch of dadAWESOME Season 2. Let's double down on WISDOM, allow pain to fuel PASSION and add LIFE to the dad life.

Double Down on WISDOM

• JOHN ELDREDGE - Ransomed Heart: https://www.ransomedheart.com/podcast
• Paul Cole Episode - https://dadawesome.org/episode84/

Pain Fuels PASSION

• Book -- A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss, By: Jerry Sittser
• Loss can expand our ability to experience beauty

Adding LIFE to the Dad Life

• Deuteronomy 30:19 “This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you LIFE and DEATH, blessings and curses. Now choose LIFE, so that you and your children may LIVE.”
• John 10:10
• God wants you to thrive, not just to survive

Deuteronomy 30

• What’s really important for us to do?
  • Return to God
  • Obey God with all your heart and soul
  • Love God
  • Walk in His ways
  • Keep God’s commands and decrees
  • Turn to the Lord
  • Don’t turn and bow to other gods.
  • Don’t worship other gods
  • Choose life
  • Listen to God’s voice
  • Hold fast to God
• The blessings:
  • God will reveal to us and our children
  • God will restore our fortunes
  • God will have compassion on us
  • God will gather us from the scattered nations
  • God will bring back even the banished
  • God will give us possession of the promise land
  • God will make you prosperous
  • God will make you numerous
  • God will circumcise your hearts to love Him and LIVE
  • God will put curses on your enemies
  • God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hands
  • God will make your prosperous in the fruit of your womb
  • God will make you prosperous in the young of your livestock
  • God will make you prosperous in the crops of your land
  • God will delight in you, just as he delighted in your fathers=
  • You will LIVE
  • You will increase
  • God will bless you in the land you are entering
  • You and your children will LIVE
  • God is your LIFE
  • You will LIVE many years

"It is impossible for us to be dadAWESOME for our kids unless we experience dadAWESOME from our Heavenly Father"

Matthew 3:17 "And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”This is my son, whom I love and in whom I am well pleased"

Worship - The Blessing

The Blessing with Kari Jobe & Cody Carnes | Live From Elevation Ballantyne | Elevation Worship

https://youtu.be/Zp6aygmvzM4