Fathering Our Future

Time and love are a couple of things we think about a lot as dads. So I’ve got a fresh perspective to share on time and 4 tips to help you succeed at loving your children.

With kids we find ourselves not having enough time, wishing we had more time, and running out of time.

When it comes to loving our kids we that’s what we are supposed to do but that doesn’t always come natural.

After being separated from my family for a few weeks, I started to see time differently. There’s nothing profound here, just a fresh perspective. 

When it comes to loving your kids, I’ve got four things for you to do that will make this easier

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Just a few weeks ago I was alone and isolated from my family. I thought this may have been a time where I would be ultra-productive but I was wrong. The isolation was painful but one simple thing made the difference.

We live in a world where we are constantly told to look forward and to stop looking back. This week I share how looking back helped me during my period of loneliness and brought happiness to my soul. We should look forward but we should never stop looking back.

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Last week I talked about things to avoid when it comes to disciplining your kids. This week I want to share one thing you should incorporate in your discipline approach that you maybe haven’t considered. 

Disciplining kids seems like a serious thing, and it is, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use humor in the process. I want to share a silly simple way I utilize humor in disciplining my kids that’s surprisingly effective and beneficial to both myself and my kids. 

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Disciplining our children is our greatest responsibility as fathers and unfortunately too many think about discipline in terms of punishment and correction. That is a part of discipline, but there is a whole lot more to it.

This week I focus on what it means to discipline your kids and I cover three things you need to be careful of or rethink entirely. We are talking about:

• Spanking
• Sending your kid to their room
• Reacting

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When it comes to AI, there are people who love it and people who hate it. Personally, I see it as an incredible tool and resource with amazing potential. However, apparently it possesses the potential to do things I never imagined.

I recently read an article about people and their feelings toward romantic companions created by AI, some pornographic. I’ll share that with you and provide:

• Tips around community
• How you can help your kids with real friendships and relationships
• Advice surrounding limits to screen time and social media usage

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Integrity is a word that we all like to use. We know it is good. We know we want to have it. But the truth is, we sometimes struggle to actually define what integrity is.

My goal is to help you understand what integrity is and what it should look like in your life. On this week’s episode, I will:

• Provide a biblical definition of integrity
• Give you an analogy that will help you understand integrity
• Offer some do’s and don’t’s that will help you have greater integrity

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As dads we want our kids to accomplish great things but we also want it to be perpetually known that we are the greatest. That’s a problem because both things cannot be true.

Our mission is to equip and disciple our kids to be a part of God’s mission in a greater capacity than ourselves. We need to keep that desire for our kids to accomplish great things while accepting that we will not always be the greatest. This episode will:

• Justify why we should want our kids to surpass ourselves
• Help you understand how you can accomplish that
• Explain that your value as a dad is not predicated on your performance

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Sometimes life doesn’t pan out the way you expected it to. Sometimes life throws you curveballs when everything appears to be going great. Life is unpredictable and brings change.

Things are changing for me personally. Our family is making a move across the country. While I have been processing this change, I have observed a few things that I think can serve dads when big changes present themselves. I want to offer you:

• Advice for decision making
• A reminder about time
• A perspective on taking things for granted

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Becoming a dad is one of the greatest things that happens to men but with this change often comes fear and discomfort. I want to help take off the edge a bit and offer some advice as a father of four.

I share tips from my book, Cut the Crap, that dads need to focus on, as well as some items that are must have when you have kids. You’ll get:

• My recommended items
• The right perspective on having kids
• 5 focuses for fathers
• Encouragement for the journey ahead

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For a list of the recommended items visit: https://fatheringourfuture.com/2025/08/03/items-you-actually-should-buy-when-you-have-kids/ 

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Over the last decade a term has been popularized in Christian circles: deconstruction. The premise is essentially dismantling one’s faith one brick at a time. For Christian dads, this should propel us to focus on properly teaching and living out biblical truths to our kids. 

I’m joined today by Pastor Nicholas McDonald, author of The Light in Our Eyes, to talk more about deconstruction. You’ll learn:

• How to think about deconstruction 
• 4 phases of deconstruction
• Ancient practices that can help establish a strong faith

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