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- Beloved Son, Fruitful Father
How do you grow spiritual fruit that lasts? Barry explores the gap between wanting to be fruitful and actually bearing fruit, especially for men shaped by fatherlessness, emphasizing that a man bears fruit because he already is a son and that who you are determines the fruit you bear.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Why Fruit Matters
00:42 Fruitfulness Gap
01:56 Sonship Shapes Fruit
02:29 Joseph Model
04:19 Five Marks of Fruit
08:38 Your Story Can Grow
09:45 Biblical Definition
10:51 Multiplication Principle
13:00 Low Bar Trap
14:07 Spirit Makes Fruit
18:00 Fruit That Remains
20:18 Sovereignty Providence
21:47 Resources & Community
22:32 Support the Mission
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24 min - 7 Lessons We MUST Teach Our Sons
Barry defines what dads need to teach their sons, drawing comparisons from Messianic Jewish tradition about preparing children for adulthood. They need you now more than ever!
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Teach Your Children
00:47 Why Dads Miss Lessons
02:53 Ancient Fatherhood Model
07:16 Teach Him To Swim
08:38 Lesson 1: you are his father
10:20 Lesson 2: Image Bearers
11:18 Lesson 3: Biblical Manhood
13:24 Lesson 4: love, honor, & respect Women
16:27 Lesson 5: Brotherhood is Crucial
18:07 Lesson 6: Commune With God
23:09 Lesson 7: Know God as Abba Father
27:22 Wrap Up Resources
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29 min - Kevin Mahaffey on Identity, Repentance, and Leading the Home
Barry interviews longtime friend and FatherSeekers board member Kevin MaHaffey. The conversation focuses on lessons Kevin learned growing up with a step-father, marrying a woman from an opposite upbringing, and raising their two boys to be Godly men.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Good Dad Perseverance
01:52 Welcome Kevin MaHaffey
03:51 Air Force Medical Supply
05:05 Marriage And Family Wisdom
06:43 Growing Up Without Dad
08:25 Stepdad Roger Influence
12:19 Family Instability Early Years
15:26 Roger And Rhonda Upbringing
21:33 Lessons On Fatherhood
24:59 Identity Anger And Sports
27:40 Football Temperament
28:38 Limits and Smarts
30:02 Achievement Versus Identity
32:45 Marriage and Trust Lessons
34:20 Christies Father Example
37:22 Spiritual Leadership Gap
40:13 Sorry Versus Repentance
41:26 Finding the Root Why
45:30 Advice to Fatherless Boys
47:05 Identity for Sons
50:22 Closing and Get Involved
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53 min - Assess Your Spiritual Inventory with These 9 Questions
How often do you self assess? Barry offers nine questions to take inventory of spiritual health.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 A Real Spiritual Inventory
01:20 Attention
03:24 Attraction
04:55 Affection
06:25 Allegiance
07:54 Ambition
09:20 Appetite
11:39 Anxiety
15:21 Association
17:47 Actions
19:43 Next Steps And Support
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23 min - The 5 Second Rule for Fathers
Take back control of your response! Barry shares his “five-second rule." An intentional gap between stimulus and response that interrupts automatic reactions. He teaches five steps (supported by scriptures) for adding pause to your response.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Why Five Seconds Works
01:00 Psychology of the Pause
03:59 Five Steps Stop to Speak
07:02 Benefits in Real Life
11:41 FatherSeekers 5 Second Rulex
12:24 Theology Reaction vs Response
13:44 PAUSE Acronym Practice
15:42 More Resources & Support
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18 min - Kill Your Main Character Syndrome
We're not the main character. Barry explores “main character syndrome,” tracing its roots and linking it to narcissism that it is. Barry challenges fathers to release the roles of author, creator, editor, and finisher of their story to Jesus Christ.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Main Character Syndrome
01:01 Origins of the Term
02:43 Narcissism and Manipulation
04:04 Biblical Roots and Warning
06:08 Release the Spotlight
07:37 Culture and Parenting Impact
10:09 Jesus as Author and Creator
16:28 Editor and Finisher Roles
19:01 What Syndrome Reveals
22:15 Becoming Supporting Character
24:48 Final Challenge
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27 min - The Failure Flow Chart
Your reaction to failure matters more than the failure itself. Barry helps reframe failure for men and fathers, asking how failure is defined, what it’s for, and what to do with it.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 What Is Failure?
00:48 Reframing The Word
02:00 Failure Defined Biblically
03:07 The Failure Flowchart
03:48 Expectations And Labels
06:14 Attempt And Agency
07:35 Resistance And Outcomes
11:07 Interpretation Shapes Identity
14:57 Consequences And Redemption
17:56 Crossroads And Response
20:42 Formation And Maturity
22:54 Hope And Next Steps
24:17 Support The Mission
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26 min - Build Your Cadre: Brothers for Life
Looking to connect deeper with a few good men? Barry digs into the discipleship pattern of “cadre,” a trusted group of five to eight tested men. Men who provide support for kingdom living as men, husbands, and fathers.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Find Your Brotherhood
01:00 Community Circle Cadre
02:07 What Cadre Means
02:48 Real Accountability
05:00 Celebrate Together
06:40 Benefits of Cadre
10:17 Five Cadre Practices
11:23 Leave Isolation Behind
13:15 Choose With Discernment
16:43 Ordinary Presence Rhythm
18:37 Submit To Correction
19:59 Celebrate God’s Work
20:47 Next Steps And Resources
22:27 Support the Mission
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24 min - Fathers, Who’s In Your Circle?
Who is in your circle? Barry explains why every man needs the right “circle”—an intentional brotherhood defined by relationship, influence, accountability, and kingdom purpose.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Why Circles Matter
01:02 Defining a Godly Circle
05:16 Three Circle Observations
07:31 Framework 1: Measured
11:01 Framework 2: Molded
13:10 Framework 3: Modeled
17:38 Framework 4: Moderated
22:10 Framework 5: Missional
26:34 Join the Community
27:18 Final Charge and Support
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29 min - You Are Called to Community!
Where are your brothers? Barry argues that men need a healthy men-only community and that the “self-made man” mindset leads to isolation, bad influences, and trouble.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Why Men Need Community
00:47 The Self Made Myth
02:42 Iron Sharpens Iron
04:17 Avoid Isolation and Bad Crowds
06:10 Ecclesia Called Out Ones
09:17 Gates of Hell Won't Prevail
15:01 Circles and Scripture Study
17:17 Four Movements Toward Community
20:42 Build or Find a Group
21:24 Purpose Commission Scripture
24:37 Join and Share the Mission
26:13 Final Charge to Men
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27 min
About Teach Me to Father
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Join Barry and his friends as they unwrap their stories and, along the way, mine out the wisdom and knowledge for practical application in every father’s life. Together they discover health and wholeness for fathers, their wives, kids, and generations to come.
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Barry Edgemon is the Founder/Leader of FatherSeekers. He coaches and mentors fatherless fathers. He leads from his personal and professional experience of son, father, pastor, and friend of the fatherless.
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