Vital Signs of Fatherhood
The Systematic Reset
Sex. Money. Faith. Friendship. Health. One coffee with a mentor won’t cover it.
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So you carve out a lunch here and there. Maybe an early breakfast with another busy guy. You touch base, talk about the hot issues, and put too much pressure on one relationship to speak into every area of your life.
But think about the breadth of what you’re navigating: your own sexuality, your marriage, teaching your kids about sex, finances, career, faith, friendships, how to read the Bible, how to pray, what to do when your kid’s classmate is being a bully, how to talk to your third grader about the chaos of culture.
If you needed a meeting for every issue, you’d be booked seven days a week and still not cover it all. What you need isn’t another random conversation.
You need a systematic, comprehensive approach that helps you think through these areas without blowing up your schedule.
Respond
Confess the need and ask the Lord for help.
1) Confess the area you’ve let drift.
2) Name what you want it to become.
3) Admit why it hasn’t happened.
4) Ask for a way forward.
Session 1
Why It's Harder Than It Should Be
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A Generation of Underfathered Fathers
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Session 3
When Faith Feels Like a Fatherhood Failure
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Session 4
Dedicating The Time Dads Do Not Have
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Session 5
The Systematic Reset
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Session 6
From Surviving Fatherhood to Shaping a Legacy
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Being the spiritual head of my home, standing in the gap for my wife and children, sacrificing for them, interceding for them.
I want to be more intentional in this area, take back the territory the enemy has had in my mind and home.
With the Holy Spirit’s help and guidance I believe things can turn around.
Just wise use of my time. I have things I want to do every day and I accomplish some of them. But things like taking care of my body, doing my exercises every day, taking time to talk with my wife and family members are hard for me to be consistent in. Lord give me grace to plan and carry out that plan.
1) Leading my family in study and worship (I need to invite them into what I’m doing)
2) I want it to become real food for my wife and daughters (who all know and love the Lord, but I’m not leading them in their growth)
3) I let my insecurity keep me hesitating in moments when I could step in. I fear failure and don’t do what I want with my family.
4) I need resources, tools, strategies, and confidence in the Lord that this is part of what I’m meant to do as a husband and father.
Similar to Flo and Cliff, my evenings are not being redeemed in the ways I’ve wanted to. My mornings are actually okay – but my evenings need to be redeemed big time. It’s easy, convenient, and after a long day it’s just the most desirable thing.
Consistent quiet time has been a struggle. It’s not that I can’t and don’t have the time, it’s more that poor choices the night before prohibit quiet time the following morning. The way forward will be to establish a bedtime and stick to it along with putting my phone away after work so I don’t go down the rabbit hole of random brain rot…
I would agree with this. I’ve tried setting myself a bedtime but have failed because I am selfishly wanting a little time for myself at the end of the day, but I do nothing productive during that time. Got to give that desire up.