Sep 24, 2020
dadAWESOME
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Three Updates & a Challenge:
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This is a prayer soaked podcast - God has a next step for each of us
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3 Updates:
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Season #2 Five Highlights- three dadAWESOME takeaways from _________ (5 episodes in the month of October)
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DadAWESOME Foundations - starting October 8th... the foundations of dadAWESOME on 4 Thursday nights
- 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/
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The CHALLENGE
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From part 4 of DA Foundations
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Enjoy your KIDS
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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)
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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