Jun 17, 2021
dadAWESOME
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Mark Batterson
Mark Batterson is the lead pastor of National Community Church
(NCC) in Washington, DC. One church in seven locations, NCC owns
and operates Ebenezers Coffeehouse, the Miracle Theatre, and the DC
Dream Center. NCC is currently developing a city block into the
Capital Turnaround. This 100,000-square-foot space will include an
event venue, child development center, mixed-use marketplace, and
coworking space. Mark holds a doctor of ministry degree from Regent
University and is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty
books, including The Circle Maker, Chase the Lion, In a Pit with a
Lion on a Snowy Day, and Whisper. He and his wife, Lora, have three
children and live on Capitol Hill.
FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS
—MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021
— DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021
— PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021
— NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021
— PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021
Register Here: https://f4f.bike/
Show Notes:
- Text “DAD” to 651-370-8618 to join the text list and for all dadAWESOME
day updates!
- 1:52 - Monday, June 21st.
Just write down DadAWESOME day - our launch pad to a year of
becoming dadAWESOME.
- 2:42 - Minneapolis Fathers for the Fatherless -
signup deadline is June 27th. Sign up at F4F.bike
- 3:49 - Mark Batterson's new book: Win the
Day
- 5:15 - Going from "This is crazy!" to "This is awesome!"
- 7:10 - "Your actions are perfectly designed to achieve the
results that you're getting."
- 7:38 - Discussing the idea of the grand
gesture: choosing to change upstream, because we
know we want to see a desired change downstream
- 9:51 - "A grand gesture...It's just doing something that
signifies, I'm making a move towards solving this problem or
accomplishing this goal."
- 13:03 - JMD, Just manageable difficulty - if
something's too easy you actually lose interest.
- 16:06 - Every move we make, every risk we take sets the stage
for someone else. Your brave is someone else's breakthrough.
- 20:14 - Habit number 2, Kiss the Wave - the obstacle is
not the enemy. The obstacle is the wave.
- 21:18 - "I do think that it is some of the suffering that makes
us appreciate the gift that life is and helps us identify with a
God who suffered, who went to a cross, a God who loves us enough to
go through Gethsemane. And so sometimes I need to be willing to
walk through some of that suffering."
- 22:49 - DadAWESOME day is a declaration day. It's a decision
day to make the next three hundred and sixty five days a decision
towards becoming dadAWESOME.
- 23:47 - "If you do little things like they're big
things got as a way of doing big things, like they're little
things"
- 24:29 - "time is measured in minutes. Life is measured
in moments. It's Wind the Clock habit number 6.
- 25:34 - "God wants to turn the hearts of the fathers
towards their children. And I think when that happens, then revival
happens."
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