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Key Takeaways   Choose your wife well. We can do things differently than our parents, not out of spite, but desiring to want what Jesus wants. Bring real faith into your home and around your children. The Holy Spirit and your parenting should allow your children to feel confident in their faith. Rules without relationship equals rebellion. -Josh McDowell   dadAWESOME   We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness.  | YouTube |  Instagram | Facebook   John Odom   Dr. John H.L. Odom, Jr. is a board-certified medical doctor who specializes in sports medicine and he founded Odom Health & Wellness back in 2006 in an effort to help people live life to their fullest potential. Ministry, medicine, and the mission field were all passions that came together to shape Dr. Odom’s entire career spanning the past 3 decades. Dr. Odom has a deep desire to help people through their entire lifespan, as well as a dedication to teaching future generations. Dr. Odom enjoys serving a large variety of patients, from inner city kids to Olympic athletes and everything in between. In his spare time, Dr. Odom enjoys spending time with his family, and practicing what he preaches by staying active participating in marathons, triathlons, cross country skiing and downhill skiing. In 2017 Dr. Odom completed his first Iron Man Triathlon putting him in an elite category of endurance athletes.   F4F Sponsors Aleph Holdings -- Active investors and operators in small to medium-sized trades companies and real estate development. https://www.alephholdings.com/ Alpha & Omega Wealth Strategies - We work with our clients to help them reach their financial goals by creating strategic, unique, and flexible financial plans to protect the people and things they care about most. http://alphaomega.nm.com/   Key Quotes (Full Transcript of the Conversation Here)   13:05 - "And so that idea of making an organic... rhythm of your life is what I think we modeled through these ministries growing up in that what we aim to bring in our families... we make it every day, all that we did." 20:55 - "There's a ton of parallels between the two (doing something physical and fatherhood.) You know, we could talk all day about these parallels. It does require a degree of toughness, at least a decision to be tough. You know, fathering is not for wimps. It's maybe one of the toughest challenges you'll have to do, but obviously the most worthwhile challenge you will also do." 26:21 - "But what we're saying by inoculation is that it is good to give them one, a taste of the real thing, so real faith in your home. So that can grow, grow food in their heart. So one, give them a taste of the real thing, really practice what you preach...  mentor and be that example. And then two... to expose them to things within your house, expose them to ideologies within your house, expose them to contrary thoughts within your house, bring people into your house who are not like you, who don't look like you, who don't think like you, who may not even act like you might not even like them."   Conversation Links   Odom Health and Wellness The Coddling of the American Mind  Men of the Kingdom   Links from dadAWESOME   https://dadawesome.org/life/ Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Receive weekly encouragement by texting "dad" to 651-370-8618

Key Takeaways   You have to believe God wants to speak to you more than you even want to listen. When you journal you are stirring up a prophetic gift. Every time we hurry, we break things. Be Still. God wants us to live life well. When you journal you write down you history with the Father that you will have forever.   dadAWESOME   We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness.  | YouTube |  Instagram | Facebook   Ken Helser   Ken and Linda co-lead, A Place for the Heart, with their son and daughter-in-law, Jonathan and Melissa Helser.  Ken and Linda pour into the hearts of the students that come for the 18 Inch Journey.  They are the original Cageless Birds as the first to explore their relationship with God through art.  They continue to travel around the world ministering in Youth With A Mission Schools.  Ken never would have believed all the good things that awaited them when he gave God his everything.   The greatest fruit of Ken and Linda’s life is family.  Long ago, the Lord revealed to them that the foundation of their ministry began with family.   This is true today and as Ken and Linda do everything they do out of the overflow of their love for family.   Key Quotes (Full Transcript of Conversation Here)   2:21 - "Well, as the Lord said to me one time... as long as you're following me, you will always be in transition. And what that means to me, is I am more deeply in love with my wife now, soon to be 56 years, than I've ever been. And the reason for it is 2nd Corinthians 5:17. If any man is in Christ, he's a new creation. And that means tomorrow morning when I wake up, I'm going to be married to a new creation." 6:39 - "Jesus teaches what we should be but then He makes us what He teaches we should be. I cannot do it without Himself and that's where my dependency is more than it's ever been." 16:59 - "I think the most important thing... I know that the hardest thing in the Christian life is to let God love you. And I believe the second hardest thing in the Christian life is to be still."   Conversation Links   A Place for the Heart  Cageless Birds "No Longer Slaves" 18 Inch Journey Ken's Testimony Ken on Hearing the Voice of the Father   Links from dadAWESOME   https://dadawesome.org/life/ Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Receive weekly encouragement by texting "dad" to 651-370-8618

Key Takeaways   Vision doesn't become reality on the mountaintops but rather in the valleys. When God promises he follows through, just not always on our timeline. When it's built by faith it moves from information to revelation. When you love your spouse in front of your children they will trust and believe you. The key to communication is identification.   dadAWESOME   We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness.  | YouTube |  Instagram | Facebook   Ken Helser   Ken and Linda co-lead, A Place for the Heart, with their son and daughter-in-law, Jonathan and Melissa Helser.  Ken and Linda pour into the hearts of the students that come for the 18 Inch Journey.  They are the original Cageless Birds as the first to explore their relationship with God through art.  They continue to travel around the world ministering in Youth With A Mission Schools.  Ken never would have believed all the good things that awaited them when he gave God his everything.   The greatest fruit of Ken and Linda’s life is family.  Long ago, the Lord revealed to them that the foundation of their ministry began with family.   This is true today and as Ken and Linda do everything they do out of the overflow of their love for family.   Key Quotes (Full Transcript of the Conversation)   3:34 - "God takes us to mountaintop to give us a vision, but nothing is ever made reality on a mountaintop, there's rock up there, nothing grows. It always takes us in the valley for the dream and the vision to become reality." - Oswald Chambers 4:51 - "I shouldn't be talking about them... it's not pride, I'm just so grateful. And the Lord said, It's okay, I brag about my Son all the time, and the Father brags on Jesus. And when our children have followed the Lord and done what they were created to find, what they were made for... Ephesians 1:3...He called before the creation of the world, He saw us and called us to become holy and blameless. If God called you to that, then He also called you with a destiny. And it's tragic that most young people today, many, many people today work jobs they cannot stand and they've never been able to do that one thing they were created for." 7:25 - 'So many times when God gives you the vision, it's gonna happen, it's in the future, it will take place, but He doesn't tell you when, because it's not so much that I had a vision, God has to shape me into the place of the vision. It's what He has to do in me. Because one of the greatest things is for God to be able to give you something without what He gives you having you." 17:29 - "The key to communication is identification... The greatest communicator in all the world is Jesus Christ. But his communication was slow, on the money, because he spoke the language of the people. When he spoke to women, he talked about yeast and bread. When he spoke to farmers, it was different soil conditions and what kind of crop. And fisherman, pearl of great price in the nets. And so he spoke the language of the people. And I think one of the key things and communicated with my children is being able to speak to their world and bring them into my world."   Conversation Links   A Place for the Heart  Cageless Birds "No Longer Slaves" 18 Inch Journey   Links from dadAWESOME   https://dadawesome.org/life/ Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Receive weekly encouragement by texting "dad" to 651-370-8618

Key Takeaways   Empathy is a game changer. Forgiveness causes ripple effects that we may never see. Our emotions can be an enter sign for the internal work that we need to do or an exit sign for a situation that we need to get out of. Sacrificial decisions are courageous decisions even if they don't make sense to others.   dadAWESOME   We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness.  | YouTube |  Instagram | Facebook   Jason Romano   Jason Romano is an author, speaker, and media professional with over 20 years of broadcasting experience. He is the Director of Media with Sports Spectrum and the host of the popular Sports Spectrum Podcast. For 17 years, he was an Emmy-Award winning Producer and Senior Manager at ESPN. He has created and produced content for shows such as SportsCenter, Monday Night Football, Mike and Mike in the Morning, Sunday NFL Countdown, College Gameday, NFL Live, MLB’s All Star Game and many more.   Sports Spectrum Article: Fathers For The Fatherless bike rides combine fundraising, fitness, fellowship, faith (By Joshua Doering Jul 6, 2022) - linked here   Key Quotes (Full Transcript of the Conversation Here)   6:54 - "It took that... deep, dark, low moment, rock bottom moment for my father, for me to see him completely differently than I ever saw him... Even though I knew about forgiveness, I understood it as far as Jesus and me... I needed to ask for forgiveness of my sins. I wasn't able to do that other part that Jesus talks about forgiving others who trespass against us... And that moment, that day, that low point, as I heard his voice on the phone, I saw my dad the way God sees him and me as his child. And I developed something that I never have from my dad before... Empathy is the great game changer and I never had empathy for my dad until that low moment. And that empathy led me to a point where I verbally finally said to him, Dad, I forgive you..." 14:00 - "My brothers are amazing dads, so I watch them... I see how great of a dad that they both are and I think only God could do that. But the ripple effects of... ten total Romano kids that are going to hopefully see a different future than what we had to see because of God, but the decisions that thankfully we all, all three of us made to not go down the same path that our father did... I believe there's chain breaking and discipleship making." 19:54 - "Though, my emotions are not always reality, I've learned that my emotions can point me toward reality, especially re-occurring emotions.... Our emotions can be an enter sign for the internal work that we need to do, we have to do, or an exit sign for a situation that we need to get out of."   Conversation Links   Jason's Book:  The Uniform of Leadership & Live to Forgive Jason's Website    Links from dadAWESOME   https://dadawesome.org/life/ Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Receive weekly encouragement by texting "dad" to 651-370-8618

Key Takeaways   There is much value and importance in keeping your spouse as your number 1. Time spent with your children is something that you can never get back. Be intentional with your time and prayer for and over your children.   dadAWESOME   We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness.  | YouTube |  Instagram | Facebook   Jason Romano   Jason Romano is an author, speaker, and media professional with over 20 years of broadcasting experience. He is the Director of Media with Sports Spectrum and the host of the popular Sports Spectrum Podcast. For 17 years, he was an Emmy-Award winning Producer and Senior Manager at ESPN. He has created and produced content for shows such as SportsCenter, Monday Night Football, Mike and Mike in the Morning, Sunday NFL Countdown, College Gameday, NFL Live, MLB’s All Star Game and many more.   Sports Spectrum Article: Fathers For The Fatherless bike rides combine fundraising, fitness, fellowship, faith (By Joshua Doering Jul 6, 2022) - linked here   Key Quotes (Full Transcript of the Conversation Here)   7:08 - "We're going to go through bad cycles as parents. We're going to go through bad cycles in our jobs. We're going to go through bad cycles in our marriage. Just in life, things are going to happen. I found to find abundant life, first of all, it's only found in Christ... He says, I've come to give you life and life more abundantly.... He is the Way, the Truth and the Life... Start with Jesus, which I think is an easy thing for me to say. It's not an always easy thing for me to just practically live out when life is coming at you.... Serving is a big thing... serving your kid... being there for [them]" 22:42 - "I need to go back to the to the Word of God and see that... I'm supposed to love my wife as, as God loves church. Love my bride, as God loves the church. And I haven't always done that perfectly. I've never not loved my wife, but I definitely didn't always have her as the only number one in my life." 28:58 - "One of my highlights in my life was when she was ten years old, I got to baptize my daughter in our church.... I really have no desire or worry about what she's going to end up being as long as Christ is at the center of her life. That's the only thing I really pray for and hope is that she follows Jesus for the rest of her life."   Conversation Links   Jason's Book:  The Uniform of Leadership & Live to Forgive Jason's Website   Links from dadAWESOME   https://dadawesome.org/life/ Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Receive weekly encouragement by texting "dad" to 651-370-8618

Key Takeaways   Doing something stretching and challenging with your child can bring a closeness and bond that can only grow for years to come. Repetition and patience in fatherhood shows intention and presence. The window of time we get with our children is slowly closing. Be mindful of the trade-offs. The Four Smart Choices: Confront reality Grow capacity Fuel curiosity Create change   dadAWESOME   We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness.  | YouTube |  Instagram | Facebook   Mark Miller   For the last 20 years, Mark has focused much of his time on serving leaders, helping them grow themselves, their teams, and their organizations. In addition to his role at Chick-fil-A, he's also had the privilege to teach and lead in not-for-profit organizations domestically and globally. Although the context is different in every organization, the problems have common roots and so do the solutions. Along the way, Mark has been fortunate to author (and co-author) a few books – nine and counting. Today, more than a million books are in print in 25+ languages. His approach to writing has always been to find what is true in principle and figure out how to make it applicable to the real world.   Conversation Notes (Full Transcript of the Conversation Here)   9:48 - Mark describing his son's, David, diagnosis, Cerebral Palsy and Autism and how he supports his wife with the challenges that can bring on, "I'm always trying to figure out how can I serve her as she serves him... My advice, again, is a lot of prayer for sure... I'm trying to take care of her on the journey as much as I'm trying to take care of David." 14:42 - "I've prayed a lot more and I've served a lot more... I'm a better human being, a better husband, a better follower of Jesus... I'm better all the way around because of David... I get to live with a glimpse of unconditional love. Because David, he's never, this side of heaven, going to tell us he loves us. But that's okay. You know we love him." 17:29 - Mark on his adventures with his other son, Justin. "We decided years and years ago that we wanted to try to do something every year that would stretch us and challenge us. And he has come up with some of the ideas. I've come up with some of the ideas... We've climbed mountains and became certified scuba divers... run a marathon... We just we want to keep growing. We want to keep stretching. We want to do hard things together and grow through the experience." 23:29 - "You've got a pretty small window when you really think about it with your kids... There's plenty of time in my case to sell chicken, later. There's plenty of time to write books, later. But that window is going to close... I hope to be and God willing, will be close to Justin and David forever. But even those opportunities are limited, and that makes them more precious to me... We've got to be real careful about the trade offs we make." 26:40 - "It's our ability to make choices. That's our superpower... They're completely paralleled with fatherhood. The choices that leaders make to get out of the quicksand, a busyness and distraction and complexity and competing priorities and success and fear and fatigue and aimlessness... What you have to do to get out are the same things... you have to do to be a good father." 27:30 - "Choices give us agency, choices give us opportunity and choices give us responsibility." 29:06 - "We can forfeit that agency and assume a victim mindset. Our locus of control shifts from internal to external. It's not my fault. It's not my responsibility. It's not a result of my choices. And the stuff that keeps us in quicksand is almost always a result of our choices." 34:41 - "Peter Drucker, the late management and leadership guru... said he had never met a leader that couldn't eliminate 25% of the things on their calendar and no one would notice."   Conversation Links   Mark's Website Mark's Books: Smart Leadership, Win Every Day, Chess Not Checkers, Leaders Made Here, Talent Magnet, Win the Heart, The Secret, Great Leaders Grow and The Heart of Leadership.  Mark's son, Justin, organization: Untold Mark's free assessment on Smart Leadership: text besmart to 66866 Fathers for the Fatherless Biking Schedule    Links from dadAWESOME   https://dadawesome.org/life/ Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team https://dadawesome.org/tour/

"People are looking for purpose, but because their own needs seem so stark and so great, they don't get to it. It's a paradox that by focusing on other people's needs, you are going to find that your own needs will be met -- So, sometimes as parents it is important (wherever we are at) to say, 'Hey, let's go find a place to serve'"   Key Takeaways   Pray with your kids and teach them to pray Serve with your kids Make time to play with your kids - gives you a chance to build trust for later things Take mom out on a regular date Date your kids once a week Give mom a break and take the kids out Listen to the hearts of your children   dadAWESOME   We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness.  | YouTube |  Instagram | Facebook   Seth Barnes   Seth Barnes is founder and president of Adventures in Missions, a discipleship and missions ministry that has taken over 125,000 people on mission projects around the world since 1989. The mission of Adventures is to deeply connect people to Jesus and his movement. Their goal is to train 100,000 disciple makers focused on fulfilling the Great Commission. Adventures has ministry training centers around the world that are focused on making that goal a reality. To move toward the fulfillment of the vision, Seth also founded the World Race in 2005. The World Race provides trained teams of young adults the opportunity to engage in 11 international mission contexts in 11 months using an experiential, missional discipleship model. Adventures emphasizes listening prayer, relationships, and servanthood in their work amongst the poor. Both through ministry/training centers and World Race ministry teams, Adventures maintains an active presence in a number of African countries. In addition to overseeing Adventures in Missions, Seth is a speaker, author, and prolific blogger. Seth is married to Karen. They have five children and seven grandchildren.   Conversation Notes (Full Transcript of the Conversation Here)   4:51 - "But I just felt this sense of urgency to do something, whatever it is that I needed to do in terms of impact, in terms of discipleship, in terms of imparting the kingdom of God to my kids... I felt the leading to study the book of Acts and then try and do it." 05:49 - "I just felt God saying, why don't you go and do this somewhere specific? And we prayed about it, ended up hearing Peru go to Peru and see if the Holy Spirit doesn't still heal people, see if he doesn't actually use you to plant churches... 22 total... guys and gals and we planted five churches. We saw so many healings, people that were dying of cancer, radically healed.... but just so fun to see my kids seeing that the Bible is true and it still applies now." 8:44 - "I do think that we have to do business with our our older selves and say, how can I end my life without regrets? Maybe one of the biggest regrets, I think a lot of dads would have to not invest that kind of quality time where your kids can really see your heart." 10:06 - "I remember when we moved... my wife saying, our kids need to serve more, they're becoming narcissistic. Maybe there's a little entitlement creeping in. So she would just take them to the local church and they would clean the toilets.... because we believe that service is important... Acts 1:8 where you begin in Jerusalem and then you go to what's neighboring in Judea and maybe something that's foreign some area and then to the ends of the earth... Begin just in your backyard and find ways to serve... there's so many needy people... just find a few that need a visit, need a human touch and start there." 11:58 - "I would begin with identity to really help right size that and that's where I think a family on mission... where your purpose is greater than just entertainment. And if you're on mission, you're taking the perspective off of yourself and your own needs and putting it on somebody else. And there's a strange thing that happens when you do that... you become less preoccupied with your own inadequacy and identity begins to kind of fit together better..." 12:37 - "But also we're so, self-focused that sometimes we never get out of that space and into a place of service of others... that's the first thing. The second thing would be community. And we think of Maslow's hierarchy of needs and the need of belonging... we need to belong to others and we need to connect with others... helping young people to connect on mission, I think is a beautiful way to help address that need and ultimately to go on mission and to find purpose beyond just again, meeting your own felt needs, important, but ultimately, you're not going to raise world changers if you're just looking at a belly button all the time." 14:13 - "Sometimes as parents, if we begin wherever we're at... let's go find a small way to serve. When we were in Guatemala, there's a lot of trash around. So I would take the little five year old grandsons that I've got, and we go pick up trash for an hour... I just wanted to help them to see the needs that the community had." 16:21 - "If I'm experiencing something that's life giving, I want to invite others to it... I'm just a beggar that's found a little bread that wants to let other beggars know where that bread is. And for me, I've found that young people and my own grandkids and my kids before them needed the opportunity to give out of their abundance." 19:40 - "Wasn't until I was 31 years old and I'm at a marriage retreat when I actually hear the Lord say that he loves me and... when you hear the Lord speak in a way that it's so obvious, you know, and for that, that changed everything for me... I wanted my kids to have that same experience, to have that same possibility of connection. And what I found is we just need to create space. We just need to sit with them in the morning. And when I say create space, I'm talking about being quiet and asking a question and not answering the question, but letting Him in the silence show up." 25:07 - "You go back and ask them about it and... to see the persistence of their faith now in their thirties... and to see them imparting it to their kids lets you know that this was worth it, that it's something that can last."   Conversation Links   Seth's Blog- Radical Living Seths's Books - The Art of Listening Prayer and Kingdom Journeys C. Peter Wagner's Book - Acts of the Holy Spirit Adventures in Missions The World Race   Links from dadAWESOME   https://dadawesome.org/life/ Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team https://dadawesome.org/tour/

Key Takeaways    Acts of obedience can result in miracles, adventures, and boldness they've experienced as a family. Transparent money management can be the best instruction for kids. What children learn from their parents is more "caught than taught." The importance of being transparent with your children about finances far exceeds putting up a wall and believing it isn't beneficial. It's beneficial for both spouses to be involved in finances.      dadAWESOME   We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness.  | YouTube |  Instagram | Facebook   Bob Lotich   Bob and his wife, Linda, live in Franklin, TN with their three children. Lotich is CEPF® (Certified Educator in Personal Finance), award-winning blogger, and named a top 20 social influencer in personal finance. Author of "Simple Money, Rich Life", Host of SeedTime Money podcast, and creator of the 'Real Money Method' - a quicker and easier alternative to traditional budgeting that has built-in accountability.    Key Quotes (Full Transcript of the Conversation Here)   THREE DAY MONEY CHALLENGE   3:22 -  "...if I look back at our life and a lot of the miracles that have happened, a lot of the crazy things that God has brought us on, adventures that He's led us on, it has been through acts of obedience. When he's invited us to do something to step out into something... It'd be more comfortable to not do that... I want to be someone who is always running in that direction." 04:01 -" I want to raise kids who... just aren't bound up by fear, but have that boldness like David did in the face of whatever the obstacle of challenges." 4:48 - "every time he goes into kids church... they invite one of the kids to pray over the offering. And apparently our son goes up there every single week and asks to pray for the offering." 7:06 - "I talk to people all the time who come up to me and say, my dad said that we don't talk about money in our house... intentionally put a wall up and said, we're not going to talk about this. That seems like such a terrible idea to me, because the truth of the matter is... if we're not getting financial education from our homes, we're not learning it in school... our churches will teach us about giving in and I think a lot of them do a good job on that, but they're not teaching us how to actually manage our money so that we actually have more to give. And so what happens is we have this void of a lack of financial education. And so then what happens is our education and our beliefs about money come from places that... aren't even trying to teach us about it... We're looking at Instagram influencers or learning from credit card companies or all of these places where they may not be explicitly teaching us about money." 9:00- "...just talking through that in earshot of them, because, again, a lot of this is more caught than taught. And so we might as well just let them hear what's going on and let it start rubbing off on them. And I think that's one of the best things that we can do as dads." 15:17 - "... so it was two weeks later after I said yes to God and decided, okay, I'm going to take the rest as a year off. We got a call from the adoption agency... but we actually have a little girl who was born last night down in Alabama... Linda and I prayed for about 30 seconds... all right, let's go get our daughter." 19:59 - "it offends me that if you look at the Forbes 400... the vast majority of the people, that are top of the list, they're not serving the kingdom. It's like, that's why not." 21:40 - John Wesley quote "I earn as much as I can by writing and speaking... I save... And what he meant by that was, I reduce my expenses, I eliminate waste. I just cut out any wasteful, unnecessary spending... I save as much as I can so that I can give as much as I possibly can." 25:34 - "We call it our AUM, or Assets Under Management instead of net worth for two quick reasons. I don't like the term net worth when we're talking about our worth as believers... in light of what Jesus did, there's no number that defines that, whether it's high or low... But the other reason we call it Assets Under Management is that it's a reminder... that everything that we have our house, our cars, the money in our account, our kids... we're managers of all of it. 27:19 - "I felt God said, why don't you just track your giving? And so we created what we call our net given, which is basically just a sheet where we have tracked pretty much everything we've given since we got married." 30:47 - "... What I would say is we started moving forward faster when both of us were in it together, when both of us were aware of what was going on."   Conversation Links   Bob's Organization: SeedTime Bob's Book - Simple Money, Rich Life Bob's Podcast - The SeedTime Money Podcast Bob's Courses - Real Money Method 3.0 10X Investing The 5 Biggest Money Mistakes   Links from dadAWESOME   https://dadawesome.org/life/ Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team https://dadawesome.org/tour/

Key Takeaways:   When the Skoogs were met with resistance preparing for a trip to China, they chose to continue to walk in God’s calling for them. How one choice, of going to church to serve, turned into a legacy of leading people to Jesus. The impact that Tim left his kids as he modeled Kingdom prayer and adventure. The five principles/practices that the global church implements.   dadAWESOME   We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness.  | YouTube |  Instagram | Facebook   Tim and Ryan Skoog   Tim and Ryan are a father/son duo who share the love of adventure and legacy. Ryan is President of Venture and Tim is on the Governing Board. Venture is a Global Partner of Father for the Fatherless. Venture is committed and passionate about serving in areas of the world that are the least reached and resourced by partnering with local leaders in those communities to end some of the world's greatest injustices.     Conversation Notes   2:04- Tim explaining the impact of his mother in law passing away and why they decided to continue with their trip to China. 5:45 - Tim and Ryan talking about the times they were apprehended by the police and chased by dogs for putting Christian tracts on locals doorsteps.. "those are some of the adventures that... I'll always cherish that with my dad." 8:39 - "The enemy doesn't want dads taking courageous adventures, instilling values in their kids." 08:55 - "... Recognize that when you're heading out like this, expect that there's going to be some resistance, that we have an enemy, and if the enemy can stop you before you get started, he's going to do it." 10:17 - “...He didn’t start the gambit by taking us to Mozambique or... a war zone. It started with... let’s go serve a church together or... there’s a service opportunity in our church or in our community.” 11:14 - Ryan talking about having a good role model when it came to his prayer life and the adventures they went on as a family. 13:39 - “The quick origin is that it came out of asking a question, "What if the global church had something to teach the American church on how to follow Jesus?" And instead of us just going and sending, you know, teaching and leadership and all that stuff, what if we sat at their feet and said, "Could you teach us?” 14:21 -Explaining “The Five Principles/Practices” that the global church implements. Every believer praying and in scripture 1-2 hours/day Every believer spending time with the lost on a daily basis Every believer serving in some capacity the poor and the needy around you - Looking for people who are open Every believer is getting together with other believers to study the scriptures and learning a way to obey it Every believer is training someone else to do these principles 16:55 - "And that's part of the the idea on the prayer side is what like every believer in the global church that's practicing this, they're almost every day praying for people that don't know Jesus to come to come to Jesus." 19:46 - "And we try to go for the complex and easy and God wants us to do simple and tough and they can't do it." 20:43 - “...You’re capable of passing things on. Capable of having a rich history. Capable of having the next, and the next, and the next follow the Lord." 22:18 - "My dad, his example and faithfulness and....consistency of who he was as a person, I was like I want to be like my dad, and because I wanted to be like him then I wanted to serve Jesus and I wanted to be a good leader and I wanted to be responsible and I wanted to be a good dad myself and all of that. But that first started with, I made his decision that I want to be like my dad, and that was huge. And so I’ve really tried to take that and say, okay, in all this, I really want my son to want to be like me first.” 23:50 - "And it wasn't just one thing that he did, but his consistency over and over and over that that was so impacting and then peppered with adventures. Right. And made it really powerful.... there's a moment there's a season in life for us as dads that the call is one of faithfulness. And it's like hard because you're like, I want to do great things and this and that. And the call is, no, actually do the same thing over and over and be faithful at that thing."      Conversation Links   Venture dadAWESOME – Episode 77 Global Discipleship   Links from dadAWESOME   https://dadawesome.org/life/ Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team https://dadawesome.org/tour/

"One of the greatest gifts that my parents and then my dad was able to give me was he wanted to expose me early on to the world, to the needs of the world, to the challenges of the world." "....he did that by taking us to some of the most difficult places in the world."   dadAWESOME   We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness.  | YouTube |  Instagram | Facebook   Tim and Ryan Skoog   Tim and Ryan are a father/son duo who share the love of adventure and legacy. Ryan is President of Venture and Tim is on the Governing Board. Venture is a Global Partner of Father for the Fatherless. Venture is committed and passionate about serving in areas of the world that are the least reached and resourced by partnering with local leaders in those communities to end some of the worlds greatest injustices.    FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS   Fathers for the Fatherless FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS changes lives by exposing men to a cause beyond themselves. They are propelled to challenge themselves, cycling 100 miles, in response to our Heavenly Father’s heart for the Fatherless. Reminder: Twin Cities registration, FATHER FOR THE FATHERLESS, closes June 30.   Conversation Notes   2:54 - "You know, Dad, every every morning I roll out of bed and hit my knees. And it was something that impacted me and something I learned from him and have been doing faithfully ever since. So it's a situation of saying, well, son, take this from me. No, I took this from him." 3:57 - "As I look through my life is that I can say the dad that the man that was my dad was also someone that I would look up to as a hero. Many other people look up to. And so that's just one of the greatest honors." 5:08 - "I really believe that there isn't a real difference between being a leader in business, nonprofit or church. I think that we should approach it the same way." 5:42 - Ryan watching his Dad pray Psalm 91 over their family. 6:19 - Pray first then strategy/meet. 8:24 - Tim on his salvation in Alaska and his Father's salvation. 10:38 - The events of 1979 in Alaska that changed everything.. "first time I really heard the gospel in its entirety, I mean the full gospel if you want to use it as such" 11:34 - Tim's wife rededication her life to Jesus. 12:51 - "But on January 27th, 1979, I raised my hand and became a born again believer." Tim 13:07 - Tim talks about his house burning down and leaving Alaska 14:21 - Ryan explaining the legacy his dad imprinted, not only on their family, but to many people their family has encountered after getting saved "...that day was famous in our family.." 16:14 - Ryan taking Tim, his son, and father in law back to the chapel Tim was saved in and writing and praying blessings over each of them. 17:34 - "And the the idea that you, you know, this is really, really important for your kids to get is that they something happened before them and something will happen after them. Generational and that generational thought is so distant from our current generation. It's it's actually a very unique thing because for thousands of years, children grew up realizing that there's a tradition before them and a legacy to give and and to to combat the current crazy narcissism of the day."  18:43 - "whenever I want to instill a value in our kids, we like to travel somewhere and then have a moment but also have an adventure to seal it in." 20:29 - Tim's wife taking their grand daughters to where she was saved in Louisiana. 23:07 - "One of the greatest gifts that my parents and then my dad was able to give me was he wanted to expose me early on to the world, to the needs of the world, to the challenges of the world." "....he did that by taking us to some of the most difficult places in the world." 23:40 - "He never took us to Disneyland, but but he did take us to a refugee camp in Mozambique and, you know, to different slums around the world and difficult areas." 25:11 - One of the coolest things Tim did as a father was he was willing to do what his kids wanted to do. Even if their ideas where wild. 27:51 - Praying and asking God what it looks like to smuggle Bibles into China and an eagle flies over them right after praying.   Conversation Links   Venture dadAWESOME - Episode 77   Links from dadAWESOME   https://dadawesome.org/life/ Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team https://dadawesome.org/tour/