What if praying for your kids is less about changing them and more about changing you?

Most fathers treat prayer like a spiritual checklist.

✅ Protect my child

✅ Bless my child

✅ Help my child

But beneath every request lies a harder truth most men avoid: your children belong to God more than they belong to you.

God's unlimited mind is set on your kids in ways your limited mind can't match. He loves them more, thinks about them more, holds them more securely. That's difficult for men who feel 100% responsible for their children's formation.

This episode explores why speaking about your children to God — letting them hear how you describe them to their Heavenly Father — shapes their identity and yours. You'll discover practical prayer rhythms that work with short attention spans and why your prayers should begin long before your kids can understand a single word.

The freedom anxious fathers need might start with three words: they're not mine.

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You've read the books. You've bought the age-appropriate Bibles. Maybe you're even doing family devotionals (or have wanted to start). So why does spiritual formation with your kids still feel so unnatural or even stressful?

Here's the uncomfortable truth: the faith you model will always overpower the faith you mandate. What's caught beats what's taught — every time. And nothing breeds cynicism faster than a father who preaches growth while secretly believing he's graduated from it.

The most toxic message you can send is "this is important for you, but not for me." That dissonance doesn't create disciples; it creates skeptics who've learned that faith is performative rather than personal.

What if the key to discipling your kids isn't leading from above but learning from the front?

This episode reveals why becoming the "lead disciplee"—visibly hungry, openly growing—transforms family faith from obligation into invitation.

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"I grew up going to church. And I hated it." That's not the testimony most dads share with their kids. But the sanitized version—the one that skips the doubt, the boredom, the moments you thought everyone around you was crazy—leaves your children alone when they hit their own wall of unbelief.

Here's the problem: you've got a 90-minute documentary's worth of spiritual formation crammed into a 22-second elevator pitch. And you're delivering that same thin version to your five-year-old, your fifteen-year-old, and the skeptic at work.

Your story has layers. Some belong to a kindergartner. Others wait until your kid is old enough to carry them. Get the timing wrong and you either miss the window entirely or dump weight on shoulders too young to bear it.

The goal isn't eliciting sympathy — that's manipulation. It's creating a place where your child knows you've walked through darkness and found Christ there.

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