Welcome to the Line Within Us, a podcast serving Christian men who are hunger to be the leaders God intends you to be. I’m your host, Chris Granger. Let’s jump in. All right, guys. This is your meet episode of the week. I’m excited to have you here. Thank you for showing up. Let’s dig into our scripture and then we’ll get into our topic for today.

So our scripture for this week is outta Deuteronomy chapter six, verse seven. Okay, chapter six, verse seven. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down. And when you get up. Now go back to that spiritual kickoff. Guys, I spent a lot of time unpacking this scripture.

This is right, right out of the Shama again, that’s and and Deuteronomy. It’s the fifth book of the Bible. Okay? And the very, very beginning of Shama talks about you shall have loved your Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and all your mind. That’s it. We need to understand this, and if we can, we have to start teaching.

Kids this stuff. And so the, the reason I wanted to record this episode today with this topic today, let’s get into this. I got a text, I think my wife sent it to me. I’m pretty sure Becca did. And it was a, it was a picture of something she got like, apparently off of Facebook or something like that. But it said, uh, I die from my children.

Dash, okay, but would you live for them actually live, make better choices, practice sobriety, take better care of yourself physically and mentally. Your kids don’t need you to die for them. They need you to live. And I was like, you know what? That’s legit. I mean, that’s, that’s, that’s what’s up. We need, we need to be talking about that more.

Cuz you know, I’ve heard, I’ve said it myself, you know, I’ve got three girls and a and a boy. Hey, I, I take, I take a bullet form, right? I’ve heard pastor job be talking about this, you know, the first time he healed his daughter. Remember I, he said this so many times. It is so vivid to me. He’s like, I looked at her.

And he thought, you know what? I’d die for you. And then he also says, and I make someone die for you. I mean, I totally get that mindset right? But I wanted to spend some time today to get clear about what living would look like. Like if we’re trying to lead our family, what does that look like to, to lead our family and start living for our kids, right?

So we can start ta we can act on this right now guys, right now. So let’s just start talking about, let’s get clear on a few things. You need to get clear on your why. What is your why? You know, do you have one? You know, cause so many guys are just out there day to day. They’re not plugging, working towards anything.

Right? Get clear on the why. For me, obviously, you know, being a husband, a faithful husband to Rebecca, leading my four children. The way that God has called me to leading this, the lion within us, the way that he has called me to. Trying to just do all I can to, to show my children, to show my wife to, to, to lead the men that, that, that prayerfully I’ve been able to, to, to connect with guys.

That’s it. So you need to understand what your why is and then get alignment on what your motivation is. Cuz your motivation is self-fulfilling guys. It’s never gonna work. You’re gonna run out. You’re not gonna have a enough drive to push you forward to actually make an impact. So you have to have real alignment.

My alignment where I, to really try to strive to do everything that I do, it’s to glorify God. And that’s right out of scripture, guys, what does that look like? That means making better choices. That means, you know, denying myself things that I really want to do. Okay? That means, you know, being a good steward.

And we’re gonna talk about all these things guys, but get aligned and make sure your motivation is coming from the right place. You know, your motivation prayerfully is coming right outta scripture. I got the, the Bible sent right here in front of me, right outta scripture. That’s where it needs to come.

So we’re, we’re gonna start digging in here and, and talking about how can we take this idea of living for our kids? Okay. And, and actually living, and put that into action. And we’ll talk about several areas. We’ll gonna talk about health as you know. I, you know, guys, I like talking about that. Cause I think it’s so important.

We’re gonna talk about, uh, mentally, you know, from a, from a physical, from a mental standpoint. What does that look like? We’ll also talk about fatherhood, just what can we be doing from a fatherhood standpoint, and then also spiritual leadership. We’re really trying to unpack what does spiritual leadership look like?

How can you start being an effect an effective spiritual leader with your. So guys, there’s a lot to unpack here. Jump in, hang on. You may wanna take some votes. If not, hey, go back. You can always replay, you may want to, this may be one you wanna listen to, uh, with your wife at some point. Okay? So we’re just, we’re just gonna unpack this.

This is a solo episode if you haven’t figured that out already. So no guest, just looking forward to sharing what’s on my horse. Let’s, let’s dig into this. This idea of taking care of our health, okay? You have two aspects of health. You have your physical health and your mental health. So let’s just talk about the first things first.

Cuz most guys, they wanna talk about the physical stuff first, okay? And for physically, if you want to, to really start living, and I mean truly living, you gotta get the right habits and rituals that are gonna lead to success. That is it guys, the right habits and rituals. If you don’t have good habits to start your day, for instance, okay, you’re gonna struggle.

Now. We did a physical. Uh, challenge within our community the month of January, 2023. And that challenge had several components. They weren’t near typical what you would think, you know, uh, of a physical challenge. Cause we, we really weren’t worried about calorie intake or losing weight or anything like that.

What do we did is we focused on a couple key items. Drinking a gallon of water a day. That’s it. Just uptake your water intake just right there. Gallon of water a day. That was your challenge. We also challenge you guys to do a, uh, a hundred grams of protein today. Now, that number could vary for you. You may need more protein, you may need less, but a hundred grams is a pretty good number.

And I’ll tell you what, you have to really pep on, do some honey to find that hundred grams of protein a day. Then we had challenged them to do 10,000 steps a day. So you may read the studies, eight to 10,000, whatever you gotta get moving. That’s the biggest thing. You got to move. So we challenge ’em to, to, to get those steps in.

Then we challenged ’em to do, do a workout three times a week. Not every day, but three times a week. We challenged them to get moving, do a workout. Now, the last part of the hell challenge is one, you’re not gonna even probably gonna guess it was to get seven to eight hours of sleep night. We don’t get enough sleep.

This is a habit, guys, that we’ve gotta start getting better. Ha uh, hands on those areas, right? Those simple areas, right There were a challenge within our community. And guys, it made an impact. It made an impact. Why? Because those habits lead to success. They lead to success. You’ll be able to lead much more effectively if you have some of these, these basic core pillars built into your, your daily routine.

Okay? Now, another area for physically that you need to think about is your intake, your intake. The food that is, and this is a struggle area for me. And the only way that I know to, to really get a handle on this is to track it. If you track it, you will make progress. The g the G two guys I know do this and best go back and listen to Dylan Good and Ethan Good their episodes earlier in the line within us.

These guys track their food, they track their intake, they track their workouts, they track everything. And you know what? They are moving the ball down the field. They are moving it down the field. They are making an impact in, in their physical, uh, wellbeing. Cause they know their numbers. They know ’em. You know, it kind of leads to another point here about knowing, about knowing your numbers.

You need to be having a physical done annually at a minimum annually, you know, but you need to know your numbers. Why is the physical so important? It’s not the fact that you just go see your doctor and it’s just uncomfortable conversation. No. What’s most important to me outta the physical is the blood work, the labs, the exam.

That’s, that’s it. Know your numbers. Know where you need to adjust. Maybe your cholesterol’s up, you need to make some adjustments there. Maybe your blood pressure’s up, maybe it’s down, right? All these numbers factor in, maybe your testosterone’s down. You need to understand your numbers so that you can adjust.

And if you never take the time to do it, you’re gonna miss an opportunity to really get ahead of stuff when things start going off, right? So an annual physical, that, that’s like baseline entry. The more regular you can take care of yourself and check and check those numbers, the better. I tried to do it twice a year personally.

I got a, a guy in our membership in our community, he tries to do it quarterly and he’s, he’s really big on that, right? He wants to know what his numbers are. Okay. So that, that’s a great way guys. You can know your numbers and track your intake. You know, you’re never going to outwork work out a a bag Oreos.

You’re just not. And look, I love Oreos. I get it. They’re good. So, you know, but. One or two Oreos, you just completely destroyed that half hour in a gym. It’s all, it’s all for not, so we have to make better decisions with our intake. We really need you to be thinking about this. I read this the day and this was just really impacting me.

You know, if you can’t, if you can’t shoot it or grow it, you probably shouldn’t eat it. Just think about that. That really limits what’s, what’s going on, right? You know, the food that we eat, how clean is it? It’s really important to make sure we’re putting the, the good things in our body because guys, there is so much out there.

I get it. Fast food. All these things are more convenient, but they are holding us back. Make good decisions. If you go to work, if you work in the field or maybe you work, uh, uh, in an office, take your lunch. It’s simple stuff. I’m not talking rocket science stuff. Take your lunch because you know why? You can pack some healthy alternatives.

There’s nothing wrong with the salad at lunchtime. Okay? It doesn’t need to be loaded up a thousand island dressing all, you know, 400, 400 calories or more of croutons and, and all they vent all this. You could have just a basic salad with some light dressing. Guys, you, there’s small little things you can do from an intake standpoint to get ahead of, okay, just to get ahead of now another area physically movement.

You guys heard me talk about this movement. Movement is key. Okay? And for me, no days off, no days off, you gotta have some type of activity cuz you, you, whatever that is. And I’m not saying you have to do a, a, a, a straight up CrossFit type workout seven days a week. That’s not what I’m saying. Don’t, don’t put words here, but you do need to do something every.

Whether it’s a little bit of cardio, some strength training, but you gotta do something. So you need to start adding in cardio strength training. The bottom, uh, high intensity of interval training. Maybe you wanna start taking Brazilian jiujitsu. Our family just started doing that. It’s a great workout, right?

But start mixing it up, okay? And if you not, if you haven’t started strength training yet, I highly encourage you, highly encourage you to really consider that. Cause the first thing that goes as you get older is your muscles. Your muscles, they deteriorate. So if you want to age as well as you possibly can in these bodies that we have here on earth, they, God given, until we get that glorified body, hallelujah.

You’re going to need to start doing some strength training, right? You’re gonna have to start lifting some heavy weights. It’s just gonna have to be, you’re gonna have to push yourself here, guys, cuz that that’s, uh, uh, you’re not doing any strength training. You’re asking, you’re setting yourself up for trouble.

It’s gonna hit you one day. You gotta be challenging yourself. Now, do you need to get in there and bulk up like a bodybuilder or no? That’s your motivation. Fine. But you do need to be doing some basic things. You know, your squats, your dead lifts, your bench presses, your curls, your rows, all these basic movements, they’re important.

They’re important to pick up. Heavy heavyweight, put it down. That’s really, really important guys. Okay? So just think about that strength training as you move forward and really add that in. Now, you only have to do that a couple days a week, but I promise you if you start doing that, you will see results.

You’ll kind of feel some things. You’re gonna feel, uh, some soreness. That’s okay if you’re feeling some soreness, so long as it’s not like a cute soreness or it’s really, really pain, that just means you’re growing, you’re getting stronger. You want to feel that, you know, I ran five miles yesterday and I feel a little pain in my side, but you know what?

I know cuz I ran five miles. There’s a little pain there. You know what, I’m gonna keep working out. I did a workout this morning. It’s just part of it. You’re going, if you want to get stronger, you gotta keep pushing yourself. Now, one thing to think about from a physical standpoint, you gotta set some boundaries, guys.

You gotta set some boundaries. So for, for, for you, if alcohol is a hurdle, don’t play with it. Don’t just get it out. Remove it. Yeah. For some guys, they can have one drink, some guys can’t. Now it may be for you, it’s chocolate. So for me it’s chocolate , right? I gotta be careful around chocolate. I love it.

It’s so good. So I just have to be careful around keeping that large amounts of that stuff around the house and then regulating myself with it. Put some boundaries for, for some guys, it may mean you just gotta get this stuff out the house completely. And I totally get that. If you just, if the, if the, if the temptation has removed, makes it a lot easier, you may even think about that as well.

Okay. Now the last area I wanna talk about from a physical standpoint and living would be, Live with your kids, why you work out now? Hear me out here. Hear me out. Okay. I got three examples of how I’ve done this over the last couple months. First of them, it was over Christmas break. I woke up in the morning.

I was gonna do a, a run like I always do. I usually do ’em early in the morning. I said, you know what, I’m gonna wait. I’m gonna wait a little bit longer for the sun to come up. Cause usually I usually run when it’s dark. And I went into my oldest daughter’s bedroom and I tapped on the, on the door and I was like, Hey, come, go for a run.

You’ll go with me immediately. Like she was up, you know, this is a 12 year old, you know, 12 year olds kinda like that. Pre-teen. They usually don’t wake up that quick. But she was up and after he went and on that run, you know, she’s not really a runner. So we just, we had a slow pace. I mean, we were just maybe, I don’t know, 10 minute miles or it, it was definitely nothing earth, you know, that we were sha that we were trying to shatter a land speed record, but we were talking while we were running.

Just telling jokes. And I don’t remember. There was a point, it was about halfway of the run. It was, we set a goal to do a five, well, I set a goal to do a 5k. She didn’t know, she just was, she was just happy to go running. It was about halfway of that 5k. She was like, I’m, I’m just tired, dad, let’s go home i’s like, all right, how about this?

I’m, cause, cuz at to that, up to that point, I had controlled the run. Like I told her what road to go down and think. She was kind of following me. I said, to tell you what we’ll do, you are now the leader. You lead this run and if you, when you’re ready to go home, don’t. I’ll follow you. And if you wanna walk, I’ll walk.

If you wanna sprint, I’ll sprint. Whatever you do, I’m gonna follow you. You are our leader. And I was like, and by the way, we’re about halfway through a 5K right now. She’s like, oh, we’re halfway through a 5k. Well how much longer do we have? So I told her, and uh, she was like, We’re gonna do a 5K that she got excited.

And did she run the whole time? No. Sometimes we had to take a break. She needed to walk a little bit. So I would walk and I’d say, Hey, you’re the leader. Whatever you want, boss, I think is what I was telling her. But when we got home from, and, and hit her, our driveway, from that final, from that, uh, final part at 5k, there was this sense of joy and accomplishment in her voice.

It was just incredible. It was incredible to see her do that. Uh, same, same actually a few weeks later. This was probably early January. What I did was, I, I, I wanted to lift weights. It was a Saturday. I wanted to do some strength training. I wanted to lift some heavy weights. And my, my two oldest daughters asked me, Hey, can we lift weights with you?

Now, that’s a. Very special time for me. Okay. So it was very hard for me to say, yeah, come lift weights with me. But I did. I said, yep, come lift weight. But I was able to take it. And so what I did was I set up some tobo drills around and I was able to kind of, I was still able to get my, my weight lift, my strength train done.

I was able to teach them some things too. The basics of a, of a bench press, the basics of a curl, the basics of a row. All those. All those things. So I set up three stations. We did toba, which is eight rounds, 20 seconds per round. They did two exercise per station. Well, at the end of it, they were done. They were spent, they had a good workout.

We laughed, we joked it was, it was fun. We had some tense moments cuz it was, the weights got heavy. Yeah. But they pushed through. Sometimes I just have, hey, put the weights down. But they were able to push through. Okay. The last example I’ll give you is we started, we signed up as a family for Brazilian Jiujitsu Jiujitsu.

So we got BJJ going, the girls actually have kids karate at the same, at the same, uh, dojo. So that is something that we’re trying, that we’re really leaning into here in 2023. That’s a new habit that we’re trying and I will tell you that first night of watching them do it, the confidence that they walked out of that gym with, just cuz they’re learning something new.

And then for me and my wife as well, we’re learning new skills. Yes, they will definitely help us in self-defense and things like that, but it’s just, it’s just giving us a chance to do some new things, to develop some new strengths in our physical bodies. They’re just gonna help us. So that, that’s three quick examples of, of taking an action physically to live that’s living right now.

Will I take a bullet form? Absolutely. But I’d rather live form and show ’em that and take care of my body physically. And there are, there are some quick ways right there guys. You can lean in right now. Take any of these, apply ’em. I guarantee you they’ll make an impact. On, on you, your relationship with your children and your house.

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All right, so from a mental standpoint, let’s, let’s dig into that. Cause we just unpacked how we can start physically living for our kids. And I think all those areas are important, but mentally we need to understand this stuff Guys, mental health is real. Mental health is real. And the first step we need to take the first step is understanding how we speak to ourselves.

So I highly encourage you go back and listen to episode 1 68. And we’ve got probably the most feedback on that one is, is we’ve gotten in many episodes in quite a while cuz I talk about the what to say when we talk to ourselves. Okay? And guys, if we’re gonna be able to talk to our kids in a positive, uplifting manner, we gotta start talking to ourselves better.

I struggle with this probably, this is one of the things I struggle with the most outside of those Oreos that I was talking about earlier. That negative condemnation of I’m not good enough, I’m not spar enough, I’m not fast enough. You know, I don’t have enough money. Uh, I’ll never get this job, I’ll never be successful here.

You know, all these things. I’m a terrible husband. I’m a terrible dad. All the bad things that we say to ourselves, that stuff builds. It builds momentum. Next thing you know, guys, it just, it boils over. You gotta get those negative thoughts out, okay? And you gotta start replacing that with truth. The only way I know you replace that with truth is getting in God’s word.

Get in God’s word and let his words to define who you are, not your words. A good friend of mine, Steven, he, he tells me all the time, look man, God, Satan, tears down, spirit builds up. So if it’s tearing you down, that is from the pits of hell, and you should send it up, bind it up in the name of Jesus Christ, and send it right back to the pits of Hell and start speaking truth, truth.

You are fearfully and wonderfully made, right? Start speaking these truths. You know, I have the power through Christ who strengthens me. Start speaking these truths to yourself, and then all of a sudden, you’re gonna be able to overcome so many, so many of these darts that Satan is going to throw at you because you’ve, you are a Christian man.

You are trying to lead, you are a target. You’re a target, and he’s gonna do all he can to take you out. He knows the quickest way he can take you out is to get in your head and you take yourself out. Don’t let that happen. Now, I want you to start thinking about mentally too, the words we use around our kids.

Cause it is impactful. Now, you can ask, you hear me talk about all time, their actions are so much more powerful than our words. But you gotta remember that for, for, from a, from a, a man’s standpoint, your words do matter. And you can either build your kids up or you can tear them down in a second and look.

I get stress at work, stress at home, from finances, from marriage, all these things are built up. So usually when that happens, the ones around us, they get the brunt of the of the bad, right? Because we can go all day and we’ll put up with people at work and we’ll do all the things we need to do from, from a professional standpoint.

And usually that tank is empty when we get home at the end of the day. And what do our, does our family get the worst? Cause we’re running all fumes, or, or we we’re, we are bringing things to them that actually have nothing to do with them, but because we gotta have somewhere to get this, this rage and this anger out, they get it.

They get it. So we have to be careful here, guys. We have to really be intentional about the words that we use and understand, you know what, sometimes you just gotta check out and if you’re, you feel that moment coming. Remove yourself from that situation. Take four deep breaths. I mean deep. So I do, I do a method called 4 78.

I think I’ve talked about it on the show before. It’s a really good thing, a method. It’s a breathing technique. It’s, I forget the doctors who, who put this together, but you inhale for four, a count of four, you hold for a count of seven, then you exhale for a count of eight, so 4, 7, 8. So you inhale four, hold seven, exhale eight.

And when you exhale, you’re supposed to really, it like forcefully blow out your mouth. So you’re inhaling through your nose. You’re forcefully, forcefully blown throughout your mouth. And you do that four times. If you, if you do that four times, it’s proven. That lowers your blood pressure. It just puts you in a better mental state.

You’ll be able to think more clearly. You’ll be able to respond in a much more positive, I guarantee you mode. So what you may wanna do, If you want, if you can do this breathing in front of them when they’re stretching you out, that’s fine. I personally have to step out. I need to go to another room or a bathroom, something like that, and just do that breathing.

Then I can come back into that environment. I’m in a much, a much better head space to be able to serve them in a way that’s effective and not just coming like this, like Adam, right? So just be thinking about that. So that’s another mental area that you can think about moving forward. Now, living for your kids.

What does this look like as well? From a mental standpoint? You gotta protect them from consumption. Okay? This means what they watch and also what you watch, right? Because they’re watching what you do. So you need to be careful about what you consume, how you consume it, what you allow in that house of yours, cuz you’re leading your house and you don’t agree with certain things.

You need to make sure you get that outta your house. This sometimes it’s not popular for our family make getting rid of Disney. It’s not a popular decision for us. It was the right decision. And I’ll tell you what, I’m, I’m very close to getting rid of all of it because I’m so sick and tired. I can’t even sit in and watch my beloved Andy Griffith show and, and watch that without some, somebody come couple all across the screen talking about, uh, a drag queen or something like that.

I’m like, bro, I just wanna watch Andy Griffin. I just wanna watch Marni. That’s it, that’s all I wanna do. You can’t watch that anymore, which cause all this, this, this, I, these, these ideas are trying to be forced down our throats. So you gotta protect it. You gotta protect your yourself mentally, and you gotta protect your kids mentally too.

Particularly if you got daughters in the world that this, that they’re living in, in this Facebook world too, and, and, and Instagram world rather, that’s, that’s impacting them more than anything of just. Who they’re supposed to be and their identities. I mean, it’s just crazy. It’s crazy. You gotta be a sheep dog.

Put that protection, make sure that you’re not being hypocrite either, right? Don’t, hey, you don’t need to be on instant or TikTok or any of these things and make, and then you have your own accounts, right? So make sure that if you’re there, that you’re consuming golly material. Cuz there is golly material there.

Pretty much all the guys I’ve connected with on through our, our, the line within US Instagram account, they are all godly man, so I’m able to learn a lot from them. But you can bet your bottom dollar, I can still be on the line within US Instagram account. I can scroll down and they’re, I will come across something, something that’s from Satan.

There’s gonna be a girl, there’s gonna be, uh, uh, lgbtq plus there’s gonna be something there. That’s, that, that’s, that’s trying. To get in, said, I have to be careful. Now we use it just cuz we want to obviously connect with others, promote the show. But you have to be careful of that stuff. Consumption is key.

What you consume, what you allow to be consumed. It’s up to us, up to us to set those boundaries and show them and walk it out. That’s how you live. That’s what, that’s what, instead of dying for ’em. That’s a great way to start living for ’em. Now the last thing I’ll talk about from a mental standpoint is you gotta reduce those stress triggers, okay?

And the only way you can reduce ’em is you gotta know what your stress triggers are, okay? And if you know what your stress triggers are at that point, you gotta start engineering ’em out. You gotta start, you gotta start getting ’em out your life guys. And then you even know what the stress triggers are for your kids.

For one of our, our 10 year old, we know for her a stress trigger is when the baby’s crying. She just gets stressed out. It’s, it’s something she doesn’t like. She’ll do. Anything she can do to console that baby, to make, to make him feel better or to make her feel better, depending on if it’s, if it’s our, our, our, our daughter or our son, and we understand that’s a stress trigger.

So we, we have to help her understand, look, crying a crying baby is, is, that’s natural. That’s part of it. So what we try to do, maybe remove her from that situation, right? So that’s not a stress trigger. Maybe stress triggers for you are, uh, emails. Sometimes there’s, you know, that email comes in and next thing you know, your blood pressure just went through the roof.

So what you can do, so you some boundaries, you know, get, you, you can actually set it up or your email doesn’t come in and you, you silence those emails and you deal with those emails when you tell ’em, not when they tell you, right? So there’s all sorts of different ways you can, you can put in place, but you gotta know what your individual stress triggers are.

Okay? And if you can understand those, Then you can get to have a butter butter grip around what you can do to really manage ’em. And it starts with prayer. A stress trigger for me guys, actually crazy it sounds was carpool. It was just carpool. Cause I mean carpool, I don’t know if you guys have ever had to do it, if you do, I I sent ’em an email supportive in line with in that us.

So I can start praying for you cuz I totally get what you’re going through. But carpool’s just stressful. I mean, it’s just, it never moves fast enough there. You never know what kind of line you’re gonna get into. Sometimes the kids don’t hear their number. You have to come back around. It’s just like, ugh.

So stressful, you know? Then plus, on top of that, I have two littles. So the littles that are usually in the car, they can be either cranky or sleeping, but usually if they’re sleeping, everything goes fine. If they’re cranky, we have to go back through the line. Right. It just never fails. So I understand your, your now can I get out of, of that, that stress trigger?

No, but what can I do? Well, I can start praying on my way to carpool for Lord. Just give me in this moment. Uh, have a peace of mind to know that I’m blessed just to ha be able to go to a carpool to pick my children up. Cause you’ve blessed me with children. Help me with my mindset as I, as I enter this, so when they get in the car, I’m not stressed out about how many of these, these people around me frustrated me just going through the line.

But let me just focus on them. Hey, how was y’all’s day at school? Anything fun happen today? Did you learn anything new? Did you eat all your lunch? All just, just basic conversation to focus it on them and take that stress trigger to move it from a stressing to a blessing. That’s what it’s about cuz you need to get those blessings in your life and understand they can be a stressing, but let’s move ’em to a blessing.

So there’s some mental ideas out guys that you can really start to be intentional, truly intentional about making a positive impact and start living for your kids. I’m tired of hearing these guys talking about I won’t die for ’em. Let’s start a living for ’em. So there, so we just went through physically what can we do physically and then mentally what can we do mentally?

Now we’re gonna transition. Well, let’s start talking about a little bit around fatherhood. How can we live for them? Okay, so we’re gonna take a quick break guys. We’ll be right back,

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All right, guys. We’ve talked about physically what we need to be doing to living for our, for our kids. We’ve talked about mentally what do we, can we be doing to live for our kids and to, to show them what living looks like. Now, let’s talk about just the idea of fatherhood in general. Okay? How can we live for them and show them what a golly father actually looks like?

Okay? Number one word, can I get this word from my, my good friend Don Manning, a crazy, cruel family. He talks about this all the time, but the number one word that comes to mind, relationships. Relationships, right? That’s it. God wants a relationship. Go back to the shaman. We were just our scripture outta Deuteronomy.

You shall love the Lord your God, with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. He wants a relationship with you. That’s it. Do not forget that, okay? That’s the key. So now, think about this. Now, when you come home, when you walk in that door, where is the house? What’s, what, what, what? What’s the environment of the, of the home at that moment?

Okay. Does it start getting a little more closed off? Does it feel stressed or is it a blessing? I pray it is a blessing. Right? But you need to think about that, you know? Cause if, if, if people get quiet, cause man, I can’t, I don’t wanna upset daddy. I wonder if daddy’s gonna be in a good mood today. I wonder how daddy’s going to gonna act when he finds out I got this or that.

Right? Think about that. Cause they, the way they’re responding is based off of usually your, their past experiences with how you’ve responded. So be that loving father. Understand that, show the fruit. Now you wanna be a pushover. That is not what I’m saying. No, you still are in charge. You still are the leader.

But understand the, the man that walks to that door. Who do you want that to be? Do you want that to be the guy that’s building up your family or do you want it to be the guy that’s tearing it down? And I pray you know which one. You know the right answer. If you have, if you have any questions or, or if you feel like this is an area of your life you need to work on, Hey, we all do.

Focus more on that building up. Remember, spirit builds up Satan, tears down. Now one thing you can think about that’s from a fatherhood standpoint. Cause I know we got a lot of dads who listen, who, who are big into sports. I’m a sports guy too. I love sports. Anything sports at a court or a field, uh, we’re all in.

We love that kind of stuff. Okay. Now one thing I started changing at my, I’m really trying to focus intentionally around this, and right now when I’m recording this, we’re in basketball season for my, for my 10 year old, is instead of talking about the performance during that game and how they did, whether they did good or bad, h how, how she handled the ball, how she, uh, you know, made her cuts to get open.

Um, the type of, you know, those type of things from a, from a tactical basketball standpoint. I’ve started just telling her just a couple, couple simple words. I love watching you play basketball. Girl. Do you know how much I’d love watching you play the ball? Girl, it’s so fun just to watch you run up and down the court and how hard you put, how hard you play, how you leave it on the court.

I really don’t get into too much on the tactic stuff, right? Because I want you to think about one thing. Are you cheering for the first name or are you cheering for the last ? Because I know a lot of guys, I see it, man. I see this stuff where they, they’re they’re, they get so animated and into it, and I get it.

It’s, it’s gonna be passionate. It makes you wonder, are they trying to relive something, right? like, I get it. You were good in high school. Let your kid just be a kid. Yes, we wanna teach ’em the fundamentals. We want to make them a better player. I’m all for that. But understand, they need to know first and foremost that, that their love, regardless of how they play, Here’s your test.

Here’s your test. You can do PHAs. This is a hard test to do. Let’s say you, you’re at a ballgame and the game’s over and you’re headed to the house and for some reason your wife had to ride. Se had to drive separately. So you have two cars there, okay? Which parent are they gonna leave with? Which parent are they gonna leave with and why?

You know, many times, many times it’ll be the bomb. Why? Because mom’s not cool drilling about their game and how they did, or you know. So think about that. If you just start changing a little language about, Hey, I just love watching you play the game. It’s just fun watching you play the game you do. It’s just you have such energy when you’re out there on that field.

I love watching you. Those little words, those little words, cheering for that first name, they will make an impact. That’s how you start living. For, for your kids from a fatherhood standpoint. And what’s another way? One-on-one dates. Make some memories together, guys, I’ve talked about this in the past and make some memories.

The most recent memory, I shared this within our community was my daughter, my oldest daughter, have to clarify, she wanted to, it was her month for us to have a date. She wanted to go to this thing called a rage room. And I was like, what in the world are you talking about? What is a rage room? When we did some research on the internet, there was one pretty close to where we live and a rage room is basically a room that you set up.

You just go in and you just basically just tear stuff up. I was like, awesome, let’s do it. And we get there and that rage room was incredible. They had a washing machine, a washing machine sitting in there. They had a windshield, they had a bunch of cups and plates and things, all glass. And then they gave you, they basically put you in some coveralls, put a shield over your face and they give you a sledge hammer and baseball bats and they start playing some loud music and they just tell you to go at it.

It’s literally all that is like crazy business model. Right. We had a blast. It was awesome. First of all, it was just, it was fun. It was a good workout, but it was just fun for her just to, just to be with her dad in that moment. Just us no one else around, no phones, nothing like that. Just having some fun.

So make some memories. Maybe it’s not a, a rage room. Maybe it’s just going to a park or going to a movie or taking ’em out to eat or walking or taking ’em to, to go shopping. Whatever it is. Have those one-on-one dates. Make some memories with them and leave the phone alone. Now, if you wanna do like I do, cuz I do like take pictures when we are on, when we’re on our dates, do that.

But try to be intentional about putting that phone away cuz you need to be aware of it. And this leads me to my next story here that I wanna share with you guys because that same daughter, she called me out. Guys. This is, this was, this was hard. She called me out. We were, we were having a family. Meeting one night and I was just, we were talking about the stress of of, of thing this season of life.

Cuz our son at this time, he’s colicky. Uh, the lion’s just getting going with, with a lot of new things. There’s a lot of things happening. So it’s just pulling me away where I’m constantly, you know, trying to build things and do things. Uh, there’s just a lot of stress, right. Between basketball, all, all the calendar, all those types of things.

And we were talking, she called me out. She’s like, well Dad, when we have game night, when we have movie night and we’re chilling as a family, she’s like, I have a request. I’m like, all right, what’s your request, baby? She’s like, can you put your phone, uh, in a bedroom? It’s like, really? She’s like, yeah, I, I’ve noticed, you know, ever really since the lion within us, cuz she understands community’s growing.

Guys are constantly, you know, sending messages. She’s. And you’re always available. She’s like, and I totally get it, dad, but during those moments, can you just be with us? I was like, oh, go. Yes, absolutely. I can be with you. She is a hundred percent right. She had the courage to have that conversation with me.

Cause I’ve really tried to build that type of environment here at this house that she, she could do that. Right? Do you have that type of environment? Would your child, she’s 12. Would your 12 year old or 14 year old or seven year old be able to ask you that? Right. Or would they have a little bit of a reservation?

And it wasn’t something easy for her to ask, but she did, she did ask the question and it was a, it led to a great, uh, point of realization for me that I just really wasn’t aware of. You know, I knew that I needed to be doing these things. You guys hear me talk about this stuff all the time, but I was telling my wife all day, like, it’s, it’s so, I, I feel like I’m very effective at talking about some of these things and sharing these, this stuff that’s on my heart with you guys.

Cause I really genuinely care about you. But at the same time, I’m terrible about putting ’em into practice . So it’s just like, man, I gotta start practicing more what I’m talking about. Okay. You know? So let’s just be aware, be aware of that phone and the impact it makes. Guys, you’ve heard me talk about it, you know, going out on, on your dates with your wife, leave that phone, uh, you know, in your pocket if you can.

Just don’t touch it. Just actually had that connection. Same thing goes with your kids. Same thing goes with your kids. They need to know they’re more important than whatever that message is on your phone. And I guarantee you, whatever that message is, doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter cuz it’s, you’re, be in the moment.

Be where your feet are with your kids, guys. Now the last point I wanna talk about around fatherhood till we, and then we’ll move on, is practicing asking questions. Cuz it does take practice. Maybe you’re, you’re not good at, maybe this is an area you struggle with, so you have to practice at asking questions.

And in order to get the more tactical you’re gonna have to get, okay? If you wanna start getting an inside look at what, what’s really going on, you’re gonna have to really get good at asking questions, okay? And, and getting and digging, peeling back those layers of the onion to really understand what’s going on.

So guys, you can’t just ask one and be done. It takes, go back to that relationship that we talked about earlier. You gotta have that relationship, guys. And if you have that and you’ve built that trust and they understand, and they can be vulnerable, they can be real, they can bring truth to you, you’ll be able to ask the questions that matter, Hey, I see that you’re struggling with this, or, Hey, how, how, what do you think about this topic?

And lean into it, guys. We gotta start having some real conversations and start living for our kids. And I’m gonna be straight up and blunt with you guys. This is a total spirit thing that, that I had not planned to talk about, but you need to be talking about LGBTQ plus. And what does that mean from a biblical standpoint with your kids?

Because they, if they’re not in a Christian school or if they’re not homeschooled, they will be introduced to this agenda. And you gotta make a decision as the leader of your home that stands on the word of God. How are you gonna lead your family through this? Cuz I promise you, no matter what their age at this point, cause I’ve seen this stuff as far down as three year olds in daycare.

This stuff is real. And you need to understand that if you have these conversations, if you open up and just under, let them know that they can have these conversations with you. That’s taking a huge step right there, just in leading them to truth as you gotta be the one who leads them to truth. Do not rely on others, don’t rely on others.

And even if your kids are in a private Christian school, you better do your homework. Check up. Make sure guys, the stories out there are just, they’re, they’re, they’re crazier and crazier. Every day Satan is attacking, he’s gonna attack your children. You better be leading them well, you better be living for them and showing them what it looks like to live as a Christian man, cuz they’re looking for you, man.

They’re looking for you. You’re gonna be the one that they, that they emulate. They’re, you’re gonna be the one that they strive to be. Are you being the man that you want them to? If you’re raising young boys to turn into, or are you being the man if you’re raising young girls that they’re gonna look for in a partner in life, a spouse, you are setting the example right now.

How you, how you treat your wife, things like that. So to get in and start understanding what’s going on in their lives. You gotta be good at asking questions and it doesn’t come natural. You’re gonna have to really take some time, take some effort to do some research around effective, uh, question asking.

If you’re in sales, you know, this is how it works. There, there’s, there’s all these methods. There’s something called the spin method I used to use a lot, but at the end of the day, cares, you know, comes down to, to caring. If you care about who you’re talking to, you genuinely care about them. The spirit will help, will guide you in those questions.

But you gotta care about ’em. You gotta care about ’em enough to ask the hard questions. And at the same time, when they ask you the hard questions, you gotta care about ’em enough to speak truth to ’em. All right, guys, we’ve talked about, uh, what does it look like to live for your kids from a physical standpoint, from a mental standpoint, from a fa just a general father, his fatherhood standpoint.

Now let’s talk about what looks like to Le to live and lead for your, your children from a spiritual leadership standpoint. So, we’ll be able take a quick break and we’re gonna hit some really important, uh, topics when we, when we come back.

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All right, guys, so we’ve talked about physically, mentally, fatherhood. Now let’s talk about spiritual leadership. What does that look like? What can, what can you start doing at your house, inside your home to start living for your kids and showing them what a spiritual leader looks like? The first question I got for you is, do they ever see you reading the Bible?

Ever? I get it. Chris, man. Yeah. I’m, I’m busy. Yeah, I am too, bro. But they need to see you in God’s word. I, I didn’t even challenged people before who want to, who said they read their Bible on their phone is my challenge is this. I see your kid comes downstairs, come into the kitchen, whatever, and you’re at the table and you got your phone out.

And let’s say you’re reading Deuteronomy, cuz you’re following along to the line within us. You’re reading Deuteronomy six and you’re going through Shama on your phone. When that kid turns the corner, they see dad sitting there. How can they tell that you’re on that? You’re reading Deuteronomy versus Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, A work email, right?

Looking at your calendar. How can they tell? Can’t they? Can’t they just see Dad on the phone? They always see Dad on the phone. Now, same scenario. He turns the corner. She turns the corner. Whoever, either, either he or she, but whoever they see, dad sitting there with a copy of God’s work open phone maybe is in his pocket and he’s sitting there and when his head actually looked down reading a book, yes, a book, the Bible.

There’s no question in that scenario whatsoever what Dad is doing and what is important. Dad. They need to see this guys. They need to see it. They need to see you in in the word. You can’t just put these expectations on them for, hey, y’all need to go read your Bible. If they never see you in it, it’s got to be with you.

It’s got to be there again. Go back, have. That’s why you need to have your Bibles around your house, but have them let them see them that, that this is important to you. And the second thing we should think about is prayer. What does your prayer life look like? And do they, do they see you pray? Have they actually heard you pray together with them?

Again, you may have your own personal prayer life and that’s fine, but if you put, then put in charge to lead your kids. And guys, another thing my buddy Donna tells me, you are handpicked by God to lead your family. If God puts you in that, in that position to lead ’em, you better be praying and you better be showing ’em how to pray and doing it as often as you can.

Bedtime prayers. Most, most parents get that, that’s important. But hey, what about in the morning? One practice we’ve always done is just on the way to carpool. In the mornings we pray, we’re just praying. They, and it’s not just me. They pray, the older ones pray, and then I pray after them. It’s just a good practice.

But that prayer life needs to be real and needs to be active because we put prayer. You prioritize that and you actually put that in your middle of your family. You make that something that your family, uh, values and, and, and really, uh, looks forward to and they know they can come to it and, and to that prayer time and be vulnerable.

And if, when things go bad, hey, we’re gonna come together. We’re gonna pray. Or for our family, like if we get ready to go on a trip, we always pray. Like whenever we go on our, our family vacation or a road trip or something like that, hey, we’re gonna gather up. We’re just gonna pray. Usually it’s in the car before we pull out the drive at the driveway, we’re just praying.

We’re playing, we’re praying for protection over our vehicle. As we travel, we’re praying for, uh, you know, good weather or whatever. We’re just praying and we’re thanking God. Most importantly, we’re praising him that we get to do this trip, whatever that trip happens to be. So pray together, right? Prayer life is important.

We need to see that Now. The next thing we started incorporating our family, and I just think it’s so important. You, it was such a blessing. We, we did it in December of 2022 as a challenge, uh, that we did on our side of our community. It was a called The Luke Challenge, cuz it’s 24 chapters in Luke. So the idea is you read one chapter a day that leads you right up Christmas morning by the time you get to Christmas, the day you’ve read through the entire gospel.

So we did that as a family. It was a blessing for us and it was such a blessing. My wife, she was like, you need to keep this going. I’m like, you heard so right girl. As she usually always is. So, Becca, I hope you’re smiling if you’re listening to this part, but anyway. So we started and we now we’re just reading through acts and we just started reading through acts and it’s just cool just to read God’s word together.

Now you may think, you know what I, I, what if they ask questions? Well, what if they do go figure ’em out together? You know, for us it’s just, it’s just led to some cool conversations around what’s happening. Cuz we started reading acts and there’s so many incredible things that you can read in action, just blow your mind.

And it’s just, it’s a good book. If you want to start, I again, we did Luke and then we went straight to act afterwards. So it’s a good practice and you obviously meet em where they’re at. If you have younger kids, you may, the one has to do the reading. You may not wanna read in an entire chapter of the Bible.

Maybe you wanna read a couple verses, but for us with a 10 or 12 year old, they’re reading the whole chapters. You know, we’ll just sit down and read the whole chapter at a time. That has been a wonderful way just to get into the word. You know, a lot of times we can do it right to end of dinner, so we finish dinner before we get up.

Uh, we’ll, we’ll clean the table off and then we’ll sit down and just read the word. And so that’s before anything else happens. Bef we even try to do that before we go to a basketball game or things like that. So it can be hard, it can, logistics can be tough. I’m not gonna sit here and say we’re, we are a hundred percent on this, but this is something they look forward to.

We’ve even done this, uh, recently We did it, uh, on the way to a game. So I sent my, my, the oldest daughter said, Hey, get your book. She doesn’t, she doesn’t mind reading in the car. I can’t do it. It makes me car sick. But for her, she can. And she read on the way to the game. So we actually read two chapters, remember that headed to, to the ballgame.

It’s just a great way to get into Word and it saturates your walls of your home, what God’s word with your kids. And you can always think about devotions. You know, there, there are some great devotions out there, guys that you can do with your kids. There’s, uh, some, some children’s study Bibles and children, children’s devotions, things like that.

So there are great little ways to do that. I’m, we don’t do a lot of devotions here. We really just kind of get into the word. I do know they have served us well in the past, and I, I think they are really good. So you find a devotion that you wanna work through as a family. Commit to it, make it happen.

Just do it. Just get into a God’s word. You can’t go wrong anytime that you can get in God’s word. As a family, you’re doing things the right way. That’s it. Now, what else can we do from a spiritual leadership standpoint? I want you to think about serving together at your church. Okay. Together. Now, it’s kind of limited on how you can do this, particularly like at our church, but one way at our church that I do serve with our, my daughters, uh, is welcoming committee.

So you can be on that group that welcomes people in, uh, that we do that together, uh, or we’ve done like a live nativity where we serve together in an event like that. Uh, or just, just just basic, uh, church events where we try to do things together, but. Any chance you can get to where you can serve alongside of them.

I think that’s really important. Really important one is that obviously they’re seeing that serving is important to you, but it’s just something about that connection when they see you serving at the church and then that you’re prioritizing that, that you’re making that important. There’s power there, guys.

Now also on this phone thread, a little bit more serve together outside of church. Okay, so something that’s not formalized, maybe it’s just something you do, you’ve put together. Maybe you guys wanna go clean a a yard for a neighbor or bake, bake some items. This is our family’s big about, we’re all about baking stuff.

We’ll bake stuff. We’ll take it to these neighbors and things like that. But serve together outside of your church too. Just don’t put God in a box there. We feel like all, I just gotta vent here for a second. We feel like the only servant we can do is when, when in the confines of the church or if it’s a church, that event.

I’m like, bro, no, you can serve. Whatever you of God’s calling you, you go do that and do it with them. Because the most important thing from a spiritual leadership standpoint is they need to see your personal pursuit of Christ and that needs to be constantly being spoke into them every day. They need to see that pursuit.

They need to know that like right here, Lord your God, love, love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind and all your mind. They need to see that and what you do that that’s got be pour that them guys pouring into ’em cuz they, at the end of the day, they’re looking at you. You are the leader.

You are in charge. God has put you there for a reason. You are qualified. You may not feel it. You may feel like there has no way I can pull this off. I get it. You can’t pull this off on your own, but with Christ, with the Holy Spirit guiding you, you can do it, promise you you can do it. He will not put you here and will not have you wake up this morning.

Be prefer. Listen to this podcast. If you are not ready, you are not equipped to lead your family. Do not listen to those lies. Don’t listen to ’em. Guys. Understand it’s your put. Here you are, you’re, you’re called to train. You’re called to teach your children. Live for ’em. I get it. We’re all willing to take that bullet form, but more importantly, if they need you for live form every day, and I, this is, this is all the days and, and why, that’s the days you need to live for your kids.

Not just Sunday, but every day, every day. Prioritize Christ. Let them see it. That’s what spiritual leadership’s all around all about. Guys. You suck your home in God’s word. Those walls are soaked in the word, their bedrooms are soaked in the word ah, well, everywhere they go, they’re, they’re hearing Bible verses.

You’re constantly bringing up the fruit of the spirit. You’re constantly digging into devotions. You’re constantly praying together. You make these. Just part of who you are as a fabric, as a family guys. So much power there. So much power there. But it takes intentionality to make this happen. You’re not going to do it just by going with the flow, being another one, keeping up with the Jones’s and just doing things the world away.

This has gone 180 from the world. This is saying I’m doing things God’s way and I don’t care what the world does. I’m gonna do what God’s called me to do and I know it’s not gonna be popular. There’s not a lot on the line within us that I talk about that is popular with culture. That’s okay. Cause I’m not trying to win a popularity contest.

What I am trying to do is help you guys be the leader God has called you to be. That’s what’s most important. So guys, as you move forward this week, think about what does living for your kids look like to you? Maybe it’s some of the things I talked about here. Physically, mentally, fatherhood, spiritual leadership, maybe.

Maybe it’s a combination of all four. But you gotta start living for yourself. But you need to start living for your kids. Guys, it’s so important. They need you. And I get you. Look, your number could come up today and if it does, I pray that you’re a believer and it’s you’re with the Lord Jesus and my number comes to today, I’m ready.

Let’s go with Lord. But I’m also like Paul, I’m so conflicted cuz look, I’m ready to go see him at the same time. I got work here to do. And so long as he gives me work to do and air my lungs and ability to get up, I’m gonna get up and I’m gonna do my best. Some days I’ll do better than others, but every day, every day he Christ will leave me.

He will guide me and I’ll lean on him. Some days I’m gonna have to lean on him harder than others, particularly as these girls get to be teenagers. I know that. But I promise you guys, there’s so much peace comes to a Christian life once you realize it’s not about you. And that you have him as your guidance.

As your guidance. There’s so much peace there and your kids need to see you living for them. And that’s what, and show them what living looks like. So hopefully this Congress just helps you guys. I mean, this is one I’ve been praying about when I got that text message. I’m like, you know what? That’s worth talking about on the, on the podcast, hopefully that you know you got something from this.

I would encourage you, man, share this out with others cuz I, I, I feel like this, this type of message needs to be shared with so many of our brothers out there. Send that text messages, let ’em hear, Hey, maybe if they just wanna focus on one area, Hey, you just wanna focus on the physical area, go back and listen to that section.

Or you focus on the mental area, go back and listen to that section. You can break this down, but put my challenge, you would be put one to two of these practices that I’ve talked about into place. Move forward. Actually do that now, if you wanna do that and you want some accountability, the easiest way, join our community.

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It’s, it’s, it’s nonstop. It goes all the time. It’s really incredible. So cool. I pray you take some action there. If you want some coaching, go check us out there. We’ve got some one-on-one coaching as well. You guys, we have all sorts of things that you can serve you. Now, if you have an opportunity for your men’s group and you need a a, a, a topic and our talk, we have a couple of of speeches that I’ve prepared, I’m ready to come talk to your men’s group to give you a charge, give you a challenge.

If you wanna do that, connect with us there as well. Or send me an email support@thelinewithin.us Hey, we’re, we’re doing some, some, some speaking engagements and it’s designed to challenge you. So look, don’t invite me to come speak if you don’t wanna challenge, but if you want a challenge for your men’s group guys that are gonna help you grow closer, uh, uh, in many ways to him, but ultimately to grow closer to your wife, to be that leader and God intends you to be help, send me an email, love to talk to you about that, and we’ll make that happen.

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Pray that you, you take the steps, get off the bench, get into the game, join us over there. Look forward to serving you, connecting with you. So come back for our fun Friday. We’ll be wrapping some things up on Friday. Got some really good tips. I think you’re gonna like a couple of these tips on Friday because they’re not your typical line within US tips.

So I’m excited to share them with you. Got some really good dad jokes that are from our community, so looking forward to sharing those with you guys as well. So get after it. Have a great day. Come back with us again for our fun Friday. If you haven’t listened to the spiritual kickoff yet, go back and check that out.

Remember our verse of the week this week, uh, Deuteronomy six, these words, which I’m commanding you today, you shall be on your heart. Teach them to teach them differently to your sons, and, and you shall and shall talk of them when you sit in, in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up.

So guys, keep that Deuteronomy six verse seven, uh, in your heart this week. Remember, you can do this. You can lead your family. God handpicked you to be that leader of your family. So get out there. Stand up, stand firm, stand with Christ, and unleash the lion within.