QUESTIONS:

1. What dishonorable things do you need to cleanse from your life? What routine or occasional choices are you making that can be muddying your heart, mind, and soul? Where do you need to flee from those things?




2. How have you strayed in your walk with Christ? If He's called you to abide and remain in Him, where have you set your foot outside of

And until you decide prayer is effective, you won't place a priority on it. That's the crux of the issue for fathers. Most of us men are wired to use things that work – computers, shovels, hammers, TV remotes. If they don't work, we put them down. If we believe prayer doesn't work, it's a tool we'll never pick up. We must understand what 'works'

QUESTIONS:

1. Do you have a biblical understanding of prayer? If your children (or wife) asked you whether prayer works or doesn't, how would you answer them?




2. What are some things that you've prayed for which God hasn't given you? Can you look back and see His kindness and greater plan in those denied requests? Conversely, in what ways has He granted

When you live out your faith as a father, you're showing God to the world. Put another way, for you and me, our highest calling is to represent God to the world. The stakes are higher than us getting accolades, becoming respected in the community, raising great kids or even building a thriving marriage.

Fathers are the lens through which the next

Our relationship-building challenges aren't a man-v.woman thing. They're an ego-v.-humility thing. And, if we are to walk as Jesus walked (1 John 2:6), we're going to need to learn how to cultivate strong relationships. Building these relationships is a key skill along our manhood journey. We must get this right, or we risk being alone and

QUESTIONS:

1. Would your family describe your attitude toward your job as mostly positive or negative? Why is this so? If it's mostly negative, how can you turn that ship around and help them view work as a good thing to bring glory to God? If mostly positive, why not up your game and turn work talk into missional opportunity talk?




2. Are you stuck in a

MYTH #1: YOU HAVE YOUR TRUTH, I HAVE MINE Your children may encounter this myth along the way: truth is relative. You have yours, I have mine, and you have no right to insist that your version of 'the truth' is the only one. Even your supposed bedrock of truth - the Bible - has so many ways to be interpreted, it's intellectually ridiculous to

QUESTIONS:

1. How well do you know God's Word? If your son or daughter came to you with a question, can you find at least some example in Scripture to tie your thoughts back to? Would your children say that you regularly 'reason things out' while using God's Word as your foundation?




2. Think back to a struggle you've experienced that your kids know about.

The point is that for many men, our interactions take on a similar flavor. We're so focused on whatever we've been doing recently (epic or mundane), that we're just itching for an entry point to talk about it. We don't listen to hear; we listen to interrupt.