Fathering Our Future

For nearly six years, I made pancakes for my children on Saturday mornings. I thought I was simply making breakfast and giving my wife a break. I did not realize how closely my children were watching. Then one Saturday...

Is your family always rushing from one obligation to the next? When dinner, bedtime, church, and leaving the house constantly become last-minute emergencies, our kids feel the pressure. A reel from Scot Anderson got me...

Most parents think they need to find the right words for “the talk.” But if difficult subjects are the only time we deliberately talk with or teach our children, even the perfect script can feel strange. In this...

Should your teen get a job while still in high school? After watching a reel from parenting creator Scot Anderson arguing that teens should not work at 16, I found myself agreeing with part of his reasoning and...

Your kids are watching you more closely than you realize. They see how you lead, how you respond, what you believe, and the kind of man you are becoming. And sometimes, they see something in you that you have a hard...

If you want to become a better dad, personal discipline matters more than you might think. And strangely enough, one of the best lessons I’ve learned about discipline came from watching cucumber plants grow in our...

Most fathers want to be good providers. We work hard to give our children a safe home, good clothes, opportunities, experiences, and the things we believe will help them have a good life. But providing for your children...

No matter where you find yourself as a Christian, whether that be a faithful disciple or a full-time minister, you can never use God as an excuse to be absent from your family. That was never God’s design nor will it...

Every dad knows the pressure of a child acting out in public. The restaurant gets loud. The store gets uncomfortable. People start looking. And suddenly, you are not just dealing with your child’s behavior, you are...

Your kids may trust you completely when they are little, but will they still trust you when they grow up? In this episode, I talk about a simple moment with my youngest daughter that hit me hard. She was tired, I picked...

Every dad gets angry. The question is not whether anger will show up, but what we do when it does. In this episode, I talk honestly about anger in fatherhood, why it can rise so quickly, and how Christian dads can...

As fathers, we cannot rely on a "been there, done that" mindset. Our children are growing up in a world shaped by smartphones, artificial intelligence, and cultural changes that many of us never experienced. If we want...

If you want to become a better father, one of the most important questions you can ask is this: Does the fruit of the Spirit show up in the way I treat my children? In this episode, I challenge Christian dads to examine...

Why don’t my kids listen? If you’ve ever asked that question as a dad, you’re not alone. Every father reaches a point where he wonders how to get his kids to listen, obey, and follow direction without constant...

A couple of weeks ago I shared the best idea for Mother’s Day, but some moms did not agree. So I found out what the issue was. The problem was not with the moms or with my idea. The problem was with their husbands. This...