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The Paul Tripp Podcast

615. Do You Have Regrets As A Father? | Ask Paul Tripp

The Paul Tripp Podcast

Paul Tripp Ministries, Inc.

Religion & Spirituality

5723 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Ask Paul Tripp is the newest podcast resource from Paul Tripp Ministries. Each week, pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp answers your questions about anything and everything, connecting the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life in the process. 

In this episode, Paul answers this question about fatherhood as we head into Father's Day weekend: "Do you have any regrets as a father?"

If you have a question you'd like to ask Paul, you can email [email protected] or submit it online at PaulTripp.com/Ask.

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0:00.0

This week on the Ask Paul Trip podcast, we're going to continue to ask Paul about his past history of anger in both his marriage and his parenting.

0:11.4

And because Father's Day is coming up this Sunday, we're going to ask some questions to you, Paul, from dads.

0:16.8

Here's one of them. Do your kids remember your anger? How old were they when it subsided?

0:22.0

And what regrets do you have as a father?

0:25.4

My anger really, really began to explode when our first son, Justin, was born. And he was a very,

0:35.6

very difficult infant. And I felt like this sweet life I had with

0:43.1

L'Bala was taken away from me. And then it continued to go on through our second child.

0:56.3

But by God's grace, those children were younger,

1:02.8

and their memory is not the memory of an angry home.

1:10.5

But I want to say something about this. I want to talk about

1:14.6

regret. If you can look back on your life as a parent and not have any regret,

1:28.6

you're either comatose or you're shockingly arrogant.

1:33.6

Of course I have regret.

1:37.5

God's plan is to use broken people to raise little self-sovereigns

1:44.6

and rescue them from themselves.

1:47.8

And I have probably a thousand conversations

1:52.3

I'd like to take out of history

1:54.4

and out of the memory of my children.

2:00.6

But you can weather that if you're humble,

2:06.8

you confess your sin to your kids, you seek the forgiveness,

2:12.9

you remind them that you need the gospel of God's grace as much as they do.

2:19.3

Remind them that in your heart, you're a rebel too.

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