We're currently looking for five churches that would be willing to host a Dad Tired conference.

If you are close to the leadership of your church, or maybe you're a pastor, or you know your pastor,

and you just want to see the men of your church get engaged with the things God is doing.

Maybe you just could use a boost or some momentum in your men's ministry.

We'd love to partner with you.

We can give you all the information

about what it looks like for you to host. If you go to dadd tire.com and then click the one-day conferences and there'll be a big button on there that says host a conference at your church and we'll send over some information on what that looks like. But we're looking for five churches who would be willing to host a dad tired conference in the next year.

So if you're interested in that, again, go to daddattire.com, click the one-day conferences tab.

I've had mentors say all kinds of different things that have stuck with me over the years.

I just heard my pastor this last weekend say, when the cup gets knocked over, you see what spills

out. The idea behind that is,

you don't really know what's going on in your heart until there's some, like, hard times or you

come up to some friction or some strife in life. And then when that happens and your cup gets,

quote unquote, tipped over, you'll know what's going on in your heart. I had a mentor that used to

tell me your calendar and your bank account will always prove what you're passionate about. He would say you could say what you're passionate about until you're blue in the face. But if you just let me see your calendar and you let me see your bank account, I'll tell you what you're actually passionate about. I had another mentor in high school or he was a teacher in high school and he would say, you never know what kind of flavor the tea is until it hits the hot water. And it's the same idea of the cup being spilled over. Like, you don't really know what's going on inside a man until he hits hot water and then you get the real flavor. Somebody can kind of act in a certain way or tell you what they're like or try to convince you of what they're like. But when they hit the hot water, it will reveal what they're actually like. All of these sayings are trying to get after the same question. And the question being what's actually going on in my heart, which is a little bit of an interesting question to ask because you feel like it should be obvious, right? If I just ask you like, hey, what's going on in your heart? What are you passionate about? What are you excited about? What kinds of things do you love? You would think any person would be able to answer that. If you asked me that, I could just kind of rattle off some things. But the Bible has different perspective on our heart. You remember back in Proverbs 4, 23, it says, above all else, guard your heart. For everything you do flows from it. Or Jeremiah 17, 9,

which says, the heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? In short,

the Bible actually teaches that our hearts can't be trusted, which is kind of funny because you hear

the saying all the time, just trust your heart. Go with your heart. The Bible says, you can't trust your heart. Your heart is deceitful above all else. Who can really understand what's going on in your heart? Your heart will lie to you. You've heard the saying that we judge other people's actions, but we judge our intentions, meaning I watch what you do and I judge you, but then I judge myself based on my intentions are what I think is my heart. Well, I intended to love my family. Well, I intended to be a good Christian. I intended to be the best husband. I've been convicted of a thought recently, and it came from a situation I had with my kids this week. I was driving my kids to school. I loaded them up. Sometimes I feel like an Uber driver or a taxi driver. I'm just shuttling kids from one place to another. So I put some of my kids in the car and I took them to school and I dropped them off. And as I was dropping them off, they opened the door and they said, okay, love you, bye. I said, love you, bye. And I realized in that moment, I actually did not say one word to my kids, not one word, the whole drive there.

And I didn't intentionally do that.

I was just rattling off in my brain quietly a million different things that I have to get done today, my to-do list, some things that are stressing me out, my responsibilities.

And in the midst of all that, my kids got

a silent dad on the way to school. And I was thinking on my way home, I can say that I want to be an

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