Greetings and welcome, fierce listeners. If you ever wondered how you can be a part of what God is doing in your spouse's heart, even when it feels like they've completely

their stone-walling your, their heart has been turned into stone.

This is an episode that is sure to bless you. It's sure to give you some insight.

We actually got to talk to a friend of ours named Jared Loeb. He runs a ministry out of Portland, Oregon. It's called Dad Tired.

He's got a Facebook group. It's got over 10,000 members. They have a podcast. It's highly popular.

The whole ministry is around trying to just remind men and really contextualize their lives around the gospel in terms of

fatherhood and being a husband. Anyway, we did talk about parenting a little bit in this episode, but don't lose heart. We talked about marriage. We talked specifically how

Leila, Jared's wife prayed and contended for him in a time when he thought they were headed toward divorce and how that resulted in God's softening his heart.

If you've ever been there, then this episode will be one that gives you hope. I also want to make note we recorded this episode

a little while back before a lot of the current events that are unfolding as you listen to this.

There's a little bit of context that might seem off, but just rest assured we didn't record this yesterday. We recorded it a little

while back months ago. Anyway, I'm still confident the content is relevant. Do listen. We hope it blesses you and we'll see you on the other side.

All right, we're here with Jared Lopes. Hey, man, how you doing? I'm doing so good. Thanks for having me.

All right. Yeah, it's we were just saying off before we started recording that we're a little rusty on the interview side of things. So,

fear solicitors have some patience with us. We're trying to ask good compelling questions as I know Jared will give us a good compelling answers.

So, Jared, tell us a little bit about yourself. We know that you are the founder, the originator, the brain behind dad tired and loving it. Tell us about what that is and how it helps people online.

Yeah, well, first of all, thanks for having me and I know that you guys are in the thick of mom and dad hired.

Yes, we're recording this. Definitely have grace. We have a one year old. So we're just getting out of that like new infancy season. But yeah.

So I run a ministry called dad tired. I've been a pastor for 13 years in the church world, mainly, but then in the last three, four years, I've been running this

nonprofit for dads totally by accident, never planned to do this, but I just fell into it. We can talk about that more if that makes sense.

Yeah. But yeah, married married way up. Still don't know why or how she said yes, but married a woman named Layla. She's an oncology nurse and the mother of my children and my best friend and wife.

And so we've been married coming up on 10 years or about to celebrate 10 year anniversary. And then we've got three kids, a eight year old boy, a six year old girl. And then like I said, that our one year old baby girl.

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