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Count the Cost: Following Jesus in a Hostile World

Dad Tired

Jerrad Lopes

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

What does it really mean to follow Jesus when the cost is high?

In this week’s episode, Jerrad reflects on the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk; not just as a political figure, but as a brother in Christ who boldly proclaimed the gospel until his final moments.

Drawing from Luke 9 and his own experiences at the Dad Tired retreat, Jerrad challenges men to slow down, quiet the noise, and seriously ask: Am I all in with Jesus?

You’ll hear:

  • Why silence matters for hearing God’s voice
  • How Charlie Kirk’s final words point us to courage and hope
  • The danger of being overly eager or overly cautious in discipleship
  • What it means to “count the cost” before putting your hand to the plow

This episode is a sobering call to examine our “but first” excuses and to step fully into the life Jesus is calling us to live.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to the Dad Tired podcast.

0:02.4

We believe here at Dad Tired that strong families begin with healed men. And it's my goal that you'll find a little bit of healing as you listen to today's podcast. Before we dive into it, I do want to thank my friends over at Electric Bikes for sponsoring today's episode. I have Electric Bike. It's called an Expedition 2.0. it is the talk of the neighborhood and I mean that seriously.

0:23.0

I just had a friend over a couple days ago and he was telling his friends, we did our little

0:27.2

garage group and he was telling the other guys like, dude, you have to check out this bike.

0:31.7

It is the coolest thing. If you have small ones, it could fit at least two kids on the back

0:35.7

of this bike. And depending on how small they are, potentially three kids.

0:40.9

And so you've got basically this little like suburban, that SUV that you can take your kids on.

0:46.5

That's, it's an, it's an electric bike.

0:48.6

And you can cruise them all over town on the back of this thing.

0:52.1

And I promise you you will be the talk of the town. Everyone talks about how awesome this thing is. It's constantly turning heads and my kids have

0:59.6

an absolute blast while riding it. You can get more information by going to electricbikes.com. We'll put a

1:04.7

link in the show notes, but specifically check out the electric 2.0 bike. It is super, super fun for kids. Also, I just really like

1:14.8

Electric as a company. They are super great company. They give a lot quietly like you would never

1:20.3

know this. They don't make a big deal out of it. But they are donating a ton to help really

1:25.0

great causes. Really good people over there, really great bikes.

1:28.2

Make sure that you check them out.

1:29.3

We'll put a link in the show notes. Thank you, Electric Bikes. For sponsoring today's episode, that being said, let's dive in. All right, I want to forewarn you that I'm going to ramble a little bit today, so please forgive me as we jump in. I got all kinds of thoughts. I want to start by saying I just got home from the doctor, and this is a funny and embarrassing story. At the Dad Tired Retreat, we played an epic

1:50.1

wiffle ball tournament, kind of an impromptu wiffle ball tournament, and probably outside of

1:56.3

guys getting baptized and Jesus moving in major ways, there was lots of life change outside of all

2:01.8

that. The wiffle ball tournament definitely made the top five like coolest and most fun memories

2:07.8

I've had in a long time. There's just, I don't know, we probably had a hundred guys. That might

2:12.6

be an exaggerated. Maybe 50 guys jump in into the wiffle ball tournament and we all were acting just like a bunch of

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