Dads Who Dwell: How Presence Shapes Fatherhood| 347
Dad Tired
Jerrad Lopes
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Jerrad reflects on what it means to be a dad who is fully present. He shares how growing up without his dad shaped the way he parents now. He also talks about how easy it is to be physically home but mentally somewhere else. Through Scripture, he traces the story of a God who shows up, and what that means for dads who want to lead with presence.
Tune in to hear what it means to dwell with your kids the way God dwells with you.
What You’ll Hear:
- Why presence matters more than performance
- How your childhood shapes the kind of father you become
- The difference between being around and being with
- What the Bible says about God’s presence with His children
- Why emotional and spiritual availability is part of leadership
- The cost of distraction and the gift of full attention
- How God’s story from Genesis to Revelation models fatherhood
- Questions to ask about where your time and focus are going
Episode Resources:
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- Invite Jerrad to speak – https://www.jerradlopes.com
- Read The Dad Tired Book – https://amzn.to/3YTz4GB
Transcript
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| 1:00.5 | slash dad tired. I've told you guys this before, but my dad left when I was three years old. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm in my mid-30s now, and I'm still just now figuring |
| 1:13.4 | out all the ways that that has impacted me. God's actually done some really cool stuff in my dad |
| 1:17.7 | and in my relationship with my dad. We're just learning how to restore our relationship |
| 1:22.7 | and what I never imagined our relationship could be like, God's just been really gracious. And we're getting to know each other and we actually talk quite a bit now. But for most of my childhood growing up, we would only talk a couple times a year, see each other a couple times a year at most. And at the age of three, he decided to do his own thing. He's apologized for that. He's really owned up and manned up to the |
| 1:45.0 | decisions that he's made that hurt me and my siblings. But yeah, he's just, God's working in him |
| 1:50.9 | in really cool ways. But that doesn't change the reality that I grew up without a dad. Like I said, |
| 1:56.7 | I've spent the last, I don't know, decade really diving into how that has impacted me. I think for |
| 2:02.4 | most of my 20s, I would have said it didn't impact me. Like, I would have always said as a kid, |
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