Mailbag Monday: Sports Parenting, Sermon Prep, and Tough Small-Group Calls

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It’s a special Mailbag Monday! You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers. T

oday we discuss wise involvement in teens’ sports, whether quick sermon prep is solid or shallow, Christ-first fatherhood, and guiding cohabiting new believers with grace + truth.

Segment 1

• How involved should dads be in their teen kids’ sports lives? - David

Segment 2

• How long should I spend preparing a sermon? If sermon prep feels too fast, is that a red flag? - Zachary

Segment 3

• How can I avoid idolizing my kids as a new dad? - Ryan

Segment 4

• How should Christians respond when an unmarried couple gets saved and joins a small group? - Heather

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Wretched Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:07.0	Your first mission is to keep yourself happy.
0:10.0	It's living for self that is so exhausting and frustrating
0:14.0	because you were made to live for him.
0:18.0	So when you begin to please him, you begin to thrive. It's not a burden. It's not a duty.
0:24.2	It's a joy. I come alive. This is what I was made for. It's time for Wretched Radio with Todd Freel.
0:30.3	Let's do this, beloved.
0:33.6	It's the Rretched Radio, mail-call, delivery bag, Q&A, infatement, nationwide extravaganza, featuring your voicemails, correspondences, communicates, dispatches, memorandums, and missives. Any special message for all the kids watching at home? What we need right now is a clear message to the people of this country. You have 1,200 messages. It is a bit above average.
0:57.6	Now here's your host, Todd, freakishly tall, Friel.
0:58.5	DeVille is here.
0:59.4	Ooh.
1:09.3	Top of the day to you, praying that your day will be filled with green pastures and still waters.
1:11.9	This is what are you laughing at?
1:13.0	What's wrong with you?
1:14.3	I'm being sensitive.
1:15.8	Just discovered.
1:21.3	Got a little thing here on my desk that we are now airing on the Life FM.
1:23.3	It comes out of Piedmont, South Carolina.
1:45.5	It's an oodle of stations, W-I-L-F, W-W-Q-C, W-W-Q-D, Q-A, lots of Q's and W's in here. Q-W, Q-W, Q-K, Q-S, Q-E, Q-Y. They must, you know what, they must have bought these radio stations at Costco. Maybe they just bought one, and it came in a package of 10 of them. We are airing now at 9.30 in the morning and not everybody likes a strong cup of coffee first thing. So I was trying to be sensitive
1:51.7	and thoughtful. How am I doing? Well, you're good. Okay. Could be worse. We could be a different
1:59.0	kind of morning show. Would you like to be a different kind of like a standard type of morning show, Jimmy?
2:04.0	Show me how.
	...

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