One Thing Every Man Needs Before He Heals: Step 002

Dad Tired

Jerrad Lopes

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

What if healing isn’t found in isolation, but in the presence of brothers who know the worst about you and love you anyway?

In this episode, Jerrad unpacks Step 2 of the Seven Steps of Discipleship: Find Your Brotherhood: a conversation about why God never intended men to walk alone. Through biblical truth, personal story, and raw honesty, he explores why confession, friendship, and brotherhood aren’t optional extras in the Christian life, they’re essential for healing.

Later in the episode, Jerrad is joined by Nick, a Dad Tired listener who shares how brotherhood changed everything for him, from addiction and isolation to freedom and deep friendship. Together they paint a picture of what real, gospel-centered friendships can look like for men who are ready to stop pretending and start healing.

With a mix of vulnerability and hope, this episode will help you:

Understand why it’s not good for man to be alone (Genesis 2)
Recognize how brotherhood leads to real healing (James 5:16)
Learn how confession brings both forgiveness and restoration
Discover practical ways to build honest friendships
See why every man needs a circle of brothers before he can lead his family well

Whether you’ve been burned by shallow friendships or you’re just tired of trying to follow Jesus alone, this episode is a reminder that strong families begin with healed men, and healed men don’t heal alone.

Prayer:
“Father, help me find and build the kind of friendships that bring healing. Give me brothers who will know me fully and love me still.”

Scriptures Mentioned:
Genesis 2:18
James 5:16
Proverbs 27:17
Ecclesiastes 4:9–12
John 15:12–13

Resources & Links
🎯 Download the free Seven Steps of Discipleship PDF
💡 Register for the Dadology Parenting Conference (April 24–25, 2026 — San Diego)
🙌 Support the mission: dadtired.com/donate
🎙️ Learn more about Dad Tired Conferences & Speaking

We'd like to thank Samaratin's Purse and Operation Christmas Child for sponsoring today's episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I was in Ontario, Canada a couple weeks ago doing a dad tired one day conference, which, by the way, we'd love to do one of these conferences at your church. You can find out more information on that by going to daddirty.com. But I was doing a dad tired one day conference there. And one guy came up to me who was a dad tired listener. He's been a listener to the podcast for a while. And he said he will listen to the podcast and he'll go home. And he says his wife can always tell.
0:24.6	She actually says,
0:23.2	his wife can always tell. She actually says to him, you must have been listening to the dad tired
0:27.4	podcast. You must have been doing dad tired stuff recently because she can see a change in him as a
0:32.7	husband. Like she always calls it out, he said, in him. He said, my wife knows when I've been listening
0:37.2	because she can
0:38.8	recognize that I'm a better husband and dad as a result. Those kind of stories of guys whose lives
0:44.4	are actually changing, whose marriages are being restored, who guys who are confessing sin to their
0:50.0	wives, finding restoration in their marriages, becoming more patient and loving and graceful fathers.
0:56.4	It's happening by the thousands of men, and you may be one of those men.
1:01.2	We're at the end of every year. We do a fundraiser to try to raise enough funds to get to
1:06.9	get through the upcoming year, and we're in the middle of that right now.
1:11.2	We are trying to raise enough funds to keep the ministry going for the next year.
1:15.8	If you believe in the ministry, whether you're brand new to it or you've been around for a while,
1:19.9	we believe that these kinds of stories can happen by the tens of thousands and that God will use
1:26.9	this ministry to continue to reach men for his
1:29.2	namesake. If you want to help us keep going, would you go to dadd tired.com and then just click
1:33.9	the donate tab and go to dadtire.com forward slash donate, make a donation, help us reach our goal
1:38.9	for next year. One of the things we're able to do because of your donations and to keep the ministry
1:43.3	going is have things like our dad tired conference. We have our very first dad tired parenting
1:48.8	conference coming up in April of next year, April 24th to 25th. It's going to be in San Diego,
1:53.8	California. If you've never been there, it is absolutely beautiful. Grab a couple friends. We give
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