Special Intentional Fatherhood Feature: Your Fatherhood Needs You to Know Your Story, Facing Generational Sin, and Trusting God to Bless What’s Been Broken
The Intentional Parents Podcast
Intentional
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
This week, we are releasing one of the most-loved episodes from our Intentional Fatherhood podcast, all about knowing your story, facing generational sin, and trusting God to bless what’s broken.
Note: This episode contains mature themes that may not be suitable for younger listeners. Please use discretion.
We are storied people, living within the grand narrative of the kingdom of God. And as a father, you need to know your story. Not just the highlights or heroic moments — but the whole of it. The truth is, your past shapes your present: in your work, your marriage, your friendships, and your fatherhood. To lead well, you must face the story that formed you — including both your own childhood and the generations that came before.
In this powerful episode, Justin and Brook look back to move forward. Together, we explore how our family of origin — with all its beauty and brokenness — deeply influences the families we are building now. Brook opens up about the story he comes from: one marked by abuse, secrecy, and chaos. He shares honestly about the slow and painful work of healing, and how unaddressed generational sin began to surface in his own work, relationships, and family — which nudged him toward the hard work of transformation.
Justin shares a different story: one of inherited blessing, and how he nearly squandered it. But ultimately, he chose to surrender and let God build something new from the foundation he was given.
Together, we reject the lie that we’re doomed to repeat the past — that we’re destined to become our fathers or perpetuate the cycles we grew up in. Through grace and intentionality, there is a better way. God longs to redeem what’s been broken and restore what’s been lost.
This Spirit-led conversation offers practical steps for examining your story, seeking help, and moving toward healing. It’s an invitation to believe in the promise of Joel 2:25: “I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten.”
Scripture Mentioned: Joel 2:25-26, Romans 8:28 + Matthew 25:14-30
Books Mentioned: The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction by Justin Whitmel Earley
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, mark your calendars. The Intentional Motherhood Retreat is coming up October 23rd through 25th in Portland, Oregon. |
| 0:10.7 | It's a meaningful few days to slow down, connect, and refocus on what matters most in your motherhood journey. |
| 0:18.1 | Also some exciting news. Intention intentional fatherhood has officially launched on all |
| 0:22.2 | podcast platforms, including YouTube, so go subscribe, check out the first few episodes, and share it |
| 0:27.6 | with all the fathers in your life. For more details and registration info for the motherhood |
| 0:31.8 | retreat, you can go to intentional parents.org, or you can go check out our new website for fathers intentional fatherhood.org. |
| 0:43.5 | You're listening to the intentional parents podcast brought to you by intentional. |
| 0:48.8 | Intentional is all about spiritual formation in the family. |
| 0:52.5 | We desire to bring biblical hope and practical help. Enjoy this |
| 0:56.5 | week's conversation. Welcome back to the intentional parents podcast. Today we have a different |
| 1:08.2 | day, a different kind of podcast. And I'm excited about it. Your thoughts, |
| 1:12.9 | Elizabeth? Well, this was kind of my idea. So my thoughts are, it's a great idea. |
| 1:18.3 | This was your idea. So if you're not familiar, we launched the Intentional Fatherhood podcast. |
| 1:24.5 | Justin Whitmelt early and I have partnered up to just help fathers in any way from our |
| 1:29.7 | own disposition and our own experience and really more from our brokenness, not our expert |
| 1:35.5 | disposition. And man, we've had the most overwhelming response from so many men and so many of their wives as well. So many of you wonderful |
| 1:46.4 | wives and ladies that are listening and have been listening, it's just been a huge gift. And so |
| 1:50.6 | what we decided to do today was we actually want to release on this channel on the intentional |
| 1:56.2 | parents podcast one of the episodes. We haven't done this before, but if you ever listen to |
| 2:00.2 | podcasts, obviously some podcasts will do this from time to time. And what we want to do is simply release |
| 2:05.9 | an episode from the fatherhood podcast and just give you kind of a sampling of what we're doing, |
| 2:11.4 | what we're talking about. And so what you're going to hear in just a couple of minutes is |
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