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The Difference Between Surrender and Contentment (with Tim Timmons)

Dad Tired

Jerrad Lopes

Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

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Jerrad sits down with Tim Timmons for one of the most honest conversations we’ve had on the podcast. 

Tim shares about living with stage 4 cancer for over 25 years, the exhaustion of trying to “work for God,” and how he’s learning to simply wake up each day and join Jesus.

Together, they talk about:

  • Contentment vs surrender
  • Parenting and repair
  • The pressure Christian men carry
  • Living sober-minded in a distracted world
  • Why the Kingdom of God threatens our own kingdoms

This episode feels like sitting across the table from a wise friend who’s been through some things.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Two quick things here before we jump in. First, we have a completely free family leadership

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program. This was not always free, but we are now making it free for every dad tired listener.

0:08.8

If you go to daddirt.com forward slash FLP, which stands for family leadership program, you can

0:14.7

join that program, which is a self-paced 30-day program full of homework and curriculum and Bible reading plans. All the things you need to

0:23.3

get started on your journey of becoming the spiritual leader of your home. You can get that all for

0:27.3

free by going to dadtired.com forward slash FLP. We'll put a link in the show notes. Secondly, we are doing

0:33.7

our dad tired annual retreat. We are months away from that happening and spots are limited. Make sure you go to Dadtire.com. Click the annual retreat tab to learn more information about the gathering that we have once a year. We're hundreds of guys from all over the country and some from around the world. Come gather, get equipped as men to become the men that God has called them to be. All right. That being said, let's dive into today's episode. Tim, so excited to be hanging out with you, man. Even in the two minutes before we hit record, I just like you, and I feel like we could be friends. But for the audience who may not be familiar with you, tell us who you are and what you're up to these days. Yeah, I'm really good looking. Yeah. I was going to say that actually first. Yeah. Yeah. So just I don't want to brag about this. Yeah. So if you guys are going bald, you know, you young dads or any of your dad's, it's just male pattern baldness, but I really believe Jesus was bald bald i'm pretty kind of convinced of that okay um so

1:28.9

prove me wrong okay okay um man i i uh can i just can i just stop you before what a great introduction

1:36.8

before we start i heard a guy um this last weekend he said god took all his hair from his head when he

1:43.8

was in his 20s and moved

1:44.7

it all to his back. And I just thought that was the funniest. It was such a great way to say that.

1:49.2

Anyway, okay, so you're bald. You keep going. Yeah, so I, Tim Timmons, I've been married for 28 years to my RA in college. She was my RA, my freshman year of

2:06.5

college. And we've got four humans. I've got one in college, girl in college. I've got a boy who'll be a

2:16.5

senior next year. And then, so I've got 14 teenagers. Then I've got a boy who'll be a senior next year and then, so I've got

2:18.6

14 teenagers. Then I've got 15 year old twins, girl boy twins who will be sophomores next year.

2:24.3

Awesome. So I'm kind of, I mean, I'm, I'm in the middle of this dad thing. Middle? Yeah, I guess

2:30.4

I'm probably more middle of it. And loving it's the best thing I do, the hardest thing I've ever done for sure is to be a dad by miles.

2:42.6

And also the most beautiful thing, as all you all know, and you'd all say probably the same thing.

2:49.7

I'm from the Orange Counties california and i was there most of my life

2:55.9

went to san diego for college um but then i was a worship leader at a church a few churches out there

3:03.1

um and which was great learned a ton and then um yeah at some point jesus apprehended my heart

3:13.1

and i've been a varsity american christian my whole life like better than most of you guys

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