The Hidden Idols Shaping Your Life | 368
Dad Tired
Jerrad Lopes
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Jerrad invites you to take a hard look at what’s really driving your life. Every man wrestles with something that competes for his heart. It might be control, comfort, or the need to be seen. These things don’t always look like sin, but they slowly take the place only God should hold. In this episode, Jerrad walks through how to recognize the patterns in your thoughts, actions, and habits that reveal your true loyalties. He shares how these hidden priorities show up in your parenting, marriage, and spiritual life and what it looks like to choose Christ instead.
Tune in to slow down, ask honest questions, and take the first step toward freedom.
What You’ll Hear:
• How to recognize what you’re really worshiping
• Why your idols often seem like strengths
• What power, comfort, and desire demand from you
• How idolatry can shape your parenting and marriage
• What your family feels when idols go unchecked
• How to turn from false masters and return to Christ
Episode Resources:
- Family Leadership Program: https://www.dadtired.com/family-leadership-program
- Dwell Differently: https://www.dwelldifferently.com – use promo code DadTired
- Read Romans 7, John 10:10, and John 17
- Read The Dad Tired Book: https://amzn.to/3YTz4GB
- Invite Jerrad to speak: https://www.jerradlopes.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, before we jump into today's episode, I want to thank my friends over at Dwell |
| 0:03.7 | differently for sponsoring today's episode. You've heard me talk about Dwell before. They're |
| 0:07.5 | absolutely one of my favorite brands out there that gives tangible resources to families to help |
| 0:13.3 | them memorize scripture. If you're trying to lead your family well, if you're trying to be the |
| 0:16.9 | spiritual leader of your home and point your family back to Jesus and you just feel stuck or that feels really overwhelming to you. One of the most practical things you can do is memorize |
| 0:25.0 | scripture with your kids. It's really easy and it has a ton of fruit attached to it. And what |
| 0:29.8 | Dwell differently does is make that really tangible and really easy for you. They create these |
| 0:34.6 | little tattoos or stickers, temporary tattoos or stickers that you can put |
| 0:37.8 | on lunch boxes. You could put the temporary tattoos on the kids or on yourself. And they use the first |
| 0:43.3 | letter of every word in a verse to help prompt your memory to memorize that scripture. So it's a really |
| 0:49.0 | quick and effective way for you to memorize the scripture and for your kids. It's a really fun thing |
| 0:53.6 | to do with your kids. |
| 0:54.9 | Again, if you're looking for really practical ways to lead your family to Jesus, you've got to start |
| 0:59.5 | memorizing the Word of God, put it deep into their hearts. It will carry with them for the rest of |
| 1:04.1 | their lives. And it helps you become the spiritual leader of your family really easily. |
| 1:08.4 | Go to dwell differently.com. Use the promo code dad tired to get a |
| 1:11.1 | discount. Again, they're one of my favorite resources out there to help you lead your family well. |
| 1:15.7 | Dwelldifferently.com. Use the promo code dad tired at checkout. I was talking to this guy who works with the FBI, which is the best way to start any story |
| 1:32.0 | because it, you know, even though I don't personally work for the FBI in my mind I did for this |
| 1:37.6 | minute. And he started to talk to me about like crime scenes and the first questions he asks when he |
| 1:42.6 | gets in the crime scene and the things that he's really focused on and he told me something that was kind of revelatory to me and before |
| 1:48.0 | I get to that I kind of set it up with this idea of how many ways do we define ourselves as people |
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