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Dad Tired

The Third Traveler: Friendship, Faith, and the Presence of Christ |458

Dad Tired

Jerrad Lopes

Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

What if friendship is one of the most powerful tools God gives us to battle confusion, discouragement, and spiritual despair? Kaleb teaches the story of the Road to Emmaus (Luke 24) to show how the presence of Jesus is often revealed when two believers walk together through grief and doubt.

Drawing from Scripture, Church history, and stories of Christian martyrs, this episode highlights how friendship is not a side benefit of the Christian life—it’s a core part of God's design for your healing and strength. If you’ve felt tired, isolated, or unsure where God is in your pain, this message will remind you: you were never meant to walk alone.

 What You’ll Learn:

  • Why Jesus met two disciples walking and talking—not isolated
  • The four spiritual benefits of gospel-centered friendship
  • How the Holy Spirit enters conversations marked by honesty and humility
  • The power of processing confusion with a godly friend
  • Why real friendship requires transparency, not performance
  • The image of “the third traveler” as the Holy Spirit in your walk


📖 Scriptures References:

  1. Luke 24 (Road to Emmaus)
  2. Ephesians 6 (Armor of God)
  3. John 15 (Greater love has no one...)
  4. John 14 (Spirit will not leave you as orphans)
  5. Proverbs 12:25, 1 Samuel 23, 2 Corinthians 13:1


 Episode Mentions :

  1. The Dwell Bible App – Sponsor offering guided Lent reflections and devotionals- dwellbible.com/dadtired
  2. Perpetua & Felicity – Early Christian martyrs and friends.
  3. Robert Murray McCheyne Bible Plan – Recommended yearly reading plan.
  4. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine – Quotes and stories on friendship and theology.
  5. Invite Jerrad to speak: https://www.jerradlopes.com
  6. Read The Dad Tired Book: https://amzn.to/3YTz4GB


Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey y'all and welcome back to the Dad Tired podcast. Today's episode is brought to you by the Dwell

0:03.7

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0:12.4

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0:16.8

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0:20.9

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0:25.9

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0:30.0

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0:31.3

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0:40.4

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0:43.9

Two, one, go.

0:47.7

All right, I'm jumping back this week into the concept of Jesus commanding us to friendship.

1:04.5

Remember again, we were looking at the kind of farewell discourse where Jesus looks at the

1:09.8

disciples and says, this is my command that you love one another.

1:13.6

Greater love has no one than this than a man lay down his life for his friends.

1:17.6

And the kind of undergirding theme that I'm trying to draw out is that Jesus has just communicated to the disciples

1:24.6

that Judas, who has been with them for three years, serving alongside them for three years, has now communicated to the disciples that Judas, who has been with them for three years,

1:28.2

serving alongside them for three years, has now decided to betray that friendship, that for a measure

1:35.8

of money, Judas is going to kind of spit on his relationship with Jesus. And the nuance here

1:43.2

or the kind of contrast is that Jesus says to the

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