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256 | Allowing Ourselves to Find the Secret Riches when Confronted with Depression (Dr. Clarence Shuler) Dec 15, 2022

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Key Takeaways

Our children look for, who we are on the home front, in their spouses.
Having a strong male figure in the home is vital to our gender identity.
How I choose to give, is a reflection of what I think about the Giver.
Are we a pleasure to be married to?

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Clarence Shuler

Dr. Shuler is the President/CEO of BLR: Building Lasting Relationships. He's been married to Brenda for over 37 years. They have three adult daughters. They conduct marriage, men's, women's, and singles seminars internationally. In 2020, FamilyLife presented Clarence and Brenda with FamilyLife Marriage Conference Speakers of the Year Award. Dr. Gary Chapman and he speak together at The Five Love Languages Marriage Conference, Date Night and Life- Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships events and have co-authored two books. Clarence speaks to youth, college students and singles about friendships, dating, biblical sex, pornography and sexting. His Maximizing Difference (diversity) training in high demand. He's authored 10 books.

Key Quotes (Full Transcript of the Conversation Here)

07:07 - "What you and your wife do in your marriage is going to impact your kids to a third and fourth generation. So you're not just parenting your kids, you're actually parenting your unborn grandkids."
14:51 - "I'm practicing this whole idea that if I'm going to be a pleasure to be married to, is not doing things for her that I want to do, when I want to do them, it's doing things for her that she wants or needs. That's what it's all about. And since we're talking about marriage, the other thing, that's revolutionized my marriage is that knowing how I treat Brenda is a reflection of how I'm loving God."

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Book: Finding Hope in a Dark Place: Facing Loneliness, Depression, and Anxiety with the Power of Grace
Website
Book- Choose Greatness: 11 Wise Decisions That Brave Young Men Make
Dr. Shuler's Book Store

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255 | Launching an Intentional Discipleship Plan & Choosing to Climb Everyday Towards Joy (Brook Mosser: Part 2) Dec 08, 2022

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Key Takeaways

Connect with brothers who think differently than you.
Surrounding our sons around the men who have impacted the way we live life.
It's not about failing, it's about what you do after the fail.
Get in touch with your own depravity: what you don't transfer, you transmit.
The only way you will get to joy is to climb to it.

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Brook Mosser

Brook and Elizabeth Mosser help lead Intentional with Phil and Diane as well as Pastor at Riverbend Church in Bend, OR. Elizabeth is Phil and Diane's daughter, which makes Brook their son in law, which means they are all family learning to do this thing called life and relationships together. They reside in Bend, OR with their four children Duke (13), Scarlet (10), Birdie (6), and Sloane (4). Brook and Elizabeth are passionate about leadership, marriage and seeing their own four kids become all in disciples of Jesus and helping other's do the same.

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25:06 - "Romans 12, think of yourself with sober judgment according to the faith given to you. Meaning, just realize that you might have some work to do and... that's really important because that's one of the only things that opens up the floodgates to what I would say next, which is, What you don't transform, you transmit."
26:07 - "The funniest thing, when you read the Scriptures, in my personal opinion, is God never says in the Scriptures, all you need is me. You don't need anyone else. You only need me. He says you need me and the primary way He gives us examples to live that out is with other people and close deep relationships."

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254 | Accepting our Family as Jesus Accepts us (Brook Mosser: Part 1) Dec 01, 2022

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Key Takeaways

Walking through valleys is where deep brotherhood is found.
True joy is on the other side of acceptance.
Think of yourself with sober judgement.
It's important to bring awareness to mental health, now more than ever.

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Brook Mosser

Key Quotes (Full Transcript of the Conversation Here)

8:36 - "The ministry piece that you're talking about, intentional is something I want to be, not something I always am. dadAWESOME is something that you want to be, but you're not always. And so it's kind of like, Hey, this is who I want to be, who I'm trying to live up to."
17:07 - "What I mean by acceptance is that you, with the Holy Spirit and with Jesus present, you're sitting there saying, I see the pain, I see all this going on. And I say, Yes, Jesus, I accept it, and I'm going to ask for your power and grace today to love these people well. And I'm going to let this actually be something that you use to form me into a deeper person of faith."

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253 | Reframing Your Parenting with New Habits (Justin Earley) Nov 24, 2022

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Key Takeaways

The heart follows the habit.
Nothing, in the household, is normal, until it is.
Put conversation in simple places, like car rides, so we don't become people of absence.
Pause prayers before moments of discipline.

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Justin Earley

Justin Whitmel Earley is a lawyer, author and speaker from Richmond, VA. He is married to Lauren and has four sons – Whit, Asher, Coulter and Shep.

He graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in English Literature before spending four years in Shanghai, China, as a missionary. Justin got his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and he now runs his own business law practice in Richmond, Virginia at Earley Legal Group.

His book, The Common Rule – Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction, was published with InterVarsity Press in 2019. He frequently speaks at businesses and legal events on habits, technology and mental health; and at churches and conferences on habits, spiritual formation and parenting.

His second book, Habits of the Household – Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms, released with Zondervan in November of 2021.

Justin also writes fiction and poetry, and is working on a children's book.

Key Quotes (Full Transcript of the Conversation Here)

22:53 - "The idea of a pause prayers, before approaching a moment of discipline, have a short emphasis on short moment of prayer in your head, just to say, Lord, help me discipline this child like you discipline me, which is full of grace and truth, right? And it could just be Lord help, but some way of looking up to God before you look down at them so that you can be more like the God who parents you as you parent them."
27:49 - "I want to step on that so much because the fact that you fight with your kids or your spouse is completely ordinary. That's what happens to everyone in every family, whether you reconcile with your spouse and your kids, it's completely unordinary, that's what barely ever happens. And that's why families often go the way they do, in dysfunction. So the question of a Christian household is not whether we fight, we all do, question of a Christian household is whether we reconcile to them the way God reconciles to us. You need habits for that."

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252 | BIKE RIDE INTERVIEW - Living in the Day and Choosing Joy (Bart Scharrer) Nov 18, 2022

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Key Takeaways

I can do hard things.
Choose joy, always. Be thankful, always.
If I trust Him then I trust His timing.
Dads, we set temperature and climate of the house.

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Bart Scharrer

Bart Scharrer lives in Costa Mesa, California with his wife Amy and two daughters: Allyson and Brooklynn. He serves as the Executive Pastor at Friends Church.

Key Quotes (Full Transcript of the Conversation Here)

19:49 - "Choose joy, always. Be thankful, always. So we're going to really live in that discipline of always, there's always something to be thankful for, which isn't just this pie in the sky, pretend like nothing bad is happening. It is the way through, though. It's the discipline that even in the midst of super hard, challenging, emotional, stressful, all that stuff is still there. But the way through what I've learned from practice, I learned from my wife in her modeling. And I think our kids just live in this now too, because we just practiced it for so many years, which is, oh, I'm going to start with gratitude. Gratitude is the way through."
26:19 - "So I can speak about all these values, the practice of them, super hard. But I also learned on a spiritual level, that's where the battle is. Anything you set as a value in your life, whether it's your relationship with Jesus, your wife, your marriage, your kids, your work, the enemy wants to destroy that, especially when you declare, this is how we're going to live. He's going to go after that. And so it forces us to constantly be on guard. You don't have to be afraid of it, But we have to be ready for it."
30:13 - "I think the second you're aware of, you're not in a good emotional place, then it is a matter of putting on. Taking the the lessons from Paul in his letters and saying, no, put on the clothing you want to be, whether you feel like it or not. That's the discipline, because discipline is just practice is keep practicing, keep practicing, keep practicing to be the person you want to be."

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Friends Church

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251 | Bringing Play into Manhood, Fatherhood, and Marriage (Morgan Snyder: Part 2) Nov 10, 2022

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Key Takeaways

Wilderness is a necessity for every human being.
Masculine heart was meant to risk.
When the Son is ready, the Father appears.
The hardest and gladdest thing in the world is to cry out, Father from a whole heart.

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Morgan Snyder

Morgan Snyder is a strategist, entrepreneur, teacher, writer, and speaker. His passion is to both be shaped by and shape the men and women who are shaping the kingdom of God. In 2010, he established BecomeGoodSoil.com, a fellowship of leaders whose global reach offers guidance for the narrow road of becoming the kind of person to whom God can confidently entrust the care of his kingdom. He serves on the executive leadership team of Wild at Heart and Ransomed Heart Ministries, having served alongside John and Stasi Eldredge for more than two decades. Morgan goes off the grid every chance he gets, whether bow hunting in the Colorado wilderness or choosing the adventurous life with his greatest treasures: his wife, Cherie; his son, Joshua; and his daughter, Abigail.

Key Quotes (Full Transcript of the Conversation Here)

12:43 - "Wilderness and nature is part of design for soul... there are elements like just simply a man submitting himself to a world that he doesn't control, that that he is exposed, that he is in need, that there's something bigger than him. There's humility. There's awe. There's the way things work that's essential for every man, his version of it."
22:36 - "So often, it's actually the condition of the orphan that's blocking the radical love of the Father, the pursuit of the Father, the ongoing efforts of the Father to intervene."

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Website: Become Good Soil
Book: Becoming a King: The Path To Restoring The Heart Of A Man
Podcast: Become Good Soil

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250 | Raising Kids Humbly, Loving Your Wife Fully, and Soaring Joyfully (Morgan Snyder: Part 1) Nov 03, 2022

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Key Takeaways

Our greatest hero should be us, ten years from now.
Process is the point.
Freedom begets freedom. Life begets life. Repentance begets repentance.
I have enough, I am enough, God, You are more than enough.
If you want to find God, His address is at the end of your rope.

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Morgan Snyder

Key Quotes (Full Transcript of the Conversation Here)

07:22 - "One of the great dangers that most men miss is they marry desire to fulfillment. They assume, and often, this is subconscious because it's so plays to our DNA, our design as men, they get a desire and then they run with it. We run with it, I run with it and we don't pass because we don't have the miles of knowing the consequence of it going bad... desire is intended to be the fuel for doing the hard work, the brutal, slow process of becoming the kind of man that can fulfill that desire."
12:57 - "That actually when we rush the process, what we do is just hijack the thing that God's doing and so it comes back again because our Father is generous and reluctant, the Holy Spirit is faithful to guide and redeem, everything for good. So, even if it goes completely sideways, not all is lost... as we grow in kingdom, authority and kingdom just reality of what and who were entrusted with, the consequences are much higher."

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Website: Become Good Soil
Book: Becoming a King: The Path To Restoring The Heart Of A Man
Podcast: Become Good Soil

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249 | Teaching our Children to not Avoid Failure, but Navigate it (Chris Bruno) Oct 27, 2022

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Key Takeaways

No matter how great we are, we are going to fail.
Teaching our children how to navigate failure by showing them how we navigate it.
Vulnerability is an opportunity.
Becoming a man is a journey, not a moment.
What's needed from men/sages is not information but presence.

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Chris Bruno

There is nothing more exciting to me than the intersection of transformation and adventure. This is why I founded Restoration Counseling – a place where we daily engage the power of restoration and epic re-storying. As a Licensed Professional Counselor, I specialize in men and masculinity, sexual addiction, trauma and abuse. My experience as a men's therapist and my work with men at Restoration Project provide me a wealth of experience when navigating the landscape of a man's heart.

As I work with clients, my focus is on discovering and "reading" the narrative of their lives and guiding them toward the transformation that comes through adventurously and honestly engaging our sorrows AND our glories. This, to me, is what I was created for.

Key Quotes (Full Transcript of the Conversation Here)

12:02 - "Teaching them how to navigate, is to show them how I navigate it and what I do with my flat tire and what I do with my explosion and how I recover from that. I am in the midst of that. What I learn from that. And then how I move on."
21:09 - "It was the elder season of a man's life that they considered the pinnacle of manhood. That it wasn't when he was when he became a father, wasn't when he was the king or the warrior or any of those other stages of a man's life, it was when he was the elder, or the sage. And the reason for that is because if he is an elder, than he is a pylon of society, that when there is a society full of sages, there is groundedness, there is containment, there is wisdom, there is guidance, there is an unflappability to who he is. There is a generous hospitality that he exudes around him. There is a subtle-ness to a sage. And when sages don't exist in society, that's where we get all the opposites of that."
36:13 - "There's so few sages that probably one of the best things that you could do is to be around other men who are pursuing sage. Because there's something there about the camaraderie of men that when we are pursuing sage together, even if we don't know what it is and what it looks like, if we have intention to go there, we're going to find our way."

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Restoration Counseling
Restoration Project
Book - Man Maker Project
Book - Brotherhood Primer
Book - Sage: A Man's Guide Into His Second Passage
Episode 196: Part 1 with Chris
Episode 197: Part 2 with Chris

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248 | How to Live Blessed, Successful, and at Peace: Meet with the Father (Gabe Klaas & Kevin Klaas: Part 2) Oct 20, 2022

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Key Takeaways

Get alone, once a month, sit with Jesus, and cast all stress and worries on Him.
Stay close to Jesus. He covers all of your shortcomings.
The one thing we want from our kids: RELATIONSHIP
When fathers sit with the Father, it changes atmospheres.

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Gabe Klaas & Kevin Klaas

Kevin Klaas began his career in the financial services industry in 2002 as a personal wealth manager for an independent financial services firm. He then became a regional manager with a captive insurance agency with a national footprint. After experiencing the financial industry from both the financial adviser and insurance agent perspectives, David noticed a middle ground of opportunity with several sophisticated solutions that neither group specialized in nor understood. He set out to establish a firm that would work alongside both disciplines and complement each of them in providing solutions that neither of them could provide alone.

Gabe Klaas is the son of Kevin and Jennie Klaas, the oldest of 6 kids, and running fast after Jesus. He appreciates the lessons and how his parents have modeled following Jesus in their lives. He is currently interning at Jyra Films.

Key Quotes (Full Transcript of the Conversation Here)

4:36 - "He is very good at getting done with a long day of work, coming home and... naturally gets a second wind. I would tend to think that he's probably learned how to, not force it... But most days he can come home from a long day of work... and if mom's had a long day realized very quickly and just kind of kick into dad, fun mode." -Gabe Klaas
9:29 - "My prayer for him, and all my kids, is that they'll be present. So I hope that, they'll be walking with Jesus number one and that they'll walk with him in a way where they're not being run by the world. They're being run by, by Jesus. And His plan for our life is not that we are striving and stressed all the time... I want them to be present. And I want them to be able to pass on the spiritual legacy that we're trying to pass on to them now, to their kids." -Kevin Klaas
13:18 - "The older I get, the more I recognize my own ineptness and faults and shortcomings in various areas. And what I feel like covers all is, is God and Jesus. And so stay close with Him and He covers, He covers all the shortcomings."

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Gabe's Youtube Channel
Kevin's Business: Monarch Solutions

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247 | Modeling a Life Our Kids Want (Gabe Klaas & Kevin Klaas: Part 1) Oct 13, 2022

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Key Takeaways

Envision your goals and continually learn.
Our children follow what they see: Model Well.
Relationship trumps everything.
Remain in a posture of on your knees.

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Gabe Klaas & Kevin Klaas

Key Quotes (Full Transcript of Conversation Here)

5:11 - "I've told my parents this multiple times, but the biggest thing that I think I've seen in them that's a standout is they just continually learn. Like it really doesn't matter where you're at, if you can kind of get a vision for where you want to go and then just keep learning, you can get there."
10:18 - "There's the practical things we do devotions a few times a week as a family and we get up and start off our day with prayer, worship and reading of the word. But then, then there's modeling it."

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Gabe's Youtube Channel
Kevin's Business: Monarch Solutions

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