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044 | Walking through Life Together—with Books

Intro

Hey Fellow Dads,

Imagine a bookshelf full of all the great stories you’ve ever read or heard about. What do most of them have in common? Once you’ve found that mystery link, how can you use it to strengthen family ties and lead your family to walk by faith?

Nathan

Scriptures

• Genesis 2:18
• Genesis 6-9
• 1 Corinthians 15:3-4
• Ephesians 5:25

Books

The Odyssey, by Homer

Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan

Undaunted Courage, by Stephen Ambrose (contains some material not suitable for youth)

Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret, by Dr. & Mrs. Howard Taylor

Skeletons on the Zahara, by Dean King

Endurance, by Alfred Lansing

Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand (some content not appropriate for youth)

Maybelle the Cable Car, by Virginia Lee Burton

The Little House, by Virginia Lee Burton

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton

Katy and the Big Snow, by Virginia Lee Burton

Mik-Shrok (book 1 in Adventures of an Arctic Missionary Series), by Gloria Repp

Preaching and Teaching with Imagination: The Quest for Biblical Ministry, by Warren Wiersbe

The Peabody Series, by Jeri Massi:

1. Derwood, Inc.
2. A Dangerous Game
3. Treasure in the Yukon
4. Courage by Darkness
5. Llamas on the Loose
6. Abandoned
7. Hall of Heroes

Key Ideas in This Episode

1. Research! Find out about the places you’re going to visit.
2. Get ready! Prepare needed supplies.
3. Make it Reality! Planning isn’t enough.
4. Recalculate! Adjust as needed, trusting God’s plan.
5. Relate! Express what you’re learning and sing praises to God, noticing His providences.
6. Record it! Journal and print your photos.
7. Reminisce! Talk about your experiences to keep the memories alive and share them with others.

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043 | Lead Your Family to Joy

Hey Fellow Dads,

Are the struggles of life and the decline of society getting you and your family down? About 2500 years ago, a group of men in similarly troubled circumstances once led their families to rejoice in God——and we can still learn from their example. Today’s episode discusses how they did it and what books we might use to help our families on our journey to joy.

Nathan

Show Notes

• Please excuse the grammatical error (I should have said “Would their wives and children have rejoiced . . . ”) I couldn’t correct it with the same voice now that my cold is getting better. 😁
• I stated that I wouldn’t mention biography titles in the recording—but they (along with other book titles) are given below, so be sure to keep reading!

Scriptures

• Ephesians 5:20
  Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

• Philippians 4:4
  Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and] again I say, Rejoice.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:18
  In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

• Nehemiah 12:40-43

  40 ¶ So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:

  41 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;

  42 And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.

  43 ¶ Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.

Principles to Lead Your Family to Joy
(based on Nehemiah 12:40-43)

1. The men formed an environment of praising God.
2. The men praised God at great personal expense.
3. They set the example of praising God.
4. They enjoyed praising God.

Books

• Rejoice, by Majesty Music https://www.majestymusic.com/
• Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs, by Melody Publications https://melodypublications.com/
• The Book of Psalms for Worship, by Crown and Covenant Publications https://crownandcovenant.com
• Bible Truth Hymns, by Bible Truth Music https://bibletruthmusic.com
• The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day, Scott O’Dell (historical fiction based on life of William Tyndale)
• The Bible Smuggler, by Louise A. Vernon (Religious Heritage Series) (historical fiction based on life of William Tyndale)
• David Brainerd: His Message for Today, by Oswald J. Smith (ed.)
• God’s Venturer: Hudson Taylor, by Phyllis Thompson
• George Mueller, by Faith Coxe Bailey
• These Are My People, by Mildred T. Howard (about Glady Aylward)
• Evidence Not Seen, by Darlene Deibler Rose (autobiography)
• Through Gates of Splendor (about Jim Elliot), by Elisabeth Elliot
• The Rustling Grass, by Joanne DeJonge
• My Listening Ears, by Joanne DeJonge
• If Animals Could Talk, by Werner Gitt

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042 | Model Right Attitudes Toward Authority

Hey Fellow Dads,

How should we relate to our authorities? What does the Bible teach us? Are we modeling these right attitudes and actions for our families?

Nathan

Books

• The Constitution of the United States of America and The Declaration of Independence, New, Revised Edition,published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.
• Democracy in America, by Alexis de Toqueville
• Pro-Life Kids, by Bethany Bomberger
• America’s God and Country, by William Federer
• The Bible Exposition Commentary, Vol. II, by Warren Wiersbe

Quotes

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”—The Declaration of Independence, in The Constitution of the United States of America and The Declaration of Independence, New, Revised Edition, Doubleday & Company, Inc.

“America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” –Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy in America, quoted in America’s God and Country

“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.” –Thomas Jefferson, quoted in America’s God and Country. This quotation also appears on the northeast portico

“There is no place in America for this kind of violence, for any violence, ever. Period. No exceptions.”—President Joseph Biden

"No, I'm not going, and they'd better not ask me, because there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present."—attributed to Robert Todd Lincoln

“[The word ‘prayers’] emphasizes the sacredness of prayer. We are praying to God; prayer is an act of worship, not just an expression of our wants and needs.”—Warren Wiersbe, The Bible Exposition Commentary, Vol. II

“Thanksgiving should be an important ingredient in all of our prayers. In fact, sometimes we need to imitate David and present to God only thanksgiving with no petitions at all!” (see Psalm 103)—Wiersbe, Ibid.

“I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord’s side.”—President Abraham Lincoln, quoted in America’s God and Country

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041 | Cherish Our Exceptional Country

Hi, Fellow Dads,

Is the USA an ordinary country, or is there something special about her? Does it matter? Should we care? In this episode, my firstborn joins me to discuss five misconceptions many Americans believe about our country, along with five books that answer those misconceptions.

Leaning on Jesus,
Nathan

Scriptures

Romans 13:1-2
1 ¶ Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

Quotes

“‘The best of men are men at best’—and the best of men understand this.”—Nathan

Key Points

1. Misconception #1: This country was founded in a rebellion.
2. Misconception #2: Early American colonists stole tribal lands from native peoples.
3. Misconception #3: The founding fathers wanted to establish a secular state, free of the influence of God--especially the God revealed in the Bible, the Christian God.
4. Misconception #4: The War on Terror is a recent phenomenon.
5. Misconception #5: America is an ordinary, not an exceptional country.

Books

1. 📖 The Revolution Myth, by Gene Fisher & Glen Chambers
2. 📖 The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D.
3. 📖 America’s God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations, by William J. Federer
4. 📖 Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History, by Brian Kilmede & Don Yaeger
5. 📖 American Miracle: Divine Providence in the Rise of the Republic, by Michael Medved

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“America” (”My Country, ‘Tis of Thee”), performed by U.S. Coast Guard Band,
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Pony Express, by Aaron Paul Low
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“Eternal Father, Strong to Save” (Navy Hymn)
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“Marines Hymn”
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“America,” 
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040 | Lead Your Family through Loss

Hi Fellow Dads,

At some point, we will all endure the loss of a loved one. How will our families make it through and maintain confidence in God and faith in His word? Here are some truths God has been teaching me to teach my family as we have been mourning the loss of a precious loved one.

Leaning on Jesus,

Nathan

Scriptures

James 4:14 Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Ecclesiastes 11:8 But if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh [is] vanity.

Verses about men weeping: Acts 20:31, Mark 14:72, John 11:35

Well-known passages on the resurrection of believers: John 14; 1 Corinthians 15; and 1 Thessalonians 4

1 Corinthians 15:19-20 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. 20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept.

John 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

2 Corinthians 7:6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

Proverbs 18:10 The name of the LORD [is] a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Verses quoted in Daily Light in May 25, Morning reading: Psalm 31: 19; Isaiah 64:4; 1 Corinthians 2:9, 10; Psalm 16:11; Psalm 36:7-9; 1 Timothy 4:8.

Quotes

“Beware, my dear Christian friends of living by feeling.”—Charles H. Spurgeon

Key Points

Truths we need to lead our family to live by when we suffer loss:

1. Life truly is a vapor, and eternity is what is the “real thing.”
2. To die well, we must live well.
3. It’s okay to grieve.
4. In Christ, we have a great and blessed hope.
5. God can comfort us through other people.
6. Keep leaning on the Lord.

Books

1. 📖 One Second After You…, by Mark Cahill
2. 📖 Morning and Evening, by Charles H. Spurgeon
3. 📖 Through Gates of Splendor, by Elizabeth Elliot
4. 📖 A Shepherd Looks at the 23rd Psalm, by Philip Keller
5. 📖 The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times, by Robert J. Morgan
6. 📖 From This Verse, by Robert J. Morgan
7. 📖 Come, Let Us Adore Him, by Robert J. Morgan
8. 📖 The Titanic’s Last Hero, by Moody Adams
9. 📖 The Christian After Death, by Robert Ervin Hough “Beware, my dear Christian friends of living by feeling.”
10. 📖 My Listening Ears, Joanne DeJonge
11. 📖 Gone from My Sight: The Dying Experience, by Barbara Karnes, RN
12. 📖 Daily Light on the Daily Path, by Samuel Bagster

Gospel Tools

Peace: Is It Yours? https://mwtb.org/products/peace-is-it-yours?variant=2201032833

One Second After You…, by Mark Cahill https://markcahill.org/product/one-second-after-you-case/

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Turn Away, by Yeti
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Pony Express, by Aaron Paul Low
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039-of-men-and-their-mothers

Hey Fellow Dads,

How should wise, godly men relate to their mothers, mothers-in-law, and grandmothers? How do we lead our children—especially our sons—to do so? In this episode we'll think about four scriptural guidelines, along with a handful of helpful books, to help us relate to these important women as God intends us to.

—Nathan

Quotes

“When all is said and done, it is the mother, and the mother only, who is a better citizen than the soldier who fights for his country. … The mother who does her part in rearing and training aright the boys and girls who are to be the men and women of the next generation, is of greater use to the community, and occupies, if she only would realize it, a more honorable as well as more important position than any man in it. She is more important, by far, than the successful statesman, or businessman, or artist, or scientist.”
—Theodore Roosevelt

“Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world. What do ships, railways, mines, cars, government, etc. exist for except that people may be fed, warmed, and safe in their own homes?...The homemaker’s job is one for which all others exist.”
—C.S. Lewis

“All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”
―George Washington

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
—Abraham Lincoln

“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
—Abraham Lincoln

“In spite of all this, I still held fast to the notion that a race which could produce as good and gentle and loving a woman as my mother must have some good in it that the geographers had failed to discover.”
—Booker T. Washington, quoted by Stephen Mansfield in Then Darkness Fled

“Men—grown men—are commanded to honour their fathers and their mothers.”
—NC

“Finally, allow me to recommend one more way that we as men can honor our mothers, bring them happiness, and help them, as well as lead our children to do the same—it’s something you can begin doing today, if you don’t already, and it won’t cost you a penny.

“Pray for your mothers. Pray for your mom. Pray for your grandmothers. And, of course, pray for your wife.

“Pray that God to show them His mercy and grace and truth; and enable them to trust and love the Lord Jesus Christ; and help them to be led by His Holy Spirit; and pour His bountiful blessings upon them—spirit, soul, and body.   “And allow your children to hear you pray for them too.”
—NC

Key Points

Scriptural guidelines for relating to our mothers:

1. God expects us to hold our mothers in high esteem—to honor them.

2. God teaches us to heed their wisdom.

3. God is pleased when we make our mothers happy (through our living in wisdom and truth).

4. We should do whatever we can to help our mothers.

Books

1. 📖 The Book of Proverbs

2. 📖 100 Words of Affirmation Your Wife Needs to Hear, by Matt Jacobsen

3. 📖 How to Be Your Wife’s Best Friend: 365 Ways to Express Your Love Paperback, by Dan Bolin & John Trent

4. 📖 The First Book of Samuel (I Samuel, in the Old Testament)

5. 📖 Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret, by Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor

6. Guided journals

   • 📖 Mom's Story: A Memory and Keepsake Journal for My Family, by Korie Herold

   • 📖 Grandmother, I Want to Hear Your Story: A Grandmother’s Guided Journal To Share Her Life and Her Love, by Jeffrey Mason

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038 | Why Bother with History

Hey Fellow Dads!

Why should we bother with history? Isn’t it just facts about dates and dead people? Or is there some actual, as well as practical, value to learning the stories of the past?

In this episode, I share five reasons we as dads should know history ourselves, and then pass it on to our children!

—Nathan

Why bother reading history?

1. Because History is HIS story, reading history gives us a glimpse into how God is bringing His will to fruition amongst mankind.
2. Because knowing history gives us a clearer understanding into our own times.
3. Because history is full of negative examples—people doing things they should not have.
4. Because history is full of positive examples—people doing great and good things for their own generation.
5. Because reading history reminds us that our own lives are very brief; but with God's help, we can accomplish much to bless our own generation and succeeding generations and lay up treasures in heaven!

Scriptures

Psalm 78:1-8
1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: 6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: 8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

Isaiah 46:9-10
9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become [the kingdoms] of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

1 Corinthians 10:6, 11
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Acts 13:36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

James 4:14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Quotes

"The fate of unborn millions now depends, under God, on the courage and conduct of this Army."
—Gen. George Washington

“America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it’s all right to keep asking if we’re on His side.”
—President Ronald Reagan, in his Second Inaugural Address, January 25, 1984, quoted in America’s God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations, by William J. Federer

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
—martyred missionary Jim Elliot

Books

📖  More Than Dates and Dead People, by Stephen Mansfield

📖  Breaking Into Print: Before and After the Invention of the Printing Press, written by Stephen Krensky, illustrated by Bonnie Christensen

📖  Under Drake’s Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main, by G.A. Henty

📖  Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World, by Eric Metaxes

📖  Tyndale: The Man Who Gave God an English Voice, by David Teems

📖  1820: Grapes of Canaan, by Albertine Loomis (story of the first Christian missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands, told by a granddaughter of one of those first missionaries)

📖  Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross, by Florence Morse Kingsley

📖  The Martyr of the Catacombs, author unknown

📖  Foxe's Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe

📖  My Brother’s Keeper: Christians Who Risked All To Protect Jewish Targets of the Nazi Holocaust, by Rod Gragg

📖  Then Darkness Fled: The Liberating Wisdom of Booker T. Washington, by Stephen Mansfield

📖  The Titanic’s Last Hero, by Moody Adams

📖  These Are My People, by Mildred T. Howard (biography of Missionary Gladys Aylward)

📖  Through Gates of Splendor, by Elisabeth Eliot

📖  America’s God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations, by William J. Federer

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037 | Lead Your Family Even When You're Not Home

Intro

Hey Dads,

Nothing can replace your voice speaking truth and stability into your children’s hearts, and no one can replace you being present in their lives. But is there a way they can continue to hear your voice when you have to be away for a time?

In this episode I discuss one way we can reach out to our children—even from afar—to influence them with truth, bind our hearts together with theirs, and simply show them we’re thinking about them and love them. This small project can be fun for you, meaningful for your family, and easy enough to start today!

--Nathan

What would I talk about?

• Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
• Deuteronomy 5
• Psalm 78:1-8
• Read Bible verses. If you are reading a particular passage of scripture each day for the month, maybe read that, or one verse and a short explanation in each episode.
• Read short stories. (Story mentioned in this episode about the “real lone ranger”—https://www.history.com/news/bass-reeves-real-lone-ranger-a-black-man )
• Tell Dad jokes (if you can get away with it)!
• Talk about where you expect to be or special plans for that trip.
• Be sure to tell them that you love them and you’re praying for them and you miss them.

Why should I record my own "dadcasts" for my kids?

• “My sheep hear my voice….” Your children are your flock, and they need to hear your voice.
• To help your little ones go to sleep.
• To help your children memorize Scripture.
• Your children will have a way to listen to your voice even when you're away from home.
• They'll be able to listen to your voice when you're gone (as in, gone-gone).

When?

• Before an upcoming trip.
• During a trip.
• For your unborn baby.
• For your newborn.
• For your child when he or she is about to reach a major milestone: salvation, baptism, graduation from high school, entering manhood ceremony, wedding, birth of a child, etc..

How can I record dadcasts for my children?

• For Mac, GarageBand. https://www.apple.com/mac/garageband/
• For Mac and Windows, Audacity. https://www.audacityteam.org
• For smartphones, VoiceRecordPro. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voice-record-pro/id546983235

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