Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:02] Speaker B: You're listening to the known legacy podcast brought to you by Known legacy ministries. For more information, go to knownlegacy.org now here's your hosts, Bill and Travis.
[00:00:14] Speaker A: Hello, Bill.
[00:00:15] Speaker C: Good morning, Travis.
[00:00:16] Speaker A: Good morning, Kyle. Good morning, Kyle in the corner. Good morning.
[00:00:19] Speaker C: Good morning to you guys. Thank you for being with the known legacy podcast. We want you to wake up, gear up, and come alive to who God called you to be.
[00:00:26] Speaker A: What are we talking about today, Bill?
[00:00:27] Speaker C: Today we are talking about three things dads should never back down from.
[00:00:32] Speaker A: Fantastic. As always. We're known legacy. Thank you guys so much for checking us out. YouTube, Facebook, Instagram. You can find all our stuff there info at Known legacy. If you have questions, comments or concerns, even prayer requests, you can go through there.
[00:00:44] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:00:44] Speaker A: And, man, we have a men's retreat coming up. You can find info at the website known legacy.org about Men's Retreat coming up in the spring. Would love to see you guys there. And man, it's gonna be a great time.
[00:00:54] Speaker C: Yeah, a lot of fun. We had a great time the last two. Yes, we have a lot more fun this one.
[00:00:59] Speaker A: Questions about dads not backing down before we get there. Here's my question for us today. Question of the day.
[00:01:03] Speaker C: Question of the day.
[00:01:07] Speaker A: I should never do that again.
[00:01:08] Speaker C: Anyways, I thought it was pretty good, actually. I stopped because I was like, are we in harmony?
[00:01:14] Speaker A: Nah, we weren't really. I just picked a note and went with it. So Christmas around the corner. If you couldn't tell from Bill's background, we have a beautiful Christmas tree here at En Fuego in downtown McKinney. If you're looking for a place to hang out over the Christmas break, this is a great place to hang out and enjoy some bro time.
Anyways, here's a question. Let's say someone dropped 500 bucks on your lap and said, this is for you.
Spend it on whatever you want. Yes. What would you spend that 500 bucks on, Bill?
[00:01:40] Speaker C: Okay, so I'm a very. I'm not always practical, but right now I am because we just installed this in my daughter's vehicle. Because, yeah, why not her instead of us?
[00:01:55] Speaker A: Sacrifice of a dad. It's what dads do. It's burnt toast.
[00:01:57] Speaker C: And, yeah, it's what we know dads do. So I would say I would put in an apple carplay in my piece of junk, Toyota 4Runner.
[00:02:07] Speaker A: Dude, how old is that thing? How many miles?
[00:02:10] Speaker C: Like 107. No, 218,000 miles.
[00:02:14] Speaker A: Golly, it's still kicking. It is.
[00:02:15] Speaker C: And there's nothing really wrong with it?
[00:02:17] Speaker A: No, no.
[00:02:18] Speaker C: Although, like, the one side, I always feel like I walk into meetings, I'm like, I should probably get a nicer car. But, like, the panel on the one side is off.
[00:02:24] Speaker A: Yes, I've noticed that.
[00:02:25] Speaker C: And I cannot get it pushed back. I like. It's. It's too. It's too brittle now. So I got to find some way to lock.
[00:02:30] Speaker A: And there's hail damage all over.
[00:02:32] Speaker C: Oh, it's terrible.
[00:02:32] Speaker A: It's a mission. It's a mission truck is what that is, man.
[00:02:35] Speaker C: Well, and I'm like. I'm way too practical for, like, buying a new vehicle.
[00:02:39] Speaker A: Right.
[00:02:39] Speaker C: With all the bells and whistles when I'm like, the heat works. And I've got my AirPods when I want to listen to music.
[00:02:45] Speaker A: So right now, Forerunner.
[00:02:47] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: Toyo. You can't do better.
[00:02:49] Speaker C: It's a forever runner. Yes, it is absolutely good stuff.
[00:02:52] Speaker A: Well, for me, it's you.
[00:02:54] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:02:54] Speaker A: What about you? So I have been playing with. I love music. I love music, and I love listening to good music. And so finally, I invested in some really good speakers in my office. So now listen through the computer. Lossless audio, and it's fantastic. Fills the space, but I have this nostalgic itch, and I want to get a really good record player and tap into those. And so I would use the 500 bucks to get a really good audio technique.
Yes. That's what it is.
[00:03:24] Speaker C: That's it.
[00:03:24] Speaker D: They have them in usb, you know, Copper.
[00:03:26] Speaker A: I. I know, I know, I know, but. I know, I know, but I just want to. I just want to get the record player, and then I would take whatever's left and then invest it into, like, all of the great records that I know and I want to listen.
[00:03:36] Speaker C: Well, that was my next question.
[00:03:37] Speaker D: You can buy, like, three of them.
[00:03:38] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:03:39] Speaker A: 30 bucks a pop. Geez.
[00:03:41] Speaker C: But what. What record would be the one that you first. Like when you first hear that scratch.
[00:03:45] Speaker A: Oh, man.
[00:03:46] Speaker C: And it starts going.
[00:03:47] Speaker A: That's a great. Question of the day.
[00:03:49] Speaker C: Question of the day, part two, man.
[00:03:53] Speaker A: Okay. So because. Because of how I grew up, I would. I would. First one, I'd get hateful A Hollow from the Smiths. Okay. That was one of my defining albums when I was growing up. Yeah. And I remember listening to it all the time on tape. And I've had it. Tape. I've had it at cd. I've downloaded it, everything. I would. I would get that one, and then I would probably get, like, the one that I'm listening to a ton right now. Is a guy. I guarantee no one's heard of him. His name is Luke Bell. He is this throwback to old school country, really. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2022.
He had one album out in 2016, and it is just. It was before its time. Like, if that album were to drop today, I promise you, he would be the hottest thing since Zach Top. He. He would be phenomenal. But he had a bunch of recordings, and I think his family and his estate or whatever that is, put together a compilation album and just dropped it, like last month. And it is banger after banger after banger after banger after banger. I'd probably get that as well. So that'd be. That'd be two of the three albums, man.
[00:04:58] Speaker C: So I want to answer that question too, because I do feel like, yeah, go. I would say, no joke. The first song I'd want to hear is Georgia from Ray Charles.
[00:05:08] Speaker A: Oh, that would be a good, crackly little.
[00:05:14] Speaker C: Yes. Oh, solid.
[00:05:16] Speaker A: Fantastic.
[00:05:17] Speaker C: Good stuff, Good stuff.
[00:05:17] Speaker A: How about you, Kyle? You get 500 bucks? What are you doing?
[00:05:19] Speaker D: So, interestingly enough, a few Christmases ago, my daughter got me a, I think RCA Victor.
[00:05:26] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know those.
[00:05:27] Speaker D: And Eagles Hotel California lp.
[00:05:30] Speaker C: Oh, never.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: That'd be another good one.
[00:05:32] Speaker D: It's still sealed. I've never opened it, but.
[00:05:34] Speaker A: Really? Yeah. All right, all right. So.
[00:05:37] Speaker D: Boy, I don't know. So for 500 bucks, I'm probably. I'm probably gonna go to Costco and get a couple filet mignon to have logs.
[00:05:47] Speaker A: Did you hear the word? Filet mignon? Logs?
[00:05:49] Speaker D: No, they do.
[00:05:50] Speaker A: Oh, I know.
[00:05:51] Speaker C: No, no.
[00:05:52] Speaker D: 10 fillets out of there, man.
[00:05:54] Speaker A: Really?
[00:05:54] Speaker D: Yeah, they're like. They're like 200 bucks a piece, but you can cut like an inch and a half fillets and get 10 of them.
[00:05:59] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh, that sounds amazing.
[00:06:01] Speaker A: So you get two meat logs.
[00:06:03] Speaker D: Two meat logs, Yeah.
[00:06:05] Speaker A: I love this podcast, man.
I'd get carplay janky old car. I'd get a record player. Kyle's in the corner. I get two logs of meat. Meat.
Hey, I love it.
[00:06:18] Speaker D: Vacuum seal, freeze them. You throw them in the su and.
[00:06:20] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:06:21] Speaker C: So if any wants to send us 500 bucks, you know, we're going to get it, get with it.
[00:06:25] Speaker A: So info.org you can go to the website, make those donations.
[00:06:28] Speaker C: You know what you can do? We could drive in my car with the apple, carplay to Costco.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:06:35] Speaker C: Pick up the logs and go and.
[00:06:36] Speaker A: Listen to your records while we're cooking it on.
[00:06:39] Speaker C: While we're Cooking it.
[00:06:39] Speaker A: Yeah, that'd be great.
[00:06:40] Speaker C: See? And we all get the blessing, man. May the blessings flow abundantly. Guys, thanks for watching.
[00:06:45] Speaker A: God bless us.
[00:06:46] Speaker C: Everyone, everyone, thank you so much for listening. We're so, so have you.
[00:06:51] Speaker A: All right, God bless you guys.
[00:06:52] Speaker C: Have a great for the day.
[00:06:54] Speaker A: All right, what are the three things we should not back down from? Let's.
[00:06:56] Speaker C: Here's the thing. So we've got. Guys, as a father, I'm noticing in my own life that time is just flying by. Like flying by. And you might be out there either almost on the edge of empty nester, or you're sitting there with a five year old and you're like. And I think this applies to all of us. That with family inside the picture and what we can do as fathers.
The first thing that came to mind as I kept looking at it was just speaking truth.
[00:07:25] Speaker A: Don't back down from speaking truth.
[00:07:27] Speaker C: Don't back down from speaking truth. And where I saw this was I was just reading through Matthew again. Yes. And in that moment where they're on the, on, on the, the Mount of Transfiguration, where, where Peter is up there with Jesus. And again the voice shows up and Peter's like, I should build. We should build some tents. Like we need to do something. Like we need to like, like build some altars and honor these guys.
[00:07:51] Speaker A: And.
[00:07:52] Speaker C: And all of a sudden the voice comes again. The same voice that when Jesus got baptized, Correct?
[00:07:58] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:07:58] Speaker C: Where Jesus. I'm tracking where, where, where, where Jesus gets baptized. He comes up from the water.
God just says, this is my beloved son in who I'm well pleased.
[00:08:08] Speaker A: Right.
[00:08:09] Speaker C: Again, he could say anything he wanted to. He could have said this. As king of kings. He, you know, he is the highest of high. He's the savior of the world. But I love that God consistently in his relationship with Jesus as the Trinity says, this is my kid and I love him.
[00:08:26] Speaker A: Right.
[00:08:26] Speaker C: I love that character, that it speaks to us as dads, that there's never a wrong time to speak that to our kids.
[00:08:34] Speaker A: True, true.
[00:08:35] Speaker C: You know, I saw this reel online. You know, Landman's back out and there's this picture of them in the car and whatever you might think of Landman. So, like, that's terrible. I'm like, this, this reel just had the son in the car and, and Billy Bob Thornton was, was driving the car and he just apparently, like something happened with his father and all this kind of stuff. Like he had a bad childhood. All this kind of stuff. Well, the son looks at him and Billy Bob Thornton said something along the lines of, you know, you try to do what you can to stop from what would happen, but it's really, really hard. And the son looked at him and he goes. He goes, well, dad, you did a really good job and I love you. And nothing else is said but this hard, west Texas, crusty old man just looks, and all of a sudden his eyes water up. He didn't cry, but he just watered up. And it was almost like the same thing of, like, he acknowledged this truth. And I was just like, Even in the hardest of shows with all this chaos, is a guy who's like, I love you.
[00:09:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:32] Speaker C: And I think we need to not overlook the impact that our voices make as fathers.
[00:09:38] Speaker A: Right.
[00:09:38] Speaker C: Does that make sense?
[00:09:39] Speaker A: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And I think it's so hard because we live in a culture that almost demonizes truth. Right?
[00:09:46] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:09:46] Speaker A: And it's hard sometimes to discern between truth and opinion. Right. And that's why we need to spend time in the word of God, because the word of God is true and it will form our opinions into truth.
[00:09:55] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:09:55] Speaker A: And there's times that our opinions need to be pruned, and there's times our opinions need to be killed because they are not in alignment with truth. But. But to be the voice in our families with consistency to say, hey, this is true. Right. And you can do whatever you want, but just know this is true. Like, I love the prodigal son story for a whole host of reasons. And I think there's that moment with the dad.
[00:10:17] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:10:17] Speaker A: And again, where. Where we don't know the conversation between the son and the father. We don't know that. But. But we. We can assume that this has been a contentious relationship for a while to get to the point where the. The younger son is like, I'm out. I want everything that's mine. I don't care, dad. You're dead to me. I'm out.
[00:10:32] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:10:33] Speaker A: And there was a. I would wager about. There's a moment where in that truth, he's like, you go, but I'm always going to be here to love you.
[00:10:40] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
[00:10:41] Speaker A: You know, I'm not going to pursue you. I'm not going to enable you. You want this?
[00:10:45] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:10:46] Speaker A: Here it is. Go.
[00:10:48] Speaker C: But not a good riddance. Go.
[00:10:49] Speaker A: No.
[00:10:50] Speaker C: Just like you're saying. Yeah.
[00:10:51] Speaker A: Right. But there's always going to be a place here. And you see that in the heart of the dad that was always looking for the return of the son, always looking for him to come back. Always looking. And Expecting that because he didn't allow the emotion of the moment, the anger of the moment, whatever. He's just like, truth is, you always have a place here, but you don't want that place right now. So go, yeah, but I'm never going to change the fact that you have a place here.
I love it.
[00:11:15] Speaker C: I love it. And as 2026 is rolling in and 2025 is out, I would challenge us to look at our moments and say, man, there were times that we've all been passive in our, in our response to where the door is closed and our kids are on the other side and we have an opportunity to just open the door and speak life. I would challenge us as dads to open that door.
[00:11:35] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:11:36] Speaker C: And just speak the life. There's never, I don't think I'll boldly say there's never going to be a time that you look at your life and go, man, I really wish I didn't speak life to my kids. I really wish I had just pressed in again. We talk about that group of 50, 95 year olds who talked about risk and they were like, man, if I could do it, what is the risks that I regret the most? And it's the risks that they didn't take.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:11:59] Speaker C: And this is a risk as a dad, but the risk pays off because there's no one else that has the power of a voice like a father in the life of their kids to go, I love you and I don't care what you believe about yourself, you, there is always going to be someone in their corner, only dads. Remember someone said, we might have said this before, dads are the only people in your life that are the only men who want to see you do better than them.
[00:12:21] Speaker A: Right?
[00:12:22] Speaker C: And so why not leverage all of this, whether our kids are 5 or whether they're 25, that we would look and go, I'm just going to send you a text and just say, I love you. I'm going to call you and say, hey, just thinking of you, love you. I don't think it ever stops the impact that that can make. So there's something powerful about that. And even with our difficult kids, I mean, I know that none of us have difficult kids, so I know it's probably hard for us to deal with, but.
[00:12:45] Speaker A: Liar.
[00:12:46] Speaker C: But this idea of even in our difficulty that we would not stop, we would not back down from the truth, that we would speak that truth in love, right? Scripture talks about our words being seasoned with salt, that even now that when we speak Something that we're not. We may not be speaking it into the moment, but we are speaking it into their eternity.
[00:13:06] Speaker A: Well, and I think Paul talks about this, too, and he says, don't embitter your kids towards you. And I think that's the thing. Like. Like, your kid may not like you. Your kid may not appreciate you, but speak truth so that they would at least love Jesus.
[00:13:20] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:21] Speaker A: You know, and that's ultimately the truth that we need to be speaking into the hearts and the lives of our kids, that we never back down on the fact that, well, we may be going through a tough season, but Jesus still loves you, and Jesus still loves me. And by his grace, maybe we can figure this out.
[00:13:34] Speaker C: You know, that is the word of life. That is the word becoming flesh. It's like, I don't feel this towards you, but I'm gonna cast this on you. And even the kid going, man, we did. We had a contentious relationship. But I knew that my dad loved me.
[00:13:47] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:13:47] Speaker C: I knew that my dad was for me. And I think those are the things that we can take. If you feel like you've burned every bridge, it's never too late. Because you're breathing. Because you're breathing. And there's a moment for change in that. So I love that first question.
[00:13:59] Speaker A: Never back down from truth.
[00:14:01] Speaker C: Never back down from speaking truth. Yep. Number two, never back down from setting an example.
[00:14:06] Speaker A: Setting an example.
[00:14:08] Speaker C: When I was. When I was younger and the chaos of life and kids, and you're just, you know. You know, when you're exhausted and then you look in the mirror and, like, you haven't shaved in, like, in, like a week, and you're, wow, I look like a bushman. You know, I'm saying. And I remember very clearly there was this one time that I was shaving, and I was, like, trying to, like, you know, at that time, I just had a goatee. So, you know, And. And I was. So I would shave all this stuff out and everything. And I remember one time my son walked in on me and he grabbed the shaving cream, and. And eventually, like, I wasn't really paying attention. Next thing, I looked down, and he's, like. Got it all over his face. And. And I'm like. And I was trying to. I didn't have a small razor because I was so broke. I had one razor, but he was kind of, like, taking it out, and I'm like. And that just speaks into the volume, guys. That. That doesn't really go away.
You know, we've talked about, like, kids don't, don't do what you say. They, they do what you do.
[00:15:03] Speaker A: Right.
[00:15:03] Speaker C: And there's something impactful in making moments to go looking at your life and saying, what are some steps that I can take? Paul clearly says, follow me as I follow Christ.
[00:15:12] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:15:13] Speaker C: It's more than just the actions. It's more than. I'm sorry, it's more than just the words. It's the actions that we take.
[00:15:19] Speaker A: Right.
[00:15:19] Speaker C: Does that make sense?
[00:15:20] Speaker A: Absolutely. And I think, gentlemen, there's very simple practical ways that we can implement this. One of them that I think of that is a big challenge in our culture is the calendar. And we allow way too many people to control our calendar, whether it be the little league coach, whether it be the football team, whether it be the school activities or whatever. And I think this is where we can set an example of saying, no, no, no, no, no. We as a family, I, as a leader, I have to control the calendar. And so I'm going to make sure that we carve out things that are non compromisable. We're not going to try and shoehorn in a family dinner. We're not going to try and shoehorn in worship on Sunday because we have these tournaments, these next five months that we have to be at or my kid won't play, or to be able to, with boldness and conviction to sit down and say, the example is that family is most important.
And so we do that and we carve that out.
[00:16:10] Speaker C: I was going to say talk about your family night because I remember you mentioned that.
[00:16:13] Speaker A: Oh yeah. So.
So my mother, my mother, my wife's father passed away this summer. And we were getting together and we connected with some family and everything else. And what we realized is the moments that we have are really fleeting.
Her dad kind of within two years kind of degenerated into passing away, obviously. And so what we started to do is like we're just going to set aside Sunday nights and we're not gonna do anything on Sunday night. So I'm gonna invite over all of our kids. Cause they're kind of getting scattered now. They're all over, they're out of the house. And we're just gonna say dinner here. And we decided we're gonna eat on China every Sunday night, regardless of what the meal is. So we've had Mac and cheese and hot dogs on China, we've had brisket on China, we've had beautiful steaks on China. And you know, and we've had.
[00:17:00] Speaker C: Why does all of it sound amazing? Even Mac and Cheese and hot dogs.
[00:17:02] Speaker A: Sound awesome, but it. But it's become like that. Like, whether it's just two people, it's just my wife and I, or it's the whole family, we're gonna. We're carving out Sunday night because to make that so, there's ministry things, there's mission and opportunity things that I've had to say no to because I'm like, nope, sorry. Sunday night is family dinner night. And we set on the calendar. And that's the thing we protect. We don't compromise that for other things.
[00:17:27] Speaker C: Yeah, Yeah. I think you're talking about something very, very tangible that I love is that man, in your day as a busy dad, we can see the priority of, hey, I'm providing for my family. So therefore, this meeting is important or even a ministry. You're right. There are times in ministry. I remember when I was. When I was working at the churches that I was working at, that we would actually have moments like a Tuesday night, or whether we're like, hey, we have family dinner, or, hey, we're doing this. And they became meetings. And really it was like, oh, I can't be there. I've got a meeting from 6 to 8. And that meeting is engaging my family, because you'll have plenty of time after they're gone. But that moment to say, I'm making this a priority. I love that you're doing that. And so, guys, looking at our calendar and saying, where are some moments of intentionality in the week and in the month that I can say, man, I'm gonna make this a priority for my family, whatever that might be. And it doesn't have to be. It doesn't have to cost a lot. But when we own our calendar, no one else does. And then when we own the calendar, the Lord owns the calendar. And we have the opportunity to say, God, where do you want? What are the moments that I look back at 25 and say, these are things I want to do more of?
And so then making those a priority. Now looking at your 26 calendar and actually planning it out, to making that a tangible intention.
[00:18:40] Speaker A: And I think one of the words you use is intentional. And if we're honest, most of us live life repeating what was taught to us. What was the example for us? And some of us, it's great. For a lot of us, it was horrible. Like, our family and our life growing up was horrible. And so we are unintentionally repeating that exact same thing. So intentionally identify what are those things that we want to do different and Then begin to orient our lives and our decisions around those intentional ways that we want to do it different. Right.
[00:19:08] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:08] Speaker A: And again, like with the known legacy mantra, think about what kind of family do you want your grandkids to experience.
[00:19:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:15] Speaker A: Because that's where you get to break a cycle and you get to begin to form that into your kids lives so that it's easy for them to make it that reality for their grandkids lives.
[00:19:25] Speaker C: Yeah. I think, I think the question we could ask is you're as you're refining that is going to what are some things that I want my kids to do with my grandchildren.
[00:19:33] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:19:33] Speaker C: That I didn't do? So I love it.
[00:19:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, that's a great way.
[00:19:36] Speaker C: So kind of looking at the, looking at the overall perspective and going, what can I do differently? Not just for me, but for my grandchildren so that they don't have to experience, my kids don't have to experience how I feel right now about what I would like to see differently. Love. It starts with us. And then finally number three, the third thing that dad should never back down from doing is sitting at the feet of Jesus.
[00:19:58] Speaker A: This is probably, should be number one.
[00:19:59] Speaker C: Yeah, I know, but I wanted to enter the mic drop.
[00:20:02] Speaker A: You know, the whole, the whole idea of abiding and being at the feet of Jesus. What do we see over and over again with Jesus in his mission and ministry in his life is that he would carve out time to spend time with his father. Like, yeah, often he would say, particularly in the book of John, he goes, I don't do anything on my own. I only do what I see the father doing.
[00:20:18] Speaker C: Right.
[00:20:18] Speaker A: Because he intentionally had spent that time with the father. And how many interviews have we had with guys that have left something because they were spending time with the father and all of a sudden the father goes, hey, I got something more for you.
You're wondering if I'm going to show up. Watch me show off. Yeah, right.
[00:20:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:35] Speaker A: Watch what I can do through you as you learn to be obedient. And dude, it always starts with the dads sitting at the feet of Jesus, just being in his presence, hearing from him as you share your burdens and your struggles with him. Right. Letting him heal some of those hurts, letting him heal and redeem some of those mistakes from our past that still haunt us. I'm 52, about to be 53, and I promise you there's still things that haunt me from my childhood.
And to allow him to say, no, no, no, I'm going to redeem that for my story of grace in your life to let you know. And that doesn't happen because of a clever podcast. That happens because we are investing time in the feet of the father. You know, spending time in prayer, spending time in the word of God on a regular basis, worship music and. And turning off the sports talk radio.
[00:21:21] Speaker D: Right.
[00:21:21] Speaker A: Like, have you ever noticed the sports talk radio, if you haven't noticed this, let me.
It's the same story at 8am that they're still talking about at 5pm it hasn't changed.
[00:21:31] Speaker C: Fair.
[00:21:31] Speaker A: It's just they've gone through five different angles on this story and. And you've wasted your entire time. Spend some time with the creator of the universe and see what that does rather than the sports guys that are.
Yeah.
[00:21:42] Speaker C: You know, imagine if, if when our kids get up in the morning and you mean it is a soft part of the day where, man, they are sponges in the morning.
What if they walked down or if they walked out of their room and they saw us as men of God in the word of God in the morning, in the quiet.
[00:22:01] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:22:02] Speaker C: In those moments. And I think honestly, if Jesus isn't a priority to us, it won't be a priority to our children.
And so we need to set that tone, guys. No one else can do that. Again, we've talked about this statistic. I'll say it again, we have a lot of new listeners. But the idea of man, if a mom brings their kids to church, we've heard this story. There's a 1 in 50 chance that the kids are going to go, are going to continue, and that's no demise at the mom. But there's something about the dads that if the dads bring their kids to church, and this is just the activity of bringing your kids to church, but talking about and going, there's between a 2/3 and 75% chance that those kids are going to continue.
So there is an earn that there is a learned action from us as dads.
[00:22:45] Speaker A: Right.
[00:22:45] Speaker C: That if we don't back down from, from truly speaking truth, loving them through the hard times, disciplining when we need to, speaking truth, but then also man, setting an example constantly. That's just part of setting example. But we're setting an example at the feet of Jesus so that we would be moved by his whisper, that the world wouldn't dictate what we do, the decisions that we make, that the world wouldn't tell us what's right, that we wouldn't be stressed out by the things that the news has to offer.
[00:23:10] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:23:10] Speaker C: But to truly say, okay, this is all part of Jesus's plan.
We are not devoid of his presence. And I'm going to get so close that when my kids irritate me, I just, like, exhume Jesus in my sweat.
[00:23:25] Speaker A: Right.
[00:23:25] Speaker C: That I'm, like, frustrated, but I'm frustrated with the spirit of God. Covering may we be men like that.
[00:23:31] Speaker A: Moving from being a weekend warrior Christian where we just show up on Sunday, to every day working out our faith. Every day working out our faith.
[00:23:38] Speaker C: Yes. This is intentionality, guys, that we need for. Imagine if men of God rose up in 2026 and lived like this every day.
[00:23:47] Speaker A: Love it.
[00:23:47] Speaker C: Imagine if we were those kind of men and that we'd be world changers. Not just for us, not just for our family, but for everyone who comes after us.
[00:23:53] Speaker A: And we're not saying this because we got to figure it out. I know Bill well enough to know that there's seasons that he's, like, locked in and Kyle's locked in, and then there's seasons where it just gets away from us. Right. You know, we are sinners and saints. And so it's. It's every day waking up with a new commitment to say, okay, today I'm going to do better than yesterday.
[00:24:09] Speaker C: I think the secret behind our podcast is me trying to figure out my life at the same time. So this isn't coming from the voice of. Well, here's what I'm saying. These are things that I need to work on.
[00:24:19] Speaker A: There's a pep talk for you and me.
[00:24:20] Speaker C: Exactly. And other people just happen to be listening. Pep talk. High five. So we're there. But, guys, we believe in you because we're just. We're in the same boat.
[00:24:27] Speaker A: Right.
[00:24:28] Speaker C: It isn't us having together, but this is godly men pouring into us and us sharing it with you.
[00:24:32] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:24:32] Speaker C: And we just want you to be like Jesus and we want your family to come alive to who God called them to be. So we believe in you guys. We hope 2026 is going to be an amazing year for you.
[00:24:41] Speaker A: So if you haven't yet, wake up, gear up, and come alive.
[00:24:43] Speaker C: Check us out on Instagram, Facebook, make sure if this is encouraging to you, share it like it, and check out the next video that pops up at the end. We'd love you guys to stay connected to us. Infooonelegacy.org God bless you guys. Have a great week.
[00:24:59] Speaker B: Thanks for listening to the Known Legacy podcast. We'd love to hear from you. So email us your questions or comments to info@nolegacy IO.
