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Mark R. Pitts

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DadAwesome

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Becky Thompson

Rachel Van Kluyve

Jamie Ivey

Roy Sparkman

Andrea Davis

John Burns

Chad Johnson

Bob Lotich

Jake Sullivan

Christie Purifoy

Joshua Becker

Scott Wilson

Matt Brown

Frank Bealer

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OwlTail

As moms and dads we have expectations about what we should provide for our family. When we don’t meet those expectations, it can be challenging. We can get discouraged and doubt our purpose. With the help of the Midnight Dad Devotional we can turn to our Father and be reminded that we are not alone.Register for the Build Your Best Family Online Summit at http://events.buildyourbestfamily.comEverything we talked about in this episode can be found here: https://www.buildyourbestfamily.com/podcast/episode-1396Subscribe to the show in iTunes and leave a review. Reviews help podcasters get their show noticed.Join our Facebook GroupGet the Family Discussion Sheet

As moms and dads we have expectations about what we should provide for our family. When we don’t meet those expectations, it can be challenging. We can get discouraged and doubt our purpose. With the help of the Midnight Dad Devotional we can turn to our Father and be reminded that we are not alone.Register for the Build Your Best Family Online Summit at <a href="http://events.buildyourbestfamily.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://events.buildyourbestfamily.com</a>Everything we talked about in this episode can be found here: <a href="https://www.buildyourbestfamily.com/podcast/episode-139" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.buildyourbestfamily.com/podcast/episode-139</a>6<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-family-culture-project/id1330703506?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe to the show in iTunes</a> and leave a review. Reviews help podcasters get their show noticed.Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/BuildYourBestFamily/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook Group</a>Get the <a href="https://witty-creator-7038.ck.page/3cfcf7bb7a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Family Discussion Sheet</a>

Dr. Mark R. Pitts and Becky Thompson on What Dads Need to Succeed

dadAWESOME   We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness.  | YouTube |  Instagram | Facebook | Twitter   Becky Thompson   Becky Thompson is a bestselling author and the creator of the Midnight Mom Devotional community, gathering over one million moms in nightly prayer. Speaking hope into the struggle of balancing life as a wife mother, and daughter of God, Becky has become the voice of modern Christian motherhood. You can learn more about Becky’s top Christian podcast, Revived Motherhood, or find more of her work by visiting BeckyThompson.com. Becky lives near Nashville with her husband, Jared, and their three children.   Dr. Mark R. Pitts   Dr. Mark R. Pitts is a graduate of the University of Tulsa Law School. He is an ordained pastor and a well-known Bible teacher in the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, area where he lives with his wife, Susan. They have been married for 41 years and have two adult daughters and three grandchildren. In 2019, Mark created the Midnight Dad Devotional online community with his daughter, Becky Thompson, the creator of the Midnight Mom Devotional. Mark enjoys teaching Scripture and praying for dads.     FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/   Show Notes:    Text “DAD” to 651-370-8618 to join the text list.  Monday, June 21st. Just write down DadAWESOME day 02:25 - Midnight Dad Devotional One Hundred Devotions and Prayers to Connect Dads Just Like You to the Father. 3:47 -  What if our kids inspire us to be dream chasers? 3:55 - "I love that because to me, being a dream chaser is being a God chaser. You know, I don't think that we can ever separate the two." 5:30 - Learning the Father's love from her dad. 7:14 -  We don't just have a heavenly father that parents us. We have a heavenly father who fathers us. 9:21 - "That's and that's also whole all scriptural that we are supposed to improve, if you will, improve our children, if they are supposed to be, we want them to be better than us. We don't just want them to have a better life, be more fortunate, be more prosperous. We want them to be better than us. We want them to take what we have to give them what God has breathed into them, into into us, and therefore we breathe into them and that they are going to take that and go much farther than we could have ever gone." 10:42 - "Our prayer is that men will see themselves as God sees them. We've already talked about that as they are as the warriors they are, fighting in the trenches for their families against all odds, overcoming every trial that comes their way." Quote from Midnight Dad's devotional 13:03 - "You, father, dad, are going where you're going. This is supposed to help you know, that you have a heavenly father who's going to get you there, who's going to help you accomplish that, where no other human can help you as well as your heavenly father can help you." 15:16 - "So here's the thing about Noah is that he invited his sons to build with him, that it was a family build, that Noah got the download and it required the help of his whole family to create what would be for the whole family. And so I think as dads are listening and they're like, well, this is what God has called me to. It's not just for them. It's with them that there isn't anything that God calls a parent to, that he doesn't also call the children to participate in." 16:45 - "It's the difference between that and fathering, which says I'm going to intentionally stay relational with you. I'm going to care not about what you did today, but how it made you feel. And then I'm going to invite you into my story of what God is doing in me. And the only way for a child to see the impact of what God is doing in the father is if he intentionally makes the decision to include his children in what he's going through and how he feels about it. And and I think that's what it means to build with it." 22:14 -  "it was the promise of presence, which is I am certain that I will see and experience this goodness of the Lord in the land of the living, not just know about it, not just here about it, not someday." 22:52 - You can never have more. It's the one thing you could never fully possess because there's always more to gain that the act of having more means that you have to always be reaching and going and trying. - Quoting her dad You can never achieve more, you can never actually hold more. I want to tell him that this is going to be a lifetime journey.  26:57 - "I have made spectacular failures as a as a parent. I have never made a failure as a father because my heart is pure, my heart is true. And what I want for my children is what my heavenly father wants for me."    Episode Links:    Midnight Dads Book - on Amazon Midnight Dads Webpage: https://beckythompson.com/midnight-dad-devotional/ Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team    Conversation Transcript:

dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness.  | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP2t5ODvLpWeYx8gIyG5KIw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> |  <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dadawesome/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dadawesomepodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/dadAWESOMEpod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>   Becky Thompson Becky Thompson is a bestselling author and the creator of the Midnight Mom Devotional community, gathering over one million moms in nightly prayer. Speaking hope into the struggle of balancing life as a wife mother, and daughter of God, Becky has become the voice of modern Christian motherhood. You can learn more about Becky’s top Christian podcast, Revived Motherhood, or find more of her work by visiting <a href="http://BeckyThompson.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BeckyThompson.com</a>. Becky lives near Nashville with her husband, Jared, and their three children.   Dr. Mark R. Pitts Dr. Mark R. Pitts is a graduate of the University of Tulsa Law School. He is an ordained pastor and a well-known Bible teacher in the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, area where he lives with his wife, Susan. They have been married for 41 years and have two adult daughters and three grandchildren. In 2019, Mark created the Midnight Dad Devotional online community with his daughter, Becky Thompson, the creator of the Midnight Mom Devotional. Mark enjoys teaching Scripture and praying for dads.   FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: <a href="https://f4f.bike/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://f4f.bike/</a>   Show Notes: <ul> <li>Text “DAD” to 651-370-8618 to join the text list. </li> <li>Monday, June 21st. Just write down DadAWESOME day</li> <li>02:25 - Midnight Dad Devotional One Hundred Devotions and Prayers to Connect Dads Just Like You to the Father.</li> <li>3:47 -  What if our kids inspire us to be dream chasers?</li> <li>3:55 - "I love that because to me, being a dream chaser is being a God chaser. You know, I don't think that we can ever separate the two."</li> <li>5:30 - Learning the Father's love from her dad.</li> <li>7:14 -  We don't just have a heavenly father that parents us. We have a heavenly father who fathers us.</li> <li>9:21 - "That's and that's also whole all scriptural that we are supposed to improve, if you will, improve our children, if they are supposed to be, we want them to be better than us. We don't just want them to have a better life, be more fortunate, be more prosperous. We want them to be better than us. We want them to take what we have to give them what God has breathed into them, into into us, and therefore we breathe into them and that they are going to take that and go much farther than we could have ever gone."</li> <li>10:42 - "Our prayer is that men will see themselves as God sees them. We've already talked about that as they are as the warriors they are, fighting in the trenches for their families against all odds, overcoming every trial that comes their way." Quote from Midnight Dad's devotional</li> <li>13:03 - "You, father, dad, are going where you're going. This is supposed to help you know, that you have a heavenly father who's going to get you there, who's going to help you accomplish that, where no other human can help you as well as your heavenly father can help you."</li> <li>15:16 - "So here's the thing about Noah is that he invited his sons to build with him, that it was a family build, that Noah got the download and it required the help of his whole family to create what would be for the whole family. And so I think as dads are listening and they're like, well, this is what God has called me to. It's not just for them. It's with them that there isn't anything that God calls a parent to, that he doesn't also call the children to participate in."</li> <li>16:45 - "It's the difference between that and fathering, which says I'm going to intentionally stay relational with you. I'm going to care not about what you did today, but how it made you feel. And then I'm going to invite you into my story of what God is doing in me. And the only way for a child to see the impact of what God is doing in the father is if he intentionally makes the decision to include his children in what he's going through and how he feels about it. And and I think that's what it means to build with it."</li> <li>22:14 -  "it was the promise of presence, which is I am certain that I will see and experience this goodness of the Lord in the land of the living, not just know about it, not just here about it, not someday."</li> <li>22:52 - You can never have more. It's the one thing you could never fully possess because there's always more to gain that the act of having more means that you have to always be reaching and going and trying. - Quoting her dad</li> <li>You can never achieve more, you can never actually hold more. I want to tell him that this is going to be a lifetime journey. </li> <li>26:57 - "I have made spectacular failures as a as a parent. I have never made a failure as a father because my heart is pure, my heart is true. And what I want for my children is what my heavenly father wants for me."</li> </ul>   Episode Links: <ul> <li>Midnight Dads Book - <a href="https://amzn.to/3pBSlJA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on Amazon</a></li> <li>Midnight Dads Webpage: <a href="https://beckythompson.com/midnight-dad-devotional/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://beckythompson.com/midnight-dad-devotional/</a></li> <li><a href="https://dadawesome.org/give/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Make a Donation</a> to dadAWESOME</li> <li>Join the dadAWESOME <a href="https://bit.ly/dadawesomePRAY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Prayer Team</a></li> </ul>   Conversation Transcript:

177 | Connecting Dads to The Father (Dr. Mark R. Pitts & Becky Thompson) 

Our guests on Episode 22 are Becky Thompson, and Dr. Mark R. Pitts, the father/daughter duo behind the Midnight Dad online community, that encourages fathers with short, powerful prayers every night at Midnight. Modeled off the runaway success of Midnight Mom, which has over 1.3 million followers, Midnight Dad meets fathers where they are and assures them that they are exactly who God chose as ‘dad’ for their family. In this episode, Susannah chats with Becky and Mark about ways to encourage the Dads you love in your life, how fatherhood looks different than it did 30 years ago, and some of the challenges men and fathers are struggling with today. Their words are encouraging, their conviction is moving, and although they don't have all the answers - they can point you in the right direction. And seriously, how fun is it that these two are a father/daughter duo?! Their message is not heavy or shaming - it's full of light, life, and love. You'll leave feeling encouraged and/or with a desire to encourage your spouse on this crazy road we call parenthood. Their new book, Midnight Dad Devotional, comes out April 27th - available wherever books are sold. Sweet Resources Mentioned in this Episode: Midnight Dad Devotional: 100 Devotionals to Connect Dads Just Like You to the Father Midnight Dad Community Midnight Mom Community Connect with Us! Connect with Susannah: Instagram The 5 to 8 Shift Podcast Community on Facebook The 5 to 8 Shift Website The 5 to 8 Shift Instagram--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/susannah-mcmonagle/message

Our guests on Episode 22 are <a href="https://beckythompson.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Becky Thompson</a>, and Dr. Mark R. Pitts, the father/daughter duo behind the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MidnightDadDevotional" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Midnight Dad online community</a>, that encourages fathers with short, powerful prayers every night at Midnight. Modeled off the runaway success of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MidnightMomDevotional" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Midnight Mom,</a> which has over 1.3 million followers, Midnight Dad meets fathers where they are and assures them that they are exactly who God chose as ‘dad’ for their family. In this episode, Susannah chats with Becky and Mark about ways to encourage the Dads you love in your life, how fatherhood looks different than it did 30 years ago, and some of the challenges men and fathers are struggling with today. Their words are encouraging, their conviction is moving, and although they don't have all the answers - they can point you in the right direction. And seriously, how fun is it that these two are a father/daughter duo?! Their message is not heavy or shaming - it's full of light, life, and love. You'll leave feeling encouraged and/or with a desire to encourage your spouse on this crazy road we call parenthood. Their new book, Midnight Dad Devotional, comes out April 27th - available wherever books are sold. Sweet Resources Mentioned in this Episode: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Dad-Devotional-Devotions-Prayers/dp/1400228336/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=midnight+dad&amp;qid=1619489495&amp;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Midnight Dad Devotional: 100 Devotionals to Connect Dads Just Like You to the Father</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MidnightDadDevotional" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Midnight Dad Community</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MidnightMomDevotional" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Midnight Mom Community</a> Connect with Us! <a href="https://www.instagram.com/susannah.mcmonagle/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Connect with Susannah: Instagram</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/the5to8shift" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">The 5 to 8 Shift Podcast Community on Facebook</a> <a href="https://the5to8shift.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">The 5 to 8 Shift Website</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/the5to8shift/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">The 5 to 8 Shift Instagram</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/susannah-mcmonagle/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/susannah-mcmonagle/message</a>

22. Encouragement for Weary Dads, Becky Thompson and Dr. Mark R. Pitts