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What if the life you’ve built to survive is keeping you from the life God actually made you for?
In this episode, Jerrad sits down with songwriter, worship leader, recording artist, and author John Mark McMillan, best known for writing “How He Loves.” Together, they talk about identity, family, creativity, contemplation, and what it looks like to peel back the layers of survival to rediscover the person God created you to be.
John Mark shares about nearly quitting music, moving toward writing, raising teenagers, finding beauty in ordinary family life, and learning to create from a place of honesty instead of performance. The conversation also explores how distraction, phones, addiction, and the noise of modern life are shaping our souls, and how the church might become one of the last places where people can truly be present together.
This is a deep, honest conversation for any man who feels tired, distracted, unsure of who he is, or hungry for a more meaningful life with God and his family.
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What if your job, your parenting, your neighborhood, and your ordinary Monday morning all mattered deeply to God?
In this episode, Jerrad sits down with returning guest Jordan Raynor for a wide-ranging conversation about work, calling, the Holy Spirit, fatherhood, and the lies that keep Christian men exhausted.
Jordan unpacks why work existed before sin, how our daily jobs can be worship, and why the Holy Spirit empowers us not just for salvation, but for the good works God has prepared for us. The conversation also moves into evangelism, neighborhood faithfulness, the kindness of God, and the freedom that comes from realizing God doesn’t need us. He wants us.
This episode is for the dad who feels tired, scattered, overcommitted, or unsure if his everyday life really matters to God.
In this episode, we talk about:
Why your work matters to God
How to see ordinary tasks as worship
The lies and half-truths many Christians believe
Why the Holy Spirit empowers us for good works
How to talk to your kids about deep theology
Why saying no can be an act of faithfulness
The difference between a tired body and a weary soul
Why God doesn’t need you, but graciously invites you
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Who or what gets your best attention, your best thinking, and your best mood?
In today’s Dad Tired Daily episode, Jerrad shares a convicting moment from a normal drive to school with his kids. After dropping them off, he realized he had not said a single word to them the entire drive. Not because he was angry. Not because he didn’t love them. But because his mind was consumed with work, stress, responsibilities, and the long list of things he needed to get done.
That moment led to a deeper question: are the people God has called us to love getting our best, or just our leftovers?
The Bible tells us in Proverbs 4:23 to guard our hearts, and Jeremiah 17:9 reminds us that the heart is deceitful. We may say we value our family, our faith, and our calling, but our attention, mood, calendar, and thoughts often tell the truth.
This episode is a simple, honest challenge to pay attention to what is getting the best of you.
Ask yourself today:
Who gets my best attention?
Who gets my best thinking?
Who gets my best mood?
Are those the people and things God has actually called me to?

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Jerrad sits down with Tim Timmons for one of the most honest conversations we’ve had on the podcast. 
Tim shares about living with stage 4 cancer for over 25 years, the exhaustion of trying to “work for God,” and how he’s learning to simply wake up each day and join Jesus.
Together, they talk about:
Contentment vs surrender
Parenting and repair
The pressure Christian men carry
Living sober-minded in a distracted world
Why the Kingdom of God threatens our own kingdoms
This episode feels like sitting across the table from a wise friend who’s been through some things.

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In this episode, Jerrad reflects on Jesus’ words in Matthew 5 and what it really means to take sin seriously. 
After nearly two years off social media, he shares how removing constant digital input transformed his mind, reduced temptation, and brought a level of peace he didn’t know he was missing.
This isn’t about rules.
It’s about freedom.
If something in your life is pulling you away from who God is calling you to be, maybe the answer isn’t managing it better…
Maybe it’s removing it altogether.