How to Cultivate Peace and Rest In Your Home - Discipleship for Dads

He who troubles his house shall inherit the wind — so a workaholic is no better than a sluggard. The panel discusses keeping it between these ditches: breaking a control-freak mindset…three warning signs of burnout…examples of how to reduce high stress levels…what it looks like to apply the Sabbath principle every Sunday…and ultimately entering the rest of the Lord, and exemplifying that rest to our children.

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SPEAKER_05 0:06

Welcome my friends to another edition of Generations Discipleship for Dads. Todd Strauster, Bill Roach, and Danny Craig. And yours truly Kevin Swans. Today we're gonna hit a subject. I don't want to do this one, guys. Can we skip this one? Wait, this is gonna be a good one. Oh man, I I don't think I can handle this one. How to cultivate peace and rest in your homes. And you know, the reason this is convicting for me. I mean, just reading the title, like, oh no, not this one. Um but friends, I'm telling you, I think we're we're a go-getter-done kind of family. And so there is a ditch here. And and I'm and there's a verse.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

Or are you just a go-getter done kind of guy?

SPEAKER_05 0:46

I told you to put this on your family. And I'm pressing it on my family. I mean, yeah, oh yeah, I'm the leader here. I'm the head, I'm the leader. I get that. And so yeah, I set the tone of the home. We all set the tone. We set the tone of the home. Exactly. And uh so the verse that keeps coming back to me, and it is convicting to me, and it is the ditch that's you know the flags that are waving at this ditch. I cannot be falling into this ditch. I have to be very careful for it. It's the Proverbs 1129 principle. He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. And that one comes back to me. You know, am I troubling my house? Am I troubling my wife? Am I troubling my kids? Are my kids stressing out? Is my wife stressing out? And is that my contribution? That comes back to me on a fairly regular basis. I think I am growing in this area. So I'll just say that. So I'm not really qualified, I'm growing. I've I've made it out of kindergarten on this one. But you know what?

SPEAKER_02 1:37

I think partly too is I think we've subtly determined that a workaholic is less of a sinner than being lazy. That we really think that laziness is a bigger sin, a much bigger sin. Than you know, workaholic is kind of a sin, but boy, we're getting a lot done, so it's not really that bad.

SPEAKER_05 1:57

So these are equal opportunity ditches. Yes. These are equal opportunity ditches. Yes. So where do we start on this, brothers? Let's start with the word of God, Psalm 127. You brought that out right away. And by the way, I've memorized Psalm 127. Our family memorized it a few years ago, and I will repeat it on a fairly regular basis, especially when I involve in my prayer life. That's good. Um there's a lot to this. Go ahead, read it for it.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

There's the foundation of trusting God and sovereignty of God for all rest. They labor in vain who build it. Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows, for so he gives his beloved sleep. And then it paints a vision of a beautiful, peaceful, uh God-centered home. Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord. The fruit of the womb is a reward, like arrows in the hand of a mighty warrior, so are the children of one's youth. Happy is a man who has his quiver fool of them, they shall not be ashamed, but shall speak with their enemies in the gates.

SPEAKER_05 3:02

Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain that build it. Um which means, you know, of course, it's this human responsibility, God's sovereignty thing, but fundamentally the cause, the the ultimate cause, and the end, the ultimate fruit is in the hands of God.

unknown 3:20

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 3:20

We are farmers. Don't overstate the case. We throw out seed, he germinates, he brings forth fruit. Amen. So the sovereignty of you made this point as well, the sovereignty of God is essential. We have to believe that God is in control of this and the fruits of our labors.

SPEAKER_02 3:37

Right. And here it's clear. You're gonna get up to heaven and you're gonna say, but God, I worked hard, I was up early, I worked late. And he's gonna say, Yeah, it was in vain. Yeah, vain. Not just not efficient. Yes, it was in vain. It was worthless. And I don't want, I don't want that, that on my shoulder.

SPEAKER_04 3:55

But the sovereignty of God and trusting in God is so important. I mean, I think about this, I'm like you, I'm like, I don't do this well. Like, you know, something like I have my day all planned out, uh-huh, and then something drops that takes two hours I didn't expect. And, you know, I get anxious. I'm like, well, I gotta, now I gotta do this. And I'm like, wait a minute, wait a minute. Oh, God knew. God's in control. I can handle this. I I forget that God knows exactly what's going on. He dropped this per very purposely in my lap. Maybe to see that I would turn to him more, not to myself, my own agenda.

SPEAKER_01 4:28

There's also an interesting generational element in here, which is I think an implicit recognition, the work that God needs to do, he's gonna do over the generations. This isn't all on me. Uh he's going to work in me, but he's gonna use my children, he's gonna use their children. So it's a trusting in God over times and and over time. And I think unfortunately, uh, when we uh become those um sort of control freak, we gotta get this all done now, sort of dads, we end up perhaps alienating our kids and break down the very thing that God would use to bring about his purposes, his purposes are never thwarted, but break down the relationships that God might otherwise use.

SPEAKER_05 5:06

And relationships take time. Yeah. Right? Relationships are not efficient.

unknown 5:11

Right.

SPEAKER_05 5:12

They just aren't. Yeah. And so, you know, when my wife wants to sit and talk for 28 minutes and I've got to get on with things, hey, this is important. This is this is a way in which you know, I took a couple hours with my daughters last night. We had a great time uh together. And uh, you know, it was just well worth it. Well worth it. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 5:32

And you know, there's a danger of of we try to cover our hearts by going to the busy. You know, sometimes I don't want to necessarily sit down for an hour and talk because I know it's gonna get deeper and deeper. Yeah, yeah. So oh, I've got some work to do. That's easier. That's easier. It's an easier path. Sometimes we avoid the the time, these special times, because they're gonna they're gonna take us deeper and we're gonna have to confess something.

SPEAKER_05 5:56

What are the metrics or how do you detect that there's some burnout and stress happening and you are getting to this point where you're troubling your house?

SPEAKER_04 6:06

Uh yeah, and I was convicted of this. One one of the big things I I was convicted by the Holy Spirit just like everything you do, Todd, is about expediency. And it could be work getting it done, it could be the conversation you need to have with your nine-year-old daughter. You're just like, get it done, move on to the next thing. And I was just like, God has just convicted me that that is not, that's not what he's doing. He's not just knocking things out expediently to get on to the next thing, kind of God.

SPEAKER_05 6:36

It's interesting with Elijah, too. Elijah, take 40 days. Elijah, take 40. You know, yeah. I'll get back to you in a week, you know. And then there's the still small voice, and the okay, you just need some rest here.

unknown 6:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:48

Um, and Jesus is another example of this. He spends time away. And it probably nobody was busier than Jesus in the sense that you know there are lines of people waiting to be healed. Yeah, I think the word frazzle.

SPEAKER_02 7:03

There's just a sense in the home that things there's a frazzleness. You don't want that. No, and I think that phone sometimes drives it too, right? You gotta text, you gotta answer the text, you know, it's kind of driving uh the enjoyment too much.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

My dad had a few mantras growing up. One of them was I want my house to be a haven. And I think there was a lot of wisdom in that. Uh and I think what he meant was uh I want to create such an environment in my home that it it becomes the there's a gravitational pull. It's the place people want to come back to because it's a place of refreshment from the world. But to your question, warning signs, I've noticed three in my life. Um one is marriage. Uh a few years ago, after we were finished building our house, we kind of looked at each other and we're like, we're really great co-project managers. Yeah. Um and and that's kind of what it's devolved to. Yeah. Uh so that was a warning sign. That's a warning sign. We hit a we hit a hard reset button, got away, spent some time with a couple, and realized we we needed to take a different approach. Another one was is with my kids. Um, I I can see uh I can see my lifestyle intensity and stress flowing into them. Uh and so if if I'm struggling with them, I I have to ask myself, okay, how am I feeding into how am I troubling my own house? And then the most important one is my relationship with God. Yeah, and I've been thinking about Psalm 62. My soul waits silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him. And if I sense in my heart this just constant um drive and not uh coming back into fellowship and communion with the Lord, uh where my expectation is actually not from Him alone, then I realize I I I'm not seeking the Lord, I'm seeking Dan.

SPEAKER_05 8:48

And I get this vision that we're trying to break through some kind of obstacle, you know, and we're pounding on this obstacle, pounding on and pounding on it, and sweating it out. And we've worked on it for 724s, and and and God just wants us to come back and just sit down with him, spend some time with him, and then he'll just take his little finger and knock down the obstacle and we can move on with it. That's true. You know, there's the first things first. That's the the vision I get from time to time. Like his interest is more the fellowship and the right relationship, and then yeah, we'll we'll get to the work. We'll we'll we'll get you through this.

SPEAKER_02 9:22

I was in uh we were in Matthew uh chapter six this morning, and and said, you know, don't don't pray like the Gentiles, just coming back with repetitive, repetitive, repetitive, and I'm getting this sense of work, work, work because your father, the relationship you have, your father loves you, and he knows already what you need before you even ask him. Yeah, so rest in that. Don't feel like you gotta be repetitive and do all this hard work to get his attention, to get his relationship. No, he loves you and he's got it all planned out.

SPEAKER_05 9:57

So once you sense that the burnout, the stress level is hitting the 9.7, now what? What does a dad do in such a situation, Danny?

SPEAKER_01 10:06

Well, there is some truth to the statement, uh, happy wife, happy life.

SPEAKER_05 10:10

There is. Your good point. There is a that is a metric.

SPEAKER_01 10:12

The the wife sets does have a huge part in setting the tone. We do, as as as dads, of course. We both do. But um one thing I've realized is okay, when I when I when I see see this ticking up, that's that's a sign for dad to you know switch gears, get out of his you know, work obsession, and I should do that anyways. But all right, honey, how can I come alongside you? Yeah, and what what is stressing you?

SPEAKER_05 10:37

Date night, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:39

Yeah, for my wife, it wasn't date nights actually. Oh, it was not it was when when the stress levels were high. She's like, honey, I need you to show up here and be a you know, dad. Don't take me on a date. Yeah, you know, lean into what we've got going on at home. So um, that's different for different marriages, but uh just being in tune and and trying to find the ways that I could take the burden from her. A lot of that comes down to to training and and working with the children uh and working to a point where there is a peacefulness in in our lives, in our relationships.

SPEAKER_05 11:15

Todd, how do we lead in rest? How do we lead as dads in in that rest? We'll get to Sabbath. The Sabbath is important, but uh general principles.

SPEAKER_04 11:26

Well, it seems like it first flow from spiritual rest in Christ. So where's our are we resting spiritually in Christ? And that good contributes back to trusting in him and some of the other things we talked about. We first rest in Christ spiritually, and then there'll be the outflow of rest in other areas of life, like we've talked about, not you know, getting too consumed by one particular thing. And I think it also is a connection to what is a priority in my life. Is is like my number one thing, this business that I've got to grow, is it could be any distraction like that. But but where are we where are we focusing? Are are our eyes fixed on Christ or are they fixed on other things? Um, I think that you know we're we're called not to be distracted by things to the right or the left, you know, and that seems to be a constant well, there's this going, I gotta deal with this, I gotta juggle all the all of these things. So how do we stay steadfast and focused upon the Lord, knowing that he's going to give us, as it says in Psalm 127, he's gonna give his beloved rest the rest we need. He's gonna give us that.

SPEAKER_05 12:28

One of the things that helps me is not to rush through the rest.

unknown 12:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 12:32

Make sense. Yeah, right. Be expedient in your rest. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I'm just saying it, guys. Can is this okay? Yeah, you can be honest. Okay, we can be honest.

SPEAKER_00 12:42

I hope you're being honest, the other programs we do.

SPEAKER_05 12:46

Well, you know, we we we can fall into that pretty quickly. And I think uh Bible time for us is a time where we're just slowing down, slowing down, and we can talk about anything. Yeah, and we can allow and we allow for long pauses. That's the other thing. In conversation or in Bible time, family worship, can we allow for some long pauses? Some and when we're in prayer time together, can we can we just kind of wait a little bit and and not rush through this? And and then when it's done, it's done. But maybe it's not done yet. Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_02 13:23

Yeah, and I think prayer prayer time um by definition, you're stopping what everything else you're doing and you're going to God in prayer. There's a there's a sense of rest to that. There are times during the day where I start to feel physically tired and start to feel overwhelmed by the work in front of me. And I'll pray and say, Lord, you know, I'm just gonna set this aside. I'm just gonna sit back in my chair. Can you not have my phones ring, please, for 10 or 15 minutes? Because I think I'll be better on the other side in in every area. And I'll I've I'll make that prayer and I just sit back in my chair and and sleep for 15 or 20 minutes. Now, I mean it's kind of a gift to be able to just stop. And but if I feel that that that overwhelmingness and tired where I'm feeling the struggle, I think the the Lord, you read it in Psalm 127, he gives us beloved sleep. That's not only from 10 to 7 at night. I in my opinion. He gives us beloved naps, is what you're saying. That's right. I haven't heard that. Right? You send your little child that needs to rest. Yeah. Right? To send them to the room. You and sometimes they just lay down on their bed and you find them asleep, that they need to rest.

SPEAKER_05 14:28

Let's go back to the Sabbath principle. And you know what's interesting in Hebrews 4? There's this line that's super interesting. It says strive to enter into his rest. It's interesting, isn't it? In other words, it's gonna be a struggle to enter into his rest. Okay. And and the Sabbath principle, as you said, Bill, is a faith principle, it's to trust. It's to take that time and trust in God. And I use that illustration, you know, years ago of when you are laying down for the nap or you're going to bed for eight hours, you're not thinking of everything that needs to be done. You're, as it were, leaving it in the hands of God. There is something of a resting in God that God can handle this, okay? And even the President of the United States has to take sleep. You know, he he's gonna have to leave the country in the hands of God for the next eight hours. Now that means that we're leaving everything in the hands of God for the next twenty-four hours, but rest is an opportunity to trust God with this. Does that make sense? Absolutely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:33

Very, very, and uh it is helpful to habituate ourselves in these things. I uh uh I'm I'm not good at making stuff up on the fly, but having our family life punctuated with habits of rest uh and times of rest, Sabbath. Um we've we've just sought to draw some pretty hard lines around work and and the approach we take to our our Sabbath. Um the prayer meeting on Wednesday night is a time of rest. Right. Um family worship, uh but also planning for and and and prioritizing relational connecting points, um games, walks, bike rides, just reading books as well. Reading reading books to children. Uh these are all times when we have sensed the goodness of God as we uh enjoy time together, enjoy his gifts. Uh these are important part of creating that family culture of peace and joy as well, I believe.

SPEAKER_05 16:29

Aaron Powell Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. And the principle here, there's a number of principles, there's controversies. I mean, this is a massive controversial subject for Christian sex organizations. So but the the principle behind it is okay, we work six days, but one day, one day in seven, which is what, 14.7 percent? Somebody help me with this. Um day in seven is physical rest from your weekly work. Yeah, and that's the principle. Now, whether that be Saturday or Sunday, people have this argument going on. But what is the principle? The principle is God does not want a person to work for seven days in a row. He he has demanded that we take a day off.

SPEAKER_02 17:18

Didn't the French try to do a the French Revolution thing? Yeah, like a 14-day week or something. Something like that. Even the animals couldn't handle it.

SPEAKER_05 17:26

Yeah, right? Yeah. So Todd, what does that look like? What do we do? Now, I I I I think every family has a measure of Christian liberty involved in the Sabbath principle. I mean, I I think extending a degree of liberty, you know, on what it is oftentimes a controversial subject. But the bottom line is there has to be this rest. Yes. One day in seven. What does that look like in the Strasser?

SPEAKER_04 17:52

There's rest, there's that, but it there's also, as you said, uh as you mentioned, keep the Sabbath holy. And and so that word holy is means setting it apart, meaning it looks different than the other days. So to your point, okay, in dads, what are you going to do in your home so that in your home, your whole family knows this day is distinctively different than the other days, right? Centered somehow around rest, resting from, as our as our confession would say, your worldly recreations and employments. So your normal day-to-day kind of thing that God has called you to do, which is which are good. But on this day, it's gonna look different. It's gonna be set apart, it's gonna be holy. And and in our home, you know, we obviously it's a good day to gather with God's people and worship. So that's that's a big part of it. But it is actually also uh a day that we more than any other day that we do just rest and have those conversations and you know, even allow the children to even just you know, kind of sit there and at our feet and play games and kind of hang out. And there is a just a tone, a s a whole harmony of resting that day where we're not we're not expedient to get this done, get that. In fact, we don't want a lot of work happening because we want to follow what the Lord has for us.

SPEAKER_05 19:09

Yeah, we we established a rule uh in our home. Again, every family does this differently, but we said, okay, 6 p.m. on Saturday night to six p.m. Sunday night for 24 hours, we're gonna stay media free.

SPEAKER_03 19:23

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 19:24

Uh and we we had some exceptions, like you know, play a little bit of you know, hymns in the morning on a Sunday morning or something like that, but but we're not doing movies. We're not watching television for starting the the night before. So we did things like that. We've also we also soft peddled the recreation somewhat. Now, my my dad was pretty sabotarian on this, and he was fairly strict on the Sabbath. But for us, it was just you know, let's set this thing aside, let's get together with God's people, let's uh let's enjoy some good food. Good food was important on Sundays, yeah. Uh and good fellowship. So those things were important and and it made for a a good day. But now, of course, as a pastor, it can be a little more stressful in some respects. You got more going on. So an argument can be made that you should follow up with a Monday.

SPEAKER_02 20:19

Right, right.

SPEAKER_05 20:19

Bill, Bill, your household, how how did you handle the Sabbath principle? Or how do you handle it today?

SPEAKER_02 20:25

You know, the Sabbath principle comes from the Fourth Commandment. Yeah. And it's interesting that the Fourth Commandment talks more about what you do on the six days than it does what you do on the one day. It's interesting too. Right, as far as words go. Sure. Right. And so my my point has always been you work hard on the six days, you're gonna look forward to that seventh day of rest. If you're really struggling with resting on the Sabbath, it might be connected to the fact that you're not working very hard the other six days. So you work hard six days, you're gonna welcome the rest that comes on the seventh day, which is convocating uh and resting. But this this was um a kind of a struggle with trying to figure out because there's so many different views on it. One one of the things that came out in my family is we got together and had some really great conversations on Sunday night when we were trying to figure out what the Sunday looked like. It ended up that we talked as a family for two or three hours, um, which roach conversations aren't always uh restful. They can be somewhat stressful, but they ended in rest. No idea what you're talking about. They they hopefully ended in rest, but it actually became a time where we were able to sit down, talk about the week, and there was a rest in that.

SPEAKER_05 21:37

And you have to set your work aside. Right. You can't be talking work. Right. You can't be thinking work, you can't be prioritizing your to-do list for Monday morning, Todd.

SPEAKER_04 21:48

Right, yeah. Amen. Yeah. And and and that it, you know, there's there's the constant, particularly if like Monday comes, um, you our minds will start thinking about what do I have to do this week. Right. Um what what were all the things I need to do this week? So there is a guarding of that, a guarding of our heart, our souls, and also it's it's for the glory of the Lord. That's what he would have us to do. It's important.

SPEAKER_05 22:11

Are there certain activities you would not engage in, Danny, for your household? I mean you've made decisions, right? On a Sunday specifically. On a Sunday specifically, or that one day a week that you take a special rest, the Sabbath.

SPEAKER_01 22:23

Yeah. Um well, work. Um that's been been something we've tried to be real consistent on. You know, I would say that uh yeah, certainly media that takes our hearts away from spiritual things. So we're trying to engage in things that kind of anchor us back towards spiritual things or our relationships with each other. Um I would say uh a significant emphasis on sports, uh probably not on Sunday for us. I mean, we'll we'll go, you know, kick a soccer ball out in the around in the backyard, but a heavy duty, hey, Sunday afternoon is our volleyball tournament afternoon. Not so much. Right. Um interesting, Greg Bonson uh had some thoughts on this, and his perspective was that the heavy duty competitive edge is what you kind of need to guard against on a Sunday.

SPEAKER_05 23:18

Why it ties into stressful work a little more, pushing yourself, developing some of your skills, not so much on Sunday.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

Yeah, when we kick the ball around in this uh in the backyard, that's that's restful. That's uh it's relational. We're enjoying you know God's creation together.

SPEAKER_04 23:33

Yeah, yeah, we we have a similar um the what he did, the Bonson, he was connecting rest versus exertion. Remember? So there's a there's discernment with exertion. Like like we'll yeah, we'll we'll go out and maybe go on a walk on Sunday afternoon, but to go hike up a 14er is probably not maybe the appropriate application. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:54

Right, right. And I think some people will say that their exercise is their rest, right? That they they do want to go on a two-mile walk on a Sunday afternoon, they're praying. Yeah, that's so every it could be different. It's different than the rest of the week, is part of it.

SPEAKER_05 24:10

And I I wonder sometimes if we need to be rest from the engagement of battle with the world. In other words, we're pulling back, we're being with God's people as much as we can. That's not true. And you know, for me to watch, you know, four R-rated movies, not like that's uh healthy any other time, right? But but to engage, you know, that and do your big discernment thing that Bill Jack requires of all of us. Um on you know, four R-rated movies on a Sunday afternoon. I mean, on the on the one hand, you may be sucked into the worldly ways of thinking and all that, which is not healthy, but you may also be, you know, legitimately engaging with bad ideas in the world and trying to cast on these imaginations, but I wonder if that's restful. I guess that's what I'm wondering.

SPEAKER_01 24:59

I don't think that's um uh to your point, it's part of it is watching my own heart. What are the things that are drawing me into the Lord and entering in his rest? And what are the things that are drawing me away? Right. Uh when I was in college, I was doing voice competitions, and uh there was this really important competition where I had a significant opportunity, which I was really hoping to take advantage of, which was to sing with the symphony. And the final competition was on a Sunday. And that was a big that was big for me. It's like, is is is voice competition is that working? I mean, it you know, I don't have my ox out, I'm not earning money. And then it hit me. How do I feel when I'm doing a voice competition? Pretty stressed out. You know, is this what God wants for me on Sunday? Probably not. So all right, uh that's this isn't for me. So I think the point is what are the things that cause me to enter spiritual rest? What are the things that pull me away?

SPEAKER_05 26:00

How do we as as dads exemplify this rest? Principally. I guess that's where I want to land this thing today is where where do we want to uh to exemplify a trust in God and a restful and a peaceful attitude within the context of the home? Um that's what we want to do. Now I think for me uh I want to express myself in joy and gratitude and some humor. I find that's restful to my children. They like like the expectations or the judgmentalisms or the just relaxes. When dad comes home and dad is joyful, grateful, and not exceedingly demanding of everybody in the home. I think that's the lesson I'm learning.

SPEAKER_02 26:49

So the schedule is more relaxed. That's the way it sets for me on Sunday. Okay, right. It's not as rigid as the rest of the the the week. I I feel like if I in my I set the tone by that relaxed So give yourself more margin. I think definitely more margin on a on a Sunday afternoon. The meal doesn't have to be at a certain time, or you know, we're we're doing devotions at a certain time and then going to work at a certain time. It's more just a bit more relaxed. Not that it's not locking lacking purpose, but it's more relaxed.

SPEAKER_05 27:20

Danny, how do you bring peace into the home on Sunday or any other day?

SPEAKER_01 27:24

I was thinking, uh, I think we actually try to have a little mini Sabbath from 5 p.m. to about 8 p.m. 5 30 to 8 p.m. every day.

SPEAKER_03 27:33

Okay, right.

SPEAKER_01 27:34

I dad comes home from work, I try to be there at the dinner table. I struggle with this brother, so I'm not perfect. But all right, this is this is this is our time to be together. We do dinner, we do the dishes, we go out on a walk, we come do family worship, play a game with the kids. 5 30 to 8 p.m. is kind of our our daily time of Sabbath together. Yeah. Where we're cultivating uh relationships, time with the Lord, and enjoyment of his good gifts. The haven. The haven. The haven.

SPEAKER_04 28:04

Todd. And I like uh just piggybacking on what you said, you know, we have we we know we need to leave for church at a certain time to be there on time in the morning, and then also in the evening, because we have evening worship too. But other than that, those are like the two, like, okay, we gotta do this, you know, those are kind of the blocks. But other than that, we do have a lot of freedom, flexibility, there's a relaxedness to the schedule. There's not a oh, we gotta eat by 2 30 or something. No, it's it's none of that. And that's intentional. I think it for dads, it's what tone are you setting? You know, you know, it and even speak to your children about those things, like, oh, yeah, we don't need to do that today, guys. You know, we're we're not gonna do that today. We're gonna do that another day because we're gonna rest today, you know, and and just even speaking those things I think are instructive.

SPEAKER_05 28:49

And be anxious for nothing, but in everything about prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving. With Thanksgiving. With Thanksgiving. Let your request be known unto God. And I want to be that kind of guy. I want to be that kind of guy. I want to be a guy that trusts in the Lord and is not afraid for bad news and uh fears the Lord, delights greatly in his commandments, keeps the Sabbath, and uh and trusts in God all day long. That's the kind of guy I want to be.

SPEAKER_01 29:12

And uh Romans 5, 1. Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. And I do believe that that gospel foundation of our home, the economy of grace, uh for our relationships with our children, with our wife to swim in constantly. That's that that is that is the number one thing. If if that if we aren't experiencing that peace with God ourselves and then with each other, then it's not gonna happen.

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And by God's grace, may we be that kind of guy. Yeah.

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Amen.

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Amen. Well, thank you, brothers, for another edition of Discipleship for Dads. On rest, Sabbath, and peace in the home. And may the peace of God that passes all understanding keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. This is Kevin Swanson, Todd Strausser, Bill Roach, and Danny Craig. Inviting you back again next time as we continue to lay down a vision for the next generation. This has been a production of the Generations Media Network. For more information, go to generations.org/slash media.