The Question Every Dad Needs To Ask

Why It Matters

The message links a recruitment push for church-hosted men’s conferences with a broader call to re-prioritize family and spiritual commitments, highlighting an opportunity for churches to engage and restore men’s roles. For leaders, it underscores how programming can address real, practical strains on fathers that affect family and church health.

Summary

The speaker promotes the Dad Tired one-day conferences and asks for five churches to host events over the next year, directing interested leaders to dadtired.com. He reflects on mentor sayings about how stress and trials reveal what’s truly in a man’s heart, arguing that calendars and finances betray real priorities. Using a personal anecdote about being a silent, distracted dad on a school run, he confesses that work and side projects often get his best thinking while his children receive leftovers. He urges listeners to examine who or what gets their best attention, thinking, and mood, and to reorient toward the things God has called them to.

Original Description

Who gets your best attention, your best thinking, and your best mood?

In this episode of Dad Tired Daily, Jerrad shares a simple but convicting moment from a normal school drop-off with his kids. After realizing he had driven the whole way without saying a single word to them, he began asking a deeper question: are the people God has called us to love getting our best, or just what’s left over?

The Bible tells us that the heart is deceitful and that we cannot simply “trust our heart.” Our actions, attention, mood, calendar, and thoughts often reveal what we truly value more than our words do.

This episode is an honest invitation for husbands, dads, and disciples of Jesus to examine what is actually getting the best of them and to ask God to re-order their attention toward what matters most.