When You Feel Like a Failure

If your fathering feels more like a train wreck than a success story, this conversation is for you. The brothers list out the “usual suspects” of failed fatherhood—busy dad, greedy dad, angry dad, passive dad, distant dad, spiritually underdeveloped dad, proud dad—and then show how the Holy Spirit exposes the roots beneath them: self-love instead of love for God and family. With Philippians 3 and 1 John 3 in view, they urge discouraged fathers to lift their eyes from self-pity to Christ’s finished work and the long-term, eternal perspective of what God is making them to be.