# Guiding Your Kids Toward Faith Without Forcing It Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dad-edge-podcast-522814/guiding-your-kids-toward-faith-without-forcing-it Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dad-edge-podcast-522814/guiding-your-kids-toward-faith-without-forcing-it.md Podcast: [The Dad Edge Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dad-edge-podcast-522814) Published: 2026-03-25T00:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://thedadedge.com/1456 Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/gooddadproject/3.24.26_-_Joe__Larry.mp3?dest-id=264727 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-dad-edge-podcast-522814/episodes/guiding-your-kids-toward-faith-without-forcing-it Duration seconds: 2335 ## Resource In this episode, I'm joined by my co-host Uncle Joe for one of our live Q&A sessions — where real men from the Dad Edge Alliance bring their real questions, and we do our best to give them real, honest answers. This one covers a lot of ground. We open with a powerful question from Rich — a man who spent nearly 30 years as an agnostic, gave his life to Christ six months ago, and now wants to know how to lead his 11 kids toward faith without forcing it on them. Joe brings wisdom from his own walk, and I share a deeply personal story about going to church with my son Ethan — how one pastor's offhand comment cracked something open in me, and how an honest, vulnerable conversation in a car changed the entire trajectory of my relationship with my son around faith. The second question is one that hits close to home for a lot of men in this community: when things have been bad in your marriage for a long time and you finally start getting wins — how do you avoid going complacent? Joe and I both dig into this one from personal experience. Joe speaks to the PTSD that builds up inside a man after years of a hard marriage, how fear and insecurity can quietly self-sabotage the very progress you've worked so hard for, and why faith — not fear — has to lead. I talk about consistency, keeping the sword sharp, and why marriage is exactly like the gym. We close with a bonus coaching moment on communication — why "you make me feel" is a conversation grenade, and how to ask for clarity in a way that actually works. Timeline Summary [0:00] Introduction to the Dad Edge mission and the movement to raise leaders of families and communities [1:01] Welcome to the Q&A — live questions from real Dad Edge Alliance members [1:42] Reminder: Roommates to Soulmates Cohort preview call on April… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-dad-edge-podcast-522814/episodes/guiding-your-kids-toward-faith-without-forcing-it/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dad-edge-podcast-522814/guiding-your-kids-toward-faith-without-forcing-it.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.