The Fatherhood Challenge Podcast & Radio Program

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  • The Fatherhood Challenge is a movement dedicated to encouraging fathers to engage with their children and educate society on the positive impact involved fathers have on their communities and society from generation to generation.
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  • From Torment to Identity and Purpose (Part 2)

    From Torment to Identity and Purpose (Part 2)
    Nov 21 2024
    The previous episode was part 1 of my conversation with Rebekah Wen as she shared her testimony of finding identity and purpose. This episode is part 2 of Rebekah's story. She reveals not only how she found her identity and purpose but how you can find yours too.Here are some helpful books from this episode:The Bondage Breaker: https://www.amazon.com/Bondage-Breaker-Neil-T-Anderson/dp/0736918140?fbclid=IwY2xjawGsYkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHcPkI8FtEzjF-9riwx8WzK7QaKJ1bStRy1_-8uuQjC7bEikcDE2tIM4bTA_aem_Xgu6WbZSX9WSL9wGiLHqCQYour Spiritual Toolbox: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Spiritual-Toolbox-Sit-Down-Christian-ebook/dp/B01KW3LRWECreate your podcast today! #madeonzencastrhttps://zencastr.com/?via=thefatherhoodchallengeTranscription - From Torment to Identity and Purpose---Welcome to the Fatherhood Challenge, a movement to awaken and inspire fathers everywhere,to take great pride in their role, and a challenge society to understand how importantfathers are to the stability and culture of their family's environment.Now here's your host, Jonathan Guerrero. Greetings everyone!Thank you so much for joining me. We are continuing part two of my conversation with RebeccaWynn as she shares her testimony of how she found her identity in purpose. If you missed part one ofher story, you can go to thefatherhoodchallenge.com. That's thefatherhoodchallenge.com. And if you go tothe last episode, you'll see it label as part one, you can hear the first part of our testimony.Now we're going to go ahead and continue with part two of her testimony.So as I was sitting there, I just thought to myself, "God doesn't want broken people like me."And I heard an audible voice say, "I came for the broken." And I felt these huge warm armswrap around me. And I felt the ground in this concrete basement and I cried. And I felt,I felt a father holding me for the first time. And I knew that God was there with me. And that hehad come for me on that every single speck of my brokenness could be healed by him. And in that moment,I decided that I had to become a Christian. I needed this comfort. I never felt anything like thatbefore. I was so excited. I wanted to tell everybody all about it. You know, I ran upstairs and I toldmy mom, "Mom, guess what? I'm going to be a Christian now." And she was kind of like,"Yeah, great." But she didn't have the reaction I expected. And I wish that I could say everythingafter that just immediately got better, but it did not.Somethings did. So I'd had, for those 13 years, as I mentioned at the very beginning,I had been sexually and physically abused by a female relative almost immediately after Ibecame a Christian that the sexual abuse, the verbal abuse completely stopped. It was, for me,a hugely eye-opening moment because I thought, "I understood for the first time that there'ssomething really wrong with me. And I need some kind of deliverance from this. I understoodthe first time that these entities that were attacking me were demonic and that they had a purposewhen they were coming. But I had no idea how to deal with it. I didn't know what an event meant.And I still hadn't told anybody about any of them. My, my mother remarried when I was seven.And the man that she married was a very stable, good man who had a good job and took good care of usand enabled her to be a stay at home mom so that she could homeschool us. And by all accounts,he was a good, solid man. But he was not emotionally available. He was not interested in,in really being a dad to other people's kids. And so I, he would work most of the time and then,you know, maybe we'd have some kind of a philosophical conversation or something, but he wasn'treally interested in discussing God. He was much more interested in discussing science and mathematicsand philosophy. And yet there was, there was a moment that had a major impact on me.There was one day where my mother was just tired of it, you know, and she was just,she was test tired. And at the same time, also, as I mentioned, I have been having anorexiaand it had progressed to the point where, where I had, I would stop eating and I was noticeablyunderweight for my age. My mother would, every single meal she would have to trick me into eating.And she would do that because she knew that I had such a strong feeling of guilt about the ideaof making anything else feel as worthless as I felt because I felt I was trash. I didn't wantanything else to feel that way. I don't want to be the cause of anyone else or anything elseto feel that kind of suffering. And by this point, I was, I was hoarding. I mean, I had, I wouldn'teven throw away trash. I would have hundreds of candy wrappers and stuff around my room is stackedup and everything, which I know sounds strange for anorexic, but whatever. But I would have, I wouldn'tthrow away anything because I didn't want it to feel like trash, even if it was trash. I couldn't standthe idea of acknowledging that something didn't have any more value. I had to prove it had ...
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  • From Torment to Identity and Purpose (Part 1)

    From Torment to Identity and Purpose (Part 1)
    Nov 13 2024
    My guest in part 1 of this episode is Rebekah Wen. Rebekah will share her story and testimony of growing up disconnected from her identity and purpose, how she found it and how you can find yours too. This is one you’re not going to want to miss. Part 2 of this story can be heard in the next episode.Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastrhttps://zencastr.com/?via=thefatherhoodchallengeTranscription - From Torment to Identity and Purpose (part 1)---Today I have a guest who will share her story and testimony of how she found her identityin purpose and how you can find yours too.This is one you're not going to want to miss, so don't go anywhere.Welcome to the Fatherhood Challenge, a movement to awaken and inspire fathers everywhere,to take great pride in their role, and a challenge society to understand how important fathersare to the stability and culture of their family's environment.Now here's your host, Jonathan Guerrero.Greetings everyone, thank you so much for joining me.Rebecca Wynn is here with me to share her story of how she grew up disconnected fromher identity and life purpose and how she found it.This is going to be a powerful story, so buckle up.Rebecca, thank you so much for joining me on the Fatherhood Challenge.Thank you so much for having me.Rebecca, let's start from the very beginning.What is your story of how you found your identity in purpose?Well my story actually begins back before World War II in the early 1930s, even beforethen, on my father's side of the family where Ashkenazi Jews, and so sometime in the earlylike first 1000 years BC, my family was taken from Israel and brought up to Germany intothe modern day Rhine River, that area, at Suiustis lives, and over hundreds of years theyhad built a community, and my family, they were the rabbi and the religious leaders inthe community.In that time my family were, they were serving the Lord.And there are records like obituaries that were written for my great-great-grandmother,she passed away in 1933, and there are obituaries that were written by the German populationof the city where they lived.And those obituaries paint her in a very loving way.She was a powerful woman of prayer who was known for being loving and kind and nurturingto absolutely anybody who came to her, which is, she had no problem reaching out to themregardless of their faith.And so this was an obituary that was written by the German population, not by the Jewishpopulation in that city.The next account of my family is from the Crystal Night, and it's an account of my relativesbeing dragged out into the streets and beaten as their house was burnt down.The synagogue was burnt down, the cemetery was destroyed.That was obviously Crystal Night, so a few years after that, by 1942, all of the peoplein my family, my father's bloodline, who were 50 years old and younger, they had fledEurope.They left everyone who was 50 years old and older in Germany.And the result was that all of the elderly people in my family were killed in camps.And since that time in my father's bloodline, absolutely nobody has been a believer inChrist or practicing Judaism.He has been financially successful or physically healthy.And I believe very strongly that their choice to abandon the elderly at that time broughtsome kind of a curse on our family that we no longer protect, took some kind of protectionaway from us on a generational curse level.And that filtered down to me many years later.So my parents divorced as an infant.I was five months old when they had finalized their divorce.The reason that they divorced is because there were a lot of reasons, but domestic violencewas the main one.So I spent my first year of life growing up in a shelter for battered women with my motherand siblings.So from a very early age, my mother was very religious.She was a believer.She clung to the Lord through all of these situations, but my father was a hardened atheist.And so I grew up seeing these polar opposite identities, these polar opposite worldviews.And my mother was a Republican.My father was a liberal.I was just like, they had nothing in common.So I grew up, I learned very quickly that I had to be a different person when I was withmy mother versus when I was with my father.So with my father, I grew up hearing Bible stories, listening to adventures in honesty,praying before we go to bed, before we eat all these kinds of things with my father.If he saw us praying, he would beat us.If we had anything Christian, the Bible or anything that we brought to his house, hewould destroy it.And at his house, we were surrounded with new age things, with witchcraft, with a lot of thingsthat were even, a lot of D and D and things that were basically soft core pornography.When you get into those like artwork and everything, that's out of the world, a lot of animeand things like this.And then as we got older, that progressed into things like more explicit things like AustinPowers and those movies he thought they were...
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    27 mins
  • A Daughter Finds Identity and Purpose

    A Daughter Finds Identity and Purpose
    Nov 7 2024
    In this episode Jennifer Weiss shares her story and life's journey of searching for her identity and purpose. Not only does she reveal how she found it, but also how you can too.Jennifer Weiss is the founder of The Creative Christian, a ministry that brings biblical truth to the entertainment industry while coaching and mentoring artist in their craft to do the same. You can learn more about The Christian Creative at:https://www.creativechristian.online/Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastrhttps://zencastr.com/?via=thefatherhoodchallengeTranscript - A Daughter Finds Identity and Purpose---You're going to hear a testimony of a woman who spent her whole life searching for her identity and purpose.How she found it and how you can too, and she'll join us in just a moment so don't go anywhere.Welcome to the Fatherhood Challenge, a movement to awaken and inspire fathers everywhere, to take great pride in their role.And a challenge society to understand how important fathers are to the stability and culture of their family's environment.Now here's your host, Jonathan Guerrero.Greetings everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Jenny Weiss also joins me and she's ready to share her story with us.Jenny, thank you so much for being on the Fatherhood Challenge.Thanks for having me, Jonathan.Jenny, I know this is going to take some time to share your story with us, so I want to leave as much time as possible for that.So let's get started from the very beginning of how you lost and found your identity.I was really young when my parents divorced. I was three years old.And I ended up going to live with my mom.So I had two older sisters and we went to live with my mom.And yeah, that was pretty difficult.There were a lot of traumatic things that happened in my childhood, whether it was my parent using drugs, abuse, different things like that.And so I grew up with a pretty skewed view of the world, I would say.You know, thinking some things were okay or normal, that just should never happen, right?And I was about 12 the first time that I went to a church and responded to an alter call.And I remember like there was this period where my mom was like bringing us to church.I don't know why, but well, I do know why, you know, spoiler alert.That's why I'm in Jesus.And I remember looking at her when they're doing the alter call and I just said like,you know, what should I do? Should I go down there?My mom's like, well, do you want to go to hell?And I was like, that's a very good question, mom.No, I do not.So I went down there and gave my heart to Jesus, but I didn't really give him my life.I didn't really know what that meant.And I knew that I wanted him to save me.I knew that I didn't want to go to hell.I didn't know who I was.I didn't know who he was.And so, you know, there were certain fundamental things I knew.Like I could pray.I could ask the Lord to save me, help me because there are a lot of situations in my lifewhere I needed him to do that.And he did.I look back now.I'm 32 years old. This is 20 years ago.And I can confidently say, Jesus had my back.He watched out for me.His hand was on my life and he protected me, right?And there were lots of things that I did to put myself in bad situations where I wouldneed his help.There's lots of things that just happen because we live in a fallen world, right?The rain falls on the chest and the unjust alike.And so fast forward 10 years, I've lived a lot of life.I have sinned a lot.You know?I didn't know who I was.So I did things to try to find that out.I drank.I did drugs.I had premarital sex.I did all those things to try to fill this void on the inside of me that only the Lordcould fill.And I didn't know that, right?Because the Bible says, "Eternity is written on the heart of man."And I think somewhere deep down, I really did have the conviction of the Holy Spirit.So I want to make sure I communicate this.I was miserable in my sin.I wasn't happy.I wasn't having a good time out there partying.It just seemed like everything that I did added to the misery in my life.And I thought this would make me happy.And then it turns out it's empty, meaningless, void of anything, right?It lead me further into depression, further into darkness.And there were times where I remember being tormented by demons where I would see demonicvisions.And I just remembered from my childhood, my sister telling me, "Hey, there's one thing youcan do when you're scared."And it's say, "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus Christ."So I'd be laying there, paralyzed in the bed, seeing a demon.I rebuke you in the name of Jesus Christ.And it's so wild to me.That's what I knew.But it's funny how God gives you what you need in seasons, you know, for what you canhandle where you're at.And so anyway, so I ended up doing all kinds of crazy things.I joined the Navy.I was a firefighter.And I was really searching for purpose and searching for like this.I want to do something good.And I was doing tons of things that ...
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    29 mins

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