331 | Fighting Shadows, Leveraging Your Season, and Asking Curious Questions (Jon Tyson)

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Jon Tyson is back for the third time! In this episode, he uncovers the seven lies that hold men back from becoming fully alive. You'll discover the strategies Satan uses to keep you distracted and passive, and you'll be inspired to embrace your current season and ask curious questions for the sake of others.

Key Takeaways

• Satan wants us dumb, entertained, oversatiated, and unmotivated.
• You must fight against despair, loneliness, shame, lust, ambition, futility, and apathy.
• If you ask curious questions about the needs around you, you never know what you'll get swept into.
• What things do you need to harvest and enjoy right now before they rot and are gone?

Jon Tyson

Originally from Adelaide, Australia, Jon Tyson is a pastor and author based in New York City. He is the author of "Fighting Shadows" and the bestselling books "The Intentional Father" and "Beautiful Resistance." Jon has been married to Christy for twenty-five years and has two adult children.

Key Quotes

• 10:40 - "I always tell people, my vision is intentionality, it's not perfection. No one is perfect. In fact, the perfect fathers are often the ones that damaged their kids through such high expectations. It's just do your best, live in love, be honest with your struggles and get help. Rely on the community of men to help raise your kids. Ancient societies were not primarily just father-son societies. They were the community of men playing a vital role. It was the tribe that helped formed men, not just this psychotic pressure on an individual father."

• 19:23 - "I know everybody tells you this, be careful when you kill time, it has no resurrection. You can waste time. You can kill time. Waste time. Use time. Invest time. Redeem time. Or leverage time. And a lot of God, that's Ephesians 5, make the most of the time. That's not the word kross is the word kairos, which means you were in a season right now, that must be leveraged that you will never get again. It's not the same in every season. So I'm not advocating a kind of guilt where every, like, if every spare moment should be in prayer. That's, that's death. That's the law. I'm advocating, I'm advocating an awareness of your season. The things that need to be harvested now or they rot. Or seed now, or you missed the window to sow. Or enjoyed now or it's gone. How do you really figure what that is in that season and leverage it? Make the most because the days are evil. So yeah, it's about really trying to leverage the season more than anything else. First you got to know what it is, but when you know what it is going to be aware and go after it."

Links from Today’s Conversation

• Apply to join the Summer 2024 DadAwesome Accelerator Cohort: Email [e-mail] to learn more
• 147 | Jon Tyson on Intentional Fatherhood & Creating the Primal Path
• 187 | Jon Tyson on Skillful Manhood, Capturing First Moments & The Intentional Father
• Fighting Shadows: Overcoming 7 Lies That Keep Men From Becoming Fully Alive by Jon Tyson and Jefferson Bethke
• The Intentional Father: A Practical Guide to Raise Sons of Courage and Character by Jon Tyson
• Primal Path: A Discipleship Program for Fathers & Sons
• Awaken Network Podcast
• Sign up for Jon’s Newsletter

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