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Jonathan Guerrero

Greetings, everyone. Thank you for joining me in this episode. Thank you for joining me in this episode called How Are We Doing? This episode may be a little bit different, and I know you're used to have to me having a guest on all the time, but every once in a while, it's good to talk about this program and update you on where we are.

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First, let's start with a history of the Fatherhood Challenge and how it got its start.

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Many years ago, i went through a crisis of faith that comes for each of us at least once in our life, often twice. Some refer to it as the dark night of the soul.

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Many run from it. I ran straight into it. it was triggered by the It was triggered by the death of my mom. my dad had been missing out My dad had been missing out of my life for many, many years.

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And by then it carried so many wounds. When you add that to the trauma I carried from growing up in an abusive home, the death of my mom was the turning point that sent me spiraling down into a crisis of faith, beating at the door of heaven, demanding answers in anger and in bitterness.

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I threatened to go somewhere else for my answers if I did not receive a timely answer. And I didn't bluff. I went to the dark side. That journey nearly cost me and my family and my life a few times.

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But due to a strong praying wife who understood the spiritual warfare that was happening, God intervened and I had a direct encounter and intervention by God where he restored me.

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As I was ready, he answered my hard questions.

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Not long after that, my wife and I were driving and we were talking about When I made a comment that I thought was that I wasn't a good father, she was quiet and she didn't say anything.

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the next day we The next day, out of the blue, she said that I should start a podcast. I thought it was very strange and out of character for her to suggest something like that.

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So just to see where she was coming from, I said, well, suppose I were to start a podcast. What is it you think that I would have to talk about?

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I was really, really curious why she would even bring that that but why she would even bring that up. Because there was just something very, very odd about yeah the fact that she would say th

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