June 3, 2025 • 44 mins
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Dan Britton, long time Fellowship of Christian Athletes staff member, author, and founder of SportsLife Leadership reveals how his father's intentional approach to life and faith created ripples that continue long after his passing.
With remarkable vulnerability, Dan shares how his father balanced success in the financial world with passionate dedication to ministry. The family home became a revolving door for missionaries, creating an environment where faith wasn't just taught but lived breathlessly. Dan's father modeled what it means to be "a man on mission," approaching every relationship and opportunity with purpose. This intensity sometimes embarrassed young Dan but ultimately planted seeds that would flourish throughout his life.
At the heart of the conversation is Dan's father's framework for spiritual growth—"The Three D's of Devotion." Beginning with drudgery (showing up even when it feels like "eating bark"), progressing to discipline (creating habits), and finally reaching delight (anticipating God's presence), this process offers profound wisdom for spiritual development and parenting alike. The non-negotiable aspects of faith his father established, like consistent church attendance, created patterns that shaped Dan's adult life and ministry leadership.
Perhaps most powerful is Dan's reflection on how he both honored his father's legacy while thoughtfully breaking certain generational patterns. While his father showed love through intensity, Dan made a conscious choice to be more verbally and physically affectionate with his own children. Today, seeing five family members working in ministry brings him joy not just in his grandchildren but in watching his children become parents who carry forward the values that shaped them.
Whether you had a strong father figure or not, this conversation offers wisdom, encouragement, and practical guidance for building a legacy that stretches beyond your lifetime. Listen now and discover how everyday intentionality creates multigenerational impact that can transform families, communities, and the world.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Be A Baller where we're building a
lifelong legacy for our families, communities and the world.
Your host, coach Tim Brown, isexcited for you to join him on
this journey.
On each episode, we'll betalking about how to be
intentional about building alasting legacy.
We'll be exploring what itmeans to leave a mark that goes
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beyond just our lives but has apositive impact on those around
us and even generations to come.
So if you're looking forinspiration, guidance and
practical tips on how to build alasting legacy that makes a
difference, then you're in theright place.
So grab your earbuds, getcomfortable and let's dive in.
It's time to be a baller.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Your Baller Podcast.
I'm your host, coach Tim Brown,and I'm excited to begin our
fatherhood series, where weexplore the legacy, lessons and
love passed down from generationto the next, from one
generation to the next, and Icouldn't think of a better
person to be our first guest onthis than our good friend, dan
Britton.
Person to be our first guest onthis than a good friend, dan
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Britton.
Dan's a man whose life reflectsintentional leadership, deep
faith and a passion for helpingothers live on purpose.
After 34 years with theFellowship of Christian Athletes
, helping the ministry grow fromone country to over 400, dan
now leads sports leadership,sports, life leadership, lending
his three greatest passionsjesus, sports and leadership.
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Dan's a former professionallacrosse player, a nine-time
author and a seasoned speakerwho's inspired audiences from
the boardrooms to locker rooms.
But today we go beyond all ofthat.
Today we want to talk about theman who shaped him most his dad
.
Get ready to hear the lessonsthat has helped Dan become the
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father, husband and leader he istoday.
Dan, welcome to Be A Ballerpodcast.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Tim, it is great to be back on the program.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
When I thought about this wholefatherhood piece your name the
Lord just kept dropping yourname in my spirit.
You know, I know a little bitabout your relationship with
your father, but I'm excited tohear this and for the audience
to learn about this as well.
So, dan, can you talk a littlebit about your dad and the kind
of man you saw growing up?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, my dad was an All-American lacrosse player at
the Naval Academy, had two olderbrothers and you know I was the
baby of the family and weplayed football, basketball,
lacrosse.
The preferred sport in our homewas lacrosse, since my dad was
a high level lacrosse player andman it just I felt like I grew
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up in the crib with a lacrossestick in my hands and just you
know he was a, he was a gogetter.
I felt like I grew up in thecrib with a lacrosse stick in my
hands.
He was a go-getter.
My dad was a very successfulfinancial planner, stockbroker.
He was in the business world.
His two brothers he was theoldest of three boys, I was the
youngest of his three boys, so alot of Britain boys running
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around.
But you know my, my dad, my twouncles were pastors and my and
my dad was, um, you know, kindof dealt with the money, the
money side of doing financialplanning, stockbroker.
And you know it was interesting.
My, my grandfather, uh, was asalesman but loved Jesus.
He loved Jesus, was a godlyexample, always shared Christ
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was a part of a small littleBible study.
My grandfather Pops was part ofa Bible study in Baltimore
Every Thursday morning at 6.30for 35 years, led a small men's
Bible study every singleThursday morning for 35 years.
That was my grandfather.
Just consistency.
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And then my dad showed me thesame thing of consistency.
He was involved with ChristianBusinessmen's Committee, ran a
downtown touchdown club Biblestudy and did outreaches.
But my dad was a great model ofwhat it looked like to be a man
on a mission.
A man that had a mission, wason point, was very intentional.
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My dad's middle name could havebeen intentional and that was
who he was.
We called you know like he wasso intense.
You know, as a young boy it wasalso embarrassing at times, but
, man, his intensity was justoverwhelming.
He would, you know, a guest atthe church.
You know we raise our hand like.
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His mission was after church tobeeline for that person and
take him out to lunch and makehim feel like a million dollars
and take him to McDonald's orRoy Rogers or something.
Just love on him and so like.
And I remember Tim growing up wealways had missionaries in the
home.
Our house was always open downthe basement, we had people in
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the home and he was always justinviting people in and people
were staying over and peoplewere breaking bread with us.
And, hey, this missionary was amissionary in Poland and next
thing, you know, they're with usfor three days.
And you know, next thing, I'mgetting to know them and hearing
their stories and hearing aboutgospel stories and you know,
then he would fund, you know, 25different missionaries around
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the world and then we'd meet themissionaries, they'd be in our
home and, you know, all thesethings were beginning to connect
and I don't know howintentional it was, tim, but man
, it like planted a seed forgospel work.
It planted a seed for my wifeand I to create the Britain
Suites in our basement and we'vehad literally hundreds of FCA
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staff and international leadersand friends stay in our homes.
We've had friends stay in ourhome for months and summers and
college kids and we've hostedthem and loved them and seen the
life transformation happen.
Well, the apple didn't fall farfrom the tree, because my dad
was a man on a mission, andthat's what men do, that's what
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legacy does, that's whatgenerational gospel impact has
is that you're a man on amission and that passes on.
I always say, tim, that youknow again, ultimate fruit
doesn't grow on your own tree.
The ultimate fruit grows onother people's trees and the
ultimate fruit gospel fruit,kingdom fruit grows on other
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people's trees, and so the fruitmy dad was bearing was a fruit
on my tree, and my prayer is nowthat, as a father of three kids
and now two grandkids, that myfruit isn't the fruit that I
bear, but it's my fruit isgrowing on their trees.
That's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You know, I can see how fired up you are.
I see where that intensitycomes from.
I get it now.
I get it now.
You know, in that, as you watchthat, what was that defining
moment that inspired you,encouraged you to seek the Lord?
You know, because you talkedabout your grandfather.
When did it become realpersonal for you?
What was that moment?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, you know, I think, I think, tim, they laid
the ground work.
I saw as a young boy with mygrandfather, I saw with my dad
and again, he wasn't perfect, sointense at times.
You know, he, he, he pushed theenvelope pretty hard.
You had to come back from.
I feel like my mom is.
You know, mother theresa, she,she was the saint Dorothy who
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lived side by side with Big Ed,but you know as much as they
laid the foundation.
We went to church every Sunday,every Wednesday, every Sunday
night.
And it wasn't until I was 14that I went away to a camp with
a church youth group up to NewYork youth group up to New York,
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drove the 10 hours away on abus and kind of got away from
the hustle and bustle, the ratrace and God began to speak in
my life.
And it was at that camp thatGod kind of pulled all the
pieces together and saidremember that little prayer you
prayed with your mom at ageeight in a good news Bible study
and do you remember, likeSunday after Sunday school, that
you were part of some greatBible lessons and hearing godly
truth?
And it wasn't until at thatcamp that you know there was an
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invitation to come forward infront of the bonfire.
And man, I just ran forwardlike a baby and, you know, cried
like a baby and threw a woodchip into the fire and said no
longer I live.
And it was 14, it was July of ofof 1982 and um signed a little
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yellow card, signed DannyBritton, you know, and said I
would fully give my all in allto to Jesus Christ and never
turned back to him.
It was like that was the moment.
Everything that my you know,it's kind of like my, my parents
created the environment.
My parents created thatenvironment so that the seed
could plant and not get chokedout and it could have a tenfold,
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a hundredfold production.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
You know, I read where you talked about your
dad's three D's of devotion.
You know, don't wait.
And I'm really stuck on thisdrudgery deal, you know, and the
dismal.
Can you talk about that?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, you know, my dad had some great sayings.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I want to write a book.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
You know I've written nine books and I'd love to
write a book called you know hehad this one saying when he was
going through leukemia and hehad a battle with leukemia for a
year and a half and passed awayin 2008.
But he made a handwritten sign.
He'd always do this andunderline and highlight it in
different colors and he put thislittle sign in the kitchen that
says life is God's gift period.
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What we do with it is our giftback to him and I'll never
forget it.
It's kind of become a motto formy life is you know, yes, life
is God's gift to us, but what wedo with it is literally our
sacrifice, our honoring of himback.
I was kind of like Dad, where'dyou steal that quote from?
You know, I've Googled it.
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Everything.
It's like it's his quote.
You know, I've Googled it.
Everything.
It's like it's his quote, youknow.
But you know my dad, he had thisphrase called the three Ds of
devotion and he said Danny, hegoes.
You know, sometimes you get up,you get ready for your
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devotions and spending time withGod.
The first D is drudgery.
It's like eating bark.
It's like all right, it's not.
You don't like it, it's notenjoyable.
You don't feel this presence ofthe Lord so much because you
know, dag nabbit, you just do it, you know you just it's
drudgery but you're just goingto see through it and it's still
good for you.
You just know it's good for you.
Like you know sometimes thatfood you don't want to eat is
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good for you.
You just know it's good.
That's the drudgery stage andthen he kind of goes.
But, danny, you know, if youkeep doing it and you're
committed to it and you're inthe drudgery stage, you finally
get to the point of discipline.
It's like, oh, this is what Ido.
It becomes more habitual.
It's like this is who I am.
It more defines you and it's apart of your life, it's part of
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your rhythm, it's part of theway you do things and you go
from drudgery to oh, of courseyou know it's not hard anymore,
it's not like eating bark, butit's just a part of my life,
part of my rhythm, part of myroutine.
And this is what I do by beingable to spend time with God each
day.
And then he would smile realbig and he says but then it goes
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from drudgery, discipline todelight, when you can't wait
because you know the Lord iswaiting for you.
Every day he wants to meet withyou.
It's not about you meeting withhim.
He's waiting for you.
He wants to meet with you andhe goes, danny, he goes.
That's when it turns intodelight.
But it all starts with drudgery.
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It goes to discipline and thenit's delight.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, I think about that scripture.
Delight yourself in the Lord.
You know and taste and see the.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Lord is good.
Good, that's good stuff.
You know what was some of thatadvice that stuck with you as
you became a father yourselfwell, I, I tell you, uh, one was
obviously the, the advice andthe in the mentoring my dad gave
me that was so important, was,you know, opening the home right
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, and just you know it's funny,my, my wife comes from a
background that you know,opening the home Right, and just
you know it's funny, my, mywife comes from a background
that you know they didn't host alot of people when they were
raised.
You know they had different.
She kind of came out of abroken home and just it was a
very, a little bit differentdynamic.
So when, like, they would havepeople over for a week or a
month or open their home, and soyou know, when we got married,
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I just wondered, like wonder, ifthis is going to work.
You know, this passion that Ihave to put the arms out, and
you know, my wife Dawn, like wehave, it's part of our mission,
it's part of who we are is just,you know, how many people can
we open the home to, to host andbe a part of the Britain
community and see miracleshappen, and so that that's one
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thing, big time, that that uhhas transferred over to us.
The other thing was my dad uhrealized like, like you know,
hey, uh, church was not anoption.
If you, if you want church asan as an option, then you can.
You can go out of the houselike you can.
You're not a part of the home.
And so I just remember, even inhigh school, like I didn't have
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an option not to go to church,I didn't have an option not to
go to youth group, like, like Iwas as much as I didn't like it
and at times I kicked and foughtand yelled and screamed and and
didn't want it.
I mean, he, he gave me anoption, like I either went to
church or I could go find aplace to stay on my own Right
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right.
Like today.
I know, I know today just feelslike things are different.
But I talk to people and theygo yeah, my kid just doesn't
want to go to church with us.
I was like wait a minute,they're 14 years old, right,
right, he's the parent.
And I think my dad just gave mean ability that there's
non-negotiables.
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It's called parenting.
This is the way we do it.
This is the Britain way.
The Britain way is that we arepart of hey, we go on vacation.
We're finding a church in thelocal community.
We're not sleeping in.
We're not going to BedsideBaptist, like we're not sleeping
in, we're not, you know, goingto Bedside Baptist.
You know like, no, we're not,we're not, we're not sleeping in
.
On Sunday, we're actuallyfinding a local church.
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We're plugging in and it's apart of our DNA and my dad
modeled that for me.
He realized that there'scertain non-negotiables.
So when I went to college, guesswhat?
First Sunday I found Pike CreekValley Baptist Church, went
every single Sunday.
Pastor Pugh was amazing and hewas my pastor for all four years
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.
First Thursday, I found thelittle FCA, fall Street
Christian Athletes, and met onThursday nights at Carpenter
Sports Building with 10 athletesvery small, 13,000 students on
the campus but this littleeensy-beansy little huddle
called FCA was meeting onThursday nights.
Crusade had hundreds of people,intervarsity had hundreds of
people, but my tribe was those10 on Thursday night.
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And guess what?
Very first Thursday, very firstSunday check checked.
All because of what my dadinstilled into me, you know.
And so when my kids came alongit's like hey, kids, I know you
don't like the youth pastor, buttoo bad, I know you sometimes
don't like church on Sundaymornings sitting next to us to
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hear the sermon.
You know it's not as fun asyour videos and everything else
you want to do.
We're sitting as a family,we're going to church together.
This is the way the Brintonfamily rolls and I think you
know.
Again, they knew how much Iloved them.
It wasn't out of legalism andjust.
You know, hey, they're gettingpunished, but they knew how much
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I loved them.
But also they realized it was anon-negotiable and I think my
dad taught me that.
That you know it's, it's, it'ssomething my friend John Gordon
says is we?
We talk about tough love, buthow about love tough?
You know we talk about toughlove like hey, we're in the
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trouble.
But what about love tough Likelike hey, I'm?
I'm stepping in at times that,even like it's not about like
hey, my kids did something wrongand it's tough love.
But love tough is like I'mloving at all times.
I'm loving, you know, even intrying to figure out the
schedule and, hey, how we'regoing to do life and family.
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Is love tough, not just toughlove.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
That's good.
That's good stuff there.
You know, if you think aboutyour dad, was your dad, was his
love vocal, or did he have aquieter way of showing his love?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Oh, he, I feel like the little firecracker, he was a
big stick of dynamite.
I mean, you heard my dad.
I mean you came to a ballgame.
You heard my dad Like he wouldbe vocal, he would grab you,
punch in the arm, hug you.
You know you'd get, you know,like all like beat up by my dad
because how much he loved youyou know.
So he's physical and he'shorrible, you know, but it was
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interesting, like as much as hedid, that he still came out of
that generation, that, eventhough he did all that, I very
rarely remember like just givinga hug.
You know it was weird, he wasalways touching me but I just
never remember coming up andjust going hey, dad, I love you
and hug you.
Um, he went, you know he,everything he did, he, he showed
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me how much he loved me, but hewouldn't again the generation
they was in, he wouldn't say Ilove you, he wouldn't do a full
hug.
And so one of the things I didis I just knew that that was a
generational thing, notnecessarily a heart thing.
And so with my son Eli I havetwo daughters and a son, my son
Eli I just know, you know whatI'm going to hug him, I'm going
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to kiss him on his cheek.
You know, I'm going to tell himand look him nice how much I
love you.
And you know, now he's.
You know he's 28, he's 28,.
Six foot three, long, hair bulllike beard.
I reach up to him and I'm likeyou know, I hug him, I kiss him
on the cheek, and in public, andpeople are like what the heck
is that old man doing with thatbig guy?
You know I'm loving on my sonso you know I think his, even
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though he there are certainthings that that couldn't be
expressed to me.
I've taken that way, that mydad loved me in the way that he
could.
I've now been able to love myson the way that he needs to be
loved.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
That's good, that's good, you know.
Speaking of dad, have you foundyourself repeating some things
he used to say, maybe even somethings you used to roll your
eyes at oh buddy, come on.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
You know he used to always say at oh buddy, come on.
You know he used to always sayhey, danny, danny, work hard,
work smart, work hard, worksmart.
Well, I remember work hard andwork smart, we did.
But then he would say work hard, play hard.
And I'm like Dad, we alwaysworked hard but we never got to
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the play hard.
When are we going to get to theplay hard?
You know.
But you know he would often sayyou know, work hard, play hard.
You know he would.
You know he had a little phraselike you know you have friends.
Like you, who needs enemies,you know, like little snippets
of just these cool little oldschool sayings that right
you know, I'm kind of like, ohman, you know, uh, okay, dad, I
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get it, I get it.
You know, um, you know, and hejust little things like you say,
come over here, you go, comeover here, let me give you a
kick in the pants.
You know, and he grabbed me andyou know, give me a big kick in
the pants.
And I mean all these littlethings that that you know.
Again, kind of one of the thingsI think about is love is God's
gift and to us, what we do withis our gift back to him.
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It's probably written on myheart.
I mean, that's like engraved inmy heart of kind of the way he
does life, you know, he oftenwould say even hey, do it now,
danny N-O-W, do it now Spe.
Now, danny in ow, do it now?
Spell backwards, you've won.
Hey, if you do it now, you'vewon.
And so his idea ofintentionality, season, the day
making a decision, little tinysayings that again, I one day
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I'm gonna write a book on all mydad's principles, but you know,
do it now, you've won.
And I just always remember thatit's like, hey, I can set it
aside, be lazy, procrastinate,or hey, if I put action into it.
I do it now that I've won.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
That's good stuff, you know, what do you think your
dad would be most proud of?
Of the way you stepped intofatherhood?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yeah, I think he would say, you know, he would
definitely say that he's proudof the way I'm led as a godly
example.
You know that the way that hetried to model for me of, you
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know, christ wasn't an option.
That you know that I've beenable to step into that and be
able to do full-time ministryand provide for the family and
provide a home.
That you know, as we know, tim,you know I've been 35 years in
sports ministry and so manypastors, kids, and you know
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their kids.
You know ministry kids justwalk away from Jesus.
You know they don't wantanything to do with it and you
know so.
At one point, tim, all three ofmy kids were working with FCA
and my wife, our entire familyokay, our entire family has
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worked with the FCA Right now.
Currently, you know I've had achance to start this new
ministry, leadership developmentministry in the sports world,
called Sports Life Leadership,just this past year.
But you know, for 34 years I'veserved there and my wife, dawn,
still works there.
My second daughter, abby, andher husband work there and my
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son, eli, and his wife workthere.
So I have five family membersthat still work at FCA, that are
still serving the Lord everyday.
And my oldest daughter workedfour years as the lacrosse
women's director and she gotcalled out of FCA to be a
full-time college lacrossewomen's director and she thought
god called her out of fca to bea full-time college lacrosse
coach.
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So in a way she's still servingthe lord coaching and then my,
my son-in-law is where it worksas an engineer.
So literally I have, you know,most of my family serving a
full-time ministry.
So I think my, my father, wouldbe like he's most proud of to
see that again that fruit isgrowing on other people's trees
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and seeing that they're now apart of ministry and doing the
work.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That's good, you know as you think about your dad.
If you could ask your dad onequestion now that you didn't or
couldn't back then, what wouldit be, as you watch your dad,
you back then?
What would it be as you watchyour dad, you know, what would
you ask?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
him one question um, I think I, I think, um, uh, I
would ask him.
It was interesting, tim heagain, he was very successful in
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the business world and but yethe was very involved with FCA,
christian Businessmen'sCommittee, cbmc, very involved
in Biblical International BibleSociety.
He had a lot of ministries hewas passionate about.
Probably the one question Iwould ask him is you know, when
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we were kids, we never you know,I never traveled outside the US
.
You know, we just never.
And again, you know, he did wellfinancially and then gave a lot
of money kingdom work millionsof dollars away in his lifetime.
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But you know, like we neverwent on a missions trip.
You know, we never.
You know, my first time I everwent outside the country and did
a trip was with FCA toUkraineraine in 2007 with shane
williamson, the president of fca.
You know that was my first time, it was his first trip, but it
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was like you know, we had theopportunity to go hey, we're
gonna, as a family, go with thechurch or hey, we're gonna go
and serve.
And he supported all thesepeople.
He gave, gave a lot of money toa lot of great ministries
overseas, but you know, we neverwent, and so I felt like I was
a late bloomer, since and I'vebeen to 60 countries and I've
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been hard for the nations andI've traveled the world and I've
been to more places than 99 ofamericans.
You know, and just, I have ahuge heart for the nations.
I've taken all my kids onmission trips with me through
FCA and I've taken my entirefamily.
We did mission trips togetherand just to see them have a
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heart for the nations, I'mthankful that I did, I'm
thankful that I did, you know,eventually get there.
But you know, I would just askthem like, hey, why, why was it
that you had a passion for, forthe nations, you gave to the
nations, but yet you never sawthat again.
This is not a question ofjudgment, but it's just like I
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don't know why.
Maybe safety, maybe I don'tknow, but why did you have a
heart for it but yet we didn'tgo support it?
Like you did everything else,have a heart for it, but yet we
didn't go support it like he dideverything else.
And it was just kind of likethis little nuance gap that if I
, if I had a chance to spendsome time with him, I just be
like, hey, dad, like come on,like why didn't you ever like
throw some money down and takeour family on a week to a trip
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to go see one of yourmissionaries that you've been,
you know, giving to for 20, 30,40 years, and see the ministry
in action and let our hearts,you know, fall in love with that
.
You know, but he kind of didwith these reverse trips and,
you know, again, everyone stayedin our home.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, yeah Right.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
So I'm very thankful for that, because that planted
the seed for me to do that.
So yes, thank you, but it wouldhave been great to go and kick
the tires.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
But look at you now.
Look at you now what you haveto do for your family.
I think that seed was plantedby those persons coming that
gave you a heart for man.
I want to go over there, I wantto go see your country and look
at what God, look what God hasdone.
You know 60 countries and, likeI say, you really have or 99%
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of americans.
You know, you've seen, you'veseen the world and your family
has seen the world.
So I think sometimes what ourparents aren't able to do, we're
able to do.
Right, just think, just thinkabout what your grandkids are
going to do.
Wow, you know, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
But god says I'll do me, hopefully go beyond me, way
beyond, yes yes, yes, all thingswork together.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
you know, as we kind of come around the corner, this
is a legacy podcast.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
First off, what would your children say about you?
Well, I just had my 58thbirthday, so they just told me a
bunch of stuff last weekend,right, you know again.
I know my wife and I made a lotof mistakes.
We weren't the perfect parents,but man, I just I feel like
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God's grace and mercy was extraextended, grace upon grace upon
our kids, and just I wouldn'twant to change it for anything,
honestly, like nothing, I mean Iwouldn't.
Even all the ups and downs andheartaches and hardships to see
how God formed him and shapedhim made us better parents
realize.
Okay, we're not going to dothat again.
I wouldn't change anything, TimI mean no regrets at all.
So you know, I think my kids alot of times my kids just say
(28:12):
like dad, like you know there'snot another dad we would rather
have.
Like you've set the godlyexample and you know, eli says I
hope one day I could be.
You know half of what you areas a father to my kids.
Now I'm like, well, you'regonna be like two times what I
am.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
You're going to be the double.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I'm going to give you a double portion, son.
There's a little Elisha passingon, we're going to anoint you
for the double portion, right,tim, let's go Amen.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Honestly.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I say people go, what's the greatest thing about
being a grandparent?
Like we got a two-year-old andone-year-old and we got two more
on the way, so we'll be at fourbefore we know it.
And you know people all thetime like, oh, we love the kids.
And you know, oh gosh,grandparenting is the best part.
And this kid you're seeing thekids and honestly, when people
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ask me what's the best partabout grandparenting, I go it's
not the grandkid, I love thegrandkids, trust me.
I mean the grandkids melt yourheart.
I mean, just with one littleword, a puddle, you know.
But what I love about being agrandparent is to see my kids
parent, amen.
I mean the joy is to see my twodaughters become mothers.
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Like, oh, my gosh, like this isthe most incredible thing.
Like the grandchild is theirchild, like as much as I want it
to be my kid it's their kid.
But my two daughters, they're mykid Amen, so for them to become
a mother and for Eli eventuallyto become a father, that's the
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greatest thing in the world.
And so, you know, my hope isthat my kids would go Dad.
You know, that's one of thethings I try to do is, as much
as I love to see the grandkidsfirst and hug them and love on
them, I always tell my twodaughters how proud I am of them
and I give them a kiss on theforehead and tell them how much
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I love them first becausethey're my child.
Grandkids will come later.
You know I can love on thegrandkids later, but that is so
important, and so my hope andprayer is that you know that
they would just simply say dad,you love me well, and not only
did you love me well, but youlove Jesus well.
You know you had a lot ofdelight, some drudgery days some
(30:38):
Right.
But you know what, most of thetime I saw there's delight
because of your presence withthe Lord, because you tasted the
Lord and you saw that it wasgood.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
It's good.
You tasted the Lord and you sawthat it was good.
It's good.
You know, you've been around awhile.
You've seen a lot of young guys, young men.
What advice would you give thefathers who didn't have a strong
father figure growing up?
You were blessed with watchingfather example, watching
grandfather example.
What advice would you give tothose young men who didn't have
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that growing up?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
yeah, I, you know again.
Uh, first book we wrote waswisdom walks, and wisdom walks
is about the four keyrelationships and it's kind of
the biblical model of having apaul barnabas and a timothy and
then being a walker, a pursuerof god yourself.
But but you know that watchman,what we call the Paul, the
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watchman that sits on the mantleand invests in you, sits on the
wall and can see things thatyou can't see.
That's the role of the father,right?
The father is a guide, advisor,sees things, counsels and able
to provide expertise that youdon't have yet.
Well, that's missing man.
(31:52):
There are a ton of watchmen inchurches and in neighborhoods
who, like, granted, a lot oftimes they don't think they have
a lot to give.
So it's not like they're comingand tapping that young kid on
the shoulder and saying, hey, Iwant to mentor you, I want to
invest in you, so I call itreverse.
Reverse mentoring Is hey, gotap them on the shoulder.
(32:16):
So those young guns that didn'thave it, it's not over.
Like, go find a Tim Brown, gofind a Dan Britton, you know
ones that have no hair or grayhair.
Right, like, if they have nohair or gray hair, they're the
ones that you go find.
Tap them on the shoulder andsay, hey, will you spend time
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with me, will you mentor me,will you be my watchman, will
you be my Paul, will youdisciple me?
And yeah, guess what?
It should be the old guys goingand reaching out.
Yes, you're right, like check,but that doesn't give you an
excuse, because you don't havethat person, not to reverse it
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and tap them on the shoulder andsay, hey, I want to meet with
you each week.
There's something in you that Ilove and I know there's
something in you that I canlearn from.
Yes, and so Do it Like, reverseit, flip the script.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
That's good.
That's a good word there.
That's a great word there.
You know, as we come around thecorner, I just have one other
question for you Any thoughts ormessages you'd like to share
with listeners about honoringthe father figures in their life
?
As we talk about thisfatherhood month, what are some
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thoughts and messages you wouldshare with the listeners about
honoring those fathers or fatherfigures in?
Speaker 3 (33:43):
their lives.
Yeah, I, you know.
Essentially, my father passedaway in 2008 and you know I did
the eulogy for my brothers and Iand and actually did the sermon
for that.
Very hard to do, it's notrecommended, but, man, I'm so
glad I did, but I, you know.
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Basically, the, the eulogy isthe honoring right now.
The tough part is I did itafter he died.
You know, I feel like I honoredhim throughout his life and
often told him how much I lovedhim and honored him with words,
but I never gave him an officiallike hey, there's an honoring,
(34:25):
a blessing to to um.
So I did it for my mom.
I sat down and wrote up a honorto my mom because she was still
living.
She is still living.
She's 88.
Amazing woman of God.
But I wrote a full opportunityto bless my mom by honoring her
while she's living.
(34:45):
I think that one of thegreatest things that we can do
as kids is to honor our parents,and you know what?
They're not perfect.
It was interesting, tim.
I did something I've never donein my life.
So I was traveling on mybirthday.
(35:06):
No, I wasn't traveling, I'msorry, I was home.
I was out for my run.
I'm a runner.
I was out for my run.
I'm a runner.
I was out for my run early inthe morning and you know
everyone was texting already andFacebooking like happy birthday
, 58,.
58 is great.
I think it's great.
That's that's what they say 58is great.
So I've turned 58 and, and youknow I said to myself Tim, you
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know what I'm going to call mymom and thank her.
I'm going to thank her that shegave me life.
I've never done that.
You know, birthday is all aboutme.
I knew my mom was going to callme.
I knew my brothers were goingto call me.
I knew I'm going to getpictures in our family texts of,
(35:51):
you know, great pictures overthe last year, all these little
routines or rituals we do.
But I've never, I've never, oncein 58 years, called my mom to
thank her for giving me life.
So I called her.
I said, mom, I want you to bemy first call today.
And she's like oh, I'm sothankful.
You know, happy birthday, son.
I said well, mom, mom.
I said I don't think I've evercalled you to say thank you on
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my birthday.
You gave me life on this day.
And I said, mom, you and daddidn't raise me, perfect, but
man, I am so thankful for thehome.
And first we talked for 45minutes and all I did was for 45
minutes to him.
Tell her how much I wasthankful, recalling blessing her
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, encourage her to a point.
She goes, dan, you're making mecry.
I go that's okay, mom, that'sokay Because you gave me life
today.
Well, that's honor.
Like, that's honor.
Like you know, my birthday isnot about me, it's my mom did
the part and so you got toreverse that.
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Like we should be, likeliterally the day of our
birthday should be the day wehonor our mom, and, and so I'm
thankful, the Lord, you know,triggered that in my spirit.
So for the first 45 minutes,even during my run, I talked to
her for 45 minutes and just hadthis amazing and I prayed for it
.
Then I said, mom, I just wantto pray for you, I want to honor
you and bless you for giving melife 58 years ago on this day,
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you know, and it was just, itwas a one of a kind I've never
done that and it was a sweet,special time.
So, yes, honoring is so valuable, never can do enough.
I mean, it's not like, hey,take your honor somewhere else.
You over honored me.
No one's ever going to say thatLike honor is bottomless.
Right, honor is bottomless.
So don't ever think that you'vecrossed the line when it comes
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to honoring.
Like you can never give enoughhonor, and you know it even
comes with our Heavenly Father.
Like we can never give himenough honor, and you know it
even comes with our HeavenlyFather, like we can never give
Him enough honor, in the sameway we can never give others
enough honor.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
As we end this episode.
I knew you would be the one tokick this thing off.
You know there's no doubt.
Could you pray for fathers?
Could you pray for fathers andpray a blessing over the fathers
that are listening to thispodcast today?
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Amen, amen, love to be able to pray.
Yep.
Father, we come before you andwe, just we just thank you.
Just what an amazing time toreflect, not only on my dad, ed
Britton, my mom, dorothy Britton, and the impact of parents,
impact of a father, a godlyfather, I mean man.
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One godly fatherly relationshipcan truly change the world and
I'm a living example of that andI thank you that.
My dad gave me an example, notthe perfect example, but man,
just an amazing, transparentbumps and bruises, ups and downs
, mountaintops and valleys, butthrough it all, you've showed me
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that my dad was the real deal.
And so, god, we thank you forthe fathers that are out there.
I pray that they don't try topretend, but they are the real
deal, that they know that bythem being intentional, just the
way my dad was beingintentional, and not giving up.
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Lord, it's so easy as a fatherto give up, but we're going to
claim Galatians 6, 9, to notgrow weary in doing good,
because at the proper time,there'll be a harvest for those
that do not give up.
Well, that's a prayer, that's averse for parents and for
fathers Don't give up, don'tgive up, Don't quit as you
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become a godly parent.
You're not going to get itright the first time or the
second time or the third time.
Just allow us to keep strivingand keep thriving and keep
pushing and knowing that at theright time, lord, at the right
time, there will be a harvest.
A lot of times we don't see it.
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A lot of times, the seed isplanted and it's later and
greater.
Right, the seed that's planted,the law of the harvest is later
and greater.
It's not the here and now.
We want the here and now, butit's later and greater.
And so, god, I pray that prayerfor fathers out there.
And Lord, I just know that forme, like in Matthew and three
(40:27):
different times that theHeavenly Father said to his son
you are my beloved, you are mybeloved, you are my beloved.
And so, lord, as much as wewant to hear and might not have
heard, our earthly father issaying to us that you are my
beloved, that I love you, Icherish you, I honor you.
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We might have heard theopposite, I honor you.
We might have heard theopposite.
But, lord, even though we mightnot have heard that from our
Father, lord, we hear from youas our Heavenly Father.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Yes, Lord.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Lord, in the same way that you say to us simply that
we are your beloved, and we hearthese five words that will mark
us.
We hear these words, maybe notfrom our father, but we hear
from our heavenly father.
I am pleased with you, I ampleased with you, and so, god,
(41:23):
we we, right now, in this momentof prayer, we hear those words
of I am pleased with you, tim, Iam pleased with you, dan.
I am pleased with you, tim, I ampleased with you, dan, I am
pleased with you.
We hear our name called inthese words I am pleased with
you and so, lord, in the sameway that you gave us an example
(41:44):
to receive, to hear, that,imagine these words spoken to
our sons spoken to our sons.
Imagine as us, as fathers, tosay to my son, eli Eli, I am
pleased with you, you are mybeloved, you are loved deeply.
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God, help us to say those wordsthis Father's Day Maybe we've
never spoken those words ablessing over our kids.
Help us, as fathers, to saywhat the Heavenly Father has
already said to us I am pleasedwith you, you are my beloved.
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So, god, we pray this in thename of Jesus.
We pray that even this podcast,that whoever hears these words,
will be motivated andchallenged to be a godly father
who leaves a godly legacy,father who leaves a godly legacy
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because they've sown seeds ofgreatness gospel kingdom
greatness into their kids.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
We pray in the name of Jesus Amen, amen, amen, amen,
amen.
Thank you, dan, for sharingwisdom rooted in the legacy of
your dad and the values thatcontinue to shape how you lead
love and live today, whetherit's on the field, with your
family or through faith.
Dan, you remind us thatfatherhood isn't just about
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presence, it's about purpose.
It's about presence, it's aboutpurpose, and so, for the
audience, I hope this story hasencouraged you to reflect on
lessons you learned, the onesyou're passing on and the kind
of legacy you want to leavebehind.
So, dan, thanks for joining uson this Be a Baller podcast
episode on fatherhood, and, formy audience, we'll see you next
time as we continue to celebratethe impact of dads everywhere.
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Thanks, dan.
Appreciate you.
This was awesome, amen.
Appreciate you.
This was awesome, amen.
Thank you Awesome.
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
Your Baller Podcast.
I'm your host, coach Tim Brown,and I'm excited to begin our
fatherhood series, where weexplore the legacy, lessons and
love passed down from generationto the next, from one
generation to the next, and Icouldn't think of a better
person to be our first guest onthis than our good friend, dan
Britton.
Person to be our first guest onthis than a good friend, dan
(01:07):
Britton.
Dan's a man whose life reflectsintentional leadership, deep
faith and a passion for helpingothers live on purpose.
After 34 years with theFellowship of Christian Athletes
, helping the ministry grow fromone country to over 400, dan
now leads sports leadership,sports, life leadership, lending
his three greatest passionsjesus, sports and leadership.
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Dan's a former professionallacrosse player, a nine-time
author and a seasoned speakerwho's inspired audiences from
the boardrooms to locker rooms.
But today we go beyond all ofthat.
Today we want to talk about theman who shaped him most his dad
.
Get ready to hear the lessonsthat has helped Dan become the
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father, husband and leader he istoday.
Dan, welcome to Be A Ballerpodcast.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Tim, it is great to be back on the program.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
When I thought about this wholefatherhood piece your name the
Lord just kept dropping yourname in my spirit.
You know, I know a little bitabout your relationship with
your father, but I'm excited tohear this and for the audience
to learn about this as well.
So, dan, can you talk a littlebit about your dad and the kind
of man you saw growing up?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, my dad was an All-American lacrosse player at
the Naval Academy, had two olderbrothers and you know I was the
baby of the family and weplayed football, basketball,
lacrosse.
The preferred sport in our homewas lacrosse, since my dad was
a high level lacrosse player andman it just I felt like I grew
(02:41):
up in the crib with a lacrossestick in my hands and just you
know he was a, he was a gogetter.
I felt like I grew up in thecrib with a lacrosse stick in my
hands.
He was a go-getter.
My dad was a very successfulfinancial planner, stockbroker.
He was in the business world.
His two brothers he was theoldest of three boys, I was the
youngest of his three boys, so alot of Britain boys running
(03:03):
around.
But you know my, my dad, my twouncles were pastors and my and
my dad was, um, you know, kindof dealt with the money, the
money side of doing financialplanning, stockbroker.
And you know it was interesting.
My, my grandfather, uh, was asalesman but loved Jesus.
He loved Jesus, was a godlyexample, always shared Christ
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was a part of a small littleBible study.
My grandfather Pops was part ofa Bible study in Baltimore
Every Thursday morning at 6.30for 35 years, led a small men's
Bible study every singleThursday morning for 35 years.
That was my grandfather.
Just consistency.
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And then my dad showed me thesame thing of consistency.
He was involved with ChristianBusinessmen's Committee, ran a
downtown touchdown club Biblestudy and did outreaches.
But my dad was a great model ofwhat it looked like to be a man
on a mission.
A man that had a mission, wason point, was very intentional.
(04:14):
My dad's middle name could havebeen intentional and that was
who he was.
We called you know like he wasso intense.
You know, as a young boy it wasalso embarrassing at times, but
, man, his intensity was justoverwhelming.
He would, you know, a guest atthe church.
You know we raise our hand like.
(04:35):
His mission was after church tobeeline for that person and
take him out to lunch and makehim feel like a million dollars
and take him to McDonald's orRoy Rogers or something.
Just love on him and so like.
And I remember Tim growing up wealways had missionaries in the
home.
Our house was always open downthe basement, we had people in
(04:57):
the home and he was always justinviting people in and people
were staying over and peoplewere breaking bread with us.
And, hey, this missionary was amissionary in Poland and next
thing, you know, they're with usfor three days.
And you know, next thing, I'mgetting to know them and hearing
their stories and hearing aboutgospel stories and you know,
then he would fund, you know, 25different missionaries around
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the world and then we'd meet themissionaries, they'd be in our
home and, you know, all thesethings were beginning to connect
and I don't know howintentional it was, tim, but man
, it like planted a seed forgospel work.
It planted a seed for my wifeand I to create the Britain
Suites in our basement and we'vehad literally hundreds of FCA
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staff and international leadersand friends stay in our homes.
We've had friends stay in ourhome for months and summers and
college kids and we've hostedthem and loved them and seen the
life transformation happen.
Well, the apple didn't fall farfrom the tree, because my dad
was a man on a mission, andthat's what men do, that's what
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legacy does, that's whatgenerational gospel impact has
is that you're a man on amission and that passes on.
I always say, tim, that youknow again, ultimate fruit
doesn't grow on your own tree.
The ultimate fruit grows onother people's trees and the
ultimate fruit gospel fruit,kingdom fruit grows on other
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people's trees, and so the fruitmy dad was bearing was a fruit
on my tree, and my prayer is nowthat, as a father of three kids
and now two grandkids, that myfruit isn't the fruit that I
bear, but it's my fruit isgrowing on their trees.
That's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You know, I can see how fired up you are.
I see where that intensitycomes from.
I get it now.
I get it now.
You know, in that, as you watchthat, what was that defining
moment that inspired you,encouraged you to seek the Lord?
You know, because you talkedabout your grandfather.
When did it become realpersonal for you?
What was that moment?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, you know, I think, I think, tim, they laid
the ground work.
I saw as a young boy with mygrandfather, I saw with my dad
and again, he wasn't perfect, sointense at times.
You know, he, he, he pushed theenvelope pretty hard.
You had to come back from.
I feel like my mom is.
You know, mother theresa, she,she was the saint Dorothy who
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lived side by side with Big Ed,but you know as much as they
laid the foundation.
We went to church every Sunday,every Wednesday, every Sunday
night.
And it wasn't until I was 14that I went away to a camp with
a church youth group up to NewYork youth group up to New York,
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drove the 10 hours away on abus and kind of got away from
the hustle and bustle, the ratrace and God began to speak in
my life.
And it was at that camp thatGod kind of pulled all the
pieces together and saidremember that little prayer you
prayed with your mom at ageeight in a good news Bible study
and do you remember, likeSunday after Sunday school, that
you were part of some greatBible lessons and hearing godly
truth?
And it wasn't until at thatcamp that you know there was an
(08:13):
invitation to come forward infront of the bonfire.
And man, I just ran forwardlike a baby and, you know, cried
like a baby and threw a woodchip into the fire and said no
longer I live.
And it was 14, it was July of ofof 1982 and um signed a little
(08:33):
yellow card, signed DannyBritton, you know, and said I
would fully give my all in allto to Jesus Christ and never
turned back to him.
It was like that was the moment.
Everything that my you know,it's kind of like my, my parents
created the environment.
My parents created thatenvironment so that the seed
could plant and not get chokedout and it could have a tenfold,
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a hundredfold production.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
You know, I read where you talked about your
dad's three D's of devotion.
You know, don't wait.
And I'm really stuck on thisdrudgery deal, you know, and the
dismal.
Can you talk about that?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, you know, my dad had some great sayings.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I want to write a book.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
You know I've written nine books and I'd love to
write a book called you know hehad this one saying when he was
going through leukemia and hehad a battle with leukemia for a
year and a half and passed awayin 2008.
But he made a handwritten sign.
He'd always do this andunderline and highlight it in
different colors and he put thislittle sign in the kitchen that
says life is God's gift period.
(09:41):
What we do with it is our giftback to him and I'll never
forget it.
It's kind of become a motto formy life is you know, yes, life
is God's gift to us, but what wedo with it is literally our
sacrifice, our honoring of himback.
I was kind of like Dad, where'dyou steal that quote from?
You know, I've Googled it.
(10:02):
Everything.
It's like it's his quote.
You know, I've Googled it.
Everything.
It's like it's his quote, youknow.
But you know my dad, he had thisphrase called the three Ds of
devotion and he said Danny, hegoes.
You know, sometimes you get up,you get ready for your
(10:22):
devotions and spending time withGod.
The first D is drudgery.
It's like eating bark.
It's like all right, it's not.
You don't like it, it's notenjoyable.
You don't feel this presence ofthe Lord so much because you
know, dag nabbit, you just do it, you know you just it's
drudgery but you're just goingto see through it and it's still
good for you.
You just know it's good for you.
Like you know sometimes thatfood you don't want to eat is
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good for you.
You just know it's good.
That's the drudgery stage andthen he kind of goes.
But, danny, you know, if youkeep doing it and you're
committed to it and you're inthe drudgery stage, you finally
get to the point of discipline.
It's like, oh, this is what Ido.
It becomes more habitual.
It's like this is who I am.
It more defines you and it's apart of your life, it's part of
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your rhythm, it's part of theway you do things and you go
from drudgery to oh, of courseyou know it's not hard anymore,
it's not like eating bark, butit's just a part of my life,
part of my rhythm, part of myroutine.
And this is what I do by beingable to spend time with God each
day.
And then he would smile realbig and he says but then it goes
(11:30):
from drudgery, discipline todelight, when you can't wait
because you know the Lord iswaiting for you.
Every day he wants to meet withyou.
It's not about you meeting withhim.
He's waiting for you.
He wants to meet with you andhe goes, danny, he goes.
That's when it turns intodelight.
But it all starts with drudgery.
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It goes to discipline and thenit's delight.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, I think about that scripture.
Delight yourself in the Lord.
You know and taste and see the.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Lord is good.
Good, that's good stuff.
You know what was some of thatadvice that stuck with you as
you became a father yourselfwell, I, I tell you, uh, one was
obviously the, the advice andthe in the mentoring my dad gave
me that was so important, was,you know, opening the home right
(12:21):
, and just you know it's funny,my, my wife comes from a
background that you know,opening the home Right, and just
you know it's funny, my, mywife comes from a background
that you know they didn't host alot of people when they were
raised.
You know they had different.
She kind of came out of abroken home and just it was a
very, a little bit differentdynamic.
So when, like, they would havepeople over for a week or a
month or open their home, and soyou know, when we got married,
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I just wondered, like wonder, ifthis is going to work.
You know, this passion that Ihave to put the arms out, and
you know, my wife Dawn, like wehave, it's part of our mission,
it's part of who we are is just,you know, how many people can
we open the home to, to host andbe a part of the Britain
community and see miracleshappen, and so that that's one
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thing, big time, that that uhhas transferred over to us.
The other thing was my dad uhrealized like, like you know,
hey, uh, church was not anoption.
If you, if you want church asan as an option, then you can.
You can go out of the houselike you can.
You're not a part of the home.
And so I just remember, even inhigh school, like I didn't have
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an option not to go to church,I didn't have an option not to
go to youth group, like, like Iwas as much as I didn't like it
and at times I kicked and foughtand yelled and screamed and and
didn't want it.
I mean, he, he gave me anoption, like I either went to
church or I could go find aplace to stay on my own Right
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right.
Like today.
I know, I know today just feelslike things are different.
But I talk to people and theygo yeah, my kid just doesn't
want to go to church with us.
I was like wait a minute,they're 14 years old, right,
right, he's the parent.
And I think my dad just gave mean ability that there's
non-negotiables.
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It's called parenting.
This is the way we do it.
This is the Britain way.
The Britain way is that we arepart of hey, we go on vacation.
We're finding a church in thelocal community.
We're not sleeping in.
We're not going to BedsideBaptist, like we're not sleeping
in, we're not, you know, goingto Bedside Baptist.
You know like, no, we're not,we're not, we're not sleeping in
.
On Sunday, we're actuallyfinding a local church.
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We're plugging in and it's apart of our DNA and my dad
modeled that for me.
He realized that there'scertain non-negotiables.
So when I went to college, guesswhat?
First Sunday I found Pike CreekValley Baptist Church, went
every single Sunday.
Pastor Pugh was amazing and hewas my pastor for all four years
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.
First Thursday, I found thelittle FCA, fall Street
Christian Athletes, and met onThursday nights at Carpenter
Sports Building with 10 athletesvery small, 13,000 students on
the campus but this littleeensy-beansy little huddle
called FCA was meeting onThursday nights.
Crusade had hundreds of people,intervarsity had hundreds of
people, but my tribe was those10 on Thursday night.
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And guess what?
Very first Thursday, very firstSunday check checked.
All because of what my dadinstilled into me, you know.
And so when my kids came alongit's like hey, kids, I know you
don't like the youth pastor, buttoo bad, I know you sometimes
don't like church on Sundaymornings sitting next to us to
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hear the sermon.
You know it's not as fun asyour videos and everything else
you want to do.
We're sitting as a family,we're going to church together.
This is the way the Brintonfamily rolls and I think you
know.
Again, they knew how much Iloved them.
It wasn't out of legalism andjust.
You know, hey, they're gettingpunished, but they knew how much
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I loved them.
But also they realized it was anon-negotiable and I think my
dad taught me that.
That you know it's, it's, it'ssomething my friend John Gordon
says is we?
We talk about tough love, buthow about love tough?
You know we talk about toughlove like hey, we're in the
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trouble.
But what about love tough Likelike hey, I'm?
I'm stepping in at times that,even like it's not about like
hey, my kids did something wrongand it's tough love.
But love tough is like I'mloving at all times.
I'm loving, you know, even intrying to figure out the
schedule and, hey, how we'regoing to do life and family.
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Is love tough, not just toughlove.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
That's good.
That's good stuff there.
You know, if you think aboutyour dad, was your dad, was his
love vocal, or did he have aquieter way of showing his love?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Oh, he, I feel like the little firecracker, he was a
big stick of dynamite.
I mean, you heard my dad.
I mean you came to a ballgame.
You heard my dad Like he wouldbe vocal, he would grab you,
punch in the arm, hug you.
You know you'd get, you know,like all like beat up by my dad
because how much he loved youyou know.
So he's physical and he'shorrible, you know, but it was
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interesting, like as much as hedid, that he still came out of
that generation, that, eventhough he did all that, I very
rarely remember like just givinga hug.
You know it was weird, he wasalways touching me but I just
never remember coming up andjust going hey, dad, I love you
and hug you.
Um, he went, you know he,everything he did, he, he showed
(17:38):
me how much he loved me, but hewouldn't again the generation
they was in, he wouldn't say Ilove you, he wouldn't do a full
hug.
And so one of the things I didis I just knew that that was a
generational thing, notnecessarily a heart thing.
And so with my son Eli I havetwo daughters and a son, my son
Eli I just know, you know whatI'm going to hug him, I'm going
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to kiss him on his cheek.
You know, I'm going to tell himand look him nice how much I
love you.
And you know, now he's.
You know he's 28, he's 28,.
Six foot three, long, hair bulllike beard.
I reach up to him and I'm likeyou know, I hug him, I kiss him
on the cheek, and in public, andpeople are like what the heck
is that old man doing with thatbig guy?
You know I'm loving on my sonso you know I think his, even
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though he there are certainthings that that couldn't be
expressed to me.
I've taken that way, that mydad loved me in the way that he
could.
I've now been able to love myson the way that he needs to be
loved.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
That's good, that's good, you know.
Speaking of dad, have you foundyourself repeating some things
he used to say, maybe even somethings you used to roll your
eyes at oh buddy, come on.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
You know he used to always say at oh buddy, come on.
You know he used to always sayhey, danny, danny, work hard,
work smart, work hard, worksmart.
Well, I remember work hard andwork smart, we did.
But then he would say work hard, play hard.
And I'm like Dad, we alwaysworked hard but we never got to
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the play hard.
When are we going to get to theplay hard?
You know.
But you know he would often sayyou know, work hard, play hard.
You know he would.
You know he had a little phraselike you know you have friends.
Like you, who needs enemies,you know, like little snippets
of just these cool little oldschool sayings that right
you know, I'm kind of like, ohman, you know, uh, okay, dad, I
(19:35):
get it, I get it.
You know, um, you know, and hejust little things like you say,
come over here, you go, comeover here, let me give you a
kick in the pants.
You know, and he grabbed me andyou know, give me a big kick in
the pants.
And I mean all these littlethings that that you know.
Again, kind of one of the thingsI think about is love is God's
gift and to us, what we do withis our gift back to him.
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It's probably written on myheart.
I mean, that's like engraved inmy heart of kind of the way he
does life, you know, he oftenwould say even hey, do it now,
danny N-O-W, do it now Spe.
Now, danny in ow, do it now?
Spell backwards, you've won.
Hey, if you do it now, you'vewon.
And so his idea ofintentionality, season, the day
making a decision, little tinysayings that again, I one day
(20:18):
I'm gonna write a book on all mydad's principles, but you know,
do it now, you've won.
And I just always remember thatit's like, hey, I can set it
aside, be lazy, procrastinate,or hey, if I put action into it.
I do it now that I've won.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
That's good stuff, you know, what do you think your
dad would be most proud of?
Of the way you stepped intofatherhood?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yeah, I think he would say, you know, he would
definitely say that he's proudof the way I'm led as a godly
example.
You know that the way that hetried to model for me of, you
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know, christ wasn't an option.
That you know that I've beenable to step into that and be
able to do full-time ministryand provide for the family and
provide a home.
That you know, as we know, tim,you know I've been 35 years in
sports ministry and so manypastors, kids, and you know
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their kids.
You know ministry kids justwalk away from Jesus.
You know they don't wantanything to do with it and you
know so.
At one point, tim, all three ofmy kids were working with FCA
and my wife, our entire familyokay, our entire family has
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worked with the FCA Right now.
Currently, you know I've had achance to start this new
ministry, leadership developmentministry in the sports world,
called Sports Life Leadership,just this past year.
But you know, for 34 years I'veserved there and my wife, dawn,
still works there.
My second daughter, abby, andher husband work there and my
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son, eli, and his wife workthere.
So I have five family membersthat still work at FCA, that are
still serving the Lord everyday.
And my oldest daughter workedfour years as the lacrosse
women's director and she gotcalled out of FCA to be a
full-time college lacrossewomen's director and she thought
god called her out of fca to bea full-time college lacrosse
coach.
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So in a way she's still servingthe lord coaching and then my,
my son-in-law is where it worksas an engineer.
So literally I have, you know,most of my family serving a
full-time ministry.
So I think my, my father, wouldbe like he's most proud of to
see that again that fruit isgrowing on other people's trees
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and seeing that they're now apart of ministry and doing the
work.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That's good, you know as you think about your dad.
If you could ask your dad onequestion now that you didn't or
couldn't back then, what wouldit be, as you watch your dad,
you back then?
What would it be as you watchyour dad, you know, what would
you ask?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
him one question um, I think I, I think, um, uh, I
would ask him.
It was interesting, tim heagain, he was very successful in
(23:35):
the business world and but yethe was very involved with FCA,
christian Businessmen'sCommittee, cbmc, very involved
in Biblical International BibleSociety.
He had a lot of ministries hewas passionate about.
Probably the one question Iwould ask him is you know, when
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we were kids, we never you know,I never traveled outside the US
.
You know, we just never.
And again, you know, he did wellfinancially and then gave a lot
of money kingdom work millionsof dollars away in his lifetime.
(24:16):
But you know, like we neverwent on a missions trip.
You know, we never.
You know, my first time I everwent outside the country and did
a trip was with FCA toUkraineraine in 2007 with shane
williamson, the president of fca.
You know that was my first time, it was his first trip, but it
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was like you know, we had theopportunity to go hey, we're
gonna, as a family, go with thechurch or hey, we're gonna go
and serve.
And he supported all thesepeople.
He gave, gave a lot of money toa lot of great ministries
overseas, but you know, we neverwent, and so I felt like I was
a late bloomer, since and I'vebeen to 60 countries and I've
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been hard for the nations andI've traveled the world and I've
been to more places than 99 ofamericans.
You know, and just, I have ahuge heart for the nations.
I've taken all my kids onmission trips with me through
FCA and I've taken my entirefamily.
We did mission trips togetherand just to see them have a
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heart for the nations, I'mthankful that I did, I'm
thankful that I did, you know,eventually get there.
But you know, I would just askthem like, hey, why, why was it
that you had a passion for, forthe nations, you gave to the
nations, but yet you never sawthat again.
This is not a question ofjudgment, but it's just like I
(25:39):
don't know why.
Maybe safety, maybe I don'tknow, but why did you have a
heart for it but yet we didn'tgo support it?
Like you did everything else,have a heart for it, but yet we
didn't go support it like he dideverything else.
And it was just kind of likethis little nuance gap that if I
, if I had a chance to spendsome time with him, I just be
like, hey, dad, like come on,like why didn't you ever like
throw some money down and takeour family on a week to a trip
(26:04):
to go see one of yourmissionaries that you've been,
you know, giving to for 20, 30,40 years, and see the ministry
in action and let our hearts,you know, fall in love with that
.
You know, but he kind of didwith these reverse trips and,
you know, again, everyone stayedin our home.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, yeah Right.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
So I'm very thankful for that, because that planted
the seed for me to do that.
So yes, thank you, but it wouldhave been great to go and kick
the tires.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
But look at you now.
Look at you now what you haveto do for your family.
I think that seed was plantedby those persons coming that
gave you a heart for man.
I want to go over there, I wantto go see your country and look
at what God, look what God hasdone.
You know 60 countries and, likeI say, you really have or 99%
(26:51):
of americans.
You know, you've seen, you'veseen the world and your family
has seen the world.
So I think sometimes what ourparents aren't able to do, we're
able to do.
Right, just think, just thinkabout what your grandkids are
going to do.
Wow, you know, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
But god says I'll do me, hopefully go beyond me, way
beyond, yes yes, yes, all thingswork together.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
you know, as we kind of come around the corner, this
is a legacy podcast.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
First off, what would your children say about you?
Well, I just had my 58thbirthday, so they just told me a
bunch of stuff last weekend,right, you know again.
I know my wife and I made a lotof mistakes.
We weren't the perfect parents,but man, I just I feel like
(27:45):
God's grace and mercy was extraextended, grace upon grace upon
our kids, and just I wouldn'twant to change it for anything,
honestly, like nothing, I mean Iwouldn't.
Even all the ups and downs andheartaches and hardships to see
how God formed him and shapedhim made us better parents
realize.
Okay, we're not going to dothat again.
I wouldn't change anything, TimI mean no regrets at all.
So you know, I think my kids alot of times my kids just say
(28:12):
like dad, like you know there'snot another dad we would rather
have.
Like you've set the godlyexample and you know, eli says I
hope one day I could be.
You know half of what you areas a father to my kids.
Now I'm like, well, you'regonna be like two times what I
am.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
You're going to be the double.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I'm going to give you a double portion, son.
There's a little Elisha passingon, we're going to anoint you
for the double portion, right,tim, let's go Amen.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Honestly.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I say people go, what's the greatest thing about
being a grandparent?
Like we got a two-year-old andone-year-old and we got two more
on the way, so we'll be at fourbefore we know it.
And you know people all thetime like, oh, we love the kids.
And you know, oh gosh,grandparenting is the best part.
And this kid you're seeing thekids and honestly, when people
(29:10):
ask me what's the best partabout grandparenting, I go it's
not the grandkid, I love thegrandkids, trust me.
I mean the grandkids melt yourheart.
I mean, just with one littleword, a puddle, you know.
But what I love about being agrandparent is to see my kids
parent, amen.
I mean the joy is to see my twodaughters become mothers.
(29:30):
Like, oh, my gosh, like this isthe most incredible thing.
Like the grandchild is theirchild, like as much as I want it
to be my kid it's their kid.
But my two daughters, they're mykid Amen, so for them to become
a mother and for Eli eventuallyto become a father, that's the
(29:52):
greatest thing in the world.
And so, you know, my hope isthat my kids would go Dad.
You know, that's one of thethings I try to do is, as much
as I love to see the grandkidsfirst and hug them and love on
them, I always tell my twodaughters how proud I am of them
and I give them a kiss on theforehead and tell them how much
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I love them first becausethey're my child.
Grandkids will come later.
You know I can love on thegrandkids later, but that is so
important, and so my hope andprayer is that you know that
they would just simply say dad,you love me well, and not only
did you love me well, but youlove Jesus well.
You know you had a lot ofdelight, some drudgery days some
(30:38):
Right.
But you know what, most of thetime I saw there's delight
because of your presence withthe Lord, because you tasted the
Lord and you saw that it wasgood.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
It's good.
You tasted the Lord and you sawthat it was good.
It's good.
You know, you've been around awhile.
You've seen a lot of young guys, young men.
What advice would you give thefathers who didn't have a strong
father figure growing up?
You were blessed with watchingfather example, watching
grandfather example.
What advice would you give tothose young men who didn't have
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that growing up?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
yeah, I, you know again.
Uh, first book we wrote waswisdom walks, and wisdom walks
is about the four keyrelationships and it's kind of
the biblical model of having apaul barnabas and a timothy and
then being a walker, a pursuerof god yourself.
But but you know that watchman,what we call the Paul, the
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watchman that sits on the mantleand invests in you, sits on the
wall and can see things thatyou can't see.
That's the role of the father,right?
The father is a guide, advisor,sees things, counsels and able
to provide expertise that youdon't have yet.
Well, that's missing man.
(31:52):
There are a ton of watchmen inchurches and in neighborhoods
who, like, granted, a lot oftimes they don't think they have
a lot to give.
So it's not like they're comingand tapping that young kid on
the shoulder and saying, hey, Iwant to mentor you, I want to
invest in you, so I call itreverse.
Reverse mentoring Is hey, gotap them on the shoulder.
(32:16):
So those young guns that didn'thave it, it's not over.
Like, go find a Tim Brown, gofind a Dan Britton, you know
ones that have no hair or grayhair.
Right, like, if they have nohair or gray hair, they're the
ones that you go find.
Tap them on the shoulder andsay, hey, will you spend time
(32:36):
with me, will you mentor me,will you be my watchman, will
you be my Paul, will youdisciple me?
And yeah, guess what?
It should be the old guys goingand reaching out.
Yes, you're right, like check,but that doesn't give you an
excuse, because you don't havethat person, not to reverse it
(32:57):
and tap them on the shoulder andsay, hey, I want to meet with
you each week.
There's something in you that Ilove and I know there's
something in you that I canlearn from.
Yes, and so Do it Like, reverseit, flip the script.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
That's good.
That's a good word there.
That's a great word there.
You know, as we come around thecorner, I just have one other
question for you Any thoughts ormessages you'd like to share
with listeners about honoringthe father figures in their life
?
As we talk about thisfatherhood month, what are some
(33:40):
thoughts and messages you wouldshare with the listeners about
honoring those fathers or fatherfigures in?
Speaker 3 (33:43):
their lives.
Yeah, I, you know.
Essentially, my father passedaway in 2008 and you know I did
the eulogy for my brothers and Iand and actually did the sermon
for that.
Very hard to do, it's notrecommended, but, man, I'm so
glad I did, but I, you know.
(34:03):
Basically, the, the eulogy isthe honoring right now.
The tough part is I did itafter he died.
You know, I feel like I honoredhim throughout his life and
often told him how much I lovedhim and honored him with words,
but I never gave him an officiallike hey, there's an honoring,
(34:25):
a blessing to to um.
So I did it for my mom.
I sat down and wrote up a honorto my mom because she was still
living.
She is still living.
She's 88.
Amazing woman of God.
But I wrote a full opportunityto bless my mom by honoring her
while she's living.
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I think that one of thegreatest things that we can do
as kids is to honor our parents,and you know what?
They're not perfect.
It was interesting, tim.
I did something I've never donein my life.
So I was traveling on mybirthday.
(35:06):
No, I wasn't traveling, I'msorry, I was home.
I was out for my run.
I'm a runner.
I was out for my run.
I'm a runner.
I was out for my run early inthe morning and you know
everyone was texting already andFacebooking like happy birthday
, 58,.
58 is great.
I think it's great.
That's that's what they say 58is great.
So I've turned 58 and, and youknow I said to myself Tim, you
(35:30):
know what I'm going to call mymom and thank her.
I'm going to thank her that shegave me life.
I've never done that.
You know, birthday is all aboutme.
I knew my mom was going to callme.
I knew my brothers were goingto call me.
I knew I'm going to getpictures in our family texts of,
(35:51):
you know, great pictures overthe last year, all these little
routines or rituals we do.
But I've never, I've never, oncein 58 years, called my mom to
thank her for giving me life.
So I called her.
I said, mom, I want you to bemy first call today.
And she's like oh, I'm sothankful.
You know, happy birthday, son.
I said well, mom, mom.
I said I don't think I've evercalled you to say thank you on
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my birthday.
You gave me life on this day.
And I said, mom, you and daddidn't raise me, perfect, but
man, I am so thankful for thehome.
And first we talked for 45minutes and all I did was for 45
minutes to him.
Tell her how much I wasthankful, recalling blessing her
(36:37):
, encourage her to a point.
She goes, dan, you're making mecry.
I go that's okay, mom, that'sokay Because you gave me life
today.
Well, that's honor.
Like, that's honor.
Like you know, my birthday isnot about me, it's my mom did
the part and so you got toreverse that.
(36:58):
Like we should be, likeliterally the day of our
birthday should be the day wehonor our mom, and, and so I'm
thankful, the Lord, you know,triggered that in my spirit.
So for the first 45 minutes,even during my run, I talked to
her for 45 minutes and just hadthis amazing and I prayed for it
.
Then I said, mom, I just wantto pray for you, I want to honor
you and bless you for giving melife 58 years ago on this day,
(37:23):
you know, and it was just, itwas a one of a kind I've never
done that and it was a sweet,special time.
So, yes, honoring is so valuable, never can do enough.
I mean, it's not like, hey,take your honor somewhere else.
You over honored me.
No one's ever going to say thatLike honor is bottomless.
Right, honor is bottomless.
So don't ever think that you'vecrossed the line when it comes
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to honoring.
Like you can never give enoughhonor, and you know it even
comes with our Heavenly Father.
Like we can never give himenough honor, and you know it
even comes with our HeavenlyFather, like we can never give
Him enough honor, in the sameway we can never give others
enough honor.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
As we end this episode.
I knew you would be the one tokick this thing off.
You know there's no doubt.
Could you pray for fathers?
Could you pray for fathers andpray a blessing over the fathers
that are listening to thispodcast today?
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Amen, amen, love to be able to pray.
Yep.
Father, we come before you andwe, just we just thank you.
Just what an amazing time toreflect, not only on my dad, ed
Britton, my mom, dorothy Britton, and the impact of parents,
impact of a father, a godlyfather, I mean man.
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One godly fatherly relationshipcan truly change the world and
I'm a living example of that andI thank you that.
My dad gave me an example, notthe perfect example, but man,
just an amazing, transparentbumps and bruises, ups and downs
, mountaintops and valleys, butthrough it all, you've showed me
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that my dad was the real deal.
And so, god, we thank you forthe fathers that are out there.
I pray that they don't try topretend, but they are the real
deal, that they know that bythem being intentional, just the
way my dad was beingintentional, and not giving up.
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Lord, it's so easy as a fatherto give up, but we're going to
claim Galatians 6, 9, to notgrow weary in doing good,
because at the proper time,there'll be a harvest for those
that do not give up.
Well, that's a prayer, that's averse for parents and for
fathers Don't give up, don'tgive up, Don't quit as you
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become a godly parent.
You're not going to get itright the first time or the
second time or the third time.
Just allow us to keep strivingand keep thriving and keep
pushing and knowing that at theright time, lord, at the right
time, there will be a harvest.
A lot of times we don't see it.
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A lot of times, the seed isplanted and it's later and
greater.
Right, the seed that's planted,the law of the harvest is later
and greater.
It's not the here and now.
We want the here and now, butit's later and greater.
And so, god, I pray that prayerfor fathers out there.
And Lord, I just know that forme, like in Matthew and three
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different times that theHeavenly Father said to his son
you are my beloved, you are mybeloved, you are my beloved.
And so, lord, as much as wewant to hear and might not have
heard, our earthly father issaying to us that you are my
beloved, that I love you, Icherish you, I honor you.
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We might have heard theopposite, I honor you.
We might have heard theopposite.
But, lord, even though we mightnot have heard that from our
Father, lord, we hear from youas our Heavenly Father.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Yes, Lord.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Lord, in the same way that you say to us simply that
we are your beloved, and we hearthese five words that will mark
us.
We hear these words, maybe notfrom our father, but we hear
from our heavenly father.
I am pleased with you, I ampleased with you, and so, god,
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we we, right now, in this momentof prayer, we hear those words
of I am pleased with you, tim, Iam pleased with you, dan.
I am pleased with you, tim, I ampleased with you, dan, I am
pleased with you.
We hear our name called inthese words I am pleased with
you and so, lord, in the sameway that you gave us an example
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to receive, to hear, that,imagine these words spoken to
our sons spoken to our sons.
Imagine as us, as fathers, tosay to my son, eli Eli, I am
pleased with you, you are mybeloved, you are loved deeply.
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God, help us to say those wordsthis Father's Day Maybe we've
never spoken those words ablessing over our kids.
Help us, as fathers, to saywhat the Heavenly Father has
already said to us I am pleasedwith you, you are my beloved.
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So, god, we pray this in thename of Jesus.
We pray that even this podcast,that whoever hears these words,
will be motivated andchallenged to be a godly father
who leaves a godly legacy,father who leaves a godly legacy
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because they've sown seeds ofgreatness gospel kingdom
greatness into their kids.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
We pray in the name of Jesus Amen, amen, amen, amen,
amen.
Thank you, dan, for sharingwisdom rooted in the legacy of
your dad and the values thatcontinue to shape how you lead
love and live today, whetherit's on the field, with your
family or through faith.
Dan, you remind us thatfatherhood isn't just about
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presence, it's about purpose.
It's about presence, it's aboutpurpose, and so, for the
audience, I hope this story hasencouraged you to reflect on
lessons you learned, the onesyou're passing on and the kind
of legacy you want to leavebehind.
So, dan, thanks for joining uson this Be a Baller podcast
episode on fatherhood, and, formy audience, we'll see you next
time as we continue to celebratethe impact of dads everywhere.
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Thanks, dan.
Appreciate you.
This was awesome, amen.
Appreciate you.
This was awesome, amen.
Thank you Awesome.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
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This podcast was created byCoach Tim Brown and recorded and
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Be sure to come back next weekas we continue to discuss on how
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to build a lifelong legacy.
Until then, don't forget to bea baller.
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