How Truth Can Change Your Parenting Forever!

The armor doesn’t start with strength—it starts with truth. In Part 2 of our Armor Up series, Alec walks through the Belt of Truth from Ephesians 6 and how dads today are often parenting from performance, pressure, or pain instead of truth.

📖 Ephesians 6:14“Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist…”This episode is for dads who: Feel like they’re never enough

Keep leading from insecurity Need to replace lies with God's truth🧠 Weekly Challenge: Identify one lie you’ve been believing. Write it down—then write the truth from Scripture beside it. Say it out loud every morning this week. That’s how you buckle up.

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Episode Transcript

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If you don't build your life on truth, you'll parent from lies.
What's up, guys? It's Alec.
Welcome back to Fatherhood Unscripted.
We are in Part 2 of our Armor Upseries in Father Like the
Father. So last week we got into talking
about how we need to stand firm and that we're not just raising
kids or fighting a spiritual battle for their future.

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And today we are starting with the first piece of armor, the
belt of Truth. Not the helmet, not the shield.
Why you might ask? Because in a Roman soldiers
armor the belt held everything together.
OK. And spiritually, truth does the
same thing for us as dads in Ephesians 614 it says and firm

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with the belt of truth buckled around your waist.
If we're being honest, how many of us dads are walking around a
confusion because we don't know what's true about us or about
our kids or even about God? We parent from performance
instead of identity, we we lead from pressure instead of peace,
and we live based on culture's version of manhood instead of

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God's. That's why truth matters.
Because without it, the enemy gets in with lies like you're
failing. You'll never be a good enough.
Why even try? It's too late to be the dad they
need. But seriously, here's the thing.
Lies become loudest when the truth is missing.
And if we're not rooted in God'sword, we're going to lead our

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families from the wrong place. You know, I think as dads, we
all go through a similar season in life where we, we're trying
to lead, but we feel like a total fraud.
And we, we keep showing up. We keep showing up, but inside
we feel like we're blowing it. And it's not going to be until
we start replacing the lies withtruth that will be able to lead

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with confidence. And that's what the belt does.
It grounds you. It reminds you that what is
actually true so you can fight back when all of that pressure
hits. So this week I would like you
guys to do something. I want you to identify one lie
that you believe about yourself as a death.
And then I want you to write down that lie and then next to

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it write the truth that is scripture.
The the lie is that you're not good enough, but the truth is
God's strength is made perfect in your weakness.
That's second Corinthians 12/9 and then say it out loud because
when we speak things out loud, it breaks them.
The the devil doesn't want things out loud.

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He want things in the hidden in the darkness and in secret.
And then every day's buckle up your belt because it's going to
hold the rest of your armor together.
And then hey, truth grows stronger in community.
If if you're ready to stop leading from lies and start
leading from who God says you are, join us in Rooted in
Brotherhood. It's a free community for
faithful dads who are learning to stand firm, fight back, and

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walk in truth. You can get the link in the show
notes and I'd love to see you there.
I'll see you guys next time. Love you.