John Mark Comer: Why You Can’t Be Present With Your Family

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You love your family. So why is it so hard to be fully present with them?

John Mark Comer joins Jerrad for an unexpectedly personal conversation about the pain men keep outrunning—and how avoiding that pain can keep us from the people we love and the God who wants to meet us.

Jerrad opens up about a season when his life unraveled and the healing God began in him. John Mark shares his own struggles with burnout and patterns in his marriage and parenting that weren’t changing. Together, they explore why getting quiet can feel threatening, how spiritual language can become a way to avoid our wounds, and what it looks like to begin opening our whole lives to God.

If you’re exhausted, distracted, or tired of repeating the same patterns at home, this conversation offers a small, practical place to start.

In this episode:
• The crossroads men face when they can no longer outrun their pain
• How unhealed wounds affect our presence with our wives and kids
• John Mark’s experience with burnout and persistent family patterns
• The noise around us—and the noise inside us
• Learning to listen for God with our children
• Simple ways to practice silence and solitude in a full life

Book discussed: Into the Quiet by John Mark Comer.

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