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Yeah, That's My Dad

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My name is Matthew Kruse, and I’ve known my dad my whole life. He’s your classic baby boomer: fought in Vietnam, worked a trade, married a cute girl from Puerto Rico, raised two sons, and even started a bookstore before moving from New York to Boston. At 50 he hit a midlife crisis that almost cost him everything, but was restored to his wife, and to God, and never looked back. He’s not a perfect man, but you ask anybody and they’ll tell you that to know my dad is to love my dad. Some months ago he was diagnosed with Stage 4 prostate cancer, and I promised him that before he went to be with Christ we’d talk about his life together. This podcast is me fulfilling that promise.

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March 5, 2023

Episode 10: Stage Four

We live in a broken world. It's broken in the sense that things don’t work the way they were meant to. It's broken because of our sin. The infinitely good and glorious God of holy love who created this world had to unleash his just judgment on it because in response to sin. Had to. And that means that our lives in this world are necessarily filled with sorrows and sickness and for all of us, eventually, death. But we also live in a redeemed world. Through the gospel, Christ has overcome sin, dealt with its curse in his body on the cross, and secured a bright and happy future for us where sin and its effects are gone forever.  What’s so cool is that world that has, in a sense, invaded this one. And so we can say with Christ’s Apostle Paul: “I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed.” That gospel truth informs how we think about and engage with sickness right now.  We know that our bodies are mortal and susceptible to all kinds of illnesses. Nobody skates free of that. But when we do get sick we don’t despair. We pray of course, rightly, for healing. God can do that if he wants. And we embrace by faith all the common grace of modern medicine. But deeper than all that, we know that God is sovereign over every cell in our bodies and that He superintends sickness to humble us and grow us and prune us and change us and loosen our grip on the garbage of this world.  That doesn’t make it easy to live with physical pain, but it does animate us with a hope that carries us through.  For my dad, this reality came fast and furious when in his 70s he was diagnosed with Stage Four prostate cancer. In this episode, he talked about walking through the ups and downs of illness.

February 26, 2023

Episode 9; Papa

Whether you call them Grandpa and Grandma or Nonno eh Nonna or Abuelo y Abuelita, every grandparent ever will tell you the same thing without hesitation: there is nothing happier than grandchildren.  This is a proverbial truth. And I mean literally. In Proverbs 17, super wise Solomon says it like this: <h5>“Children’s children are the crown of the aged.”</h5> You feel that? Grandchildren are the crowning joy and validation of a life well lived. A cherry on top of a killer sundae.  A Gatorade bath at the end of a super bowl win. A magnificent sunset culminating a happy beach day.  A crown. That is what grandchildren are in a man’s life. And not just because you get to buy them Richie’s Slush, or take them to see the fireworks, or let them watch two straight hours of SpongeBob, but because you are given another chance to model for and share with your own flesh and blood the goodness of God and grace of His gospel.  Don’t ever forget that when the Apostle Paul was encouaring young pastor Timothy to hold fast to gospel truth and throw himself with no fear into the difficult work of leading Christ’s church in Ephesus, he said to him, “Don’t forget that your confidence in Christ is not new, It dwelt first in your grandmother Lois.”  Isn’t that beautiful?  God works through generations, and if we live long enough to become grandparents, he lets us see that faithfulness all the way to the last chapters of our lives. - If there was a world championship belt for most fun, most involved, most present papa, my dad would have held it. Let’s just say that he fit right in with his grandchildren. In this episode, I asked him to talk about that, and about the unique relationship that he forged with each of his 8 grandchildren, oldest to youngest.

February 19, 2023

Episode 8: Seven Mile

Every dad has at least one funny story of their son or daughter coming home with a big surprise. "We're having a baby." "We’re buying a house." "We're moving to Dubai. Or New Hampshire. Or Texas. (God forbid.) For my dad, one of those surprises came at the very turn of the century when I came over to tell him that I felt called - unmistakably - to plant a church seven miles north of one of the least Christian cities in America. That church would eventually become Seven Mile Road, and we built is on 5 gospel convictions, one of which we called "supertight community." What we meant by that was that we believed that the gospel is not just about showing up to church on Sundays. And that even a casual reading of the New Testament shows that Jesus’ church was marked by a beautiful, messy, holy closeness. Those first Christians knew each other’s names, stories, sins, strengths, weaknesses, issues, dreams, fears, all of it. Life lived long-term in tight-knit and transparent community: that’s what we are shooting for at our church. And nobody - nobody - has embraced and modeled that conviction more deeply with more people than my dad.  In this episode, I asked him to talk about the ways that God redeemed a really hard church experience with the sweetness of being a part of Seven Mile Road.

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What is Yeah, That's My Dad?: My name is Matthew Kruse, and I’ve known my dad my whole life.

He’s your classic baby boomer: fought in Vietnam, worked a trade, married a cute girl from Puerto Rico, raised two sons, and even started a bookstore before moving from New York to Boston. At 50 he hit a midlife crisis that almost cost him everything, but was restored to his wife, and to God, and never looked back.

He’s not a perfect man, but you ask anybody and they’ll tell you that to know my dad is to love my dad.

Some months ago he was diagnosed with Stage 4 prostate cancer, and I promised him that before he went to be with Christ we’d talk about his life together.

This podcast is me fulfilling that promise.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: Information about guest appearances is not available.

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