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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 16 minutes
- Episodes
- 15
- Years Active
- 2022 - 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 th…
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.
…
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. (Go…
Episode 6: Parkway
Episode 6: Parkway
Every true and genuine Christian ever loves not only Christ, but His church.
This should be obvious, right? When Christ saves us, He doesn’t save us by ourselves for ourselves.
He…
Bonus Stories from the First 5 Episodes
Bonus Stories from the First 5 Episodes
We are halfway through Season 1 of the Yeah, That's My Dad Podcast, so we thought we'd share one bonus story from each of the first 5 episodes. Enjoy!
Episode 5: Bookstore
Episode 5: Bookstore
One of the marks of a gospel changed person is this: they don’t play scared anymore. They are secure in the love and power of Christ, and so they are fearless in taking risks tha…
Episode 4: Sons
Episode 4: Sons
If you had to choose one relationship in Scripture that is the closest, who would you go with?
Jacob and Rahcel? He worked 7 years for that girl!
Isaac and Rebekah? Ah. Her humble post…
Episode 3: Margie
Episode 3: Margie
The Bible is a love story.
On its opening pages we are told that the man God created was alone, and it was not good. So God created for him a helper, a partner, a lover, a wife. An…
Episode 2: Vietnam
Episode 2: Vietnam
Anyone who has ever come to Christ has done so only by His grace. If we love God, it’s because he first loved us. If we choose God, it’s because He first chose us.
Now, while that…
Episode 1: Queens
Episode 1: Queens
Childhood.
All of us have had one, right? We are all from some family somewhere and have been shaped by those family dynamics, by the ethos of that specific place. Interestingly, t…
Primer 4: Just A Note On The Audio
This is just a quick note on the audio difference between the first 3 episodes and the rest!
Primer 3: How This Podcast Works
To listen to this pod rightly is to listen to it as multi-layered story telling;
1: You'll hear lots of short, fun stories of different seasons of my dad's life.
2: These little stories are collected…
Primer 2: Three Things To Know About My Dad Before You Listen
This super quick episode covers three things you need to know about my dad before listening to the pod:
1: He's a bigtime Christian.
2: He's a simple, straightforward guy.
3: He's 79 years old.
Primer 1: Why We're Doing This Podcast
This quick episode communicates the three big whys behind the pod:
1: Loving my dad
2: Obeying Christ
3: Hyping fatherhood
Yeah, That's My Dad Trailer
This is Trailer One for the "Yeah, That's My Dad" podcast.