Advice For The Kids

About

My name is John Brodrick and I am a millennial who lives in the United States. I am an average person who is not affiliated with the Church in any official capacity. I am a former sinner of the worst variety who has fully repented and come back to Jesus to the best of his ability after being out of Church for a significant amount of time.

This process started with thinking about how I wanted to raise my kids. Culturally I come from “Trump’s America” but knew that this was not how I wanted to raise my kids. There are good things that come from there, but passing on a culture of racism to my children was most certainly not one of them. This world view was also a contributor in keeping me out of Church. Coming back to God has totally opened my eyes to His love and caused a significant change in ways for me.

After learning about Jesus, I can tell you He has love and kindness for all of humankind. Also the community of Jesus followers embody the values of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, and gentleness. After spending the majority of my adult life watching people just being mean to each other it is the kind of community that I want to be a part of.

I made basically every mistake under the sun and wanted to share my life advice here. It could help someone like me who didn’t know some of this stuff.

When I was younger (in my 20s), I stayed out of church because I thought “The Church was only for happy people” and I was not even remotely this (happy). But this isn’t true. I came back to the Church in 2023 because I wanted my kids to know Jesus and immediately was greeted by a couple that exuded nothing but love and warmth towards me. Most churches are like this – they are very open and welcoming to all kinds of people (especially those in need of support in some way). They are filled with warm souls who are out there doing His work – which is serving those in need (the poor, the hungry and oppressed communities). They embody His values: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Finally, after seeing so much evil in humanity I am at peace because I know that one day He will wipe away every tear and make all things right here on Earth. All my adult life I had an emptiness inside and was constantly searching for something to fill it. I had finally found what I was looking for and I wanted to share it with others. If anyone is helped by this site I give all the glory to God.