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Forging Men in Faith and Purpose.Life is God's own Foundry, and he's asked us to be men of purpose and leaders of our home, our children, and our wives.
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Raising Leaders or Followers? (opens the original)
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Most kids spend twelve years learning how to follow instructions. Almost none of them spend twelve years learning how to lead.In this episode, Dan and Jake sit down with Bobbie, co-founder of Spring Forth Academy, an Acton Academy. She talks about what it looks like to raise kids who can think for themselves instead of just comply. We get into why most schools are structured to demand compliance instead of building leadership, why "the only real failure is not learning," and why accountability,
Breaking Addiction and Building a Man (opens the original)
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How do you deal with pain in your life?At 16, Ryan's mom sat the family down and said she was leaving. He never learned how to process that. He learned how to bury it.For the next two decades, alcohol did the burying. Not every day, but every time was 0 to 100. He drank through college, through a DUI while coaching a kids' hockey team, through a marriage that didn't survive it. Then the woman who's now his wife drew a line: change, or this is over.This isn't a tidy redemption story. It's messy,
Are Your Prayers Dangerous? (opens the original)
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Jake and Dan are back from the road and get honest about what happens when you actually pray for patience or strength -- because God doesn't always answer the easy way. They walk through Matthew 6 on giving, praying, and fasting without an audience, and land on what they call "dangerous prayers": the ones you mean, and the ones that cost you something. If you've ever prayed for patience and gotten tested five minutes later, this one's for you.
You have to follow through (opens the original)
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"Let your yes be yes, your no be no. Anything more than that comes from the evil one." Jesus is blunt about this. It's a simple standard that's brutal to actually live by. A dad realizes he's said "I'll be there" more times than he's meant it. Discipline gets promised and then quietly skipped because follow-through is harder than the threat. This week we look at Matthew 5 and keep coming back to the same point: your word is either good or it isn't. From there it gets harder still. Turn the other
Cut Off Your Hand - Lust and Temptation (opens the original)
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Jesus doesn't soften this one. "If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off." In this episode, we sit down with the Sermon on the Mount's hardest teaching on lust and dig into what it actually means to take sin that seriously.We talk about why looking is the same as an affair in God's eyes, where lust actually starts before it ever becomes an action, and the boundaries we've built into our own lives and businesses to cut it off before it costs us everything -- Jake's glass doors on every of
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