This is the Truth Network. Coming to you from an entrenched barricade deep in the heart of central North Carolina, Masculine Journey After Hours, a time to go deeper and be more transparent on the topic covered on this week's broadcast.
So sit back and join us on this adventure. The Masculine Journey After Hours starts here now. Welcome to this adventure with us. This is Masco and Journey After Hours, and we are talking about the topic of adventure. We are continuing our foundation series, which will go on for much longer than you probably want it to, but we are going to do it from now until we don't.
But we are talking about adventure, and so when we left off, we were getting ready to go to Robby's clip. And so, Robby, you want to tell us a little bit about your clip, or do you just want to play it?
Well, before I do that, you want to say you might want to go back and listen to the radio show podcast if you hadn't, if you just jumped into this. You know, because an adventure to live is a gigantic one of the core desires of a man's heart because it's obviously a gigantic core desire in God's heart. And we're looking at Jesus as the ultimate man. And, you know, we talked about last time a battle to fight. And so it's fascinating to me.
Oh, yeah. You probably want me to do it. Yeah, I'm tired of it being on me. Yeah. We want them to see you, Robby, as you articulate your powerful point power point.
Yes. Anyway, so I I I've done this talk many, many times and love this talk and love the idea that we have this heart because God has this heart. And I love the idea of little boys adventure. But in it this adventure clip I just felt called to take something out of the movie Fury. And uh It's one of my son's favorite movies, and so I guess it's always been one of mine.
And there's a scene there that you're going to hear that there's a guy by the name of Norman, and throughout the movie, he gets transferred into this tank battalion. I don't know what he was supposed to do in the Army, but he wasn't supposed to be in a tank. He was supposed to be a telegraph operator or something. And the next thing you know, he finds himself in this tank, not only as the tank, but he's a gunner in the tank. And.
He's got a lot of adventure that he he's going to be taught. that he has what it takes, which is adventure. You know, the reason why b boys play at the level they do is they're trying to learn that they, you know, have what it takes to be a man, have what it takes to protect, you know, their families, et cetera.
So Norman has been learning this process throughout. Uh their tank, unfortunately, the m the movie Fury is about this tank battalion, the tank guys, and their Sherman tank is broken at the middle of this crossroads. And you know, they're they're heading into Germany, out of France, I believe, is where they were. And He set out ahead because the tanks broke and they want to see if anybody's coming. And what he sees is this huge battalion all coming towards him, about 300 men and some stuff.
He comes running down You know, the tank commander to explain what's going on. You're going to hear that. And then you're going to, what you're missing as you listen to this, the tank. Battalion guy is standing on the tank and he ain't going anywhere. But he pretty much clarifies to the other men: hey, I understand if you want to save your lives, I'm not commanding you to stay here with me.
But then you kind of see what happens as they're called into an adventure. but it's also a battle of fight. Slow down. We're coming right now. Who's coming?
The Germans! How many? Oh, too many, too many to count. How many? Ah, I got two.
Two, maybe 300 of them. You got vehicles too. Tanks? No, no, no, just guns. Probably a bunch of buns looking to surrender, that's all.
No, no, no, no, no, no. They were marching, they were singing, they sounded like they wanted to fight. Where? I'm telling you. Right over there.
Are you here today? MSS Battalion. Looks about to be dark. Just get on up out of here, huh? Let them pass on through.
Let's hit them woods. Go get your pack. Let's go. We ain't never run before, I ain't running now. What's that?
We're gonna fight it out. We can't. I'm gonna hold this crossroad. What you mean you gonna hold this the tank's busted? The Tys Plus is tough.
Yeah, you said that. Pop, what are you doing? What do you want to do? You want to sit here? I'm going to hold this shit.
You want to sit here, hold off, answer this battalion. No, it's not what I want to do, but what we're doing. Get your fighting position. Mount up. Fighting positions when we ain't got to tell you how we're going to fight.
We got a cannon. That doesn't make sense. Stop! What are you doing? Get out of here.
Get to that tree line. Boys. Take care of yourselves. Get to that tree line. So I true.
It's all right. It's my home. I'm staying here with you.
Alright. I'll need you to load. Boys, get on. It's all right. Grady?
Come on. We're gonna stay. What is your plan? Give us one of them dead crowds. Uh That's what essentially they're choosing is almost like a death mission, and you can see that.
Um Norman, who's the first one that says he'll help, is is You know, everybody else is experienced in this tank. They've got tons of experience, definitely know what they have. It takes, but. Norman steps up and says, no, I'm going to stay. And as a result, of The bravery of the two men, they all stay.
And then, you know, obviously they're looking for a plan and they're on the adventure, and so he takes one of the dead Germans. lights them up, puts them on front of the tank like it's Um you know, better you know, decimated or whatever. Quite a movie, you ought to go watch it. But anyway, when I saw this clip, it's about six minutes long, and what you hear edited there is down to about a minute and 59 seconds.
So it took a lot of editing, especially because the music in it. Um Requires that you can't just do clean cuts.
So I spent, I had it in my heart to do this clip. I spent about two hours doing it. I do radio for a living, and it takes. A lot of work, but I say that only to say I had a lot invested in the clip. At the point in time, I looked at it and I went, wait a minute.
This isn't an adventure to live clip, this is a battle to fight clip. And then, as I was sitting there processing all the work that I'd done and thought about it, I went, wow. There's a connection to a battle to fight and an adventure to live that you know anybody that clearly is fighting for their life as Danny described in the last show is on an adventure Right? And and there's high risk. The thing of it is that I really one of the biggest understandings I had at one point in time as I was doing this talk.
was that God is a risky God. Like He's so risky, he gave Andy free will. That's so scary. It's very scary. But he did it to Adam first.
However, it works, but he gave Robby Dillmore free will. That's pretty scary. But nonetheless, when you think about all the things that he came to earth and one of the largest assaults on evil that has ever happened, in fact, it isn't one of. It is the largest assault on evil that ever happened. And in other words, when you look at that, that's definitely in it.
But so much of what little boys are training for, and as far as an adventure, the reason why they jump their bike so high, the reason why they go so fast on the motorcycle, all these things. Yeah. something supernatural that God is going to call them into. And they were meant to. And I think that's such an understanding myself of the masculine journey that we were meant to do this.
And so if we sit home like. In the movie Adventure Tyler, that we've, you know, Crywolf, sit because we're south of the 60th parallel and watching the boob tube. bored to death because we were meant so f and and then you end up with all these false comforters because you were meant for adventure. You you weren't meant to live somebody else's adventure in a movie. You were meant to live your own adventure and and and do it with with dad.
Absolutely. Grant, you had something you want to do? Grant, did you want to say something? At least the at least the boys want to learn. Yeah, the boys do want to learn and there's valuable lessons.
Uh all right, so just when you're a young kid and you get the bike and you're going to jump something. There's a lesson no matter whether you make the jump or don't make the jump, because you have to push yourself to the point saying, I'm willing to risk it. That's what you're talking about, right? And there's many, many times in your life you have to get to that point and say, I don't know how the outcome's going to come out. But I got to be willing to risk it.
Right. And that's where faith steps in. That's where the walk with God steps in. Maybe not in the jump, you know, but it's in the preparing you for the other risks down the road that you're going to have to take. It's in that learning that the boy needs to do.
in this journey with this cancer, you know, there's lots of fatigue and stuff like that.
Well, my son and his friends invited me to play golf Saturday, which was an off chemo week, and I had battled through some fatigue, but when I accepted, of course, the wife, Michelle, goes, Huh, takes a deep breath, goes Nobody knows what's going to happen. Here's a guy who's been on chemo for now three months. who is uh got stage four cancer and he's going out in the heat to play golf. And of course even the guys but it was part of it was the adventure of it all. Do I have what it takes?
And the answer to that was yes. I felt better after the golf game than I did before. Right. You know, and because to fight fatigue, ironically, activity is best.
So. Absolutely. Now, Harold, you have the next clip. Do you want to say anything about it before we play it? Yeah, this is uh where Gandalf is coming to Bilbo.
to recruit him. on an adventure. And uh as you'll hear Bilbo is not necessarily in the same vein as Gandalf.
So, if you play it, then I'll tell them I picked it. This is from The Hobbit, The Unexpected Journey. Right. Good morning. What do you mean?
Do you mean to wish me a good morning, or do you mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not? Or perhaps you mean to say that you feel good on this particular morning? Or are you simply stating that this is a morning to be good on? All of them at once, I suppose. Can I help you?
That remains to be seen. Uh I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure. An adventure? No, I don't imagine anyone west of three. would have much interest in adventures.
Nasty, disturbing. Uncomfortable thing. Make you late for dinner. Ah. Good morning.
To think that I should have lived to be good morning to my Belladonna Tooke's son, as if I were selling buttons at the door. Beg your pardon? You've changed. I'm not entirely for the better, Bill Burbacins. I'm sorry, I don't know you.
But you know my name, although you don't remember I belong to it. I'm Gandalf. And handoff means B Gandalf. Not Gandalf, the wandering wizard, who made such excellent fireworks at all. Old Took used to have them on Midsummer's Eve.
No idea he was still in business. And where else should I be? Uh Well, I'm pleased to find you remember something about me. Even if it's only my fireworks.
Well, that's decided. It'll be very good for you. They're most amusing for me. Inform the who what no, no. No, wait.
We do not want any adventures here. Thank you. Not today. Nothing. I suggest you try over the hill or...
Ha ha ha ha ha. The reason I picked that is because uh Danny kind of stole my thunder a little bit earlier in the first broadcast.
Sometimes you go seeking adventure. But sometimes adventure comes seeking you. Mhm. And we need to to be prepared and be ready to accept Some of those adventures because especially if we can see that it's coming from God. then we need to be ready to jump in and and uh go on that adventure.
Adventure is something that uh It is not just for little boys. Uh you mentioned earlier about uh Stating And um Yeah. As a senior citizen, when I was riding my motorcycle, Ah, sweetheart, close your ears. You don't want to hear this. But um I got above ninety once just because I wanted to see what it was like.
And so I was on my bike. And I I got it not too far above ninety, but Uh it's a scary thing. when you're on a two-lane road. going ninety or or whatever. and realizing what could happen to you, If a tire blows or whatever.
So it's not just youngsters.
sometimes even us old folks. or seek an adventure. Absolutely. Get their motor running. Yeah.
Step out on that highway. Yeah. Looking for adventures. If God calls you on an adventure, Okay. There's comfort in that, but there's also uncertainty.
Right? Because it's always something bigger than you can do yourself, or he wouldn't call you on it. He's not going to call you to something that you're already equipped to do. And I think that's what people think: oh, I can't do that. No, you're right, you can't.
God can, but he's calling you to be along with him in the adventure. Right. And so I think that's a big part of it is when I feel reluctant to go, it means I probably should go. You know, if I know God's calling me and I have reluctancy, that's on me. And I got to just say, Okay, God, I trust you more than I trust the situation I'm stepping into.
But uh Andy, you have the next clip. I do.
So, this is from Field of Dreams, and it's the trailer. You rarely use trailers, Amy. I hate doing it every time I do it because usually they're so visual, and you get all these different. you know, quotes or sta statements through them or whatever, and you can't really put the story together.
So I'm going to give you a quick overview of the movie as Ray Kinsella, living in Iowa, kind of lost focus on getting his dreams. He didn't ever know his dad. And so all of a sudden these mysteric mysterical His voice is mysterious, mysterical, mysterical, whatever. Whatever. These are different kind of people.
Come into his life, and they're like angels kind of leading him through this story where he goes on angels, too. All right, get out of here. Get out of here. I'm trying to make a point. Uh place uh no no well no not quite to the clip, but Basically it's just it's really God Bringing in this mystery into his life.
to lead him to where he back to his father. And he builds this field, this baseball field, that allows his dad and who he played ball with to come back and play. And there's just. I think, I guess, when I'm thinking about risk, it's not only doing things where you don't know the outcome of, but there's a certain mystery in it, and there's a pull. That's like reading a book that you don't, you know, you don't read the end and then understand everything that happened.
You have to read it page by page. And God takes us on this mystery, this story, this journey of our life. And I've become, well, let's play the clip and I'll talk more about that. That's okay. Here we go.
Uh I have just created something totally illogical. Just halakaba. If you filmed it. He will come. If you build it, he will come.
If you build what? Who will come? Insane. hid when that happens. Who's hearing voices?
Ray is. Ha ha ha ha. I think I know what if you build it, he will come means. Ooh, why do I not think this is such a good thing? Daddy?
There's a man up there in your world. Are you a ghost? What do you think? No, it thrills me. You can't see it.
This is really interesting. You believed in the magic. It happened, isn't that enough? Annie, it's more than that. I feel it as strongly as I've ever felt anything in my life.
There's a reason. Oh, the distance. Did you hear the voice too? Did you hear it? Go the distance.
Yes. A grave is dead. He died in 1972. Are you Moonlight Graham? No one's called me Moonlight Graham in 50 years.
Unbelievable. Smaller math. It's perfect. You build a baseball field in the middle of nowhere and you sit here and you stare at nothing. this field, this game.
It's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good. Hey! this heaven? No.
It's Iowa.
Sometimes When you believe the impossible, The incredible comes true. Field of Dreams Yeah, so There's just a Just a story of adventure there. And there's so many things. You can get. Adventure from watching Brave Heart or You know, a lot of the war movies and stuff, but that is just a simple thing of something that I can compare to my own life in the fact that.
My dad took me on a road trip when he knew he was leaving the state after him and mom split up. And it made an impression on me that I hadn't thought about it. It was dormant for many years. And whenever I really started delving into the masculine journey message, I started getting opportunities to travel and my job. And one of the first times out, I went to the Grand Tetons in Yellowstone.
And I just spent some time really kind of. Saturated myself with this message, listened to a bunch of podcasts, and really God became. A father to me shortly thereafter, I just began to really go after that, and everybody knows it here. And Danny was talking about it, and Robby, about how you've you find You know, we go on these adventures with our father. I don't, I think adventure loses its appeal if you don't.
If you don't do it with somebody, and one could say, a lot of these things, I don't do it with anybody because I go by myself, because a lot of times through work and stuff, I will be by myself. But I don't go by myself. I'm not alone. And I've experienced some amazing things through it. Like this last couple weeks ago, I went through, I've been to all.
Well, real quick. I was going through Salt Lake City Airport one time, and I was just passing through, and I saw all these. Beautiful pictures of the state of Utah, and I was like, man, I want to go there. And I was really open to this beauty thing.
Well, since then I've had got to go back like three or four different times and I've hit all the uh All the national parks there and really enjoyed it. And through that time, it's like God, it was kind of like this. It was kind of like God leading me, showing something appealing to me in this beauty and this adventure. And then I've been able to go back and I've just experienced Him in so many different ways. I've told a lot of people.
I've told it on the air many, many times. But that is just something that, you know, God has adventures that's unique to all of it, to all his kids. That's mine, is road trips. But, I mean, this last time I went to Monument Valley and Uh Capital Reef and then Zion and Bryce, all in the same trip and some other stuff too. And I was really busy the whole time, uh, just really having to move.
But I just I was experiencing him the whole time and feeling led. And and it's it's even with my daughter, you know, one of the things that I thought about when in in our I don't know, right? I guess she was probably 18 or 19. You know, she'd say, Hey, Dad, I heard about this thing where you flip a coin, you get to an end of a road and you flip a coin, you go either way. I was like, Yeah, that's I think that we ought to call that, you know, get lost.
And we started doing that and ended up who knows where. There was an adventure in that, and it was a road trip thing.
So, you know, there's a variety of ways you can. Interact with God. And what it has done in my life, it has. Open my heart up to where I am willing to risk and to step into those things that I would not do. We talk about casual adventure as being like these adventures, like I'm talking about, a road trip, crucial adventure where you're providing for your family, you're stepping up and helping the people around you, and then the critical adventure, your ministry.
And I think all of them feed in together, but you've got to have the casual adventure, I think, to fuel a lot of that. And it opens me up to where I believe in these other things. They're all important, I believe. And God creates us in such a way we need to be experiencing all of them. Yeah when I um When I went through my divorce, I had told my pastor, who's a good friend of mine, I'm like, look, there may be some Sundays you don't see me.
And he understood because I knew there were going to be times, I love my church and I love the people at my church, but there are times God calls me to go maybe go on a hike or to go fishing or go do something because I need that outside time with him that you only get when you hear nature, when you experience it. I don't even have to catch fish, I prefer to, but it's just being there and having that time alone. And it's really nice just to say, okay, God, what are we doing today? And some days will be, hey, you're going to church. Other days it's like, hey, we're going to go do this.
Right? And just being free to go do that and walk that time with God. Yes, there's importance of community, but the first community starts with you in the Trinity. Absolutely. Right?
That's your original community. One of the amazing things about that clip. You know, that really highlighted maybe more so than any other clip I know of, is that if you go to a boot camp, you're going to have something called a covenant of silence where you're to hear from God, right? And throughout the movie, he's hearing not just one message from God. You know, he's hearing other messages from God, and he hears those messages.
He goes on that adventure, right? And That You know, that is one of the boot camp things. Like that. I don't know of a guy that didn't come away from a boot camp that I knew well that God didn't speak to in some way. My own brother's salvation was a result of that particular adventure that he took with his grandson.
But as you can see from Andy, you get so.
So enthusiastic that you become sort of mysterical. Mysterical. It's a mysterical experience. Yeah, it's mysterious hysteria, right? Yeah.
What you said. I'm sure there's a really long time. It's really difficult, really difficult. Yeah, right. And laugh afterwards.
That's right. Yeah. Well, we do like to make fun of each other. You better jump on your clip. No, I don't have time for my clip, so it's fine.
My clip was, it was from Shrek. And if you've seen Shrek, there's a famous part in Shrek where Donkey's all in, and he jumps into the house, he says, Hey, I'm going to make waffles, you know, and Shrek just kicks him out of the house. And so the point that that was making for me in that whole clip was: there are times God will call you on an adventure, and you're confident this is the adventure he's calling you on. Donkey was confident he was supposed to spend some time with Shrek. He was supposed to go on an adventure with Shrek, right?
But it wasn't the right timing, and it wasn't within his control. It wasn't the way he wanted it done. It was the way it was going to play out. You know, and so that's happened in my life. When I went to my first boot camp in 2002, I knew in my heart I wanted to do boot camps.
And so I just sat there, okay, God, you laid this on my heart. I believe this came from you. Yep, and so I'm going to chart off and I'm going to head out and I'm going to pick all the people that's going to do a boot camp with me. And so I literally, the first thing I saw that book at home, I have all these names. I was going to give them the book while it hearth, and we were going to talk about it, and then we were going to do boot camps together.
I don't know that any of them ever read that book except for maybe one guy. Right, and it never happened, and I started to get dejected, and I saw other people doing the camps. And so, fast forward to 2007, I moved to North Carolina, listened to God go on an adventure, and moved down here. Lose my job in 2009, and within about four days, I get a call about: hey, would you like to do a boot camp from a guy I'd never met before? Right?
A guy named Darren. And that's part of our foundational story that we'll talk about in the beginnings. You know, when we get to that, but you can't chart off ahead of God. You have to continue that walk with him because when you chart off ahead, it may not work out. Right, the way that it's supposed to.
Go to masconjourney.org to register for boot camp. We'll talk with you next week. Yeah. This is the Truth Network. Yeah.
