This is the Truth Network. Welcome to all you Joyriders out there. This is a fantastic show from the guys you know. I'm speaking of none other than the Band of Brothers. My name's Keith, producer for such fine truth network programming like The Masculine Journey and Masculine Journey After Hours.
In this podcast, you can expect to laugh and smile with godly men who want nothing more than to honor and glorify God.
So sit back, relax, and enjoy the joyride. Hey Joyriders, it's a new week which grants you a brand new Joyride. This week, the Foundation Series train is rolling through, and the guys are talking about where our Foundation believes are when it comes to our Father God.
So, without any further ado, let's get to the clip. Yep, any second now, that clip is going to start rolling, and boy or boy, are you in for a treat. Any second now. Oh, wait a minute. You're probably waiting on something.
Let me guess. You're waiting on a skid or a joke or something that I usually do. Yeah, well, here's the thing: we ain't doing that this week. Nah, we ain't got nothing like that this week. You know why?
Because I'm keeping on your toes. You never know what's going to be on this podcast. You just never know. That's the exciting part. That's the fun part.
It's completely random most times.
So this week, Well, we got the clip. And next week, well, you never know. We have to stay tuned to find out. Completely random. That's what you get on the Joyride, ladies and gentlemen, if that makes sense.
If that doesn't make sense, well, Won't you listen next week? And then, maybe who knows? Maybe it'll be a skit. Maybe it'll be a joke. Maybe I'll sing a song.
You just never know. And now I'm rambling. But you didn't expect that, huh? Because we know why? Because it's the joyride.
And we have fun on the joyride. And without further ado, here's the clip. I come back, I've talked at boot camp about it many times. God was like saying, I'm really adopting you as my son. I'm stepping in where your dad left off.
He was trying to do the right thing. But that was a very difficult time, and that's what I believe God does. He wants to come back into the very place that you were wounded the most. And he became so real to me at that point as my father. And some people are like, oh, it's God.
You just go buddy up with him, and that's all. No, that was the beginning of the process. That was starting me out of boyhood. And, you know, the process has been to where it gets more difficult. He begins to.
You know change some things in you, require more out of you, call you into a variety of things. But just hanging out with him, having him what I feel like, and again, some people think I'm crazy, all I know is what I felt deep in my spirit. Um In that trip, and it just solidified to me. It was a foundation of where I base my relationship with the father.
Now, it was at that point. I mean, it's grown in more depth.
Sometimes I tell the guys many times I felt like an orphan because I lived without a father in my life. for a good while and that causes you to feel like you have to do everything yourself. Everything is up to you. Orphan Spirit, I think. Orphan Spirit.
I wasn't going to be following you. I knew you were going to, but I didn't. But But uh it just um I don't know. He just came and rescued me at the very place that I needed to. And I didn't appreciate it enough, I don't think.
Or I did. I did appreciate it, but I didn't understand the depth of it, I feel like. There's a clip in City Slickers where Ed's talking about how his dad was rough on the family and all. And Ed stood up to him for one time. And then the dad leaves and he was like, it was the best day of my life and the worst day of my life.
I'm not doing it exactly how it transpired, but essentially that was what he was saying. And that trip with dad to me was the best week of my life. And in retrospect, I didn't know it then, but it was the worst week because that was the... That was when he departed, you know. And I don't know.
I just know that God... There's so much more available when you hear Heavenly Father when you ever when you hear these things I mean, when he says in the Lord's Prayer, Our Father, He's asking us, Well, I personalize that when I pray. The Lord's Prayer. My Father. It just makes it much more real than some distant father that operates.
remotely and he's just he's He's just very close and very foundational to my life. Absolutely. Thank you, Andy. I mean, we're all actually on a road trip with God. Right, we call it adventure, you call it whatever you want, my journey, my walk.
You can call it what you want. You can call it a procedure, it's still a surgery, right? You can call it anything you want, but you're still on a journey with God in it. I was hoping I could do a James Earl Jones voice, but there's no way. But when you said, we'll think you're crazy, we already know you're crazy, it's okay.
And we appreciate that. For me, crazy has always been a compliment. Yep. Thank you, Jim. Thank you, Jim.
That was good too, Jim. That was interesting, too, Jim.
So from the Guide's A Masculine Journey, I'm Keith and we'll see you down the road.
