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And I'm not just saying that because my boss is still standing there, with her arms crossed and that vein twitching on her forehead, as she's still standing there. Yeah, she's the she's not going away.
Okay, we better get to the clip because she's she's not moving. You know, when I get in the place where I have stinkin' thinking going, I'm just a miserable person to be around. You know, I'm grumpy. I'm short with people. You know, a little bit more angry, that kind of thing.
And I can get myself there if I focus on things that are negative. Right, and the more that I focus on those, the more I'm apt to become short-tempered. Those kinds of things, and if just by doing things differently, thinking things differently, you can change your outlook. But it's also true with sin, right? That once you start thinking about you have a lustful thought, right, and then you don't do much with that.
You don't break it, and you have another one, and you just don't break it, and just keep going. And then all of a sudden, you feel a struggle to to battle with pornography again. Right, and you wonder where that come from? It's because you created a pathway again. You gave it, you gave it fuel, right?
And so it was just such an impactful thing for me that I've just been making sure I've been practicing it since boot camp, and not to mention I was so proud of Caleb. He did knock it out of the park, and I'm not that biased because I didn't recognize it. And he and he set it up that video because that's a scientific thing. But he said, beginning, he said there's scripture that backs it up. And I was like, I wonder if he's going to go to Romans 12:2.
And sure enough, he did. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. That's what happens in that those new pathways being built.
So yeah, it's really cool. A lot of the scripture. Feels so much different. Make every thought captive. Yes.
Yeah. Right. Yeah. And just, it's been something I've really focused on, especially as stress has been over the last few weeks coming back from boot camp. I've been really trying hard not to let that get me down, and and not get to a bad place to maybe where I'm short with Misty, my fiance, or whatever.
You know, I'm just really trying not to go there. Even though you've had a tough week, right? Yes, a tough couple weeks. Yeah, and it's a beautiful thing to see how God's raising up the next generation, right? And that you know, it was one of the promises God made to you, Darren, is that this goes on, right?
There is a next level. Yeah, and seeing Caleb do that. My son, who has done a couple of talks at our boot camps and has led worship and is a, you know, church planner and just an all-around cool dude, it's so much fun to watch your son preach. Or teach or lead others, and it's one of the greatest experiences that that I've had personally. But I could feel that for Sam the entire time that he was talking, when Caleb was talking, and and I could feel it for Caleb too.
I mean, it was it was Caleb and I aren't as close as we once were, just by sheer time, but. I was extremely proud of his authenticity, his vulnerability, his strength, his knowledge of Scripture, and studying this stuff out for himself, and and being passionate about sharing it with others. And so, when you see that, I do remember, you know, asking God early on, "How will I know?" Whether I've succeeded or not in starting this ministry, and that was basically the thing that he gave me was when you don't need to be there when other people are doing it. That's hard. It is hard, but it's so rich too.
Oh, absolutely! And go ahead, Sam. I just want to say one thing. It was kind of cool for me is when Caleb got his new name. Years ago, it was Fisher of Men, and so to be able to talk to him after about you know you took that to a different level.
You're just fishing for men a different way. You've always done it in smaller groups.
Now God's calling you to branch out and do it sometimes with larger groups. It was kind of cool just to kind of share that moment with him as well. And the way he did it, I'm sure, took a lot of people by huge surprise because. He did what Paul said. He he boasted in his weaknesses, and he confessed things that not many people his age would be willing to do.
And I can't think of another one actually that would be willing to stand up in front of a bunch of church folk like we are and share some of the, you know, failures honestly that he had struggled through that led to the anxiety that he was describing. But as he did that, you see. We can relate to a broken Caleb. We couldn't relate to the perfect Caleb, right? And and so, you know, any, you know, from my stand, true fisherman has got the bait of of real brokenness.
Um, and I thought he was that was, and not to mention that also told me, and I'm sure it told everybody else here that. He was not a prisoner. He was not a slave to his shame. In other words, if you're willing to tell all the world that this is what I struggle with, you're no you're no longer under that bondage. You know, based based on the passage in James that says, "Confess your sins one to another." Well, if you can do that, you obviously have taken one leg up on shame.
Yeah, and he did an amazing job. Not that we knew he was hiding behind the fig leaf, but he set it on fire. You know, there is no no form of a fig leaf after he got done. He was very transparent. That's kind of a painful visual.
So, from the guys of Mastering Journey, I'm Keith, and we'll see you down the road.
