The Joy Ride #145

Welcome fellow adventurers to the Masculine Journey Joyride Podcast. This is a brand new show from the guys you know.

I'm talking of course about the Band of Brothers. My name is Keith and I'm the producer for Masculine Journey and Masculine Journey After Hours. In this podcast, you will hear funny stories, exchanges, and thought-provoking moments that will amuse you, make you smile, and draw you closer to Jesus Christ in your journey of life. Hey Joyriders, it's officially summer and it's officially the middle of the year. So here at the Masculine Journey, that means it's time for... The Masculine Journey Mid-Year Mid-Term. That's right, we're talking over 500 questions about what we've discussed so far on both the Masculine Journey and the Masculine Journey After Hours this year. Wait, hold it, hold it.

Joyriders, y'all seem confused. Don't tell me you forgot about the Mid-Term. We mailed out the study guide weeks ago. Right, K-Bot? Remember I gave you a stack of study guides, addresses, envelopes, and stamps? No, not ringing a bell. I said this is very important. Must be mailed today. Okay, K-Bot is shrugging.

That's a bad sign. All right, new plan. There is another activity that takes place in the middle of the year around here. That's when the guys revisit their words of the year. I'm a poet and didn't know it. So let's get that clip going while K-Bot and I look for those missing study guides. Take it away guys. My word of the year is from Wild Heart by John Eldredge.

It's on page 151. John says, let people feel the weight of who you are and let them deal with it. I don't know, maybe it's because I'm a Yankee or, you know, from Massachusetts or whatever. Maybe it's because I'm just a big guy and I feel like the Lord is just telling me that I just have to let people see the real me. We just have to, you know, let the light shine out, you know. And then another verse that I live by is from Psalm 16, verse 8 says, I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. And that kind of ties in with, I believe it's 1 Corinthians 10, 13, about no temptation.

Darrell Bock You know, the neat thing is I'm thinking about the verse after that says, therefore, right? My heart is glad, but my favorite part of that is my glory rejoices. So what's your glory? That's your halo, man. You got to get your halo on. And that thing is rejoicing.

Why? You know, you will make known to me the path of life in your presence. John Eldredge There is fullness of joy. Darrell Bock At your right hand? John Eldredge Our pleasures forevermore.

Darrell Bock Right? I mean, that is really quite a story God gave me that the year that he gave me the word engage for the year. And the way he engaged me was have me begin to memorize scripture. And the first thing he taunted me with was he knew how much I loved the last verse in the 16th Psalm. But it was like, now Robby, you need to know how you get there.

Right? And you got to go back to the first verse and come on down. And what a joy that is. I mean, you know, Robby has no weight. And I'm kind of a big guy too.

Until you connect with him once you have the Lord always before you and he's at your right hand, then all of a sudden, yeah, there's a lot of weight to deal with. It's it's it's amazing, man. I love that, Mark, I do. And I almost as much as I'd like to hear Danny say Massachusetts, like, say it again for standing Massachusetts rather. So from the guys on Masculine Journey, I'm Keith, and we'll see you down the road.