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Favorite Boot Camp Moments Part 2 After Hours

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November 16, 2024 12:35 pm

Favorite Boot Camp Moments Part 2 After Hours

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November 16, 2024 12:35 pm

Welcome fellow adventurers! The discussion on favorite boot camp moments part 2, continues right here on the Masculine Journey After Hours Podcast. The clips are from "Les Miserables," and "Braveheart." 

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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 Masculine Journey. This is Andy. I'm sitting in for Sam and Robby who are usually in this hot seat. But we're really glad that you're here.

We're going to get you pumped up talking about our memories from boot camp so that you'll come to this boot camp November 21st through the 24th at Carolina Bible Camp. Right, Harold? Absolutely. Right outside beautiful downtown Mocksville.

Yeah, absolutely. I know a cool, I know a sage from Mocksville. And his name is Harold.

And if you come to boot camp, you'll get to meet Harold. Right? Art. Art, yeah. We miss Art. Hopefully we'll see him at boot camp.

Art, we're shouting out to you right now. But we're just continuing the conversation about our favorite boot camp memories. And we're mixing in some clips. And with that clips, you know, with these clips, you get a feel for the memories we even have. We're kind of using the best of some of the clips we use in boot camp talks.

So I'm going to kick it off with a clip from Les Mis. And now that you know, we talked a little bit about the core desires and the wound. Now we want to kind of shift into where God and warfare also.

But now we want to that was from the previous show. But we want to get into kind of where really, this is probably where I've experienced the most breakthrough, because I really had an identity problem for a long time. And when you talk about the new the new name, what God calls you, a lot of times we we accept what the world calls us.

And for the longest time, I'll just tell a quick story. For the longest time, I really struggle with identity, and who I really was. And, you know, I'd been to a few boot camps and ask God what my new name was.

And I'd heard mighty warrior and some other things. But I really never had my dad wasn't involved in my life. In my adolescence, I feel like I grew up and didn't really think about it.

I feel like I grew up and didn't really learn a lot of what it meant to be a man and I was unfinished. And I needed to be initiated, but I needed to do that, have that done through identity. And God told me one day I was out at a covenant of silence after the new name talk. And I was like, God, what do you call me? And he was like, What's your given name?

Andy, Andrew, I don't know. And he said, Go look it up. And I went and I guess maybe I'd heard of it. Maybe I'd heard of it in the past, but it was strong and mainly the very thing that I desired to be, that I didn't feel like I was, you know, it was just one of those things. Strong. I was really bad about very being very emotional, and not really being a strong man who could, he was like meekness. I had no meekness.

I was weakness, not meekness. And, you know, that changed my life. It changed a lot. It changed the whole trajectory.

And that was where I had some of the greatest breakthrough. But this clip is from Les Mis. Jean-Belle Jean has been in prison. He's gotten out recently.

They let him go, but he's carrying this tag of prisoner. And he goes and this lady sends him to a priest house to get some food and lodging. And over the night, he looks for an opportunity to steal some stuff and hits this priest in the head.

You'll hear some of that or well, you won't hear that. This is the next day. And he runs off with the candlesticks of silver. The police now he forgot the candle.

Oh, that's right. He did. He did.

You'll hear that. He got the silver spoons. And the police bring him back to the priest and are like they're saying, Okay, you're we caught your man. And this is the dialogue. And this God figure shows him grace, and really listen for the identity that he gives him.

So we'll use wooden spoons. I don't want to hear anything more about it. I'm sorry to disturb you caught him. But I had my eye on this man. God. I'm very angry with you.

Jean-Belle Jean. What happened to your eye, Monsignor? Didn't he tell you he was our guest last night? Oh, yes. After we searched his knapsack and found all this silver, he claimed that you gave it to him.

Yes. Of course I gave him the silverware. But why didn't you take the candlesticks? That was very foolish. Madame Gilot, fetch the silver candlesticks. They're worth at least 2000 francs.

Why did you leave them? Hurry. Monsignor Valjean has to get going. He's lost a lot of time.

Did you forget to take them? Are you saying he told us the truth? Of course. Thank you for bringing him back. I'm very relieved. Release him.

You're really letting me go? Didn't you understand the bishop? Madame Gilot, offer these men some wine.

They must be thirsty. Thank you. And don't forget. Don't ever forget. You've promised to become a new man. Promise?

Why are you doing this? Jean Valjean, my brother. You no longer belong to evil. With this silver, I've bought you soul. I've ransomed you from fear and hatred. And now I give you back to God.

So powerful. So I want to hear some stories. I know that impacted each one of you in some ways. Or maybe you have a story about receiving your new name. For years, I struggled with my name. Danny Lee Marsh.

Because part of it was my family. My dad's name was Robert Danny Marsh. So I was known as Danny Lee throughout the family.

So for all of you who, when you got in trouble, they called you by your first and middle name, that was my whole story of my life. I remember looking up what Danny meant years ago. God is my judge.

That's the derivative of Daniel. I took that way out of context. God's got plenty of judge here.

But at boot camp one time, God just broke this down for me. He says, no, you don't understand. You're looking at it the wrong way. I'm your judge. What everybody else says doesn't matter. You matter to me. Go back to the clip. You matter to me. And I'm your judge.

And boy, I could have cut cartwheels if I knew how to do a cartwheel out there on a baseball field. And Lee is, I always thought, Leo the lion, I always thought that was kind of cool. But the leeward side of a boat or a hill is the protected side. And it's just such a deep revelation because I do tend to protect folks. And that's just kind of my nature that I didn't realize. I'm the champion of the underdog.

I always have been. And when God showed me that, it was like, here's your new name. You've had it all along. I'm like, well, that's not really cool.

But it is really cool. Well, I got the same thing, and I hear you, man. It's like, I've been living over here, and I should have been living where I'm at. I just didn't know my name. Yeah, you just didn't know who you were. And that's kind of part of what happens.

Yeah, we give some talks and everything, but then God goes, hey, buddy. And all this stuff just begins to come to light. And it's stuff you've known all along. You just didn't know it. Maybe you knew it here in your head.

Exactly. Anybody else? Identity? New name? Bueller. Jim, you look like you got me hanging, waiting on you.

You look like you're prepared, but you've got to look it up on your phone. Well, you're talking about your name. I've never known the meaning of my middle name.

Oh, there you go. It's a weird name, but not as weird as I thought. It's Ewart, and people look at, oh, Ewart. No, Ewart. It's like Stewart.

You just dropped the S-T. But it's a variant of Edward, which is Wealthy Guardian. Like you, I've always wanted to protect the underdog, the little guy. Gentle Giant? I'm not a little guy.

Well, everybody's a little guy to you. That goes back to last week in your Gentle Giant, right? I am much smaller than I used to be. I'm down to 260 at one point, 350.

But thanks to a little help with my heart, back to my weight in the 20s. But I've always been proud of my name, but I've usually hidden my middle name because people mispronounce it. And not that long ago, less than a year, my wife found that I was dead and buried in Thyatira Cemetery not too far from here. James Ewart Graham III, who was born in Scotland and is buried less than a – and has exactly the same name, James Ewart Graham III.

Not in the line of your family, though. Yep, he's six great-grandfathers and came from Inveraray, Scotland in the early 1700s. And that connection – I mean, I've always loved my Scottish heritage, and that's the biggest part of my blood.

Got a little German thrown in there just to keep me organized. But it's been interesting seeing that, and there are seven of us. In 12 generations, seven have been James Ewart Grahams. Wow, there's a lot of you all around, huh?

So I've got a fourth, and I'm the third. Well, I will agree with – when I got into the identity from this message, God led me – I was on a business trip and ran into somebody that was doing ancestry, and there was a couple confirmations. I knew I was supposed to get involved in the ministry, and I've told you guys I've got reconnected to parts of my family higher up the family tree than I had ever known. No, my family tree, and it's really been cool, but there is that connection in the past. We, in this day and age, do not connect to anything back but a few generations. But it must be important – the Bible's full of genealogies listed out, and we know a lot of that was to lead to Jesus, but there's more than that.

And God was like, okay, in Acts 17 it talks about – he puts us together on our times and our seasons here on earth and stuff, and I don't want to lose that. I mean, I don't want to go down that rabbit trail, but it is – plays into our identity, our heritage. You've talked a lot about heritage.

You had that as a word, right? But anyway, we want to move on, but really identity is key. The next thing that really resonated with me was sonship, and these guys got tired of me talking about sonship because it just rocked my world. When I began to see that, I think I had to have my identity kind of just – I've always looked at God as Father, called him Father, said the Lord's Prayer and all, but I didn't really sense that he was my father.

I didn't really know it was something available. But when you hear Morgan, who really brings this message from the Wild Heart team and how he explains it, it puts something in you to – it wets your appetite to go deeper with the Father. So usually when we do the sonship talk, we use clips from The Brave Heart because The Brave Heart is just a well-done movie that really you can pull all the stages of the masculine journey from, but it really goes into sonship because William Wallace lost his dad at an early age, and you'll hear this interaction right before his dad goes off of how he's teaching and giving a blessing to William, but basically telling him he needs to – it's his wits that matter to him. And then when his dad dies, his uncle comes, and his uncle's kind of this surrogate father for him that kind of leads him on to the next stage of life. And then as you see William Wallace become the warrior and the rescuer of Scotland after it, you begin to see really how well he was fathered.

So this clip is kind of a compilation clip, but here we go. What are they doing? Saying goodbye in their own way. Playing out-loved tunes on out-loved pipes.

It was the same for me and your daddy when our father was killed. First, learn to use this. Then I'll teach you to use this. So you probably got it from the clip, but what he's saying there, he's telling him, he points at his head and said, Use your mind first. Once you learn how to use that, I'll teach you how to use this, and it's the sword. And you know, if you go back and literally look at that movie, Wallace was, he was a warrior, and he knew how to use the sword, but he was a smart dude.

He was always setting up traps, and he knew how to outfox his enemies and stuff. So he was fathered well in that movie, and it's a great example. And a lot of times, the Uncle Argyle is really God the Father that comes in. We may not have the fathering that we expect or need from our earthly father. Every man's broken, and he's not always going to do everything. He's never intended to. He's not the backup plan. God is, God's not the backup plan.

God is the primary reason. And you know, this whole Uncle Argyle coming in and fathering him well makes him the warrior he is, the lover he is, just the man that he is. And you know, that's another just memory from boot camp of those Braveheart, I mean, we have clips from all kinds of movies, but those Braveheart clips just grab your heart.

He had great socks too. Yeah, definitely. I was hoping we were going to not go there again.

You can. You got to talk about the Argyles, man. Sort of like with Andy. Sometimes when he brings up such, oh, there he goes again. Yeah, it is, yeah. But bottom line, if you're a male, is there anything more important in your life than to recognize that you are a son of the Most High God?

Nothing comes to mind for me. I think it's George McDonald that says we must become the sons of God because we are the sons of God, and a lot of times we don't follow through on the must. We are the sons of God, we just don't see ourselves that way, and whenever you do, you begin to step into that. And boy, that's where the freedom and the joy and the life comes from. Jesus said, I came, he said, I'm the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, but through him, that was his purpose, is to bring us to the Father. And a lot of times we're standing off at a distance from the Father because our shame and our sin and all that, but Father says, no, come, you know, we know the prodigal son. If not, the opposite.

Yeah. Well, I've reflected a lot on this lately, Andy, because November is a special time in my life, especially this November, 30 years since I've been clean and sober. But I've reflected a lot this time about the men that God has put in my life over the years that have fathered me in different ways. And just recently, as of last year, I started hunting and taking up fly fishing and some other stuff that I've just totally loved to do.

But one of the struggles I've always had in my life is the discipline of things, because you're not instantly good at things, especially not hunting and fly fishing, or just different things. But the people He's put in my life, you know, now you guys and the different things that, you know, I was telling pre-show about, you know, my first boot camp, I had this fly rod that my wife bought me for Christmas. And I knew there was a lake down there, and I thought, I'm going to try this thing. And so I walked down to the lake, got my fly rod in its case, and there stands Robby out there on that floating pier at Park Springs. And it looked like something out of the river runs through it, and I'm going, I don't even want to go out there, because this guy's going to put me to shame. And, you know, the shame and the guilt of not knowing, which is really stupid, if you think about it, because just because you don't know something don't mean that you have shame about it.

You got to learn. But I walk out there, and Robby instantly goes into fatherhood mode, unbeknownst to me, and, you know, shows me a few things, opens up this wonderful tackle box, this butterfly steel tackle box that's 158 years old, you know, however old it is. And he begins showing me different things and just began to pour into me, but poured into me a lot more than just fly fishing. And, you know, it's been that way with hunting and with all that thing, but that's the whole heart and soul of the masculine journey is pouring into other people, but letting other people pour into you. Because none of us have outgrown that, you know, despite where you are, but that's the fun of God going, hey, buddy, I got something for you. And that, you know, we learn that, and we get challenged in, I think it's in the poser talk, where he talks about, John talks a lot about how we like to stay in the areas where we're strong.

Absolutely. That's a way of hiding. It's a way of hiding, but it's the things that we're not good at that, you know, struggles, you know, putting together talks or, you know, putting together, you know, different stuff that, you know, I remember starting to want to learn to cut clips around here. And that was not my wheelhouse. You know, if your washing machine was broke, I'm your guy, your dishwasher was broke, I'm your guy. You were a fast learner, I have to say. But it was people pouring into me and encouraging me and doing those kind of things, and that's what we're talking about. That's Sonship 101. Well, let me add, you don't get too old to learn.

No. I'm still learning. Yeah, I had the same experience with that not being fathered. You resist, you're not initiated in a lot of different ways, and you feel like it's shameful to be exposed in front of other people when you open up and they see that you don't have a skill.

And that was a struggle for me, too. And I probably still have not opened up to the point you have. There are things that I have an interest in, and I know that I could be fathered there, the busyness or whatever, I've got other things going on. But my intent is to pray into that and open that up, because how can you ever be fathered if you don't open yourself up to be fathered? So it's obvious, but yet how many men or how many people hold back? And like you say, not everybody does everything well, so the men that do have these skills down will tend to stay behind those and not take anything else on. They may kill 100 deer, but they can't talk to their wife.

It's a variety of things. I have no desire to kill 100 deer, but I will help eat 100 deer if necessary. Harold, I've got a question for you. Can you be too old to want to learn how to cut your own clips? I don't think so.

Darn. And you're asking that question, buddy? Well, as long as he gave me a paper cut and poured lemon juice at it over there and learned how to do his own clips. We like to pick at each other, but we all have our things. Just being open, I think that's the whole thing we talk about. And calling, too, is you don't like to risk, because again, you don't like to be exposed or you don't want to come out of your comfort zone.

But that's what we're pressing into. The whole adventure to live is, again, if you only stick behind the things that you know and you do well, then it's going to be a... It can be a very boring life, but it's a safe life.

God didn't call us to a safe life, to be honest with you. I was around here for a couple years when I finally figured out, when did these guys have all these times to watch all these stinking movies? I had the same, yeah.

What in the world? Everybody would just quote them, scenes and all that stuff. But I'm like you, Harold, you were talking about there's something to be learned. Every one of them had God's story. You have a challenge, you could step into your adventure, your battle.

They all had a theme to them that was based on the gospel, and they talk a lot about that in The Wild at Heart, usually around the larger story, which that talk I'm doing this time and excited about that. But it just causes you to look at things a bit differently because we do tend to go to live a safe life. I won't quote that. No, you're not going to quote that.

Anybody else? Mike, did you want to say anything? Either Mike. Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike.

Neither Mike has a mic. Everybody else does. That's kind of interesting. So I have one last... Grant mentioned about the safe place. What makes this a safe place is that each of us has acknowledged our faults, and if everybody in the group has things that they've admitted to, then it's safe to bring up your own because you know they're not going to talk about yours because theirs is vulnerable as well.

That means no more, shameful when alone. Yeah, that's a great point in that there is a safety in that. You don't mind sharing something near as much whenever you've heard somebody say something much worse from the stage.

Or what you would consider much worse, or maybe it's just different. But it lets you know that, hey, these guys are honest, and we try to be. And there's a lot of freedom whenever you can share your story and not have to filter it and you just tell it like it is.

There is so much freedom that comes from that. So I want to play one more clip. It's a short clip. It's from Braveheart. It's near the end, and it really makes a good point about this idea about life and how men live it. Now, he's getting ready to die here, and he's talking with the princess, and she's trying to get him to save his life instead of lose it and be free. If I swear to him that all that I am is dead already, I will die.

It will be awful. Every man dies. Not every man really lives. Isn't that the truth? I mean, I never really thought about it until that clip is powerful. You can live the safe life and die in your bed comfortable and safe, but you can just be dying inside and never really live the life that God intended.

You don't want to hide that talent like in Luke 11, I believe it is. But we want you to come to a boot camp. We want you to have memories from a boot camp. We invite you to a boot camp November 21st through the 24th. I was getting confused with the last years, I guess.

I don't know. But anyway, we want you to come. Go to masculinejourney.org to register. We would love to have you there. It's going to be exciting. We're going to have a good time and it will get you ready for Thanksgiving.
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