EP8 - Deployed into Darkness

Some Dates Change Everything

This episode is about parents. The ones who shaped you. The ones who failed you. The ones you're still trying to honor. And the parent you still have time to become.

Borrowed Time: When Someday Is a Myth

Borrowed Time: When Someday Is a Myth Picture two men sitting in front of an hour glass at a table. They are actually the same man. Different sand. The young man across the table believes he has time. Time to fix what's broken. Time to say what needs to be said. Time to show up the way he always meant to. Time to get serious about the things that actually matter. The old man knows better. He's watched the sand fall. He's lived the seasons. And if he could lean across that table and say one thing to the younger version of himself it would be this —Someday is a myth. Dale knows because he lived it. Four cardiac events. A quintuple bypass at 49. A defibrillator sitting in his chest right now — a timing device — because his heart kept losing its rhythm. God has been making the same point to him for thirty years. Stop treating someday like it's guaranteed. And it took Him that long because Dale is apparently a slow learner! This week Nathan and Dale sit down and walk through every decade of a man's life — the lie each season tells you about time, the thing God is actually inviting you into, and what it costs you when you keep filing the important things under someday. Your 20s. Your 30s. Your 40s. The decade nobody talks about that may be the most dangerous one of all. We also talk about what older men owe younger men. And what younger men owe older men. And why that conversation — the one across the generational table — may be the most important one most of us aren't having. Now look at that image one more time. Which man are you sitting closer to? And what are you still calling someday?

Every Girl Crazy 'bout a Sharp EDGED Man!

ZZ Top taught us that every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man. But what if the world doesn't need more sharp dressed men? What if it needs sharp-edged men? Men sharpened in solitude. Strengthened in brotherhood. Sent with purpose. Abraham Lincoln said if he had six hours to chop down a tree, he'd spend the first four sharpening the axe. Most men are out here swinging a dull blade and wondering why nothing is changing. Dale and Nathan are talking about the difference between solitude and isolation — and why it matters more than most men realize.

FOUNDERS, FATHERS, FUTURE

250 years. And we're trying to run their system without their foundation. The Founders knew exactly what they were building — and exactly what it required. A virtuous people. Anchored to something higher than themselves. That was then. Look around at the fathers standing in the gap today. Ordinary men. Raising families. Holding the line. That's now. And the future? It doesn't start in Washington. It starts in your living room. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573320562986

Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?

You've asked this question before. Maybe you didn't say it out loud. Maybe it was in a hospital waiting room. Maybe it was standing at a graveside. Maybe it was 2am, staring at the ceiling, after a phone call you never wanted to get. Why would God let this happen to someone so good? It's not a question for the people who have it all figured out. It's a question for anyone who has ever loved someone and then lost them too soon. We're not going to pretend we can answer it in five minutes. But this week on Glass House - No Stones, we sit in that question honestly — the anger, the silence, the "it's not fair" — and we find something on the other side of it worth hearing.  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573320562986 [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573320562986]