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Raising Men of Strength and Purpose – Jim “PK” Pilkauskas
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In this episode of the Tricer Podcast, Drew talks with Jim “PK” Pilkauskas, founder of Remnant 300, a faith based organization that believes manhood is something that must be awakened, built, and lived out through faith, brotherhood, and real challenge. Drew and Jim dig into the role of fathers, mentorship, and what it really means to lead with strength and humility. Jim shares his journey in founding Remnant 300, a ministry focused on raising up young men through discipleship, accountability, and real-world servant leadership.
Drew and Jim talk about biblical masculinity not as a buzzword, but as a lived example of being a protector, provider, and leader who serves others first. The conversation tackles the cultural challenges men face today, the importance of strong male role models, and why developing a personal relationship with God is foundational to becoming the man you're called to be.
At its core, this episode is about building men who lead with courage, faith, and purpose.
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Transcript
Introduction and Prayer
00:00:01
Speaker
You are listening to the Tricer podcast, where we talk all things hunting, gear, and the great outdoors. Before we begin, let's start things out right and put God first. Lord Jesus, I thank you for Tricer, and I ask that you can use this podcast as a way to bring joy to all of our listeners.
00:00:17
Speaker
We lay Tricer and this podcast at your feet. Amen. All right. We've got a fun one We're going to combine hunting and Christianity, which if you follow Tricer, you understand that's what we do all the time. It's how our business is built.
00:00:32
Speaker
So I've got Jim Pilkowskis. I probably butchered his last name. and They call him PK on the podcast from Remnant 300. a discipleship hunting slash program for young men to raise up Christian leaders in our community.
00:00:46
Speaker
not Not hunters, but Christian men. And that's what i that's always my focus, right? I take my kids out and yes, they kill all kinds of stuff. I'm not trying to raise up hunters. trying to raise up godly men first.
00:00:57
Speaker
And hunting is a tool I use to disciple my sons and
Jim Pilkowskis' Conversion Story
00:01:01
Speaker
do so. And Jim is doing that on a bigger form with ah kids that aren't even his own, which is really neat. So Jim, how you doing, man?
00:01:09
Speaker
Good brother. I really appreciate you having me on Drew. Yeah. When, when do you get saved? You know, it's funny. ah A lot of times I'll talk to people. They could tell you the exact year.
00:01:20
Speaker
The month, the day, the time. i would say my wife and I both got saved together, which is pretty cool, 10 years ago. Okay. um When we we came here to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, we found a church.
00:01:33
Speaker
And i I don't know the day, I don't know the month, but it was very clear that there was a certain time period where, ah you know, Christ got a hold of us and transformed us and everything has been different since.
00:01:47
Speaker
Yeah, I'm very similar. Back in 2006, I'm about 20 years into this thing now. And I can't tell you the day, but it was like this process.
Christian Identity vs. Lifestyle
00:01:53
Speaker
It was more a process for me. Yeah. It wasn't like I walked in and, you know, someone threw some holy water on my forehead and I fell on the ground. I was a Christian. It was like, I don't know about this. I got some, what's going to work through this? The next thing you know, I'm going to Bible college, you know, and going into ministry. Yeah.
00:02:07
Speaker
So ah that's awesome. So 10 years ago, you got, you got saved in Fort Bragg, you and your wife. So you guys are like ah adult onset Christians. Like, i mean, you guys were older. No offense.
00:02:18
Speaker
Well, no, we are. I mean, well, Crystal's 12 years younger than me, on but I grew up a Catholic. right So i I was baptized. I did the catechism. I did the whole nine.
00:02:30
Speaker
And, you know, my, my path was just kind of in and out. And, you know, a lot of times you don't know what you don't know until you get to a certain point and you look back and you realize, man, I was I was not walking with Christ.
00:02:42
Speaker
I was, you know, went to Catholic high school and don't think I ever even opened a Bible. ah So it's not that I wasn't familiar. I just clearly wasn't saved until about, you know, 10 years ago, about 2015.
00:02:57
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. And I think a lot of people go through that, right? Like we grow, there's a lot of people who identify as Christian in the United States, but don't walk out of Christian lifestyle, correct? That's right. Right? Which um I'm not a big supporter of at all.
00:03:09
Speaker
Like I think you you can't, you can't, ah faith if that works is is fleeting, right? You have to have both.
Role of Fathers in Christian Upbringing
00:03:15
Speaker
um And a lot of us kind of grew up in a household, right, where we are Catholic, right? Catholics especially, Because i grew up the same way in my dad with the catechism, same way. I used to go to Catholic church you a few times a year.
00:03:26
Speaker
Like, I'm a Catholic. And then, like, that's just how you – it's almost like your – it's almost like saying I'm American while Catholic or – i'm I'm Protestant, I'm Baptist, whatever. But a lot of youth don't develop their own relationship with God. And that's where we're losing a lot of youth. Right. Like it's you got to kind of develop. You have to develop your own walk. That's always like we try and like not only force on our kids, but like um teach our kids. Right. It's like you're going to be an adult. Right. Like my 18 year old.
00:03:52
Speaker
is an adult now and he's going to a little Baptist church up in Oregon by his college. He's doing his thing and he's doing on his own finally. Right. And that's always your worry. Like, well, what's going happen when he graduates? Is he going to walk it out or he going to walk off?
00:04:06
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That's right. So, yeah. So you, so I guess, so I mean, you obviously walked away for a while. You weren't going. like I did. i did. I'd say it was sporadic. You know, every time we would go to a new a military post, we would find a church.
00:04:21
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ah But the relationship just wasn't there, man. And and like you said, you know you you you're surrounded by self-identified Christians, right? People that proclaim to be Christians. ah But there was there were no fruits, right? So it's the whole you know faith without works is dead.
00:04:37
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And ah you know like you you just said something that kind of that struck a chord, right? it's Salvation is not a team event. So I think a lot of times we just assume that we're good.
00:04:49
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because we are in a family where people are self-provest Christians or we're in a church or maybe we're in a Christian school. I had no personal relationship with Christ until, you know, 10 years ah when, like I said, he really got ahold of me and everything just transformed, man.
Hunting Discipleship Program
00:05:05
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My whole life has been different. And my wife, since that happened to us, it's been remarkable actually.
00:05:10
Speaker
So what is that? What is, what does your relationship with God like for somebody who doesn't understand? Like, what does that look like? What does that mean? I think for for a for starters, you have to spend time in the word, right? Because that's how he, you know, sometimes people ask, does God still speak to us?
00:05:26
Speaker
Yeah, he does. I mean, it's not in a burning bush. It's not in a cloud, ah but it's but it's in his word. It's maybe from listening to a pastor. Maybe it's a one-on-one relationship. You know, I think God's very strategic. I don't think there's any coincidences. ah The fact that there's a million other companies out there, but somehow I found Triceur.
00:05:45
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And i started looking a little bit. I'm like, oh, check it out. These guys actually have scripture, you know, on the packaging of their boxes. But there's a lot of companies out there that do that. Right. But are they are they really walking the walk?
00:05:58
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And I started to dig a little bit more. And so my point is God will use other Christians, ah you know, to work and and to spread the gospel and to grow his kingdom. and so it's either through other people with spending time in the word.
00:06:12
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It's, it's that conviction that we have when we're living outside his will. Right. I know, obviously, you know, a lot about that. Uh, what, what is God's will? How do we know God's will?
00:06:23
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Um, I don't know. I think it's just a personal relationship where you're, you're spending time with him every day. You're making him a priority. You know, like my young men's group, man, we, we do all kinds of shoot, move, communicate, field craft.
00:06:37
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You know, I try to, ah try to balance capability with humility.
Challenges to Traditional Masculinity
00:06:42
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Because, and that could be a really, you know, fine edge. It could be difficult to walk. There's a lot of capable people out there that have absolutely no humility and they're not godly.
00:06:50
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ah But everything that we do is Christ-centered. So it's like Christ is the center, man. And everything else that we do is just one of the spokes on that wheel. And that's that's how I define, I guess, a personal relationship. Everything I do is centered around my relationship with him.
00:07:06
Speaker
Now, one of the issues I've had with the church in the past is like the cistification of men. There's passivity. Jesus is a loving guy. Jesus is—and man, like my favorite people in the Bible are guys like Paul who are like, let's go get into fistfight, right? Or Peter who's like ready to go to cut a guy's head off, right?
00:07:26
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John the Baptist. Yeah. John, the bat, like these guys like that. Right. And I think the kingdom of God needs people like that. Right. Like my fifth son, I talk about him all the time. We adopted him. He's wild, but he, I've never seen somebody such a strong will in his life. He's dropped in everything at the skate park. He's, he's either going to be the president stage or leader of a drug cartel. We still can't tell.
00:07:44
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But like I told my wife, like, man, like God created him to have this. These got fire. mean, this kid's got fire in them and like God created him for that reason. And I don't want to, quench that fire. I want to harness that fire and mold that fire into whatever God has for him. Right. Like my, like my, my oldest, my oldest boy is going into law school and he's really smart and he's not like a very social person. Like we molded that. You know what I mean? We, we did that. My, my second boy, very evangelical, right. He's, he preaches all time. He's everyone, everyone's best friend.
00:08:19
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um you know, we're, we're molding that. And I think that, like, I don't think that, I know that every child was meant to have a father to mold that and to shape that, right? The same way God shapes us.
00:08:32
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So we could walk in that anointing. And I tell people all the time, like, I never truly walked anointing of God. I've been a Christian for 20 years until the last couple of years when i started teaching. when tricer really started taking off, I understood like, Oh, here's this one of my callings. This is one of my anointing. Like right now at this period of my time, tricer is the anointing God wants me to walk in. Right. That's why he's blessing it so much. That's why I'm coming up many wild ideas.
00:08:50
Speaker
And so, what I mean, we're able to get so much money in my foster ministry. It's unbelievable. Um, and that's because I'm walking in that anointing and God's molded me into that person. And men came alongside me to get there.
00:09:02
Speaker
So a lot of kids are lacking that though. A lot of kids don't have a dad to shape that, right? a lot of kids don't have a dad to show them what a man looks like, right? They're actually being told by the world, by women, like ah men are supposed to be sensitive, men are supposed to cry which men can cry, but men are supposed to be, you know, basically – we're, we're, don't know, we're feminizing men in our world. Right. And we're not raised in the way they're supposed to be raised because there's a lack of a father.
00:09:28
Speaker
Right. Like I say all the time, we wouldn't need to have youth ministries and have 6,000 kids a week in ministry at my church. If the dad was doing his job. That's right. So it's not even just fatherless,
Men as Protectors in Society
00:09:38
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right? It's fathers that are just, it and I don't, I'm not bashing. There's a lot of good men out there that they only know what they know and they know what they saw in their father. Right.
00:09:48
Speaker
Whatever example they had, So it's it's fatherless, and then it's fathers that just don't understand the biblical mandate, right? They don't understand what true biblical masculinity is, what it means. You're absolutely right. I mean, I'm sure you've seen it.
00:10:03
Speaker
A lot of the devotionals I do, I'll pull out statistics. And if you look at the impact on a family of a fatherless home, I mean, it's unbelievable, right? So you're you're right. Most of the problems that we have, it would be resolved if we just had fathers in homes and then fathers that were actually godly fathers and doing what the Lord designed and follow that model, right?
00:10:24
Speaker
Of one man, one woman, you know, raising a family. So... Yeah, 100%. So that's kind of what leads me to this, right? so you get radically saved, right?
00:10:36
Speaker
And God gets to hold your heart in 2015, 2016, somewhere around there. I take it you're a military guy? Yeah, I did 30 years in the Army. 30 years in the Army. And Army, not sissies.
00:10:49
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not Not for the most part. I mean, yeah there's exception there's exceptions to everything. Tough guys. So tough, tough dude. You've seen some stuff. you You were 2015, you were involved in two wars, right? You were in multiple wars. You involved the Middle East in the ninety s I assume, and then in the Middle East again in the 2000s.
00:11:10
Speaker
Been through some stuff. Seen some things. Slept in some tough situations. God gets a hold of your heart. um At what point do decide, like, I want to impart...
00:11:22
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this biblical masculinity onto young men? Yeah. so honestly, Drew, it's funny how it happened. Uh, I started doing family devotionals and, uh, I, I look back at myself 10 years ago and I had no idea what it meant to be a, ah biblical father, right. And to rule, to lead my family biblically.
00:11:46
Speaker
Um, But we did start doing family devotionals. We found a church. We were there every time the doors were open. i did a lot of study on my own. And ah one night, a group of teenagers come. I have three sons, by the way, two 20-year-old twins and a 17-year-old.
00:12:03
Speaker
And since we've been here, we've kind of become that house where all the kids want to come hang out, which I'm very happy about, actually. So one night. The boys come up, there's about 10, you know, teenage boys in my backyard and we get some foul weather.
00:12:18
Speaker
They all come in the house and Crystal, my wife, kind of gives
Servant Leadership and Community Service
00:12:22
Speaker
me the nudge, man. And she's like, hey, why don't you take advantage of this time and do a devotional with the boys? I had nothing planned. I hadn't even thought about it.
00:12:30
Speaker
And i did a devotional and they decided, hey, can we do this again next week, Mr. PK, which is what the boys call me. And I said, yeah, you know what, let's do this. And it just started to evolve, right? That was four years ago.
00:12:44
Speaker
And I will tell you true. I mean, I'm, I'm definitely the head of my family, but my wife is the neck. I mean, she often is the one that will kind of turn my head where I need to focus.
00:12:55
Speaker
And then I just, you know, I do my thing and that's exactly what happened. It was really her that gave me the nudge. So that, that was the initial, you know, Genesis of it, but there was so much happening back then, right? All the, all the toxic masculinity and all the nonsense, all these movements, uh, in our country, in our society, all the things that you're talking about already, the, the effeminization of men, you know, turning young boys into, you know, girls. And so that's when I really started to think, all right, I've got to do something. I've got to focus on this.
00:13:27
Speaker
Uh, let's talk to these boys about biblical masculinity. And I tried to frame it around being a provider, a protector and a servant leader. And then I started, you know, i I do a devotional every week. I, you know, build a devotional based on one of those three three pillars. and based on my military experience, I know that when you have a bunch of, you know, young men from, you know, disparate backgrounds and experiences, one of the quickest ways to get them to bond is some kind of physical hardship.
00:13:59
Speaker
And I'm a, I'm a big fan of voluntary hardship. You know what I mean? If you're going to be a man, you, you have to get out, ice cold showers, rucks, you know, getting up early. Type two phone is too fun type two fun.
00:14:10
Speaker
yeah Yeah, man. I, you know, so there's, there was always an element of some kind of physical event, usually a ruck, a team building event. And that really just helped the boys kind of bond very quickly.
00:14:23
Speaker
And ah so that's what we're doing. That's the model that we followed. for the past few years where they show up at six o'clock and at my house, at our house every Monday night. And ah we'll do a ruck, a trail run some kind of a class.
00:14:38
Speaker
I'll do a devotional. And then Crystal, my wife, lays out a bunch of food, feeds everybody. And it's just food and fellowship. But it's it's really grown. There's about 82 or three people in my group.
00:14:51
Speaker
Generally speaking, on ah on a on a larger Monday night, I'll have about 35 people here. And gods God's blessed it, I think, because we're honoring him and we're not watering anything down. We're we're preaching the word and, ah you know, just speaking the truth. So he's definitely been blessing us.
00:15:09
Speaker
It is wild. and
Modern Societal Values and Christian Masculinity
00:15:11
Speaker
I want to break down your whole provider protector. What was the last thing, provider for protect protector, and what was it? Servant leader. Servant leader. um It is wild how hungry people are for the gospel right now.
00:15:23
Speaker
Right. Like people are hungry. We went to, um and and I'm unapologetically Christian, right? Like you listen to this podcast. if you don't like it, don't listen to it. Like I talk about God, you, you know me for five You know, Christian. I'll tell you, we ended up baptizing Mike Hearn on one of my employees in in Mexico this year. One of those, like people are hungry for the gospel, right? Like I'm seeing guys like Eric Schneider going to church and guys, you know, there's other people in the industry. i know we're going to church right now and God is moving. Um, Eric, Eric Chester from Hush and got radically saved last year.
00:15:52
Speaker
Who is that? Eric Chester from Hushin. ah Hushin's – I mean when it comes to influencers, they're as big as you're going to get. I mean 5,000. And God's using him to work with the young man who' been within Awakened Church in Salt Lake City.
00:16:05
Speaker
It is just neat to see like how hungry people are for the gospel, right? Like we're seeing at my church right now, Charlie Kirk got shot, and our attendance went from 2,400 to 3,000 week. People like me. i mean, talk about screwing up, man. That kid thought he was going to you know end Charlie Kirk, and all he did was just awaken a freaking lion.
00:16:20
Speaker
That's right. And you're you're seeing people get rabid. People who never go to church go to church now and really to see and like hear what Charlie was saying and understanding what he was saying, right? um People are hungry for the truth. People are tired of the lies. People are tired of being told like – We're being told what's right is wrong and what's wrong is right. And hey, the sky is red. And if you say the sky is not red, then you're wrong, right? We should cut kids. we havenn't I'm in California, right? Like it's just, we they they they'll give your kids hormone blockers without telling you, right? they'll do
00:16:52
Speaker
It's crazy. They're calling your kid Sue instead of Jack because they your kid says it's a girl. You know what I mean? There's wild experiment on our children and the world is sick of it. Right.
00:17:04
Speaker
And those three things you talked to, i want to touch on those because those are so important and we're going to go'll go back and forth. I'm going to try and give you as much time as you can to talk on it. Sure. But provider protector and servant leadership are three things who that have been totally destroyed by the devil, by our culture, which are so important.
00:17:23
Speaker
Right. Yeah. Talk about being a provider and what world, what does the world call it? Like for a woman, you know, we have a man and what does the world say about a man being a provider for a woman?
00:17:35
Speaker
And let's break that down. I think, you know, so if you look at the worldviews and I know there's multiple categories to me, it's basically Christianity or humanism or secular humanism, right? Where, where man is the, the, the, you know, perfection.
00:17:50
Speaker
I think, I think the secular worldview would say would say that anybody that has a job, and provides for his family. I think they, they look at it in terms of, you know, a roof over a head and and they're good things. Obviously they're very important, but I would say it's a roof over the head and food on the table.
00:18:07
Speaker
And I think that's about where it would stop from a secular humanist, you know, perspective. I would also go as far as to say that a woman doesn't need a provider. woman doesn't need a man. and A woman doesn't need a man to be a provider, right? They could provide for themselves. No, you're absolutely right. And that's definitely whole, that's the direction that Yeah, they've been pushing for a long time with the whole feminist movement.
00:18:28
Speaker
is we are We are equals, right, in everything, right? And there is a role that a man should play since the beginning of time, whether it be going out and killing a freaking wildebeest
Impact of Discipleship Program on Young Men
00:18:40
Speaker
or, you know, going out and reviving for your family that a man should be doing, right? A man should be man should be showing a son what hard work looks like.
00:18:48
Speaker
Right. And we're losing that. Right. We're doing this whole like stay at home dad experiment where the women, you know, the women are equal in that. And, and, and we're losing that men and women are not created equal. They're created differently. Right.
00:19:01
Speaker
That's right. They're equal, but they're different. Right. Like there's things, my wife, like I tell wife all the time, like if you died, our kids have a lot of fun. They probably die as well. If she wasn't here, like, like, it's like, they would just like, I need her. Right. Like, yeah's not her. Like she's glue the glue that holds it together. Right. She's the one they go to She's like, yes, I'm fun, but man, like I need her to keep these five kids alive, to homeschool five kids to do what we do. Like but there's a partnership there.
00:19:26
Speaker
And my role, lot of my role in that partnership is providing for my wife to be able to do that. And, and my kids seeing me work hard, my kids seeing me, you know, when they were younger, doing the six days a week, you know, overtime, seven days a week, you know, working real hard, making, you know, struggling, losing a house.
00:19:42
Speaker
They need to see dad doing that. And we're losing that as a society. Yeah. That's, you know, cause you you go back to, prior to the industrial revolution, right. Men, boys, well, you know, they woke up early and they had breakfast and,
00:19:57
Speaker
You know, ah the son did something with dad, whatever, whatever the trade was, you know, they, they worked with that and industrial revolution comes and now people have to travel to get to the factories. And all of a sudden we need daycare. And I think it was probably World War two was the first time where there was actually, i mean, there was a need, there was a legitimate need, you know, to keep things running back here in the United in the States while most of the men went off to war.
00:20:24
Speaker
But like a lot of things, right, some things aren't inherently bad. But once once the progressives, once to the left, once evil realizes that they can exploit something, that's what happens.
00:20:37
Speaker
So initially, women doing a lot of the jobs that men did, it was probably a necessity. But then they kind of realized, hey, guess what? We don't really need men. Right. We can marginalize the men. And that's where I think the whole feminist movement even started. Even to say the word feminist, you know, will draw, you know, hate, a hateful response.
00:20:57
Speaker
But yeah I mean, that's what it is. Right. we've We've gotten away from God's ah God's plan, God's model. You know, just like you said, i mean. providing, it's not just providing a roof over their head. It's, it's, it's that example. It's that godly example.
00:21:13
Speaker
It's providing hope. It's providing instruction and sound doctrine and, you know, all the things that a godly man and father is supposed to do. So you're absolutely right. Now, the second one I really like, and I'll tell you why protection, the world we're in a place right now where men will pull out their phones and watch someone Right. We just watched a woman get stabbed death on train and no one stood up.
00:21:40
Speaker
Right. And I've always taught my boys, like, I expect you to get punched in the face. And that's not a bad thing. Like I expect you to get punched. Like it's, we don't need to be sissies. Right. Like I'll give you an example. Um,
00:21:53
Speaker
My son was, uh, they're all down the beach and they're in the parking lot and there's this big, uh, homeless guy, big giant
Supporting Remnant 300 Ministry
00:22:02
Speaker
homeless guy. He's in there. He's screaming at this clerk, this woman and all of his friends are sitting in the car and my son gets out of the car. He's 17 years old, 16 year time. I don't know how old he was, 16 gets out of the car, goes in between these two. And they're like, what are you doing? Stop. His friends are to him. And he dissolves the situation.
00:22:20
Speaker
Good for him. Dissolves it. And like knowing he's going to get punched in the face. But when you see a woman in trouble, when you see a child in trouble, the man's job is to step in and get punched in the face. And we are lacking that. And it's because we're living in this time where everyone's equal. Women don't need protection. Women don't need.
00:22:39
Speaker
No, you are created to protect. You are created to open doors, to be chivalrous. and we're at time now where you open a door for a woman and they get mad at you. They do. It's wild, right? like and but in But they were created, whether they like it or not, they were created to want that desire that and need that, right?
00:22:59
Speaker
We're at a time right now, especially in California, where we have men running track, destroying because we're supposed to be equal, right? And we're not. We're not the same. Women are not as strong as men. They are not.
00:23:10
Speaker
My wife, no matter how hard she tries, will never build a bench half of what I can bench press Right. Like she, my 15 year old stronger than my wife because she is naturally not as strong as because God created
Closing and Social Media Engagement
00:23:23
Speaker
him to the protector.
00:23:25
Speaker
That's right. And her to be the nurturer. Right. And we've lost this thing where we're trying to make the women both and they can't do both the same way. I can't do both of my kids. Like, like I said, my wife died, i don't know what would happen. Like I, it would be tragic for my children. Right. Cause I don't have what she has.
00:23:43
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We're equal, but different. Right. And. And there's this lack of chivalry. There's this lack. There's this cowardice that drives me crazy. right Like my oldest boy is going – the same boy is going into the Air Force now. He's in the r ROTC.
00:23:57
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He wants to serve his country. wants to do this thing. And there's such this lack of it. And I don't know if it's from – just the way we make men look stupid on TV or just from social media. I don't know what it is.
00:24:09
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Like there's a lack of patriotism. I mean, the whole thing, it's just, it's just wild to see where the country is right now in this. um I hate, like I told my boys all the I never want to see you watch someone get bullied.
00:24:22
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Right? Like I never want to see, like the fact that people could, their first reaction now is to pull a phone out rather than step in and get punched in the mouth is shocking to me. wait We've talked about that with my young men's group many times, and it's the bystander effect, right? it's Sometimes it's cowardice. Sometimes it's thinking that you know somebody else is going to is going to take care of the situation. And I try to inject in every devotional, if not me, then who?
00:24:51
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If not us, then who? And that's the thing. we have to you know You get into this, it's not my responsibility. It's not my fault. Well, it may not be your fault, but it just became your responsibility as soon as you saw it. Right. Never walk past a mistake.
00:25:04
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You just created a new standard when you do that. ah But you're right. I mean, look at look at sitcom. Right. Look at Al Bundy. I mean, the the whole movement has been made to make men look inept, stupid, foolish.
00:25:18
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ah So it's it's a very deliberate plan. I mean, Satan's no fool and he is absolutely leveraged, you know, social media, Hollywood very effectively. So, yeah, i'm I'm doing everything I can man to counteract that at my level.
00:25:33
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And obviously, you know, men like you are. Thank God. and
00:25:38
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It is a man's job, and we're lacking this, for his family to feel safe around him. Right? Like my daughter knows, like ah my daughter sometimes will ask me, like you got your gun?
00:25:50
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Like, cause you'll see someone scary. I'm like, of course I have my gun. Like she just knows, like I have a CCW just so it's legal in California. Right. So, you know, right. Like my daughter knows all of my children know that I will lay down my life for them in a heartbeat.
00:26:05
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I will turn the world to sand for them. I will, my wife in the same way, like there is nothing. you could rip me limb from limb. I don't care. There's nothing I wouldn't do for my children, and that is lacking.
00:26:17
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yeah And we need men, more men like that, that will not abandon their children, not look at – it's not just men, but women as well. We're talking about men today. that We live in this time that is so selfish, so self-indulged, which leads to the next topic, that we we're missing what is onlying the only thing that matters, which is our families.
00:26:39
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Yeah. I tell people all the time, like my legacy will never be tripod. It'll be my children. Right. Like the only thing that's going to last from me, no one's going to remember Tricer in 50 years or a hundred years. Maybe. Well, who knows? Maybe it'll be around 50 years. I don't know, but not likely. Right. Like it's just, no one's going remember that, but my, I will have grandchildren and great. And like, and need be that model.
00:27:02
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They need to feel safe around me. They need to know, like when, when your children feel safe, you feel children feel protected. Right. they will be able to be the person God created them to be. That's right. Yeah. It's just creating that environment, right? Where they feel safe. You're right. You're absolutely right.
00:27:17
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and we We talk about that a lot as well. Just, I want them to be a formidable opponent to anybody that's, that's out there looking to oppress them, their families, the innocent, the weak, the widows, you name it.
00:27:30
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Right. ah A lot of times what happened, what you hear about, we talk about men that are not capable. And we confuse that lack of capability with restraint.
00:27:44
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I'm like, no, man, you want a man to be dangerous. Jordan Peterson did. I know he's not a Christian, but he he did a really good talk right on that on being dangerous. You have the capability, the fact that you use discernment and restraint, right, that God gave you.
00:27:59
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that's That's different from being somebody that's incapable and ineffective. I want them to be a formidable opponent to any any form of evil, whatever it may be. And then it's up to you to have the discernment and the restraint and to know when to turn it on and turn it off.
00:28:13
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So some people think just being sensitive is ah is a strength, but it's not. Yeah, you can be sensitive, but you better be willing to freaking get punched the mouth. I'm sorry. I just feel like we're lacking that in this community. and this I feel like a lot of kids have benefited from a fist fight these days. I'll tell you what.
00:28:32
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and I know that's not like the biblical answer, I'm just saying like we've just gotten soft as a country. I know. We've gotten really soft and it's it's sad to see. It's just sad to see people um do that.
00:28:44
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Even a lot of the, like you mentioned a little bit, Drew, you started to touch on, I think, selfishness. And that's, that's sin, right? That's our, that's our, our sin nature. it It just doesn't come natural to wake up and think, what can I do to make somebody else's life better today? How can I serve others? There's nothing natural about that.
00:29:02
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Uh, especially, you know, if you're, if you're an unbeliever, that's just your natural state for the most part. Right. And I think for an unbeliever, even when you are doing for others, there's probably still still some kind of selfish motivation behind that if you really peel the onion back enough.
00:29:21
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ah But I think it really takes Christ inside of us to want to serve other people, to want to put others before ourselves. ah Yeah. So a lot of the selfishness that I see with some of the younger boys, like getting in the front of the food line and stacking a bunch of food on their plate before other people have had a chance to eat.
00:29:40
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I turn to my, you know, there's a lot of former special operations guys that come to my my meetings and And we all say the same thing, man, just one punch in the mouth and that would solve that problem. I mean, I'm not going to do it. Obviously, I'm not abusing children here, but in the army, that's what would happen. You know what i mean? That's something like that. If you were selfish or if you refuse to carry the weight, if you refuse to be a team player, you they they would police you up very quickly.
00:30:08
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You would be dealt with and it would either be fixed or you'd be on your way. If you don't have that, some kind of forcing function for some of these kids, man, they just never grow out of that. And I think that's just a natural trajectory to continue to serve yourself.
00:30:21
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So we're trying to counter that as as much as we can. Yeah, I think the military is going back to those basics now. Last couple of years, Headset is kind of back on the track. Like, yeah, we're going to get away from this DEI stuff and yeah get back to kicking butt and taking names. Department War.
00:30:38
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Yep. So ah that leads into servant leadership. What is servant leadership and why is it lacking? And why is it i mean why is it so lacking in the U.S. s today?
00:30:51
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Oh, man, that's a... I think there's a lot of reasons. I think like we just talked about, once you remove absent of God, there's just not a lot of, there's not a lot of good things happening, man. I hate to say it.
00:31:06
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And even sometimes in the church, right? There's a lot of selfishness. There's a lot of some of the motivations. It's about numbers. It's about money. It's about power. ah it's about, you know, a lot of people want this external validation and Lee, we definitely learn how to lead in the military.
00:31:25
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Right. I mean, from a very early age and early rank, uh, you're, you're given people to be responsible for, you know, and we're actually taught, we have leadership training, leadership courses, leadership schools.
00:31:38
Speaker
Um, doesn't mean everybody's good at it. Right. I think some of us, uh, are, I don't know if I'd say born to lead, but I guess anybody can be taught, but you know, God gives us all different gifts.
00:31:49
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Um, So I think having vision, being able to follow that vision, being able to put it in action, not for your own benefit. Like, I'll be honest with you, even with a small ministry that I have, you know, 50 some people, it's still small.
00:32:07
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I do have a very, very small social media presence. You know, I'm not, I'm not a guy that I'm not an influencer. I only post things because I like parents and other folks to see what we're doing, you know, for the young men.
00:32:19
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But I even thought to myself, if for some reason, man, like let's say I get on i get on Tracer and Drew makes me famous and you know he and I break the internet, I don't ever want to be want things to be about me. I want the focus to always be on the Lord and what these young men are doing to become better godly men.
00:32:39
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So I think that's something we just have to kind of struggle with every day. And and it's the whole die to self. I don't want it to be about me. Lord, help me get out of the way. Use me, you know, to further the gospel, to further your kingdom.
00:32:53
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And I think that's why servant leadership is missing. Right. Because, again, i I think it's very difficult to find it absent of Christ. ah So I guess.
00:33:05
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The funny thing with servant leadership is, because I've been in ministries for 20 years now. A lot the times it's not fun, right? Like servant leadership is doing something you don't want to do, but doing it because you know that the fruit is so much better. Like, right. Like, like leading your group, it can be really exciting sometimes.
00:33:23
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And I guarantee you sometimes you're like, I don't want to do this tonight. Right. There's going to weeks where you don't want to do going weeks deal things you don't want deal with. There's going weeks you have to parents. I do a bunch of youth stuff. Right. And like, especially in today's world where your kid can't do anything wrong. cause You don't spank your kid and your kid's just the angel and you You're just like, why am I doing this? Right. Are you getting a complaint to the church or something you did? And you're like, why don't you come lead your kids group? You know what I mean?
00:33:47
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It's, it's hard, but we serve leadership isn't done for you. It's done to help others. Right. And you serve as an example for these kids. Right. And, and you do it like not for servant leadership, not isn't necessarily always giving you the best accolades. Honestly, most of the time it's not even like recognized at all.
00:34:10
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Right. Like I remember, I'm like, let's give an example. Like I always wanted to preach. I went to Bible college and I wanted to teach our college ministry for years. And I would, uh, I would pick the chairs up every single week and I would say messages. in it and I would set the chairs up, sit chairs down.
00:34:24
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And I remember just doing that. And no one ever was like, Hey, good job. Right. I finally got to preach. Right. I got to get a chance to, you know, give me a microphone. never shut up. Um, But that's like an example of servant leadership, right? And you see it a lot with people, right? It's just ah that lady, like my mother-in-law, she's 75 years old and she goes to do an African Bible club every single Wednesday.
00:34:43
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Right? she's old, she's tired. The last thing she wants to do is deal with a bunch of freaking junior hires, but she leads this group. Right. And that's servant leadership and she's in there doing it. And then she obviously brings along like my, my kids, my 17 year old and my 15 year old going to help her and they do the group with her. And, um, that's really cool.
00:35:01
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But, uh, that's servant leadership doing something that doesn't necessarily give you accolades, but it does benefit the kingdom of God or benefit somebody else. Yeah, you're right, man. And that's that's hard to find, right? Because we, again, goes back to our old nature. And even if we're saved, even as as a believer, i mean, that sin doesn't just disappear. So it's it's that validation. It's that recognition. i think we all still seek that.
00:35:29
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I get convicted when I catch myself doing it, right? But it's still it's still part of us. ah You know, the old saying about not caring who gets the credit.
00:35:41
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as long as the mission is successful. That's easier said than done, right? How many people, like you said, I mean, are you getting any recognition at all for being the guy that cleans the church every Sunday after everybody has already left or, you know, doing the dishes? It's all that backside support is what we'd call it the military.
00:35:59
Speaker
You know, all those support tasks that have to get done in order for the mission to be successful. Like my wife is phenomenal about that, man. Like I'm the one that kind of gets to get, you know, the attention, if you will, right. Doing the devotion and I'm the guy that they see, but guess who's in the kitchen, man, preparing all the food. Or cleaning the house all day beforehand to get those kids in there. No one's like, man, this house looks great. great so your wife did yeah I read a Bible study at my house for 17 years. Trust me. I know. Yeah.
00:36:29
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yeah I mean, 30, like 35, 36, you know, young men coming in with soaking wet, you know, rugs and, you know, smelling like a nasty Ranger squad. ah tromping through your house. Yeah, you're right. No one says, man, your floor looks good, Mrs. PK.
00:36:42
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ah So yeah, it's that behind the scenes work. There's no recognition. that That's real servant leadership, man. And that's tough, you know, because we all want to be recognized unless we, unless we die to self.
00:36:54
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It's not even daily, man. It's like, it's throughout the whole day, right? We're trying to die to self and say, Lord, let it, let it not be about me. You know, it's, we're either trying to bring the focus on us or we're trying to bring it to him.
00:37:05
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and And I think that's the key and it just doesn't come natural. It's something we have to, you know, be very deliberate about. Well, especially in today's day and age where all we want to do is post how great of parents were on the internet, right?
00:37:18
Speaker
Like we can make everything look good in a picture, right? um Did you see that Forrest Frank, you fall as Forrest Frank at all? That Christian singer? I know. no I mean, he's selling out arenas. He's awesome. He's huge. biggest Yeah. And a huge, and he actually just came out and said, yeah, I'm not going to award shows anymore.
00:37:35
Speaker
Really? Cause I, I don't want to get, I don't feel right taking glory for what God gave me. And then people were so pissed off other singers. Right. And it's like, he's like, I'm not saying and you can't go. I'm just saying, he's like, I don't want to, I just want to sing like God's, you know, God's good. I just want to sing, you know, you know, I just watched it today for the first time, watched Hacksaw Ridge. You've seen that movie.
00:37:54
Speaker
I have. Yep. Man, talk about serving leadership. Talk about somebody who, you haven't seen Hacksaw Ridge, I don't know how never saw until like the other day. This guy was a second day Adventist, right? Like they don't believe in violence or anything like that. And um he joins the military and just gets ridiculed and beat up by his peers. And he goes over to ah Japan and these Japanese won't quit.
00:38:18
Speaker
long as he's very short, they get overtaken. Everyone runs off the ridge. He stays up there all night. And he saves 45 of these guys who hated him. 45 dudes. And he just kept saying, one more guy, more one more guy. need this guys. No, 75. I'm sorry. 75. This guy, this one man,
00:38:36
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this guy this one man gave, they just sacrificed himself and saved 75 men in one night. Like what a story. Like certain leadership is, even though it's not, it's just so much more noble.
00:38:50
Speaker
I'm much more recognized for that than like, man, I make some really cool tripods make a bunch of money. You know what mean? Like I'm going to Kenya on Monday. I'm going to go teach a discipleship conference. I'm going over there for weeks with my kids. And That is so much more important to me than like going on these hunts. And it's prime hunting season. Like I have a spot where my kid shot 175 inch last year, seven by five mule deer.
00:39:13
Speaker
And there some deer with them. And the tag is like starts next week. Like the day we were flying out, the tag starts and I have the points to draw it. And I had to be like, no, I'm going to go to Kenya. I'm going to trust that God's going to do it. I don't have any tags this fall. All them are all my kids.
00:39:26
Speaker
Okay. Um, But man, like going over there and doing that, being with my kids, having my kids see me preach and having my kids preach. I'm actually discipling. We have all this. I have all these youth from our church going with me and I've them at the house a couple of times now. We're meeting again tonight.
00:39:42
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um They're actually teaching all the messages, right? I'm making them run the Bible study, making them run the game so they can preach and do it. Like that is so rewarding to go do that. It's been that time over there, not hunting in Africa, not doing anything else, just going over there just to serve God.
00:39:58
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um And man, I tell you what, like when you do stuff like that, like God redirects you, God puts you on a path, right? And God does things like, I went over there last time, went over there two years ago and I created the Tracer RP or Tracer AP when I was over there, Archipelite, a drone on napkin, drew it, did it.
00:40:13
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And man, we sell thousands of those a month. And I'm not saying that like I'm not this guy, like I'm not a seeker sensitive. I'm not a name and claim it type pastor at all. But like, man, like when you go out and do serve God, like God provide everything else.
00:40:26
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Yep. And it's just so neat to see God do stuff like the AP right through that. Right. And like, I don't, there's nothing right now. It's like, Oh, I shouldn't go do this. I should be going hunting. I should be doing meetings. Like I know that if I go do this, God take care of the rest.
00:40:39
Speaker
That's right. That's right. That's the key. Right. Too. And a lot of times he does not give us the whole picture from a to Z. He just gives us the next step. And, uh, you know, he, he equipped, what is it? He equips the called.
00:40:56
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as opposed to calls the equip. Right. So that's trying to get these boys. We talk a lot about God's will. What does that mean? You know, is is the decision to be a doctor or a politician in and of itself a moral decision?
00:41:13
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Well, no, not really. Right. Unless you're going to be a doctor that's going to make a career out of, you know, performing abortions, or you're going to be a politician that's going to be, you know, corrupt and do everything that you have to do just to gain power.
00:41:26
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that's when it becomes a moral you know issue, obviously. But otherwise, regardless of what is you're doing, right? Just do everything for the glory of God. ah i don't know if you ever heard this ah statement.
00:41:37
Speaker
It's attributed to Martin Luther. I don't know if he said it, but it has something to do. And I think you you said something about Christian businesses, which I, by the way, think we need to do everything we can to support fellow Christian you know ah businesses.
00:41:51
Speaker
But Martin Luther said something about A Christian shoemaker, it's not about putting a bunch of little crosses on every shoe. It's about producing the best quality shoe he can, right? Because God appreciates ah good craftsmanship and and us giving our best and devoting to him.
00:42:09
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um So I think that's what it's all about, man. 100%. Pretty epic podcast. um Why don't you give us a success story from your ministry and what you guys are doing back there?
00:42:24
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Kind of give us a rundown what you guys are doing, some of the stuff you're doing. Give us a story of some of these kids. So one of the things that I've seen, Drew, is... it's really nice to get feedback. A lot of times you don't get the feedback and not, not about validation, but just to know that your efforts, right. That there are some, Oh yeah. Kids are the most, especially young kids. They're the most underappreciative. Like they, like I've done junior high and high school ministries for years and you're like, don't get paid to be here.
00:42:52
Speaker
you Right. That's right. but Well, that's like, I'm a nonprofit, right? So there's been some people that have almost like, well, tell me more about what you do. I'm trying to decide if I should bring my son. I'm like,
00:43:03
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brother, I'm, I'm providing you a service, you know, I'm going to feed your son. I'm going to pour my time into him. I'm not going to charge you anything, you know? So yeah it's just kind of funny, but, uh, what, what I really love to hear, honestly, Drew is when a, when a parent will reach out and they'll say, Hey, I don't know what you guys are doing. I don't know what you're talking about right now, but I will tell you that prior to this week, I could not get, you know, Mike, John, Lou, whoever,
00:43:33
Speaker
to even get out of bed before 10 o'clock. ah Never, never wanted to open the Bible, never wanted to come to church with me. This morning, he's up at 5 a.m. He jumps in a cold shower. He's working out.
00:43:46
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he's He's asking me questions about scripture. He wants to do a Bible study. He wants to go to church with me. ah Watching, probably the biggest success story, I think, is watching the boys create this environment where they they truly nurture each other. They support each other.
00:44:03
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Uh, it's like a friendly competition, but you don't see them, you know, it's like Ephesians 429, man. They are not, they are not tearing each other down with their words. They're building each other up.
00:44:14
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And I try to tell them that every Monday night, man. And like you said, there's a lot of Mondays where, man, it's the last thing I want to do right now. You know, it's been a long day. I don't really want to put on a ruck when it's North Carolina, you know, a hundred degree, hundred percent humidity.
00:44:27
Speaker
But once we get out there and we start working together, man, it's just so fulfilling. And just watching the boys motivate each other, encourage each other, uh, at their Christian school, you know, after chapel every day, the the instructor will say, who wants to close in prayer?
00:44:44
Speaker
every single time it's one of the boys that comes to my young men's group. So now they're very confident and comfortable about, you know, leading a prayer in their family, praying at school, ah sharing the gospel. I'll see them walking downtown Southern Pines, man, you know, handing out Bibles, handing out tracts.
00:45:01
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So that's really what it's all about. that Seeing and them take it into their own hands, take it to the next step and just create this environment, man, where they're all it's It's just a brotherhood where they're holding each other accountable and they're all growing in the Lord.
00:45:17
Speaker
Reproducing, reproducing. It's all about where can we find 300? Do you want to support you or help you? Yeah, brother. i That would be phenomenal. And we are, i don't, I don't like to ever ask for, for money, but we did become a nonprofit because if, if I want really good training for the boys, if I want medical training, land navigation, right now we're in the process of getting a building,
00:45:41
Speaker
ah so that we can, you know, have classes in. And we we do need, it takes money, right? It takes resources. So if anybody was interested in supporting, www.remnant300.org. So remnant300.org is the website.
00:45:59
Speaker
And that'll tell you a little bit about us. And there's, an ah you know, a Donate Now tab. There's there's different kinds of supporters if anybody was interested in doing that. Um, we were on Facebook as well. Uh, remnant young men's group.
00:46:14
Speaker
The business was remnant young men's group. And then when I became a nonprofit, I went with remnant 300. I thought, ah you know, the story of Gideon, yeah and of course, Spartans and Thermopylae, that's not a bad, you know, bad use of symbolism.
00:46:28
Speaker
So, but yeah, remnant300.org. dot org That's awesome. Jim, ah love what you guys are doing. i Praying for you guys. That's great. but's so Let's get together again, man.
00:46:39
Speaker
I'd love to, man. I would. I'd really love to learn more about your overseas missions work. If that's something that any of my guys will be able to participate in, we'd love to. Yeah, love to get on with you.
00:46:51
Speaker
Let's do it again. True. Thank you, man. Thank you. Thank you for listening to the Tricer podcast. Do us a favor and like and subscribe on whatever platform you're listening on.
00:47:02
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