Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

All right, welcome back to the Daily Blade. Gentlemen, this is week

40 of the Daily Blade. That is a really, really big deal. And in two weeks from now, I will be

releasing discipleship material, also known as a book called Stan Furnham and Act Like Men,

Becoming the Man you were created to be instead of who the world says you are.

And I think you will agree with me that something has gone horribly wrong.

And the reason that I write books is for one reason and one reason only.

It's the same reason that I do The Daily Blade, which is simply just to make disciples.

So the content, really, over this next season, is going to be specifically aimed at men to

stand firm and act like men.

A lot of the content that I'm going to cover is kind of a taste of what's going to be in the

book.

So if you find it helpful, then I would love for you to go grab a

copy if it helps you walk closer with Jesus. We're going to look at this entire week. We're going to

look at Genesis chapter 2 because when something is as screwed up as manhood is today, I think

you've got to go all the way back to the beginning to see what God's intention for manhood is. And so Genesis chapter two

beginning in verse five says this, when no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small

plant of the field had yet sprung up for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land and

there was no man to work the ground.

And a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground.

Verse 7.

Then the Lord God formed the man of the dust from the ground.

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