Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast.

My name is Ginny Urich, I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside. And I have a new guest for you today who just came out with the book. It is called Welcome to Manhood, moving from potential to purpose. It is really important for our husbands. It's important for our children. The author, Noah Heron is here. Welcome, Noah. Hey, thank you so much for having me. What an honor. You are a pastor, communicator, and author based in Nashville.

We love Nashville.

Lead pastor of Waychurch in the heart of Nashville. And people are looking to you for all sorts of information, but especially talking about the issue. And that's probably the wrong word, that being a man today. Yeah. I think it's tricky. It's like there's a lot of cultural messages and there's probably the wrong word but being a man today yeah i think it's tricky it's like

there's a lot of cultural messages and there's a lot of failure to thrive there's a lot of boys that

are struggling in school there's a lot going on and it's really important that we know who we are

and that we grow in a way that can help us become, you know, if you're a man, you know,

if you become a father and a husband.

So can you talk about, you have a book called Holy Habit, which I would imagine is like

be for anyone, but then you have this next book that really focuses on men.

Can you talk about why?

Yeah, for sure.

So I started a church with my wife here in Nashville. Our first Sunday was

almost exactly two years ago. And we have a ton of young men who are really, really fired up for

the Lord at our church. I would say the average age person at our church,

we're two years old. We have about 1,300 people who are coming to church now. And I would say

the average age is probably 27. So it's a very young church. And most churches see probably 70%

women. I would feel pretty confident in saying

ours is really close to like 50%, which is pretty rare to see so many men coming to church.

And so yeah, what you said, like there's been so many conflicting messages around what is manhood,

around men inside and outside the church.

And I just was really inspired by the young men of our church and the fruit that was in their

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