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.

Well, everybody, welcome to The Daily Blade, and I'm here to disappoint

you as your guest host. This is, my name is Josh Howardton, and I am a friend of Pastor Jobby Martin

and Kyle Thompson and an occasional Daily Blade listener. And so it is my incredible honor to hop in

with you and begin our time in the word

every day for the next five days. Now let me explain what we're going to do for the next five

days is Pastor Jobi and Kyle. They asked me to talk about manhood and speak to men. And so we're

going to spend the next five days deep diving on one verse that has

become a theme verse for my life since it captured me many years ago. Now, let me lead into it

because we got some specific callings that come out of this. But let me lead into it like this.

I want to give you a warning. I think listeners to this podcast are going to be okay with this, but I'm about to say a few things that are not politically correct, but they are biblically correct. And very frankly, I'm assuming that's why you're here. If you wanted to hear politically correct, you'd stay home and watch the morning news. You open up this podcast because you want to hear what's biblically correct. So here's what we need to understand before we read this verse because it is specifically addressed to men. What the Bible

teaches and what society proves is that where men step into their callings, things flourish.

And where men refuse to do that, things burn. And when I say things, I mean everything.

Years ago, when I was in middle school, my dad took me to promise keepers because my dad was a good dad. And back then, a

young Tony Evans walked out on stage and he preached what I think may have been one of the

most earth-shattering messages I'd ever heard. And he addressed Mint, and he began his sermon, you could have heard a pin drop

in the stadium. And Dr. Evans looked out with those steely eyes at this stadium full of tens of

thousands of dudes. And this is the first thing he said. I never forgot it. He said, if you want to change the world never forgot it he said if you want to change the world

change a continent if you want to change a continent change a country if you want to change your country

change the state if you want to change a state change a city if you want to change a city

change a neighborhood if you want to change a neighborhood change a family and If you want to change a city, change a neighborhood. If you want to change a neighborhood,

change a family. And if you want to change a family, change a father, change a man. Now,

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