To diminish our children, they are relabeling things that should be our objectives.

I'll give you some examples in a minute.

But fundamentally what drives that is a self-centered approach to life.

And it's taken root, and it's growing with the enthusiasm of Kudzu in the South.

It's giving us permission to be selfish, to do the things that we enjoy,

and then we'll hide behind our children.

I don't call that being good men, I call it cowardice.

Our selfish attitudes are expressed in what we want.

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I want to continue a series we began in an earlier session with a general heading of ideas,

understanding, and revelations. It's a little abstract because it's really a collection of ideas

that I want to process with you. Things that have become an important part of my own understanding

and our community's understanding, really,

of faith and life and spiritual growth. Our faith is not a one-time experience. I don't believe it's intended to be such. It's intended to be a journey where we grow and learn and mature,

just as we have to through our lives physically and emotionally. So I've called it ideas,

understandings, and revelations. From time to to time I will say I've had an idea and for the people

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