A Young Man’s Life
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 124 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Hosts
The modern world presents many challenges for and to the young man, particularly the young man who would be a Christian. Often men, and particularly young men, may feel that they have been forgotten or written off by society. In today’s episode, we focus on the issues that concern young men — here and now.
As Christians, we must contend with the fact that, although we are sons of God and predestined for glory, we yet live in a fallen world plagued by sin, temptation, and suffering. The promises of God always come true, but they do so in His perfect time, not our imperfect one. And so, for the Christians, the question must be twofold: What does God say about these matters? What is our role in these matters?
The world offers terrible advice to young men, and so do many of those who not only should know better but also have a duty to offer sound advice. We will try to undo some of that terrible advice and replace it with advice that is both consonant with God’s Word and with the reality of the world we all inhabit. The answer for the Christian man is not withdrawal or despair, but engagement and perseverance.
God calls us to be men, so that is what we must do.
Subscribe to the podcast here.
Show Notes
See Also
Parental Warnings
These is some frank discussion of sexual matters in this episode, but not in explicit terms.
There is a brief discussion of the mechanics of hormonal birth control.
Support the Podcast
Comments?
Join the discussion on Telegram, visit the feedback form or comment below.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. |
| 0:41.7 | And I'm still, whoa. On today's Stone Choir, we're going to be discussing the plight of young men in principally the United States, but really, I think everywhere in the Western world, particularly young men who are unmarried. |
| 0:56.7 | Some of what we say will have to do with married men. |
| 1:00.0 | Principally, this will be addressed to basically like guys, you know, 12 to 15, up to, you know, 40. |
| 1:05.3 | And secondarily to their fathers, the fathers of both sons and daughters who are facing some of the circumstances |
| 1:12.1 | we're going to describe. As a warning to fathers, you know, listen with children, we're not going |
| 1:17.2 | to be, you know, graphic or inappropriate with anything today, I don't think, but obviously the |
| 1:22.4 | subjects you would expect are going to come up probably at some length. So you may want to screen this |
| 1:27.9 | before listening to it with younger children. As we mentioned last week, we were also in the middle |
| 1:34.3 | of an arc dealing with politics. As we mentioned last week, we'll probably break some of those up |
| 1:40.3 | just because of the time commitment. And you know, recording on a Tuesday yesterday was |
| 1:44.3 | Labor Day. So this is one that didn't take as much prep because we know a lot of this off |
| 1:48.6 | top of our heads. This is, however, an episode that's a continuation of seven episodes that we've |
| 1:56.2 | done in the recent past. So I'm going to refer to it back to them specifically because today as we're |
| 2:02.6 | speaking principally to young men, there's a lot of groundwork that we've laid on kind of more theory. |
| 2:09.7 | And this one we're going to try to make as practical and hopefully encouraging as possible. |
| 2:15.8 | That encouragement obviously is going to take the form as Christians that ultimately |
| 2:20.0 | you have to trust in God to deliver on his promises and to deliver the good things because |
| 2:24.5 | I think we should all have the sense that you can do everything right, do everything by the book, |
| 2:30.6 | and things still may not pan out. And it's very difficult, particularly for a young man, to see the state of the world |
| 2:39.5 | and perhaps the state of his own dating life and think, I just can't handle this anymore. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Stone Choir, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Stone Choir and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.