This is undaunted life a man's podcast. I'm your host, Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it. Welcome back to the Forging Table. The mission of Undaunted Life is equipping men to push back darkness with content that forges spiritual mental and physical resilience. At the forging table, you'll see a group of regular guys forging spiritual resilience by digging into God's Word. And we're welcoming all of you to come along on that journey with us.

There's O.G. Ryan in the house. Adams in the house as well. And guess what guys, we are in trouble? Because as I live and breathe, that is Jay Reisner making his return appearance to the forging table. You are the, what's the official title with Faith Bible? lead pastor. So lead pastor with our church that we all attend and also you're an elder.

So what is it that Ryan said that caused you to come here today to start the church discipline process?

There's a confidentiality thing that I can't really break.

Not nothing I said. No, no. You're fine. You're fine.

Oh, man. This is exciting. This is exciting.

Is it true that the elders have a mug that got me a mug or there's a mug that the reason my elders drink coffee is because of me? Because of you personally? Yeah. Does it say Ryan Horn on the mug? Yeah. No. It's like this bald mole rat looking dude. No, no, no. That's good. Urban legend. Urban legend. I don't know where that came from. But I know what I'm getting everybody for Christmas. Speaking of which, guys, we're recording this in the past. But this episode comes out the week of Christmas. Okay. So Christmas spirit is in the air. And there's a few things that people do during the Christmas season. You know, there's nutmeg. There's, there's Christmas parties. There's dirty Santa. There's all those types of things. And then there's the greatest snack ever invented. Now, no. Now, if you all are watching this now, you saw an exasperated

sigh for Mr. Ryan Horn because the last batch we recorded, for whatever reason, I went to the

other side of the studio where I had an unopened box of Christmas tree cakes from last year. And what I was thinking is these things are made out of basically like oil and it's not food technically. They don't have an expiration date. They're going to be just fine. We open up the box and on contrary, they tasted terrible. All of us took one bite. They were incredibly stale. They were awful. Ryan's looking something up, so he's not really

getting, you know, he's not really in this with me. He's not in this story with me. So he's disengaging. That was the nastiest thing. But it was awful. It was awful. Don't you freeze like seven boxes a year? He didn't freeze these. These things were like, I think I ain't old, dude. Yeah, this is wrong.

And so I kind of feel like, because it's Christmas season, I feel like we need to kind of like rekindle this.

But so...

Ah, these better be a fresh batch. So I've got a box here, but in Landon, if we can look here. Jay, if you wouldn't mind, can you read what it says there on the bottom right, or bottom left on the box? Christmas tree cakes celebrating 40 years.

40 years.

This is the 40th birthday of Christmas tree cakes.

Wow.

And so what I think about, you know how like, you know, when we went through the Old Testament,

there's like a lot of foreshadowing and foretelling and all that,

these were here just before I was.

And so like these were here before I was born. And so

that, like, there's, there's some, like, you know, that there's some positivity in that. But, you know, if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. So I feel like we should celebrate, you know, this is kind of a birthday party. For sure. So I got everybody some hats. So, Jay, since you're the most serious amongst us. You get the Santa hat and yeah, go ahead and take off the headphones

and you got to wear that. And while you're doing that, Adam, will you tell the story of your preferred way to die? Because it's not quietly in a bed somewhere with your family surrounding you, praying for you, singing hymns. How would you like to go out? Absolutely not. I've really thought through this.

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