Waging the Battle of Hope: Guidance from Tolkien, Raising Resilient Children, & Overcoming Narratives of Decline

The King's Hall

Brian Sauvé, Dan Berkholder, & Eric Conn

Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Are you prepared to wage the battle for hope? As fathers and leaders, we're not just fighting for our own souls. We're contending for the souls of our children, the future generation. We're on a quest to discover how to provide beams of hope amidst the swirling tempests of life. In this pursuit, we turn to Tolkien’s The Return of the King, examining the character of Denethor, a symbol of despair and defeat. We also reflect on the importance of raising our children to be strong, courageous, an...

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0:00.0	A fighting men, they have full three score thousand.
0:04.3	That's five to one. Besides, they are all fresh.
0:09.6	It is a fearful odds.
0:11.6	Oh, that we now had here. But one ten thousand of those men in
0:17.0	England that do no work today. What's he that wishes so? My cousin, Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin, if we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss, and if to live the fewer men a greater share of honour.
0:42.0	God's will, I pray thee wish not one man more.
0:47.0	Brother proclaim it Westmore through my host that he which hath no stomach to this fight
0:55.8	Let him depart his passport shall be made and
1:00.6	Browns for convoy put into his purse.
1:03.0	We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us.
1:10.0	This day is called the Feast of Christian.
1:14.0	He that out lives this day and come safe home will stand a tiptoe when this day is named
1:22.0	and rouse him at the name of
1:24.3	Crispian. He that shall see this day and live old age will yearly on the
1:29.8	vigil feast his neighbors and say tomorrow is St. Crispins.
1:35.0	Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars and say these wounds I had on Crispin's day. Old men forget, yet all shall be forgot but he'll remember
1:50.6	with advantages what feats he did that day.
1:54.0	Then tell our names, familiar in their mouths as household words.
1:58.0	Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
2:01.0	Warwick and Talbot Salisbury and Gloucester be in their flowing cups
2:05.3	freshly remembered. This story shall the good man teach his son and Crispin Crispion
2:12.4	shall nair go by from this day to the ending of the world.
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