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Welcome to the Lion Within Us, a podcast serving Christian men who are hungry to be the leaders God intends you to be. I'm your host, chris Granger. Let's jump in. All right, fellas, fun Friday time, let's get into it, okay.

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So the scripture of the week this week has been 2 Corinthians, the 10th chapter, the third verse. It says For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. Beautiful verse, guys, the Apostle Paul just dropping some knowledge on us right there. Obviously, we talk about this verse at length in our spiritual kickoff episode. So if you're wanting to know, like man, that sounds awesome, but I'm not really sure how to like apply it to my life today. Hey, go back and listen to that episode. We try to give you some practical insights on how you can simplify and apply it to your life. Again, we do that Monday through Friday in our Lion Within us community, all for free, thelionwithinus. We call it the daily spiritual kickoff or daily SKO, whatever you want to go with there, right, but that's a great way to get that little plug. You get that little boost to get your day started. Cool part was the daily SKO is you can do it with us, live like, literally while we're doing it live and within our platform, and if you miss it, no worries, we always post the videos the same day, so you're constantly getting opportunities just to plug in, engage and hopefully be encouraged by the word All right. All right, fellas.

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That last episode with Justin was great for sure. He dropped so much information on Beyond the Line Ministries and what he's doing there to help you. Particularly well, guys in particular battle pornography. So statistics are out there, fellas. I mean it's like 90% in the world period secular, but within the church itself, it's between 70% and 80% of guys are looking at pornography within the last 30 days. We start thinking about stats like that and then look around the classroom and you're in the Sunday school class or maybe your discipleship group or or even just a church service or worship service and start applying those statistics to the guys in that room. It's alarming, it is absolutely alarming. It's alarming. It is absolutely alarming. And he also mentioned that less than 7% of churches actually have a program or any type of initiative to combat this.

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There's a gap. It's a massive gap, and the gap is there for not by surprise, because the evil one wants that gap to be there. The last thing the evil one wants is for a Christian man to be walking free in sexual sin. No, he wants us to feel trapped by that bondage and absolutely nothing that we can do. We're just trying to help you recognize that you are not trapped. So if you find yourself constantly battling pornography, you don't know, you don't see any light at the end of the tunnel. This could be that little pinhole of hope just to reach out. And it may not be the end, all be all, but it may be the first step.

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Again, when you're doing discipleship like we do, like Justin does, you're not in it for the harvest. No, you're all about the sowing. We just got to sow, baby. We just got to sow God's word into guys every day. And if we do that sowing, somebody else may do the harvesting and guess what. That's okay, that's okay, but we're going to help you get started, okay. So the lionwithinus, check out those resources and let me know if we can help you.

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All right, for our fun Friday, we always do a health, wealth and a self tip, okay, so that's like the pillars for the line within us. If you're new listening to the show, health is all about mind and body. Wealth is all about career and finances. Self is about being a better husband and father. Okay, pretty simple stuff.

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So for the health tip, I heard this and I thought was awesome, awesome. It was called a three, two, one bedtime routine, like three, two, one height. Right, let's go. So the three is no food three hours before bed. The two was no drink nothing to drink, no liquids two hours before bed. And then one was no screens one hour before bed. So I thought that was just a pretty cool tip. Like you know, it's tough to do, you know, with the world we live in these days, but just think about that. How much better would your sleep be if you didn't put anything on your stomach three hours before you went to sleep? You may not have to get up and take a leak as much either if you didn't drink anything two hours before bed. And then those screens one hour. Just lets that mind calm down. So instead of a screen, I don't know, pick up a book, right? There's a Bible right there for those who aren't watching on YouTube, but that's it right. So that three, two, one. And also it's a pretty easy reminder for us, or framework, rather, for those who have kids. If I'm in a three, two, one framework, all right, three hours. So you got to do some backwards engineering on the math. So if you want your kids bed by nine, get dinner done by six, we're cutting off the drink anything before seven, and then at eight o'clock, guess what? Tv's off and lights out at nine. So we start thinking practically in those areas. Man, it's a really big way that you can make an impact on your personal sleep, your rest, as well as those around you. So there you go Three, two, one bedtime routine. All right, wealth tip we're going old school right here, baby.

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Cash envelopes Okay, they're great ways to start budgeting because it forces you to engage and think critically about purchases, cause I'm going to tell you what. Nothing's going to get your blood pressure up and that heart rate. Thinking about do you have enough money in your pocket to cover the expenses? Getting ready to hit that cash register, okay. So this is budgeting one-on-one stuff, so it's not for everybody.

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If you're trying to get started with a budget, a great way to do it is with cash envelopes. So you just take an envelope and you for the different expenses you have for the month, whatever that budget is. So let's say, you have a grocery envelope. Maybe you allocate $700 a month for groceries. Put $700 in that envelope. Then you have an envelope for gas and maybe that's a $300 envelope. You put $300 in that, you just go down the line for your budget and then you utilize those funds directly for those expenses for that given month. This is not for everybody, but this will teach you. There's something that mentally happens when you have to actually take the exchange of cash, take it out your hand and put it into a vendor's hand or a cashier's hand for them to ring you up. There's something that mentally it just hurts more versus swiping a credit card. It just does man Credit cards. The one thing they've done right is they've made it almost emotionless buying Like. You just don't feel the emotion. You just get the euphoria high for the product that you want, but you don't think about the consequences. So cash envelopes again, old school OG way to go. It's a great way to get started, particularly if you're in a financial crisis right now and you just like the wheels are falling off all around you and you got to think radical. Thinking radical could mean you know what let's? Let's start some of these big bucket items like groceries, like gas, and develop a cash envelope system.

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All right self-tip this one right here comes from my old brother Doug. I love him so much. He's always bringing up different dad jokes every week, or pretty often rather and now he gave me this self-tip that I just thought was really good. And I'm pretty sure he brought this up during a couples night, which, by the way, we do couples night once a month at the Lion Within Us. Actually we're doing it tonight for the Lion. We always do it the first Tuesday of the month. So his tip was argue between the nines. He's like look, there's nothing that's going to behoove you to, to be picking or argumentative with your spouse before 9 am or after 9 pm. I thought that was just really salient advice. Think about it Before 9 am you probably haven't woke up.

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Good. Now, most people aren't like me. I'm getting up at 430. We're here on the farms and my wife in the morning, she she has to get up because we're up Right, got four kids. I'm getting up at 430. We're here on the farm. So my wife in the morning, she has to get up because we're up, right, we got four kids.

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But most people, it takes a little bit of time and it takes her some time too, for real, she's got to get that caffeine flowing. So I'm not a caffeine guy, but she definitely is. So she's got to get the caffeine going just to get engaging with the world right. So before 9, be careful. Be careful. After 9 pm what happens? We get tired. When you get tired, you make bad mistakes. You say stuff you probably shouldn't say. Right, you're not thinking with the clarity that you have. You know, at 10 am you just don't have that. So be careful.

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If you're trying to to work on areas in your marriage and you find yourself in a friction point, have those discussions between the nines. So, doug, you are the man right there. Brothers, that's three really good tips, fellas. Hopefully you enjoyed those. The health, wealth and self. Again, the health is that three, two, one bedtime routine, no food, food three hours, drink two hours, screens one hour before bed. Wealth tip Think about that cash envelope system, self-tip, argue between the nines.

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All right, now for our book I got I'm pulling this one up. It's called sons of purpose a view of biblical heroes through the eyes of a 21st century man. And this is a 40 writer collaboration and the reason I'm bringing this up. You see this little name right here Bunky Griffith. He is the writer of the first chapter, ok, and he talks about Philemon, and he is a member of the Lion Within Us and we want to celebrate the guys at the Lion when they have major accomplishment, and this is a major accomplishment to be published in a book like this. So we're just super encouraging, encouraged by Bunky. Any meetings and engagements he gets to come to, a book like this. So we're just super encouraged by Bunky. Any of the meetings and engagements he gets to come to, it's always fun.

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He has the greatest sense of humor. I've never been in a call with Bunky where I didn't laugh. I mean, he's always cutting up, but he also, he knows his Bible, he knows God's word. He's all about discipleship. He's all about serving others. He's all about discipleship. He's all about serving others. He's all about encouraging others.

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And this right here. Just add this to your library. Guys support him directly. So go out there and search sons of purpose, a biblical view of heroes through our eyes of the 21st century men, and search his name Bunky. You heard it right, b-u-n-k-y Griffith, just like Andy. There you go and then plug that into your library. Hopefully you will enjoy that. So, monkey, thank you for sharing that super proud of you, my friend, and thank you for all you do for the line within us. All, right, guys? So the quick.

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Actually, before our question of the week, we got to get to our dad jokes, right? So our dad jokes this week. We got two good ones. The first one is my dad told me a joke about boxing. I guess I missed a punch line all. So that's the first one. Number two that car looks nice, looks nice, but the muffler just seems exhausted. So there you go, fellas. Let us know which one works, number one and number two. Number one my dad told me a joke about boxing. I guess I missed the punchline. Number two that car looks nice, but the muffler seems exhausted. Again, dad jokes are all about getting a sigh, an eye roll, just a deep breath, right, that's what it's all about. So sometimes they hit better than others. So let me know which one you like best.

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We always do a poll within our Lion Within Us community on Fridays, by the way, for our dad jokes. Just see where guys line up at and if you have a dad joke that you want us to use we haven't used on the show yet. Support at thelinewithinus. Send us that email. We love to use it on the show. I'll give us a free swag along the way, all right?

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So the question of the week this week is what small compromises have gone unchecked in your life, and it's the small compromises that lead to the big impact, right, either positive or negative. We have to be super careful as men, as Christian men, not to be compromising on areas of the values that we know to be true. And what do we know to be true? God's word, that's it. So we cannot compromise there, fellas. So if you start finding yourself with these moments of compromise, give yourself some grace, don't beat yourself up, but then correct it. It's time to course correct. All right, guys. So that's it. I hope you enjoyed that. Thank you so much for listening this week.

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Again, this week, that episode on pornography. For those guys that are struggling with it, please reach out. Okay, again, my email is chris at the lion within dot us, shoot me a note. Let me know. I got emails coming in pretty regularly with guys who are struggling with some form of sexual addiction and, again, I'm not always going to be able to take the resources directly to work with you one-on-one, but I got ways and different avenues. We've been blessed with the lion for guys that can, and that's what I want to help you with. I want to help you get plugged in with the guys that can help you the most in the season of life that you're in and walk with you through that pain. And our buddy over at Justin Line Ministries is it fellas, so we can get you connected with Justin and get you going there. All right, so have a great weekend. Thank you so much for listening. Give us a rating and review if you don't mind. That will be helpful.

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