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Welcome to the Land Within Us, a podcast serving Christian men who are hungry to be the leaders God intends you to be.

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I'm your host, chris Granger. Let's jump in. All right, fellas, fun Friday time, let's get into it. Okay, congratulations, you made it to another week, but our scripture this week it's been the book of Galatians, 6th chapter, 2nd verse. Carry each other's burdens and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. Love that verse, guys. It's all about simplifying and applying it to our life. Again, we do this Monday through Friday in our daily spiritual kickoff. Head over to thelinewithinus to get started with that, and if you missed the spiritual kickoff for this particular verse, go back to in your podcast feed and it'll be right there. It'd be called the SKO, galatians 622 or 6-2.

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Ok, our last episode was great. We had Roy Wooten on from the Crucible Project. Really enjoyed hearing his heart, how they're serving their events, their getaways, all that stuff. So, guys, again, go check out all their resources there. Ok, but on our fun Fridays, these are quick, hitter episodes, guys.

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We just try to give you a little, some, some tips. We give you a book of the week and some dad jokes. That's really what this is all about, just to try to encourage you along the way. So our tips we do a health, wealth and a self tip. Health is how do we strengthen our mind and our bodies to do what God's called us to do? Wealth is stewardship. How do we steward better our finances and our careers? That's a big deal. Bible talks a lot about money. And then self-tip how do we improve as husbands and fathers? We're called to this, guys. So these tips are practical. Some tips are just things I hear. Some of these are things that I'm actually doing. It's just across the board, trying to how can we help serve you? Now, the health tip here for this week is there's power in small circles, and Roy talked about this to a degree.

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But think about this I'd rather go narrow and deep instead of wide and shallow any day of the week, and that's counter to counter to the world. But Jesus showed us this and how he taught. Just don't think about it. He taught the big crowds right. Then he had the disciples and then he had his three boys Peter, james and John. You know, that's the get in the truck boys. That's the let's go boys. Like that's the. That in the truck boys, that's the let's go boys, that's the core group. And for the lion, that's something I've just really learned the longer I've been doing this with the lion within us.

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You do have to cast a wide net, but when you get guys in, you've got to get super narrow and deep to help serve in a meaningful way. Again, this is really why our masterminds are so successful. It's because these guys are going deep, man, it's not trying to just be this surface level. You know weather and sports and you know weekend activity type of conversations. No, let's go to the heart of what matters and I'm telling you, if you're struggling out there with isolation or anxiety or stress or or financial woes, whatever it may be marriage is maybe on the rocks you got to have some guys that you can go deep with. And if you don't, I'm not just trying to sell you on the mastermind, I'm just trying to encourage you to, if it ain't our mastermind, find something somewhere. We do it with our masterminds and you may be fine. You may find directly there what you're looking for. So, again, the lion within that us and just go check that stuff out. But that's it, guys. There's power in small circles.

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All right, now wealth tip. Think about this Budget time for that authentic connection with brothers in Christ. You need to budget that time, and this could be something like for the land community or an annual trip with your boys. But you have to actually budget these things to get them, to make them done. And if you start investing in these relationships, they're going to be crucial for your personal growth. Right? Growth doesn't just happen by mistake. You're not going to get stronger just by thinking about going to the gym. No, you get stronger by going in and putting in the reps. Now, you can get strong just by walking through the door, by the way, either. You actually have to do the work. This is what it's at. So you need to be budgeting from a financial standpoint. Work that into your budget. If it's important for you to grow to be the man that God's called you to be, you better start making some investments there. All right, now for your self-tip. I heard this and I was like this is this is just gold.

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Instead of giving your kids what they wish they had or actually what you wish they had Instead teach them things you wish you knew. Ok, why go through all the hard lessons in life and just put them in your back pocket, it makes no sense whatsoever. So the things that you've learned in life the hard knocks, the setbacks, the trials, the tribulations so the things that you've learned in life the hard knocks, the setbacks, the trials, the tribulations all those things are great teaching opportunities for your children. We just have to utilize it and actually do it, share it with them. Guarantee you there's going to be things that you can think about about how you manage money, how you think about your relationships, your relationship mistakes that you've made in the past, think about career decisions and what that's look like. All these different, little small. To you they may just be minute items, but for your kids, what a great teaching opportunities they are. Instead of focusing on the items just to make sure the toy box is full, the backyard is full with all the toys and stuff that you wish you had. Give them that knowledge. Pass that knowledge down. Toys and gifts, all that stuff fades, they break, they run out of batteries. You guys know what I'm talking about. But that wisdom and that lasts, that lasts. So take the time to share that, all right. So there are your three tips your health, wealth and yourself. Power in a small circles, budgeting time for those authentic connections and fellowship with fellow brothers in Christ and instead of giving your kids what you wish they had, instead of teaching the things you wish you knew. All right, so the book of the week I don't have the hard copy, he is sending me a copy of it but Roy's book Unstuck Seven Steps to Break Free and Live Courageously. Guys, obviously you heard Roy talk. You know it's going to be chock full of good insights.

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Okay, now dad joke time. Let's get to our dad jokes. So our dad jokes. This week we've got two of them. First one is shout out to my fingers, I can count on all of them. So you guys, number one. Number two if a child refuses to nap, are they guilty of resisting arrest? Guys, you know which. I don't know which one you think is the best this week, but remember, I roll, totally counts. So the first one is shout out to my fingers, I can count on all of them. Number two if a child refuses to nap, are they guilty of resisting a rest? Let me know If you got kids. Your second one you probably know it's going to be just a natural winter in your home, right?

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So anyway, if you have a dad joke you want us to use. Send us that email to support at thelinewithinus. We use it on the show, we'll give you a shout out and we'll also hook you up with some free material. How about that? All right? So the question of the week this week we've always been talking about is who carries your burdens when life feels overwhelming. If you don't have those guys who can help come alongside and carry that with you, you got to get them, guys. And the thing is we have to remember we can't try to build this when we need it. You have to build it when you don't need it, so that when life happens and you do need it, it's there, because when it hits and you don't need it, that's called a crisis. We don't operate well in crisis mode. So you got to start forging those relationships now so that when that trial hits, you'll be ready, all right. So, guys, hopefully you enjoyed the episodes this week.

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I just appreciate you listening to the Line Within Us. There are so many podcasts out there. I feel like the market is just saturated with podcasts Any moment. We get to share some encouragement to you. I just want you to know how appreciative I am and if you would head over to thelionwithinus. Check out our daily spiritual kickoff. That's a free way to connect with us, join our community. Definitely would love for you to do that and then consider applying for our leadership mastermind. All that stuff is there at thelionwithinus.

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We also have our resources on the Bible app. We're super pumped about that. Us. We also have our resources on the Bible app. We're super pumped about that. That's been just a tremendous growth for us in that area. Lots and lots and lots of devos out there on the Bible app. So, if you enjoy just going through the Bible app and working through those different plans, check out the line within us there, follow us over there and then, when we dropped our new devos and we usually put one or two out a month guys, they'll be right there for you and you'll be the first one to see it All right.

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So, guys, have a great day, a great weekend. Thank you so much for listening. Give us a rating and review. Pop over to the lionwithinus, give us a donation. That would be wonderful and you know what's coming. Just keep unleashing the lion within.

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