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Scripture of the Day:Proverbs 4:23: Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. (NLT)Proverbs 20:9: Who can say, "I have cleansed my heart; I am pure and free from sin?The biggest "cheat code" to a better heart is to first recognize that we do not have the power to clean our sin sick heart, and then guard our hearts from damaging things entering into it. The things that enter our heart will inevitably determine the course of our lives.

Scripture of the Day:Exodus 4:24: On the way to Egypt, at a place where Moses and his family had stopped for the night, the LORD confronted Moses and was about to kill him. (NLT)Proverbs 25:28: A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down wall. (NLT)Luke 15:11-17: The younger son told his father, ‘I want my share of your estate now before you die.’ So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons. “A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living. About the time his money ran out, a great famine swept over the land, and he began to starve. He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs. The young man became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him anything. “When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself. (NLT)In this episode we cover three distinct, yet related topics-false self-worth (when it comes to God), the lack of self-discipline, and entitlement. In order to become a man that maximizes his purpose and potential, we must address all three.

Scripture of the Day:Luke 15:25-32: Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing. And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.Today we discuss the ease at which we dismiss our fellow men. We discuss alarming statistics that reveal how bad man need other solid, Godly men in their lives.

Scripture of the Day: Romans 12:2: And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. (KJV)In this episode, we reflect on the men who are walking through deep and unimaginable pain connected to their families. We talk honestly about hurt, regret, responsibility, and the desire to become whole again.We also introduce the first step to “locking in”: renewing the mind. The story of the prodigal son shows us what it looks like when a man finally comes to himself, stops running, and begins the journey back home — back to purpose, back to responsibility, and back to the man God has called him to be.

We begin with the first question God asked man after the fall: “Where are you?” From Genesis 3:9–12, this episode challenges men to stop hiding behind shame, blame, excuses, and fear.

38. That number carries weight.It is the wilderness.The years lost when men refuse the promise in front of them. When fear speaks louder than faith. When disobedience becomes a graveyard for destiny.It is also the mat.The place where a man can sit so long in the same condition that waiting becomes his identity.Israel lost men in the wilderness.The man at the pool lost years beside the water.And many men today are losing themselves…In silence. In anger. In lust. In fear. In shame. In excuses. In the belief that someone else has to move first.But history does not move because men stay down.Churchill stood. Fredrick Douglass stood. Abraham Lincoln stood. Nelson Mandela stood. Martin Luther King stood.Different men. Different battles. Same decision.Stand.And now the question comes to us: Will we stand?Stand? Why?Because your children are watching. Our family is waiting. Our community is waiting. Our country is waiting. The world is waiting.But most of all…the man God called you to be is waiting.This is The 38 to 1 PodcastThe end of wasted years. The death of excuses. The beginning of a new walk.TODAY. NOW.