Raising The Standard

Everyone teaches the parable of the sower wrong.They say three of the four soils failed. Three-quarters of the sowing came to nothing. That is not what happened.God said His Word never returns empty. This is the Son of God sowing the Word of God. Not one seed failed. The seed did its job every single time. The seed was never the variable.God said His Word never returns empty. This is the Son of God sowing the Word of God. Not one seed failed. The seed did its job every single time. The seed was never the variable.The dirt was.The seed isn't on trial in this parable. You are. Four men hear the exact same truth and get four completely different outcomes, because of what was already in the ground before the seed ever landed. That ground is your operating system. The root system installed in you long before you had a say.In this teaching I walk through:The four kinds of men in the parable, and how to tell which one is you.Why the careless man who shrugs off the Word isn't neutral. There's no neutral with Jesus.Why the thorn-choked man is the driven believer whose own ambition is quietly strangling the Word in his chest. Not sin. Success.Why even the good soil runs at thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold, and why you go all in everywhere else but run thirtyfold with God and call it balance.And the turn most preachers skip: your soil is not your sentence. Soil is dirt, and dirt can be worked.The seed was never the problem. The seed is perfect. It's time to deal with your dirt.FREE DOWNLOAD: Built to Dominate breaks down the 3 lies that keep good Christian men stuck and choked, and helps you spot which soil has been running you. Get it here: https://www.standard59.com/freeSubscribe. We go to the root here. We don't manage the fruit.

Most good Christian men die with the calling still inside them. Not through a dramatic fall, but one safe, reasonable decision to wait at a time. In this video I break down the three ways good men die short of their calling: the lie that sounds like faith, the readiness trap, and the root belief underneath both, plus what it actually takes to move before it's too late.This is not about hype or hustle. It's about the quiet ache you've carried for years, and why it's still there.Get the free guide, the 3 lies that keep good Christian men stuck and small (including the one underneath a buried calling): https://www.standard59.com/free Subscribe for more. We go to the root here.

Nice guys don't finish first. They don't even finish. And the most dangerous version is the nice Christian guy, because he took his weakness and called it godliness.In this Episode I break down why "nice" is not a Christian virtue, why it's quietly costing you your marriage, your kids, and your respect, and the identity shift that turns a passive pushover into a son who actually leads.New episodes every week on biblical masculinity, Christian manhood, calling, and what it takes to become a Kingdom Driven Man.FREE DOWNLOAD: Built to Dominate breaks down the 3 lies that keep driven Christian men stranded on the wrong side of the river. Get it here: https://www.standard59.com/freeSubscribe if you refuse to die in the desert.Lead. Fight. Win.JOIN THE FREE EMAIL CHALLENGEUnlock The Power Of Your Full Potential with THE UNFAIR ADVANTAGE CHALLENGE: This is a FREE 11-day email training that will equip you with the tools, mindset, and strategy to BE THE MAN God created YOU to BE. Learn to Access His Presence, Purpose, Power and Promotion.https://www.standard59.com/unfairadvantageOwn THE STANDARD Today, Get the breakout Bestseller THE STANDARD, Discovering Jesus as The Standard for Masculinity on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Standard-Discovering-Jesus-Masculinity/dp/1734549300/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 Listen to THE STANDARD on Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/B095J62CW2/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-259076&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_259076_rh_usFollow Josh on Social Mediahttps://www.instagram.com/kingdomathlete/ https://www.tiktok.com/@kingdom_athletehttps://www.facebook.com/kingdomathlete https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7YKo7liiUJ1jW6eCLVkJlQ

God will keep every promise He ever made to you. He will not fulfill your potential. That part is on you.If that makes you uncomfortable, good.We've been handed a soft version of faith. Just believe, and God does the rest. Sit back. Let go and let God. It sounds humble. It sounds spiritual. And it's leaving good men stranded.Because there's a difference between a promise and your potential, and almost nobody teaches it.In this episode I walk through:Why the Bible reads like a graveyard of men who had the calling and still died short. Moses on the mountain, looking at a Promised Land he never entered. A whole generation that died in the desert. The servant who buried what he was given and got called wicked and lazy.The line that changes everything: God's promises are guaranteed. Your potential is not.Why Paul says work out your salvation with fear and trembling, and in the same breath, for it is God who works in you. Both. Take out God's part and it's self-help. Take out yours and it's wishful thinking.The two ways a man forfeits his potential. Passive, waiting on a feeling and calling it faith. Or presumptuous, grinding in his own strength and calling it ambition. Both die short of the land.This is not a call to strive harder on your own steam. It's a call to move with God, and to move now. He made you for dominion. To cross the river and take the territory with His hand on your shoulder.The version of you on the other side of that river gets a little further away every year you don't cross. Someday is where potential goes to die.New episodes every week on biblical masculinity, Christian manhood, calling, and what it takes to become a Kingdom Driven Man.FREE DOWNLOAD: Built to Dominate breaks down the 3 lies that keep driven Christian men stranded on the wrong side of the river. Get it here: https://www.standard59.com/freeSubscribe if you refuse to die in the desert.Lead. Fight. Win.

You got saved. You meant it. You love God.So why are you still the same man you were five years ago? Same temper. Same numbing at night. Same distance with your wife. Same gap between who you are and who you know you're supposed to be.It's not your faith. It's not your effort. In this first episode I show you the real reason driven Christian men stay stuck after getting saved. The one nobody in church ever told you.Here's what we cover:Why your spirit got saved in a moment but your soul is still running the old program. Where that old programming got installed, and why a belief you accepted at age five is still running you at forty five. The difference between fruit you can see and the root you can't. And why trying harder, more discipline, and more willpower keep failing you every single time.You don't have a discipline problem. You don't have a faith problem. You have a root problem. And there's a real, biblical way to deal with it.We don't manage fruit here. We go to the root.If you're done being saved and stuck, subscribe. This is your corner now.FREE DOWNLOADI made you something. Built to Dominate breaks down the three lies that keep driven Christian men trapped in the gap. The three most common roots I see, and how to spot which one is running you.Get it free here: https://standard59.com/freeWhatever you're not changing, you're choosing. Let's go change it.Lead. Fight. Win.