The Warrior Priest Podcast

“Adventure shatters the oppressive, insistent reality as if it were a piece of glass. It is the unforeseen, the unthought-of, the new. Each adventure is a new birth of the world, a unique process. How can it fail to be interesting?”   José Ortega y Gasset, Meditations on Quixote

Jiu Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life... To understand our society, to relate myself to people, to compete in an actual self-defense tournament, to feel confident to walk on the street and to be able to help people, to be strong enough to forgive - Rickson Gracie 

In baptism, we are given a new identity, a new purpose, and a new destiny. We are no longer slaves to sin, death, and the devil, but heirs of God's kingdom, with a mission to proclaim the gospel and to serve our neighbor in love." And when the devil comes with his temptations, interferes in our lives, and accuses us of sin and unbelief, we tell him: 'I am baptized, and in that baptism I have been forgiven, justified, and sanctified. Your accusations have no power over me, because I belong to Christ.’

"…the lack of meaning in life is a soul-sickness whose full extent and import our age has not yet begun to comprehend.”  Carl Jung, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche

...this story reminds us that we can always go to God with our prayers and our petitions. Even when we feel like outsiders, even when we feel like we don't have a place at the table, even when we feel like our requests are too small or too insignificant to matter, we can still come to God in faith and trust that he will hear us and respond.

All children are creative. All children experiment with imaginations. As we grow older we are beaten down by systems, rules, and social norms. We are told to color between the lines, stay in our lane, and most importantly, not to rock the boat. By the time we’re adults we are so used to it we don’t even realize what’s at stake. The War of Art will help you recognize Resistance when it creeps into your work, often in completely predictable but comforting ways, and beat it back.

So, we take comfort in God's promise of a savior. We trust in his grace and mercy, even when we’re in full rebellion against him. And we go out from here into the world, with the assurance of his presence and the power of his Spirit, and even though we, like Noah, aren’t exactly saint material, we are chosen in Christ Jesus to be his hands and feet in a rebellious, destructive, world that is being put to death by God. We are chosen to be the mouth of God, warning this generation of impending doom and the promise of eternal salvation in Jesus Christ, today and always.

This is the message of the gospel, the message that runs through the entire Bible no continues into the present. We are sinners, but God still loves us. He still provides for us. He still seeks us out, even when we are hiding from him. And he has provided a Savior, Jesus Christ, who has paid the price for our sin and made a way for us to be reconciled to God.

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“For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event—and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power