The Warrior Priest Podcast

What does training “hard but smart” mean? What can individuals, groups, and teams do to promote effective, productive training? How does personal improvement fit in to training, and how can it produce good leaders? Can an individual or team be “too busy” to train? How can you train yourself and others when time and opportunities are limited? How can you ensure training is educational and not just a “test” of capabilities?

“All-too-many are born: for the superfluous the state was invented.” Everything about the modern state was corrupt: education (“they steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the sages for themselves”), the media (“they vomit their gall and call it a newspaper”), and most of all, politics. Nietzsche characterized politics as a mad rush for power, which squandered the talents of great men, who were forced to pander to the lowest common denominator. Article Link: https://michaelkleen.com/2017/01/06/nietzsche-and-the-state-2/

So then, how can Jesus' cross be the one thing you've waited for all your life? Can it be that in the cross God has found a way to stop you from chasing other hopes and dreams, bad lovers, little gods, and all? Has God found a way to plant you where you belong in this old, dying world? Is Christ's ugly cross the very thing that will finally get you to belt out the old blues song with Etta James: "At last, my love has come along"?

Hungry, violent, lonely, godless: thus the lion-will wants itself. Free from the happiness of slaves, redeemed from gods and adorations, fearless and fear-inspiring, great and lonely: such is the will of the truthful. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Second Part

God not only started and preserved the world's course by speaking, he also interrupted the world's course by speaking a new word. He does this without apology because he's angry and determined to change the course of what we've done to his creation. The interruption is decisive and final with the crucifixion of Jesus. 

The man of knowledge must not only love his enemies, he must also be able to hate his friends. One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. And why do you not want to pluck at my wreath? You revere me; but what if your reverence tumbles one day? Beware lest a statue slay you. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: First Part.

Jesus alone is Lord over fear. Fear knows him as its master. Fear gives way to him alone. So look to Christ when you're afraid. Think of Christ. Keep him before your eyes. Call upon Christ and pray to him. Believe that he is with you now, helping you. Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free. Through your faith in this strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ, you're free of fear.

If the Comanches were better known for cruelty and violence, that was because, as one of history's greatest warring peoples, they were in a position to inflict more pain than they received. - S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

Far too often, we think about eternal things only when they are thrust upon us. We are reactionary creatures. We foolishly trust that the fail-safes of our government and culture will save us. That is until we sense a real threat. Then our default reaction is to panic. Few people have the resolve to stand strong when the storms of life come. And those who try to stand without Christ are swept away in the floodwaters because their strength and resolve are built upon shifting sand. They prepared for temporary things. They did not prepare for the more important things that carry eternal significance.

Though no one would be able to even estimate the date of his birth until many years later, it was mostly likely in 1848, making him twenty-three that year and eight years younger than Mackenzie, who was also so young that few people in Texas, Indian or white, knew much about him at the time. Both men achieved their fame only in the final, brutal Indian wars of the mid-1870s. Quanah was exceptionally young to be a chief. He was reputed to be ruthless, clever, and fearless in battle. Excerpted from Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne.