The Warrior Priest Podcast

God's Word tells us that because we refuse to admit the truth, that we're all insane, that each of our worlds doesn't match God's reality, that our worlds don't match the reality of God and us revealed by Jesus, the truth about reality is a mystery to us.

Everybody says that they have no choice but to conform... and to accept powerlessness. But that is a lie that gives all the other lies their malign force. The ordinary man may not be able to overturn the kingdom of lies, but he can at least say that he is not going to be its loyal subject. https://www.amazon.com/Live-Not-Lies-Christian-Dissidents/dp/0593087399

You're a loser. But, for Jesus, that means you're just the kind of person He wants sitting with him at his wedding feast. You don't deserve to be here, and that's exactly how God's grace works.

Today's left-wing totalitarianism once again appeals to an internal hunger, specifically the hunger for a just society, one that vindicates and liberates the historical victims of oppression. It masquerades as kindness, demonizing dissenters and disfavored demographic groups to protect the feelings of "victims" in order to bring about "social justice." Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents:  https://www.amazon.com/Live-Not-Lies-Christian-Dissidents/dp/0593087399

God created you to live together, in concrete, physical relationships, serving and sacrificing for the health and well-being of the person standing in front of you. God created you for communion. You're created and planted in the world by God to produce good fruit not fairy gold. Whether you're changing diapers, serving on the front line, harvesting wheat, responding to a car accident, or comforting a worried friend, that's what God has chosen for you to do with the life He's given to you and the lives he's entrusted to you.

“You are not a king, my young friend. You are a conqueror.” “Observe my kingdom,” Porus explained, “governed with wisdom and justice. The people prosper and are happy. The land flourishes and yields its bounty. Men are free to speak and to exercise their ambition. Steven Pressfield's Blog: https://stevenpressfield.com/2020/12/warrior-episode-thirty-two/#transcript Virtues of War: https://www.amazon.com/Virtues-War-Novel-Alexander-Great/dp/0553382055 The Afghan Campaign: https://www.amazon.com/Afghan-Campaign-Novel-Steven-Pressfield/dp/0767922387

The forces of evil have Satan on their side. But, he only knows how to hate, threaten, and destroy what God creates. On our side, we have Jesus Christ, the Lord Almighty, the God of armies dressed for battle, who will crush the head of the ancient serpent. And, as the apostle writes, “If God is for us, who can be against us?”

The unwise man thinks that he will live, if from fighting he flees; but the ails and aches of old age dog him though spears have spared him. - Havamal 16 https://www.amazon.com/Poetic-Edda-Lee-M-Hollander/dp/0292764995

Forgiveness releases to God what rightly belongs to him. Since God is “the Judge of all the earth who will do what is right,” releasing to God's judgment the one who sinned against you places the offense in the purest context of judgment. Forgiving releases the grievance and the offender to God’s all-knowing perspective and to his justice and mercy. This honors Jesus by placing matters into His nail-pierced hands to uphold His judgment, as He chooses, in His time.

“None but cowards give up an undertaking once begun,” answered Siegfried. “Go back to Rhineland yourself, if you are afraid; but you must go alone. You have brought me thus far to meet the dragon of the heath, to win the hoard of the swarthy elves, and to rid the world of a terrible evil. Before the setting of another sun, the deed which you have urged me to do will be done.” Siegfried's Story: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6866/6866-h/6866-h.htm