The 2026 @New_Christendom Games are one week away⚔️
A lot of you have been asking about the details of the events, but you’ll have to wait until the day of to find out the specifics. Here’s the general structure though:
3 Total Events:
Event 1: Heavy Sandbag Ladder
Event 2: Footrace
Event 3: Heavy Carry for Distance
Can’t wait to see you all there🤘🏻
Helped put together the lyric videos, spotify covers, and the cover of the album for Long Days Short Years
But all of it was made possible by @Brian_Sauve and his vision for the album. He's truly dedicated to giving you guys the best experience possible. Just happy I got to help
Gentlemen,
Not every besetting sin in your life is purely a spiritual problem.
The sin is real. Repentance is necessary. But sometimes your body is making the battle harder than it has to be.
Do you battle with anger?
It may be sin.
It may also be sleep apnea.
Do you battle with lethargy?
It may be slothfulness.
It may also be low testosterone.
Do you battle with anxiety?
It may be sinful fear.
It may also be poor sleep, a bad diet, too much caffeine or nicotine, or a nervous system that has been running on fumes for years.
The point is not to excuse sin.
The point is to stop pretending that men are disembodied souls.
You are body and soul. And sometimes the body is dragging the soul into a fight it is too exhausted to win.
Over the last eight years, I have spoken with countless men who were fighting difficult besetting sins they could not seem to overcome.
I have seen men who regularly flew into rages so intense they seemed ready to give themselves a stroke.
The issue was solved with a CPAP machine.
I have seen men who wanted to be hard workers, but could barely drag themselves out of bed.
This was solved when they found that they had low testosterone.
I have seen men with severe brain fog that made them poor fathers, husbands, and businessmen.
This was solved when they discovered that the issue was mitochondrial dysfunction, systemic inflammation, or other underlying health problems.
Many of these men were able to identify the issue with something as simple as a blood panel or a sleep study.
Many were able to improve dramatically with a CPAP, a few peptides, dietary changes, better sleep discipline, or other targeted interventions.
Again, this does not excuse sin.
It simply means that some men are trying to fight spiritual battles while their bodies are collapsing underneath them.
Repent of your sin.
But also get your bloodwork done. Fix your sleep. Clean up your diet. Take your body seriously.
You are not a ghost.
You are a man made of body and soul.
My brand new album, "Long Days, Short Years," is now streaming everywhere!
I wrote these songs to help you cherish the glories God has woven into every one of your days—because they won't ever come again.
I hope you love it as much as I have loved making it.
The idiotic and negative responses to this post reveal a few things:
1. A very high percentage of people in our culture are never around young children. (I haven’t taught him the difference between nails and screws yet because he just turned 4 and still calls them both “bullets”. Why? Because he’s 4.)
2. The rot of egalitarianism has made its way into the heart of the societal structure. (Yes, I care if my son is good at stuff. Yes, I want him to be better at stuff than you. Almost everything in a man’s life has a competitive aspect to it, and I want my son to be a winner.)
3. People are dumb. (I could expound, but that pretty much covers it.)
My 4 year old boy roped my wife into buying him his own hammer at the farm store yesterday.
This evening I walked outside to him hammering my deck screws into a block of wood in the backyard (I bought a bucket of 1000 years ago and have no current plans for them).
My natural reaction is to tell him that those cost money so we shouldn’t waste them (a true statement and a lesson we’ll have to learn someday), but then I caught myself.
How proud would I be in a few years to have a boy under the age of 10 who can hammer a nail with a higher level of skill than most men these days? How about if my 4 year old could do that?
Well, that’s an easy question to answer.
So instead I took his picture and told him how cool he was.
He finished the day with 21 screws hammered home in that stump. He started and finished every one himself, and he only bent and broke 1 along the way.
Any chance you get to foster a love for hard work and masculine skills in your boys, take it.
$3.87 worth of screws will be nothing in comparison to a capable man to carry on your name.
My 4 year old boy roped my wife into buying him his own hammer at the farm store yesterday.
This evening I walked outside to him hammering my deck screws into a block of wood in the backyard (I bought a bucket of 1000 years ago and have no current plans for them).
My natural reaction is to tell him that those cost money so we shouldn’t waste them (a true statement and a lesson we’ll have to learn someday), but then I caught myself.
How proud would I be in a few years to have a boy under the age of 10 who can hammer a nail with a higher level of skill than most men these days? How about if my 4 year old could do that?
Well, that’s an easy question to answer.
So instead I took his picture and told him how cool he was.
He finished the day with 21 screws hammered home in that stump. He started and finished every one himself, and he only bent and broke 1 along the way.
Any chance you get to foster a love for hard work and masculine skills in your boys, take it.
$3.87 worth of screws will be nothing in comparison to a capable man to carry on your name.