WP90"X"

.

"Just once in his life,

A Man has his Time.

And that time is Now

I'm comin' Alive...

.

I can make it,

I know I can

You broke the Boy in me

But you wont break the Man!"

-Theme from St. Elmo's Fire

.

.

Brothers and Sisters,

We don't know how many of you have ever taken a look at the "Warrior Disciplines Training Chart" that we have posted here on the website (see the navigation bar above, or just click here). The "disciplines" chart is something that we developed a couple of years ago as an expression of the great gap between the way we were living our lives at the time and our personal vision of what qualities would typify our daily lives if we were living as "mighty men of God".

.

Yes, we had some pretty bold visions. But then, the goal of this whole shin-dig we're living is to be like Jesus...so having some pretty high standards of the kind of Man you want to become seems resonable, even when highly improbable, if not humanly impossible. Confusing, we know. Quixotic even, to be perfectly honest. But true nonetheless.

.

The goal may feel out of reach.

.

But it's still the goal.

.

"He will be infinitely merciful our repeated failures; I know no promise that He will accept a deliberate compromise." - C.S. Lewis

.

In the intervening years since setting out to conform our personal lives more closely to the blueprint of the kind of men we wanted to be, we have found "The Chart" to be an indispensible tool in our spiritual journey.

.

The next stage of that Journey begins todoay (Monday, September 26th).

.

And we're inviting you to come along.

.

We're calling it "90 days to Freedom". Consider it the ultimate Advent season. If you count down 90 days beginning from today you will arrive at the high holy day of Christmas Eve, the night when angels sang of the Great King's disguised appearance on center stage of the Rebel Planet called Earth. And so, in the King's Name, for the next 90 days leading up to Christmas, we will be endeavoring to live the disciplined lives of spiritual warriors, keeping track daily of our successes, and, yes, our failures too.

.

It won't be easy. Even aiming for a 10 point daily average (you'll understand when you look at the chart and read the instructions) is setting the bar extremely high. The flesh quails at the very thought of it. It's one thing to walk in obedience to God and in the disciplines of a healthy body, mind and spirit when you are in the mood. It's another thing altogether to stick doggedly to that same Path when you are in the mood to be heading down a slightly different, slightly easier Road. But that is why, after all, they are called disciplines.

.

Are you in?