Intro. you and I need to look into the mirror and
get a clear picture of what we've become something other than what we were born
for we were made in our father's image here your father's voice speak to you remember
who you are a child of God an ambassador from Heaven America is a frontier Nation and
my friends at Trail life embody these Trail Life USA. ideals our history is defined by Pioneers from
pilgrims boldly crossing the ocean and carving colonies out of the Wilderness for the sake of
religious freedom to those dauntless settlers who left their homes for the Western frontier
some of my favorite memories are pioneering adventures with my own Sons hiking and camping
in the mountains with a few friends and having important conversations around the campfire about
things that really matter in trail life troops across the country boys and men are engaging with
their Community experiencing Adventure finding a Brotherhood and raising up a generation of
future men prepared to act with courage and confidence ready to engage with Society in ways
that will bring heart change and grow the kingdom I want to encourage you to find or start a tra
life troop in your church learn more at www.t trilife campfire tocom hey everybody welcome back
to to the American campfire Revival welcome to my Born to Be Brave. backyard I'm uh enjoying the American flag in
the back and the campfire something to me about just being outside breathing the fresh air hearing
the cicas The Crickets smelling the smoke and just talking with you gathering together as a family
of faith and praying together and talking about the stuff that's important I mean particularly as
parents and grandparents we're past the frivolous and superficial and we understand that ideas have
consequences and the decisions that we make the stuff we decide to invest our time and our energy
and our resources in really does matter especially for our kids and for our grandkids so I hope to
meet with you over the next 100 days leading up to the election and talk through principles that
I have spent the last year writing out to share with you in my new book called Born to Be Brave
how to be a part of America's spiritual comeback The Lion King. do you remember the movie The Lion King Disney
had a hit on their hands all of the pride lands were were filled with life and vibrancy but
there was Mufasa's evil brother scar who got into a a conflict with Mufasa and killed the
king and do you remember he took over the pride lands and he blamed the death of the King on
the King's son Simba he convinced Simba that he was responsible for his father's death
and told him to leave and never return and Simba went off into the Wilderness and he lived
out there for a long time in obscurity and then remember he took up this Hakuna Matata life of
apathy and laziness and pleasure seeking with uh with Timone and Pumba The Pride land was
in shambles all the color was drained out of it all the animals cowered in fear because they
were being ruled under the the teeth and the claws of the Tyrant Scar and then there was the
mandrel monkey Rafiki who who went to find Simba in the jungles and when he found him he said Simba
who have you become you have forgotten who you are he was kind of like a prophet figure and he said
come come with me and he took him to a Pond and he said look into the water and Simba looked into
the water and and and there were ripples in the water and so the image was blurred and he said who
do you see and he couldn't really see himself but when the water settled he began to see an image
and it was the image of his father Mufasa he saw in his own reflection the image of his father and
then he heard the voice of his father say Simba you are more than who you have become remember
who you are and when Simba remembered who he was and he heard his father's voice speaking
to his heart and to his soul he recaptured a sense of his own identity and he rushed back to
the pride lands because he knew that he had he had given up the role that he was born to take as
the rightful heir of Mufasa's Kingdom and to rule it with goodness and righteousness and Truth for
the benefit of all the animals in the pride land and to keep evil at Bay Scar and the hyenas off
into the elephant graveyard and the shadowlands and protect the citizens of the pride land and as
he raced back to do battle with Scar the evil lion who had taken over the pride lands scar looked
and what did he think he saw he thought that he was looking at Mufasa raised from the dead
because Simba looked just like his dad and he said Mufasa you are supposed to be dead you've
come back from the grave and do you know that the courage that Simba found did not come from
Terror or fear or outrage at what had been done to the pride lands his courage was the result
of him recapturing who he was his father's son Made In His Image the rightful heir to the throne
the ruler of the pride lands and he stepped back into that role that he was made for for and do
you know that that's exactly what you and I need to do you and I were made in the image of our
father but we've gotten lost somehow forgotten who we are and forgotten who we are in a culture
that wants us to believe that we are some kind of Relic minority with an Antiquated morality and
a make believe spirituality that just belongs in church buildings you and I need to look into
the mirror and get a clear picture of what we've become something other than what we were born
for we were made in our father's image hear your father's voice speak to you remember who you are
a child of God an ambassador from Heaven greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world
the hijacking of culture by the elite Dark Forces that hate our father that hate righteousness and
goodness that are the Destroyers of Liberty and the purveyors of evil will be shaking in their
boots when they see you and your children and your grandchildren rushing toward them to restore
goodness and Liberty and truth and you know what they'll think they'll think that they see the
image of God in you that's that's what they should be terrified of the fear of the Lord should come
over them when they see you who love your enemies and are makers of peace and you're involved in
your culture and you're educating your children and who stand for righteousness that's what people
should see and how they should feel when they see you and I rushing back in to take leadership
positions in our children's moral training and their education and helping them become leaders
in the world for the flourishing of all Humanity sometimes Hollywood gets it right don't they they
may not even understand what it is that makes that The Hero's Journey. story resonate in the human heart but I do and
you do it's in God's book it's the hero story it's Against All Odds when it seems like all hope
is gone that the child of the king remembers who he is and he comes to himself and steps into his
identity and he finds the courage and The Bravery within and he re-engages with the mission and our
mission is just what Jesus prayed oh God may your kingdom come and your will be done on Earth as
it is in heaven I love talking with you I hope that you'll follow along with me with these
principles I've just been going through the first chapter these last few sessions together in
my new book born to be brave how to become part of America's spiritual comeback and if you're
listening from some other country how this is the same way how your part of the Netherlands
spirits will come back or France's spirits will come back or Australia's spirits will come back
the principles are the same it's not an American thing it's an eternal strategy that began in
the Garden of Eden for the flourishing of all people as we take the principles of Heaven as
our template as our prototype and we begin to apply them to all of the earth and we can see the
curse reversed Revival and a Great Awakening come to our country if we engage with these principles
will you pray with me God we're we're so grateful Prayer. that that you you give us the opportunity to
talk with you you tell us Lord not to be worried about anything but to pray about everything and to
rejoice and to be glad glad and thankful in every circumstance and we know that's because you're
working all things together for good even the difficult things and maybe this is exactly what
we need the trials the challenges the corruption all the difficult and challenging things that we
see in our culture maybe is the perfect recipe to wake us up and to sober us and bring us
to the place where we turn our hearts back back to you so God do what only you can do we
trust you help us to do what you say and we ask this in Jesus name amen hey will you write to me
will you comment um here and and and interact with me would you GA gather your friends would you
invite your family can we be part of this let's make this a huge thing let's get tens of thousands
of people hundreds of thousands within the family of Faith across all denominations praying and
working through these things I believe this can be the family of Faith's finest hour we are at
a Crossroads we are in the valley of decision which way are we going to go I believe we
were born to be brave let's do it [Music]