{"id":302530,"date":"2012-05-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/the-work-of-building-boys\/"},"modified":"2012-05-24T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T15:00:00","slug":"the-work-of-building-boys","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/the-work-of-building-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"The Work of Building Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A boy is a work in progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2012-05-24.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"22.58M","filesize_raw":"23679768","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2837,2835],"tags":[4698,4096],"podcast_series":[7875],"cwp_profile":[9268],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-302530","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fathers","category-raising-boys","tag-manhood","tag-mentoring","podcast_series-flight-plan","cwp_profile-braxton-brady","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/302530\/the-work-of-building-boys","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/302530\/the-work-of-building-boys","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"AM5T4pHRFc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/the-work-of-building-boys\/\">The Work of Building Boys<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/the-work-of-building-boys\/embed\/#?secret=AM5T4pHRFc\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;The Work of Building Boys&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"AM5T4pHRFc\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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Well, the first one we hit on is that men don\u2019t show emotion.\u00a0 You know, it\u2019s funny being around 650 boys every single day.\u00a0 As you get in the Pre-K, the three, four, five, six, and seven year-olds, you see plenty of tears.\u00a0 That emotion comes out pretty easily.\u00a0 As the boys get older, they tend to bottle that emotion up.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo we want to make sure that as they grow up to be godly men that they can feel comforted in showing emotion.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Thursday, May 24<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today we\u2019re going to explore what boys need to learn in order to become men.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Airplane noises in background]\u00a0 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> from the cockpit.\u00a0 This is Bob Lepine speaking and we\u2019re preparing for take-off on today\u2019s program.\u00a0 You might want to buckle in and make sure you\u2019re all set for today\u2019s entourage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019ll turn things over to the captain here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Not to mix metaphors, Bob, but do you know what song I woke up thinking about and singing this morning as I was thinking about our guest on the program?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Let\u2019s see.\u00a0 I bet I do.\u00a0 You probably woke up thinking about the old song about \u201cup in the air, Junior Birdman.\u201d\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that what you were thinking of?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have never heard that song.\u00a0 (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You don\u2019t remember that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Who sang that song?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We used to sing it at camp all of the time!\u00a0 \u201cUp in the air, Junior Birdman!\u00a0 Up in the air, upside down.\u201d\u00a0 You don\u2019t know that?\u00a0 \u201cUp in the air, Junior Birdman. . .\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think I heard the melody to something else, but I don\u2019t remember that song.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s not the song you woke up thinking about this morning?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, no.\u00a0 The song I was thinking about. . . .\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Which you have written down on a piece of paper.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have it down here because I don\u2019t have the photographic memory of all the words of these songs.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, \u201csitting in his nowhere land.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob and Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cMaking all his nowhere plans for nobody.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Music]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>He\u2019s a real nowhere man, <\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>Sitting in his nowhere land,<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>Making all his nowhere plans<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>For nobody.<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s it.\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 [Lyrics in background]\u00a0 That\u2019s John, Paul, George, and Ringo, \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Fab Four.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I knew that you would instantly lock onto that.\u00a0 Ladies and gentlemen, the reason I did that to Bob was some time earlier this year on the broadcast he completely humiliated me by calling up a song I should have known.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 But you know what?\u00a0 That\u2019s enough of this nonsense.\u00a0 I want to introduce our guest who\u2019s sitting over here looking, going, \u201cWhat is going on here!?\u201d\u00a0 (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cWhat did I get into?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Braxton Brady joins us on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Braxton, we like to have fun here on <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 I can just sit here and listen to you guys for the rest of the time.\u00a0 This is pretty easy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well you name the song and Bob can sing it.\u00a0 He\u2019ll nail the words perfectly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I don\u2019t know that that\u2019s what we want to get into today because when you\u2019ve got a guy joining you who spends his days with 650 elementary-aged boys -- not boys and girls \u2013 boys. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sixth grade and under.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 First of all, he\u2019s glad to be here on <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>because it gives him a little break.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 He\u2019s escaped the penitentiary.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, Braxton is a graduate of the University of Memphis where he lives over there with his wife Carrie and his three children.\u00a0 He has co-authored a book with Lee Burns called <em>Flight Plan<\/em>.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s why I was doing that cockpit announcement at the beginning of the program today.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m glad you took us back to that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I just wanted to be sure there was a context for that for our listeners.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Tell me, Braxton \u2013 you\u2019ve worked with inner-city boys for a number of years.\u00a0 Take us into their world.\u00a0 Give us a glimpse.\u00a0 What do you see happening there? What do you see boys having to deal with?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 They have to deal with a lot of issues a lot earlier than they need to be dealing with them.\u00a0 We see them out at ten o\u2019clock at night wandering the streets, whether they\u2019re trying to find a meal or whether they\u2019re just wandering because they don\u2019t have anybody at home to watch them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI see refugee families in my neighborhood who are packed into a small room trying to walk two to three miles to get to a school bus to go to school.\u00a0 I see them walking around with no shoes or with clothes that don\u2019t fit.\u00a0 I see that virtually every single day.\u00a0 Around 7:30 every morning, I drive to a school with 650 boys who have far and beyond more than they can ever need or imagine.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m curious because a lot of our listeners will wonder:\u00a0 you\u2019re living where you\u2019re living purposefully, intentionally, by design.\u00a0 It\u2019s not where most people go house hunting when they move to Memphis.\u00a0 How did you wind up living where you live?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is interesting that we built a house that immediately went down in value the minute that we built it.\u00a0 It seems kind of crazy, but seven years ago God just kind of moved on my heart through ministering to inner-city kids and the more I read Scripture and the more I thought about intentional living, God just kind of spoke to my heart and said, \u201cThis is where I feel like you need to live.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI went home and told my lovely bride, Carrie, that I felt like God was moving us to go there and she said, \u201cNo.\u201d\u00a0 She said, \u201cI\u2019m not doing that.\u00a0 I know where that neighborhood is.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been there and done that and I would serve there; but I don\u2019t want to live there.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOnce you know me very well, it\u2019s hard for me to shut up.\u00a0 Instead of going into the man and trying to convince her to move there, I said, \u201cGod, I\u2019m just going to pray about this and when You see fit that that\u2019s where we need to go, then You\u2019ll move in her heart.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAlmost a year to the day from that conversation, she came into the house and, through a series of circumstances said in tears, \u201cI know that that\u2019s where God wants us to live.\u00a0 I feel like we need to go right now.\u201d\u00a0 So that was kind of the sign.\u00a0 We moved in there and we\u2019ve been there six years.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This was without your sales pitch; without your trying to cajole her for a year?\u00a0 You just backed off and let God work on her heart?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 I did not say onemore word about it, which is unheard of if you ask anybody in my world.\u00a0 (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 At the time, did you have any children?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 We had Preston and Bennett was on the way.\u00a0 So that was part of the issue with Carrie was \u201cIs that going to be safe?\u201d\u00a0 Really, what God was showing us was I think it\u2019s more dangerous to be comfortable.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 And so, it\u2019s . . .\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Unpack that statement a bit.\u00a0 What do you mean by that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I just feel like a life lived out for the Gospel is not going to be safe.\u00a0 I think \u2013 when I teach Bible at PDS -- I teach six Bible classes per day \u2013 I feel like if I\u2019m preaching the Gospel right, it\u2019s going to be offensive to somebody whether it be a parent or whether it be a child.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy oldest son is in seventh grade now.\u00a0 Every sixth grader at PDS has to write a speech and give it to the entire school.\u00a0 My sixth grader gave it on living in the neighborhood and how much the neighborhood had affected him and his life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs I was sitting in tears in the back, watching him do that, I just felt like God has just affirmed over and over and over again that life is not meant to be comfortable \u2013 to have this and to have that and to make enough money to retire early.\u00a0 Life is to be lived for His glory and not our own.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo He has just really shown Himself so clearly in our lives and we\u2019re so thankful for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 What was your design in moving in there in the first place?\u00a0 You said, \u201cI\u2019m going to move in here so that we can do this?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, you know, people ask us every single day when they come over to the house, \u201cWhat do you do?\u201d\u00a0 We say, \u201cWe just live out the Gospel like we would in any other neighborhood.\u00a0 This is just where God has led us to live.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo we\u2019re ministering to families next door and we\u2019re ministering to kids.\u00a0 Kids are at our house all of the time.\u00a0 This is actually our second house in the neighborhood.\u00a0 The first house that we had, through some families at PDS, we had a full-court basketball court in our backyard.\u00a0 50x50; glass backboards; three point line \u2013 the whole deal.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, really?\u00a0 Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 We were <em>the <\/em>house in the neighborhood for the first three years of us living in Binghampton.\u00a0 It was a great opportunity \u2013 one, for my boys to interact with boys from the neighborhood, but it\u2019s a tremendous opportunity for me to share with them, to love on them, to feed them, to encourage them, to teach them Scripture.\u00a0 So the court was a huge vehicle for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow my wife continues to hear basketballs in her head, so we had to move to a little bit bigger house a couple of blocks over.\u00a0 [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You\u2019ve written this book <em>Flight Plan<\/em> and Bob began the broadcast as what, an air traffic controller?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I was a co-pilot.\u00a0 I was next to you in the cockpit seat handing things over to you so we could take off.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You have a motif in your book.\u00a0 The way it begins is that a boy who is off course can lose his life.\u00a0 You tell the story of five Avenger bombers back in 1945 who took off.\u00a0 Share that story because it really sets up what\u2019s happening not only in your neighborhood.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think this is really a class issue.\u00a0 I think this is happening all over the country with young men today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, I definitely agree with you.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think class is an issue.\u00a0 One of the stories we introduce in the book is \u201cFlight 19\u201d on December 5, 1945. It\u2019s about Lieutenant Charles Taylor and his five Avenger pilots who set off on a mission.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEventually, Lieutenant Taylor gets separated from the group and loses communication so he is on his own.\u00a0 He drifts farther and farther away from where he was on the target.\u00a0 Eventually he gets lost because communication was lost.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t have the right guidance or the right way to go and he wasn\u2019t being led in the right way.\u00a0 We eventually lose him into the ocean.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s a telling story because our boys are not being led in the right way.\u00a0 I tell people every time I go speak that I live in two completely different neighborhoods with the exact same problem:\u00a0 absent fathers.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s a big, big issue, but we start out with that story of these guys losing track of where they are because if a boy does not have a proper vision of what it means to be a godly man early on in his life, it\u2019s going to set the course for the rest of his life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tReally, the reason we wrote the book is so a father could have the opportunity to do this with his son.\u00a0 That\u2019s really the reason we wrote the book.\u00a0 We see over and over and over again in every single sixth grade class that dads are not being strategic and intentional with their boys.\u00a0 So we wanted to start off with the story to show them that if you get off course, it\u2019s awfully hard to get back on.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And this story is not a made-up story; this is an actual story about a guy who got off-course and they lost contact with him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 They did.\u00a0 They lost contact for a long period of time and he tried to figure things out on his own.\u00a0 We see where that got him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have a compass and you don\u2019t have a map \u2013 he wound up disappearing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 He did.\u00a0 He was not found.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 There are some myths in our culture that you speak about that really lead boys astray.\u00a0 Share with our listeners just a few of those myths just real quickly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, the first one we hit on is that men don\u2019t show emotion.\u00a0 You know, it\u2019s funny being around 650 boys every single day.\u00a0 As you get in the Pre-K, the three, four, five, six, and seven year-olds, that emotion comes out pretty easily.\u00a0 As the boys get older, they tend to bottle that emotion up.\u00a0 So we want to make sure that as they grow up to be Godly men that they can feel comforted in showing emotion.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think the one that we have to war against the most is that men are judged only by their achievements and successes.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s the one that is the most important, at least in my world.\u00a0 It\u2019s that these fathers and our society \u2013 at least in an east Memphis culture \u2013 has pushed that you\u2019ve got to be defined by success academically and, especially, you\u2019ve got to be defining your success athletically.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s the one that boggles my mind:\u00a0 that these fathers have put their sons up on a pedestal at ten, 11, and 12 years old thinking that they\u2019re going to be the greatest athlete and that\u2019s going to be their ticket.\u00a0 If you look at any kind of stat at all, you\u2019ll see it\u2019s a very minute chance that you\u2019re even going to get to college playing sports.\u00a0 So as they get older, it\u2019s an identity issue with them.\u00a0 They\u2019re identified by what they do and not who they are.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I really agree with you.\u00a0 I just appreciate your model that you\u2019re setting here for families.\u00a0 You know, we don\u2019t think of where we live as being a statement of our values, but it really is.\u00a0 I mean, it\u2019s a statement of what\u2019s important to us, what we\u2019re about, and what we\u2019re going to use our lives for.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat you\u2019re demonstrating to your children and your peers over there in Memphis and now here on the radio is that you really felt like God was calling to you to something that, yes, might be dangerous.\u00a0 But you had a core conviction that someone had to do something about what was happening in these neighborhoods.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 We did.\u00a0 We felt like our city of Memphis, as you know, is very racially divided.\u00a0 It\u2019s a difficult city to live in.\u00a0 We wanted to be part of the solution and not part of the problem.\u00a0 We wanted to stake our claim that we want to be part of the Gospel moving in our city, but also just of living and loving neighbors that seem to be unloved in our neighborhood.\u00a0 That\u2019s a big, big deal.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMore importantly, if I brought my two boys in here - my little girl is three so she would probably talk your ear off \u2013 but my two boys, if you brought them in here, they feel like there is no difference racially with them.\u00a0 You put them in a group of African-American kids and they\u2019re going to go play.\u00a0 They don\u2019t think twice about it.\u00a0 You put them at PDS with a majority of white students and they feel very, very comfortable in both environments.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s so comforting to me for my boys to see no color at all.\u00a0 They just live and love.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s just one of the things that God has shown me so clearly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 One of the things that Truett Cathy says --the founder and CEO of Chick-fil-A-- is that \u201cIt\u2019s better to build boys than to mend men.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s really what you\u2019re doing, beginning with your own boys.\u00a0 You\u2019re trying to build boys over there in Memphis as a chaplain, but also in the neighborhood where you live, and also at PDS.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, our listeners have heard you mention PDS, but I\u2019m not sure they understand what PDS is or where you work.\u00a0 This is Presbyterian Day School \u2013 preK through sixth grade; 650 boys all day long.\u00a0 I think you said it\u2019s the largest private, all-boys elementary school in the nation, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is.\u00a0 From what we see and what people tell us, we are the largest all-boys private elementary school in the country.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And why an all-boys school K through six?\u00a0 Why not do what most schools do and lump them all together?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, we think the most formative years for us to teach and shape boys are obviously the preK through 6<sup>th<\/sup> grade.\u00a0 We wanted to give with these virtues of manhood - we wanted to give our boys -- our program called <em>Building Boys, Making Men<\/em> gives our boys a clear definition of manhood, which we do in the book.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe give them a lens to kind of view life through with these virtues, like being a true friend.\u00a0 We have a tagline called \u201cLeave No Man Behind.\u201d\u00a0 We make the very specific rule that nobody sits alone \u2013 \u201cleave no man behind.\u201d\u00a0 Probably servant leadership is the one we talk about the most, that our boys need to be servant leaders because they\u2019ve got the gifts and abilities and the means to really impact our city. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe want them to understand that a life lived out for the glory of God is not living for their glory, but living for God\u2019s and serving others, and using the gifts and the talents they have to serve others.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 So right alongside reading, writing, arithmetic, and all of the normal studies, you\u2019re very intentionally working with these young boys to try to instill in them some of these characteristics of godly manhood?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 We take each of the virtues and use them one month of the year through school, so by the time that they\u2019ve left, they\u2019ve heard them ten or 15 times in a cycle.\u00a0 So in sixth grade, I teach the book <em>Flight Plan <\/em>as a specific class to our sixth graders.\u00a0 It meets once a month; they dress in coat and tie.\u00a0 It\u2019s a big, big deal for them.\u00a0 I teach on each chapter of the book, and then we do some fun, memory-making stuff with them as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 How many are in that class?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 It would be 75 at a time. (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Do you have soldiers that surround them so you can accomplish the educational objectives?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 We have it pretty easy at PDS.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got some really, really good boys and some good parents to go alongside.\u00a0 My voice is loud enough now that I can pretty much control them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, and you\u2019re calling them up.\u00a0 They\u2019ll respond.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 If somebody\u2019s coming along and calling them to maturity, they\u2019re ready to respond to that, aren\u2019t they?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Absolutely and you know, I\u2019ve gotten the parents on my side.\u00a0 One creative thing that we\u2019ve done at the school which was my idea is that they have to have twenty life-ready skills completed before they graduate.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was thinking, \u201cAlright. I\u2019m going to get the parents on my side.\u201d\u00a0 So one of those is they have to wash, dry, and fold a load of laundry before they can graduate.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Alright!\u00a0 I\u2019m hearing some cheers from some moms now.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Their parents have to sign off on it.\u00a0 Now, the first year I got a little flack but now every time I stand up in a meeting and talk about these things, I mean I\u2019m getting cheers.\u00a0 I just looked through 70 videos that they take on their computer of them ironing their own clothes.\u00a0 They had to make a video of them ironing their own clothes \u2013 shirts and pants.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You have to bring proof.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 They have to bring proof.\u00a0 Not that I don\u2019t trust them, but I\u2019m actually going to put on my blog the winner of the competition.\u00a0 I made it a little competition.\u00a0 We had twin boys who went back and forth teaching each other how to iron their own shirts which was pretty comical.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know, I\u2019m picturing you leading 75 boys.\u00a0 I used to have a sixth grade Sunday school class that had 75 in there, but it was half boys and half girls.\u00a0 I had a discipline tool that I used that you don\u2019t have.\u00a0 When the boys would act up, I would have a girl move aside one seat and I would set the boy between two girls.\u00a0 I mean, at that age, it was worse than putting them in a room full of mosquitoes. They were trying to get away from those girls side-by-side.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy hat goes off to you because you have to have some pretty good rules of discipline to keep that class in shape.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well there\u2019s one creative thing that we do and I think it\u2019s the best thing.\u00a0 In our December meeting, I bring in five high school girls that are juniors and seniors in high school.\u00a0 I let our sixth grade boys interview them.\u00a0 (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe questions obviously filter through me, but I bring in five really solid Gospel-centered girls and we let the boys ask questions:\u00a0 \u201cWhat\u2019s your ideal date look like?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cHow do you want to be treated?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou would have thought we were teaching college calculus with the amount of notes these boys are taking!\u00a0 (Laughter)\u00a0 I mean they are writing, writing, writing.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even have to ever tell them to be quiet or anything.\u00a0 They are just enamored with these girls and so it\u2019s been fun.\u00a0 That kind of works to your point of an easy way to discipline some guys is to just throw some girls in there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No doubt about it.\u00a0 Well, I think what you\u2019re about is really important.\u00a0 Number one, you\u2019re intentional.\u00a0 Secondly, you\u2019re giving them a flight plan to know where to go.\u00a0 Third, you\u2019re training and equipping them not to be passive.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 But to be servant leaders, to go sit by a friend.\u00a0 I think this culture is really doing our sons, our young boys, our young men a disservice because they allow them to unplug and just become passive.\u00a0 That\u2019s not the route to manhood.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, you know, as I was looking through all that you have here in the book, I was thinking about how you are addressing many of the same themes that are addressed in the Passport2Purity\u00ae weekend that we have put together for a dad to take his son through or a mom to take her daughter through.\u00a0 Of course, we just recently updated all of the Passport2Purity material.\u00a0 It\u2019s in brand-new packaging.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf folks are interested in how you can have a weekend with your son or your daughter to help prepare them for what they\u2019re going to face in adolescence and beyond, go to FamilyLifeToday.com for more information about the brand new, freshly updated Passport2Purity material.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, go to FamilyLifeToday.com for more information.\u00a0 That\u2019s FamilyLifeToday.com or call 1-800-FLTODAY and ask about Passport2Purity.\u00a0 We also have copies of Braxton\u2019s book <em>Flight Plan<\/em> available in our <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>Resource Center as well.\u00a0 So go online at FamilyLifeToday.com or call 1-800-FLTODAY and ask about the book <em>Flight Plan <\/em>by Braxton Brady and Lee Burns.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI also want to mention, Dennis, your book <em>Stepping Up: A Call to Courageous Manhood<\/em><em><sup>\u00ae <\/sup><\/em>because there are a lot of dads who are going through this book with their teenage sons.\u00a0 Our team has recently been working on a brand new resource.\u00a0 We\u2019ve taken the key themes from the <em>Stepping Up <\/em>book and we\u2019re putting together a video series called <em>Stepping Up<\/em>.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s going to be out in August and to help launch the new video series, we are hosting a one day live event.\u00a0 It\u2019s the Stepping Up National Men\u2019s Conference.\u00a0 It\u2019s happening in Chicago, Illinois but it\u2019s going to be webcast to churches all around the country. There are going to be hundreds of churches joining with us that day hosting a Stepping Up men\u2019s event.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis is speaking, Crawford Loritts is speaking, James McDonald is going to be speaking.\u00a0 Robert Lewis is going to be joining us as well.\u00a0 If you\u2019d like more information about the Stepping Up National Men\u2019s event and how your church can be a host church for that event, go to FamilyLifeToday.com and click on the Stepping Up link.\u00a0 There\u2019s information about the video series there and about the National Men\u2019s Conference coming on Saturday, August 4<sup>th<\/sup>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, our website is FamilyLifeToday.com or you can call us toll-free at 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFinally, I want to remind our regular listeners about the Stepping Up matching gift fund that has been made available to FamilyLife during the month of May.\u00a0 We have been asking listeners this month to consider making a donation to help support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>When you make a donation this month, that donation is going to be matched dollar-for-dollar up to a total of $650,000.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are hoping to take full advantage of this matching gift opportunity, but obviously we need to hear from listeners very soon because this opportunity expires at the end of the month.\u00a0 So would you consider going online at FamilyLifeToday.com?\u00a0 Click the button that says \u201cI CARE\u201d and make an online matching gift contribution.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr call 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 You can make a donation over the phone.\u00a0 Again, when you do, your donation is going to be matched dollar for dollar up to a total of $650,000.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe want to say thanks in advance for whatever you\u2019re able to do. Maybe you\u2019ve already made a donation this month \u2013 thank you for that.\u00a0 You might consider making a second gift if you\u2019re able to do that.\u00a0 We appreciate your support of the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>and of all that we\u2019re trying to do to help strengthen and equip families.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe want to encourage you to be back with us tomorrow when we\u2019re going to continue to talk about how we help boys step up to become men and to embrace God\u2019s design for their lives.\u00a0 We\u2019ll talk about some of the myths of manhood that have to be dispelled in the minds of these young men.\u00a0 Hope you can be back with us for that tomorrow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We will see you back tomorrow for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 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program?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Let\u2019s see.\u00a0 I bet I do.\u00a0 You probably woke up thinking about the old song about \u201cup in the air, Junior Birdman.\u201d\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that what you were thinking of?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have never heard that song.\u00a0 (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You don\u2019t remember that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Who sang that song?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We used to sing it at camp all of the time!\u00a0 \u201cUp in the air, Junior Birdman!\u00a0 Up in the air, upside down.\u201d\u00a0 You don\u2019t know that?\u00a0 \u201cUp in the air, Junior Birdman. . .\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think I heard the melody to something else, but I don\u2019t remember that song.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s not the song you woke up thinking about this morning?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, no.\u00a0 The song I was thinking about. . . .\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Which you have written down on a piece of paper.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have it down here because I don\u2019t have the photographic memory of all the words of these songs.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, \u201csitting in his nowhere land.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob and Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cMaking all his nowhere plans for nobody.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Music]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>He\u2019s a real nowhere man, <\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>Sitting in his nowhere land,<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>Making all his nowhere plans<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>For nobody.<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s it.\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 [Lyrics in background]\u00a0 That\u2019s John, Paul, George, and Ringo, \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Fab Four.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I knew that you would instantly lock onto that.\u00a0 Ladies and gentlemen, the reason I did that to Bob was some time earlier this year on the broadcast he completely humiliated me by calling up a song I should have known.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 But you know what?\u00a0 That\u2019s enough of this nonsense.\u00a0 I want to introduce our guest who\u2019s sitting over here looking, going, \u201cWhat is going on here!?\u201d\u00a0 (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cWhat did I get into?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Braxton Brady joins us on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Braxton, we like to have fun here on <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 I can just sit here and listen to you guys for the rest of the time.\u00a0 This is pretty easy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well you name the song and Bob can sing it.\u00a0 He\u2019ll nail the words perfectly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I don\u2019t know that that\u2019s what we want to get into today because when you\u2019ve got a guy joining you who spends his days with 650 elementary-aged boys -- not boys and girls \u2013 boys. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sixth grade and under.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 First of all, he\u2019s glad to be here on <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>because it gives him a little break.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 He\u2019s escaped the penitentiary.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, Braxton is a graduate of the University of Memphis where he lives over there with his wife Carrie and his three children.\u00a0 He has co-authored a book with Lee Burns called <em>Flight Plan<\/em>.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s why I was doing that cockpit announcement at the beginning of the program today.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m glad you took us back to that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I just wanted to be sure there was a context for that for our listeners.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Tell me, Braxton \u2013 you\u2019ve worked with inner-city boys for a number of years.\u00a0 Take us into their world.\u00a0 Give us a glimpse.\u00a0 What do you see happening there? What do you see boys having to deal with?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 They have to deal with a lot of issues a lot earlier than they need to be dealing with them.\u00a0 We see them out at ten o\u2019clock at night wandering the streets, whether they\u2019re trying to find a meal or whether they\u2019re just wandering because they don\u2019t have anybody at home to watch them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI see refugee families in my neighborhood who are packed into a small room trying to walk two to three miles to get to a school bus to go to school.\u00a0 I see them walking around with no shoes or with clothes that don\u2019t fit.\u00a0 I see that virtually every single day.\u00a0 Around 7:30 every morning, I drive to a school with 650 boys who have far and beyond more than they can ever need or imagine.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m curious because a lot of our listeners will wonder:\u00a0 you\u2019re living where you\u2019re living purposefully, intentionally, by design.\u00a0 It\u2019s not where most people go house hunting when they move to Memphis.\u00a0 How did you wind up living where you live?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is interesting that we built a house that immediately went down in value the minute that we built it.\u00a0 It seems kind of crazy, but seven years ago God just kind of moved on my heart through ministering to inner-city kids and the more I read Scripture and the more I thought about intentional living, God just kind of spoke to my heart and said, \u201cThis is where I feel like you need to live.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI went home and told my lovely bride, Carrie, that I felt like God was moving us to go there and she said, \u201cNo.\u201d\u00a0 She said, \u201cI\u2019m not doing that.\u00a0 I know where that neighborhood is.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been there and done that and I would serve there; but I don\u2019t want to live there.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOnce you know me very well, it\u2019s hard for me to shut up.\u00a0 Instead of going into the man and trying to convince her to move there, I said, \u201cGod, I\u2019m just going to pray about this and when You see fit that that\u2019s where we need to go, then You\u2019ll move in her heart.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAlmost a year to the day from that conversation, she came into the house and, through a series of circumstances said in tears, \u201cI know that that\u2019s where God wants us to live.\u00a0 I feel like we need to go right now.\u201d\u00a0 So that was kind of the sign.\u00a0 We moved in there and we\u2019ve been there six years.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This was without your sales pitch; without your trying to cajole her for a year?\u00a0 You just backed off and let God work on her heart?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 I did not say onemore word about it, which is unheard of if you ask anybody in my world.\u00a0 (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 At the time, did you have any children?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 We had Preston and Bennett was on the way.\u00a0 So that was part of the issue with Carrie was \u201cIs that going to be safe?\u201d\u00a0 Really, what God was showing us was I think it\u2019s more dangerous to be comfortable.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 And so, it\u2019s . . .\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Unpack that statement a bit.\u00a0 What do you mean by that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I just feel like a life lived out for the Gospel is not going to be safe.\u00a0 I think \u2013 when I teach Bible at PDS -- I teach six Bible classes per day \u2013 I feel like if I\u2019m preaching the Gospel right, it\u2019s going to be offensive to somebody whether it be a parent or whether it be a child.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy oldest son is in seventh grade now.\u00a0 Every sixth grader at PDS has to write a speech and give it to the entire school.\u00a0 My sixth grader gave it on living in the neighborhood and how much the neighborhood had affected him and his life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs I was sitting in tears in the back, watching him do that, I just felt like God has just affirmed over and over and over again that life is not meant to be comfortable \u2013 to have this and to have that and to make enough money to retire early.\u00a0 Life is to be lived for His glory and not our own.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo He has just really shown Himself so clearly in our lives and we\u2019re so thankful for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 What was your design in moving in there in the first place?\u00a0 You said, \u201cI\u2019m going to move in here so that we can do this?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, you know, people ask us every single day when they come over to the house, \u201cWhat do you do?\u201d\u00a0 We say, \u201cWe just live out the Gospel like we would in any other neighborhood.\u00a0 This is just where God has led us to live.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo we\u2019re ministering to families next door and we\u2019re ministering to kids.\u00a0 Kids are at our house all of the time.\u00a0 This is actually our second house in the neighborhood.\u00a0 The first house that we had, through some families at PDS, we had a full-court basketball court in our backyard.\u00a0 50x50; glass backboards; three point line \u2013 the whole deal.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, really?\u00a0 Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 We were <em>the <\/em>house in the neighborhood for the first three years of us living in Binghampton.\u00a0 It was a great opportunity \u2013 one, for my boys to interact with boys from the neighborhood, but it\u2019s a tremendous opportunity for me to share with them, to love on them, to feed them, to encourage them, to teach them Scripture.\u00a0 So the court was a huge vehicle for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow my wife continues to hear basketballs in her head, so we had to move to a little bit bigger house a couple of blocks over.\u00a0 [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You\u2019ve written this book <em>Flight Plan<\/em> and Bob began the broadcast as what, an air traffic controller?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I was a co-pilot.\u00a0 I was next to you in the cockpit seat handing things over to you so we could take off.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You have a motif in your book.\u00a0 The way it begins is that a boy who is off course can lose his life.\u00a0 You tell the story of five Avenger bombers back in 1945 who took off.\u00a0 Share that story because it really sets up what\u2019s happening not only in your neighborhood.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think this is really a class issue.\u00a0 I think this is happening all over the country with young men today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, I definitely agree with you.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think class is an issue.\u00a0 One of the stories we introduce in the book is \u201cFlight 19\u201d on December 5, 1945. It\u2019s about Lieutenant Charles Taylor and his five Avenger pilots who set off on a mission.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEventually, Lieutenant Taylor gets separated from the group and loses communication so he is on his own.\u00a0 He drifts farther and farther away from where he was on the target.\u00a0 Eventually he gets lost because communication was lost.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t have the right guidance or the right way to go and he wasn\u2019t being led in the right way.\u00a0 We eventually lose him into the ocean.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s a telling story because our boys are not being led in the right way.\u00a0 I tell people every time I go speak that I live in two completely different neighborhoods with the exact same problem:\u00a0 absent fathers.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s a big, big issue, but we start out with that story of these guys losing track of where they are because if a boy does not have a proper vision of what it means to be a godly man early on in his life, it\u2019s going to set the course for the rest of his life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tReally, the reason we wrote the book is so a father could have the opportunity to do this with his son.\u00a0 That\u2019s really the reason we wrote the book.\u00a0 We see over and over and over again in every single sixth grade class that dads are not being strategic and intentional with their boys.\u00a0 So we wanted to start off with the story to show them that if you get off course, it\u2019s awfully hard to get back on.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And this story is not a made-up story; this is an actual story about a guy who got off-course and they lost contact with him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 They did.\u00a0 They lost contact for a long period of time and he tried to figure things out on his own.\u00a0 We see where that got him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have a compass and you don\u2019t have a map \u2013 he wound up disappearing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 He did.\u00a0 He was not found.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 There are some myths in our culture that you speak about that really lead boys astray.\u00a0 Share with our listeners just a few of those myths just real quickly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, the first one we hit on is that men don\u2019t show emotion.\u00a0 You know, it\u2019s funny being around 650 boys every single day.\u00a0 As you get in the Pre-K, the three, four, five, six, and seven year-olds, that emotion comes out pretty easily.\u00a0 As the boys get older, they tend to bottle that emotion up.\u00a0 So we want to make sure that as they grow up to be Godly men that they can feel comforted in showing emotion.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think the one that we have to war against the most is that men are judged only by their achievements and successes.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s the one that is the most important, at least in my world.\u00a0 It\u2019s that these fathers and our society \u2013 at least in an east Memphis culture \u2013 has pushed that you\u2019ve got to be defined by success academically and, especially, you\u2019ve got to be defining your success athletically.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s the one that boggles my mind:\u00a0 that these fathers have put their sons up on a pedestal at ten, 11, and 12 years old thinking that they\u2019re going to be the greatest athlete and that\u2019s going to be their ticket.\u00a0 If you look at any kind of stat at all, you\u2019ll see it\u2019s a very minute chance that you\u2019re even going to get to college playing sports.\u00a0 So as they get older, it\u2019s an identity issue with them.\u00a0 They\u2019re identified by what they do and not who they are.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I really agree with you.\u00a0 I just appreciate your model that you\u2019re setting here for families.\u00a0 You know, we don\u2019t think of where we live as being a statement of our values, but it really is.\u00a0 I mean, it\u2019s a statement of what\u2019s important to us, what we\u2019re about, and what we\u2019re going to use our lives for.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat you\u2019re demonstrating to your children and your peers over there in Memphis and now here on the radio is that you really felt like God was calling to you to something that, yes, might be dangerous.\u00a0 But you had a core conviction that someone had to do something about what was happening in these neighborhoods.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 We did.\u00a0 We felt like our city of Memphis, as you know, is very racially divided.\u00a0 It\u2019s a difficult city to live in.\u00a0 We wanted to be part of the solution and not part of the problem.\u00a0 We wanted to stake our claim that we want to be part of the Gospel moving in our city, but also just of living and loving neighbors that seem to be unloved in our neighborhood.\u00a0 That\u2019s a big, big deal.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMore importantly, if I brought my two boys in here - my little girl is three so she would probably talk your ear off \u2013 but my two boys, if you brought them in here, they feel like there is no difference racially with them.\u00a0 You put them in a group of African-American kids and they\u2019re going to go play.\u00a0 They don\u2019t think twice about it.\u00a0 You put them at PDS with a majority of white students and they feel very, very comfortable in both environments.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s so comforting to me for my boys to see no color at all.\u00a0 They just live and love.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s just one of the things that God has shown me so clearly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 One of the things that Truett Cathy says --the founder and CEO of Chick-fil-A-- is that \u201cIt\u2019s better to build boys than to mend men.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s really what you\u2019re doing, beginning with your own boys.\u00a0 You\u2019re trying to build boys over there in Memphis as a chaplain, but also in the neighborhood where you live, and also at PDS.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, our listeners have heard you mention PDS, but I\u2019m not sure they understand what PDS is or where you work.\u00a0 This is Presbyterian Day School \u2013 preK through sixth grade; 650 boys all day long.\u00a0 I think you said it\u2019s the largest private, all-boys elementary school in the nation, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is.\u00a0 From what we see and what people tell us, we are the largest all-boys private elementary school in the country.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And why an all-boys school K through six?\u00a0 Why not do what most schools do and lump them all together?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, we think the most formative years for us to teach and shape boys are obviously the preK through 6<sup>th<\/sup> grade.\u00a0 We wanted to give with these virtues of manhood - we wanted to give our boys -- our program called <em>Building Boys, Making Men<\/em> gives our boys a clear definition of manhood, which we do in the book.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe give them a lens to kind of view life through with these virtues, like being a true friend.\u00a0 We have a tagline called \u201cLeave No Man Behind.\u201d\u00a0 We make the very specific rule that nobody sits alone \u2013 \u201cleave no man behind.\u201d\u00a0 Probably servant leadership is the one we talk about the most, that our boys need to be servant leaders because they\u2019ve got the gifts and abilities and the means to really impact our city. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe want them to understand that a life lived out for the glory of God is not living for their glory, but living for God\u2019s and serving others, and using the gifts and the talents they have to serve others.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 So right alongside reading, writing, arithmetic, and all of the normal studies, you\u2019re very intentionally working with these young boys to try to instill in them some of these characteristics of godly manhood?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 We take each of the virtues and use them one month of the year through school, so by the time that they\u2019ve left, they\u2019ve heard them ten or 15 times in a cycle.\u00a0 So in sixth grade, I teach the book <em>Flight Plan <\/em>as a specific class to our sixth graders.\u00a0 It meets once a month; they dress in coat and tie.\u00a0 It\u2019s a big, big deal for them.\u00a0 I teach on each chapter of the book, and then we do some fun, memory-making stuff with them as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 How many are in that class?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 It would be 75 at a time. (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Do you have soldiers that surround them so you can accomplish the educational objectives?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 We have it pretty easy at PDS.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got some really, really good boys and some good parents to go alongside.\u00a0 My voice is loud enough now that I can pretty much control them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, and you\u2019re calling them up.\u00a0 They\u2019ll respond.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 If somebody\u2019s coming along and calling them to maturity, they\u2019re ready to respond to that, aren\u2019t they?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Absolutely and you know, I\u2019ve gotten the parents on my side.\u00a0 One creative thing that we\u2019ve done at the school which was my idea is that they have to have twenty life-ready skills completed before they graduate.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was thinking, \u201cAlright. I\u2019m going to get the parents on my side.\u201d\u00a0 So one of those is they have to wash, dry, and fold a load of laundry before they can graduate.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Alright!\u00a0 I\u2019m hearing some cheers from some moms now.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Their parents have to sign off on it.\u00a0 Now, the first year I got a little flack but now every time I stand up in a meeting and talk about these things, I mean I\u2019m getting cheers.\u00a0 I just looked through 70 videos that they take on their computer of them ironing their own clothes.\u00a0 They had to make a video of them ironing their own clothes \u2013 shirts and pants.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You have to bring proof.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 They have to bring proof.\u00a0 Not that I don\u2019t trust them, but I\u2019m actually going to put on my blog the winner of the competition.\u00a0 I made it a little competition.\u00a0 We had twin boys who went back and forth teaching each other how to iron their own shirts which was pretty comical.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know, I\u2019m picturing you leading 75 boys.\u00a0 I used to have a sixth grade Sunday school class that had 75 in there, but it was half boys and half girls.\u00a0 I had a discipline tool that I used that you don\u2019t have.\u00a0 When the boys would act up, I would have a girl move aside one seat and I would set the boy between two girls.\u00a0 I mean, at that age, it was worse than putting them in a room full of mosquitoes. They were trying to get away from those girls side-by-side.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy hat goes off to you because you have to have some pretty good rules of discipline to keep that class in shape.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well there\u2019s one creative thing that we do and I think it\u2019s the best thing.\u00a0 In our December meeting, I bring in five high school girls that are juniors and seniors in high school.\u00a0 I let our sixth grade boys interview them.\u00a0 (Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe questions obviously filter through me, but I bring in five really solid Gospel-centered girls and we let the boys ask questions:\u00a0 \u201cWhat\u2019s your ideal date look like?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cHow do you want to be treated?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou would have thought we were teaching college calculus with the amount of notes these boys are taking!\u00a0 (Laughter)\u00a0 I mean they are writing, writing, writing.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even have to ever tell them to be quiet or anything.\u00a0 They are just enamored with these girls and so it\u2019s been fun.\u00a0 That kind of works to your point of an easy way to discipline some guys is to just throw some girls in there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No doubt about it.\u00a0 Well, I think what you\u2019re about is really important.\u00a0 Number one, you\u2019re intentional.\u00a0 Secondly, you\u2019re giving them a flight plan to know where to go.\u00a0 Third, you\u2019re training and equipping them not to be passive.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Braxton:<\/strong>\u00a0 Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 But to be servant leaders, to go sit by a friend.\u00a0 I think this culture is really doing our sons, our young boys, our young men a disservice because they allow them to unplug and just become passive.\u00a0 That\u2019s not the route to manhood.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, you know, as I was looking through all that you have here in the book, I was thinking about how you are addressing many of the same themes that are addressed in the Passport2Purity\u00ae weekend that we have put together for a dad to take his son through or a mom to take her daughter through.\u00a0 Of course, we just recently updated all of the Passport2Purity material.\u00a0 It\u2019s in brand-new packaging.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf folks are interested in how you can have a weekend with your son or your daughter to help prepare them for what they\u2019re going to face in adolescence and beyond, go to FamilyLifeToday.com for more information about the brand new, freshly updated Passport2Purity material.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, go to FamilyLifeToday.com for more information.\u00a0 That\u2019s FamilyLifeToday.com or call 1-800-FLTODAY and ask about Passport2Purity.\u00a0 We also have copies of Braxton\u2019s book <em>Flight Plan<\/em> available in our <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>Resource Center as well.\u00a0 So go online at FamilyLifeToday.com or call 1-800-FLTODAY and ask about the book <em>Flight Plan <\/em>by Braxton Brady and Lee Burns.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI also want to mention, Dennis, your book <em>Stepping Up: A Call to Courageous Manhood<\/em><em><sup>\u00ae <\/sup><\/em>because there are a lot of dads who are going through this book with their teenage sons.\u00a0 Our team has recently been working on a brand new resource.\u00a0 We\u2019ve taken the key themes from the <em>Stepping Up <\/em>book and we\u2019re putting together a video series called <em>Stepping Up<\/em>.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s going to be out in August and to help launch the new video series, we are hosting a one day live event.\u00a0 It\u2019s the Stepping Up National Men\u2019s Conference.\u00a0 It\u2019s happening in Chicago, Illinois but it\u2019s going to be webcast to churches all around the country. There are going to be hundreds of churches joining with us that day hosting a Stepping Up men\u2019s event.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis is speaking, Crawford Loritts is speaking, James McDonald is going to be speaking.\u00a0 Robert Lewis is going to be joining us as well.\u00a0 If you\u2019d like more information about the Stepping Up National Men\u2019s event and how your church can be a host church for that event, go to FamilyLifeToday.com and click on the Stepping Up link.\u00a0 There\u2019s information about the video series there and about the National Men\u2019s Conference coming on Saturday, August 4<sup>th<\/sup>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, our website is FamilyLifeToday.com or you can call us toll-free at 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFinally, I want to remind our regular listeners about the Stepping Up matching gift fund that has been made available to FamilyLife during the month of May.\u00a0 We have been asking listeners this month to consider making a donation to help support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>When you make a donation this month, that donation is going to be matched dollar-for-dollar up to a total of $650,000.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are hoping to take full advantage of this matching gift opportunity, but obviously we need to hear from listeners very soon because this opportunity expires at the end of the month.\u00a0 So would you consider going online at FamilyLifeToday.com?\u00a0 Click the button that says \u201cI CARE\u201d and make an online matching gift contribution.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr call 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 You can make a donation over the phone.\u00a0 Again, when you do, your donation is going to be matched dollar for dollar up to a total of $650,000.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe want to say thanks in advance for whatever you\u2019re able to do. Maybe you\u2019ve already made a donation this month \u2013 thank you for that.\u00a0 You might consider making a second gift if you\u2019re able to do that.\u00a0 We appreciate your support of the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>and of all that we\u2019re trying to do to help strengthen and equip families.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe want to encourage you to be back with us tomorrow when we\u2019re going to continue to talk about how we help boys step up to become men and to embrace God\u2019s design for their lives.\u00a0 We\u2019ll talk about some of the myths of manhood that have to be dispelled in the minds of these young men.\u00a0 Hope you can be back with us for that tomorrow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We will see you back tomorrow for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHelp for today.\u00a0 Hope for tomorrow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSong:\u00a0 <em>Nowhere Man<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tArtist:\u00a0 The Beatles\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAlbum:\u00a0 Rubber Soul, (p)1965 Parlophone\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you.\u00a0 However, there is a cost to produce them for our website.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider <a href=\"http:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/donate\">donating today<\/a> to help defray the costs?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCopyright <sup>\u00a9<\/sup> 2012 FamilyLife.\u00a0 All rights reserved.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/\">www.FamilyLife.com<\/a>\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t1\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>","theme_header_position":"","post_header_is_sticky":"","is_header_overlay":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast\/302530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/podcast"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302530"},{"taxonomy":"podcast_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast_series?post=302530"},{"taxonomy":"cwp_profile","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cwp_profile?post=302530"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=302530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}