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Reset Podcast with Archie Callahan is where faith meets real life.
In a world constantly shaping the way men think, lead + live, Reset Podcast takes a fresh look at men + culture through the lens of the GOSPEL. Each episode features honest conversations, practical wisdom + scriptural truth designed to help MEN reset their minds, strengthen their faith + lead with purpose in their homes, workplaces, churches + communities.
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NEW EPISODE EVERY WEDNESDAY.
Thank you for joining us today on Reset the Podcast with Archie Callahan.
This is episode one, and we are excited about what's going to happen during this podcast.
This is a weekly podcast.
It will be released every Monday.
And in this podcast, we're going to actually deal with the subjects that men encounter on a daily basis.
Back in 2019, the end of 2019, I was praying and coming to God, wanting to have a theme for 2020, and this word came to me, RESET.
And from 2020 until now, we've heard about the Great Reset.
We've heard about a financial reset, a global reset, a governmental reset around the world.
And I believe that reset is happening in the lives of men today.
Reset is a deliberate return to God's design for manhood, biblical manhood.
not going with a cultural drift, but intentionally lining our identity, our habits, our practices, our relationships under the lordship of Jesus Christ.
It is not starting over from scratch, but letting Jesus clear the clutter out of our lives.
Recalibrate your direction and restore our identity and purpose in Christ.
Jeremiah 29, 11 says, For I know the plans...
I have for you.
Declares the Lord, plans not to harm you, but plans to give you hope and a future.
I want to lay a ground foundational definition for reset as we move forward in this podcast.
You could define it this way.
Reset is the process where a man, by God's grace, stops, evaluates where his life has drifted, and actively returns to God's original design of
Resetting his identity, his priorities, and practices around Jesus and his word.
Now let's just take a few minutes to dive into this, unpack this word, reset.
Reset is about our identity.
Many men struggle with who they are.
They feel less than.
They feel like they're not competent.
They feel like they can't move forward.
But during this time,
episode of Reset, we're going to talk about identity and direction.
See, identity is about moving forward from confusion about manhood to a clear sense of being a son, a servant, and a steward under Christ.
I'm going to say that one more time.
We want to become a son, a servant, and a steward under Christ.
Oftentimes we say things like this, that we are servants of Christ.
That is true.
But first, we are a son of God.
Our serving flows from our identity as being a son of God.
So we're not just serving as a slave, we're serving as a son.
We serve God because we love God.
We serve God because we're a child of God.
And we steward the blessings that God has given us.
We steward all His blessings, our financial blessings, the blessings of our marriage, the blessings of our children.
If we're in school, educational blessings.
We have to steward that because the fact is God never gives us what we deserve.
He only gives us what He knows we can manage.
that is found in Matthew 25 in the parable of the talents.
There was this master who came to his servants.
He gave one five talents, one two talents, and one one talent, and went on a distant journey.
And he wanted his servants to invest the money that he had given them.
So there came a time when the master came back to reconcile accounts, and each servant had to give an account of what they did with the talents, the money that was given to him.
The guy who was given five when it came for an accounting of his ability, he said, Master, I took the five that you gave me, and I went and invested it, and I doubled it.
And the master said, well done, thy good and faithful servant.
The guy who had been given two talents did the same.
He said, master, I invested it, and I now have four talents, and here they are.
He said, well done, thy good and faithful servant.
But the guy who was given one talent said,
When it was time to give an account of his stewardship, his management, he said, Master, I knew you to be a hard man, so I took that one talent you gave me, and I went and buried it.
And now I have it, and I'm going to return it to you.
At the end of that story, the master says this about the guy who did not invest the talent.
He called him a wicked servant, a wicked steward, a wicked manager.
Why?
Because he did not use what was given to him properly.
In fact, the Bible says that each man was given a talent or talents according to their ability.
The fact is, again, God doesn't give us what we deserve.
He gives us what he knows we can manage.
And so this thing called reset is about our identity.
It's about being a son, a servant, and a steward of God.
1 Corinthians 16, 13, Paul says, In our culture today, sometimes it's easy to sit down.
Sometimes it's easy to be pushed back.
But Paul says, even in the culture of Corinth, which was a very lewd, sexualized, perverted culture, Paul encourages the men of that day to stand strong,
against the current of the society, against the cultural norms, and to act like men.
To act like men.
But oftentimes when we say that, act like men,
Sometimes we don't know how to act like men because we never had godly mentors or godly fathers or people who actually taught us to be a man.
So he says, stand firm.
He means don't give up ground.
Don't be pushed back.
Be resolute, be steady, be confident, be consistent, and act like men.
Over in Ephesians 6, Paul talks about the spiritual armor that's been given to us.
And he says, be strong in the Lord, in verse 10, and in the power of his might.
Put on the full armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
That word stand is a word that means don't be pushed back.
Keep your feet on solid ground.
Four times in Ephesians 6, in four verses, Paul says, Stand strong.
Stand.
Don't give up ground.
Don't be pushed back.
And the whole book of Ephesians, he says it six times, to stand.
So standing in our culture is not always easy because sometimes we want to morph into the culture.
Sometimes we don't want to be controversial.
Sometimes we don't want to be seen as somebody who turns the table over.
However, in our culture today, we need men who will stand strong and act like us.
We have to have a divine reset in our identity.
Sometimes the reason we don't stand strong is because we do not know who we are as a man of God, a son of God, a servant of God, and a steward of God.
We're confused on our identity.
The first thing is,
If you read Luke chapter 4, when Jesus was being tempted by the devil in the wilderness, the first thing that Satan attacks is Jesus' identity.
He said, "...if you are the Son."
of god he was attacking the identity of jesus but jesus knew who he was jesus knew he came from the father he knew that god was his father and he could not be rocked off or pushed off his identity because he knew how to stand against the schemes of the devil let me ask you this do you ever question your identity
Are you confused on your identity?
Are you shaky on who you are?
Do you lack confidence?
Do you lack motivation?
Do you lack the ability to move forward?
Sometimes that comes out of an identity crisis.
I don't actually know who I am.
I'm not very confident or secure in my own skin.
people when they label you, those labels actually stick.
Reset.
It's all about resetting our identity in Christ.
Let me ask you this.
What have you tied your identity to?
Have you tied it to business success?
Have you tied it to a title?
Have you tied it to your athleticism?
Have you tied it to being intellectual?
Have you tied it to your community, where you live, the city you live in?
Anytime we tie our identity to something other than Christ, when that part goes down, our identity is crushed.
But if we tie our identity as a son of God, a servant of God, a steward of God, if we tie our identity into Christ, these things can fall.
Things can collapse around us, but we're still strong in our identity because our identity is not found in things, not found in pleasure, not found in success, not found in business, not found in anything else but Jesus.
So we need to have a divine reset about our identity.
Second, we need to reset our direction.
recognizing where we veered off, where did we take the road that was comfortable.
Sometimes in life, we take the broad way.
You know, the Bible says that the broad way, the broad road leads to death, but the narrow road leads to eternal life.
Sometimes we lose our direction because we lose our focus.
Whatever you focus in on actually becomes the direction of your life.
Can I ask you this, men?
What's your focus?
Is your focus becoming a great business owner, a great businessman, becoming a great athlete, becoming a great engineer, architect?
What is your focus?
Our focus should be becoming everything that God has ordained for us to be.
Our focus needs to be about Jesus.
But sometimes we veer off the narrow path, and we veer off into areas like sin,
perverse sexuality.
We veer off into becoming a workaholic.
We veer off because of anger.
We veer off into passivity.
We're living in a day where passivity is overwhelming masculinity.
We live in a day where people, where men have become passive.
They don't stand strong.
And because they don't stand strong, they can't act like men.
We veer off in our leadership.
We become comfortable and we hand our leadership off to other people.
You're called to lead, lead into the community, lead your family, lead in many areas of life.
And sometimes we become tired because we're not anchoring our identity in Christ.
And so we relegate our leadership to other people.
We need to turn back to God's path.
We need to get back on the straight and narrow path.
So we need to reset our identity, reset our direction, and reset our practices.
We need to, as men, I think we need to build daily habits.
Habits are powerful.
You show me your habits, I'll show you your future.
Habits are not something you do occasionally.
Habits and routines are something you do consistently.
Can I ask you this question?
Are you consistently leading your family?
Are you consistently in God's Word?
Are you consistently gathering with God's people in church?
Are you consistently hanging out with guys who build you up?
Or are you consistently lagging in those areas?
I want to tell you that your habits form your future.
There are forces that form our future.
You never drift into Christlikeness.
There must be intentionality.
We have to be intentional about what we do.
We have to be intentional about reading God's Word.
We have to be intentional about prayer.
We have to be intentional about prayer.
stewardship of our bodies with exercise, with eating right.
We have to be intentional about our marriage.
We have to be intentional about church attendance.
We have to be intentional about obeying Christ.
So we have to build in these daily practices.
A habit is not something you do once a week.
A habit is something that you have implemented in your life as a daily routine.
Someone once said it takes 21 days to build a good habit.
You know, good habits seem harder to build than bad habits.
It seems like a bad habit can develop in three days, but a good habit takes three weeks.
But I believe we need to be intentional, and we need to learn to reset our identity, our direction, and our practices.
To reset means to set again, to put something back into its proper place.
I think as men, we love comfort, but you never grow in comfort.
We must become comfortable.
uncomfortable with comfort.
If I'm going to grow in Christ, if I'm going to grow in identity, if I'm going to go the direction that Christ wants me to go, if I'm going to build meaningful habits in my life that foster spiritual growth, relational growth, emotional growth, and even physical well-being, I have to become uncomfortable with comfort.
You can say it this way.
There is no gain without pain.
See, sometimes we avoid pain.
I've been lifting weights now for about four months.
And let me tell you something, it's painful.
I don't like it, but I know I need it.
I know I need to physically get out and exercise.
I know I need to put resistance against the muscles in order to tear them down so they'll regrow and become stronger.
Nobody likes strain.
Nobody likes pain.
But it's in those realms of pain and strain and discomfort that I grow.
So reset to set again.
It's all about setting our lives in the direction that God wants us to walk.
God wants us to move toward.
It's just like having a cell phone.
Sometimes our cell phones are acting up and they're crashing and they freeze.
The reason they freeze, they act up or become distorted is because there's so much junk in the phone that causes the glitches.
A man's life is the same way.
When our lives are cluttered, full of junk, out of priority,
not going in God's direction, our life begins to glitch.
It doesn't run properly.
And so we have to defrag our lives.
We have to reset our lives to God's original purpose, His identity.
God's direction for our lives through daily practices.
I love the story that's in Luke chapter 15.
Luke chapter 15 is a story of a young man who came to his father and said, Dad,
I want my inheritance now.
I don't want to wait till you die.
I want you to give it to me all now.
The Bible says in Luke 15, verse 13, not long after that, the younger son got together all he had and set out for a distant country, and there squandered his wealth in wild living.
What happened to the young man?
He walked away from his identity.
He went the opposite direction of the father's house, and he began to create habits in his life that brought him to ruin.
The habits were wild living and the squandering of the wealth that his father gave him as an inheritance.
And so he found himself in a pig pen.
a pigsty, a place he thought he would never be.
Why?
Because when you disconnect your identity from God, when you chart the course of your own direction, and you begin to implement habits that take you away from God and not toward God, it always leads you down the pig pen trail, and life becomes a pigsty.
And at the bottom of his life, at the lowest point of his life, the Bible says in verse 17 of Luke 15, when he came to his senses, he said, notice, when he came to his senses, he said,
He said, I believe he was right there with the pigs eating.
He said this, He's having a divine reset.
He's having a moment where, hey, this is not good.
Man, I am hungry.
I lived in my father's house.
He said to himself, he came to his senses.
I will set out and go back.
Sometimes you have to go back before you can move forward.
He said, I will set out and go back to my father and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
I am no longer worthy to be called your son.
Make me like one of your hired servants.
What did he do?
He came to his senses.
He had a reset.
And he humbled himself and went back to the Father's house.
What we see in this passage of Scripture in Luke 15 is a man who drifts.
He drifts because he leaves the Father's house.
He disconnects himself from his identity.
We see a moment of clarity in this man.
He came to himself.
Maybe you need to come to yourself.
Maybe you need a come to Jesus moment in your life.
Maybe you've hit a brick wall.
Maybe you're at the bottom of the barrel and you're so low you have to look up to see the bottom.
You have to have a moment of clarity.
Man, there's something better than where I'm at today.
Then he had a decisive return.
He chooses to get up, go back, confess, and submit himself again to the Father.
Sometimes we need to get up, go back, and submit and confess and submit ourselves to the Father.
And at that moment, guess what happened?
There was a restored position.
The father runs out.
He embraces his son.
He clothes him.
He celebrates him.
He restores him, not as a slave.
Can I tell you today, you're not a slave of God.
You're not a slave of Christ.
You are a son.
He restores his sonship, his dignity, his purpose.
So the reset moment for all of us today is the moment that we come to ourself.
And this is what this podcast is all about, teaching men to reset different areas of their lives.
Future episodes will explore the pigsty areas that men drift into, like porn, anger, isolation, father wounds, workaholism, passivity, the lack of being able to lead.
In each area,
The question will be, what would it look like to come to ourselves here and walk back to the Father's house?
Every reset...
is not just behavior change, but relational return to the Father.
I'm not asking people to be more religious.
Men, we don't need more religion.
We need more relationship with the Father.
Because when we get to the Father, He gives us identity, He gives us direction, and He gives us good routines that maintain that.
Our next episode, Episode 2, coming up is going to be about Jed Hill, a D1 former athlete with Penn State.
He went from Penn State to prison to preaching.
And you're going to hear that exciting conversion in his life.
You're going to hear a conversation that will inspire you, that will cause you to reset your own life.
He went through a downward spiral to prison, now preaching the gospel because there was a reset moment in his life.
So I look forward to seeing you on our next podcast.
Be blessed and we'll see you next week.