Anchoring Your Family in Christ for the Next One Hundred Years — Steve Farrar

I am going to do, I am not going to do what is listed. So if that's what you wanted to hear, honestly, feel free to go to another deal. And I'm going to tell you why I'm not going to do it, because I don't want to do it.

And I don't think I'm supposed to do it. The problem is, and Stu will tell you this, and you guys have had this happen, and you'll speak somewhere in nine months, a year out. Let's say, what's your topic?

Well, I don't even know where I'm eating lunch that day. How would I know what my topic should be in a year? I mean, you know what I'm saying? How do you know what the Holy Spirit wants you to say a year from now?

So I always give the title, The Great Mystery. And they go, The Great Mystery. And I go, Yeah. And they go, Wow, that really sounds interesting. And I'm thinking, Yeah, it's interesting to me. But that's usually all they want is a title.

But these guys wanted a title and a description. So I was dead. So I went ahead and gave them this. The whole time thinking, I'm not sure if I'm going to do this. And about two weeks ago, I thought, I don't think I'm going to do this Deuteronomy 6 thing, but maybe I will.

And then two days ago, I knew for sure I wasn't going to do it. So, okay, we're going to go a different direction. And I'll tell you why we're going to go a different direction. I think what we have in here today, we have a group of leaders.

We're different kinds of leaders. We have different gifts. We have different ministry responsibilities. Some of us are full-time. Some of us are pastors. Some of us work for a living. That was a joke, a little humor there.

Some of us are in our first church. Some of us are getting ready to, we're actually thinking about retirement in a few years. We're at different places of life. Some of us have young kids. Some of us have older kids.

Some of us, our kids are out. But we're all leaders. We're different kinds of leaders. What we have right now is a leadership crisis. We obviously have it outside the church, but we really have it inside the church.

Authentic Leadership Comes From the Heart

And leadership is everything. Leadership has always been everything. There is such a thing as genuine leadership, but then there is something that I call synthetic leadership. When I was doing my dissertation at Dallas Seminary in 87, and I had this desire to do it on men because when I was pastoring, I always talked to the men because I always felt like men were strategic.

I like what Joe Aldrich said a long time ago. I heard Joe said, Joe said, all of God's people are precious, but not all of God's people are equally strategic. And he's absolutely right. And it seemed to me that if I could get the men, that about 90 of my counseling would be taken care of.

If we could get the men in sync and help the men understand what it means to be a man and what it means to be a spiritual leader. But most guys don't know what it means to be a spiritual leader because if their dad wasn't a spiritual leader, they don't have a clue what it looks like.

It would be like picking us up and sending us to England and saying, we need you guys to substitute for the United States cricket team. Here, put these on. Remember the first time, Mark, you went out for football practice and they handed you those pads?

I mean, you're a kid, so you don't want to act like you don't know, but where does that pad go? If you've never seen hip pads, you're not quite sure where they go. You see, that's the way cricket is. That's the way male leadership is.

That's the way leadership is. When I did that dissertation on male leadership, you know, you've been through this. You've got to go look at the literature to see what's out there. So on leadership, I found they wanted a definition.

I found 165 different published definitions of a leader. And what was interesting is that they were all very good. Every single one of them was worthwhile. It was sort of like they hit it, leadership, from different angles and different nuances.

Sort of like looking at a diamond. You know, when you went in there to buy that engagement ring and you didn't have a clue what you were doing, but they were telling you all this stuff that may or may not be true, but they would show you that diamond with a black velvet background and, you know, they kind of looked at it and the cut and all that.

That's the way leadership is. All these definitions came from different angles. The best one, the best one I found out of 165, not surprisingly, came from Dr. Howard Hendricks, the master communicator.

Here's what Dr. Hendricks, here's how he defined a leader, and you might want to write this down. This is worth its weight in gold, I think. Dr. Hendricks said this. He said, a leader is someone who leads.

Now, don't let the simplicity of that fool you. We have a lot of people that are confused about leadership. Let me say a word about synthetic leadership, first of all. Synthetic leadership looks like the real thing, but it isn't.

Synthetic leadership is overly concerned with titles and positions, but titles and positions don't make you a leader. You are only a leader if you lead, right? I was at a luncheon in Dallas, I don't know, maybe eight years ago now, and a guy handed me a business card that was the single most impressive business card I have ever seen in my life.

He had more titles on that business card. He had more positions listed on that business card. He was chairman. He was founder. He was president. He was chief executive officer. He was managing partner.

Over, it said, and you flip it over and then down the other side. I'm exaggerating, but I've never seen someone with so many titles of leadership, as impressive as his card was, as many titles as he had, that guy is only a leader if he leads.

Synthetic leadership always looks good. Synthetic leadership always makes a good first impression. The classic example of a synthetic leader was Saul. He had the title, right? King. Couldn't get much better than that.

And he looked like a leader. If Saul were to walk in here, we would all be attracted to him because he stood head and shoulders above everybody else, probably had those chiseled good looks. The guy just looked like a leader.

But the problem with Saul was he didn't have the heart for leadership because every time his leadership was tested, he miserably failed the test. Why? Because he didn't have a heart for leadership. Leadership is always an issue of the heart, always, as Christianity is an issue of the heart.

And you shall love the Lord your God with 40 of your heart, right? Is that what it says? You shall love him with what? All your heart. It's an issue of the heart. Why is leadership an issue of the heart?

Because out of the heart comes such things as integrity and character. Well, you know the story. Saul, being a synthetic leader, at one point God said, that's it, he's done, he takes the role of a priest.

So God's going to find someone else to be the leader. He goes and finds this kid, David, of whom later he would be described as a man after God's own what? Heart. It's always an issue of the heart. David is on the run from Saul in 1 Chronicles 12.

Why is he on the run? Why is he at Ziklac? Because whenever a synthetic leader runs into an authentic leader, whenever a synthetic leader runs into a genuine leader, they are intimidated and they are threatened.

Here's the thing about genuine leaders. Genuine leaders don't need a title. Genuine leaders don't need a position. Genuine leaders just lead out of the power of their life. You follow me as I follow Christ.

That's it. But Saul was threatened, so he's trying to kill David. So in 1 Chronicles 12, we've got David at Ziklac, and here's what's happening. Because he's the real thing, you've got men from all over Israel coming to join him.

Because they believe in this guy, they believe God's got his hand on this guy. So you've got a listing in 1 Chronicles 12 of all these men that came to be with David. And you get into 1 Chronicles 12, and 1 and 2, it talks about the sons of Benjamin, these great warriors, they're skilled with the bow and arrow, they're skilled with the sling.

Now David wasn't bad with the sling. But these guys were unbelievable. Because it says in 1 Chronicles 12, 1 and 2, about the sons of Benjamin, they were skilled with the right and the left. Normally if you get wounded in battle in your primary arm, you're done.

But not those guys. They got wounded in the right, they just pick it up with the left, they can go either way. You've got this listing, 1 Chronicles 12, all the way down. And then you get to verse 32, and you know the text.

It says, and the sons of Issachar were men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do. Now here's what I want to do. That was my introduction. Here's where we're going. What I want us to do, in the three hours that we have left, what I want us to do, we've all got stuff that's right here.

This thing's about over. It's time to think about plane flights when you get home. If the babysitter actually showed up or if your kids have been by themselves for three days. You know, issues like that.

You're thinking right here, you've got issues. You're going to get back in the ministry tomorrow. So you're starting to re-enter. And you're overwhelmed with all this stuff. And we've got this stuff right here.

Understanding the Times as Leaders

What I want us to do here for just a little bit, I want us to take a step back from right here. And I want us to look at the big picture as leaders. Leaders in this culture, leaders in the church of Jesus Christ.

And what I want us to do is, for a little bit, I want us to become sons of Issachar. They understood their times. We need to understand our times because these are the times in which we are called to lead.

Those men of Issachar had two things. I think, number one, I think they had discernment. They understood their times. Because it's not 1955 anymore, is it? And you know what? It's not even 1990 anymore.

Someone had to walk up to you ten years ago and said, www .com. What would you have thought? You know, who let this guy out of the home? What does that mean, www .com? The only guys who knew what that meant were a bunch of nerds that are fabulously wealthy today.

Right? But you didn't know what that meant. Now, everybody knows what it means. We don't even give a, we don't even, commercials now. It's just www .com. See, these are our times. We have to understand our times because these are the times in which we're leading.

Men of Issachar had discernment about their times. Let me tell you something else they had about their times. They had vision for the times in which they were leading. They understood the times and they knew, they knew what Israel should do.

Someone once asked Helen Keller if there was anything worse than being blind. She said, yes, having sight but no vision. Vision is critical for a leader. I want, here's what I want to do. I want to make three observations about our times because these are the times in which we're leading.

We're leading family. We've got kids. We've got grandkids. And the issues are different today than they were even five years ago. Here's the other deal. I want us to be men of Issachar about our times because we're leaders in the church.

And the church is changing so quickly. The church is supposed to change and influence the world. But what is happening is the world is changing and influencing the church. That's why we're having this conference.

Because we, as the body of Christ, have not influenced them. They have influenced us. So we need to talk about this. What are we up against? What are we dealing with now? What's coming down the pike? So let me make three observations about our times, okay?

And see if this doesn't sink. See if this doesn't resonate a little bit with you. And let's just kind of see where we go with this thing. Here's observation number one. In our times, the foundations are being destroyed.

The Destruction of Foundational Truths

In our times. Now that's significant. You know the verse in Solomon that says, If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? The most important part of any structure is the foundation. That's true of a building.

You know Mark Mitchell here. He pastors a church where I used to pastor and my brother used to pastor. So I haven't seen Mark for a while. His wife, Lynn. This is his old home. We're having a great time here.

And Mark has gotten real old since I've seen him. It's great to see you. I'm glad you're breeding, Mark. It's wonderful to see you. But you know there, you come out Foster City Boulevard, where we used to live.

This developer built three high-rise condos around this small lake. And nice-looking complex. He put the first one up, and it was sold out within weeks of being completed. He put the second one up, and it was sold out before they got it done.

The third tower went up, identical to the other two, but it was vacant for almost two years. You know why? On the day that they poured the foundation, the trucks came over from Oakland. Somehow the ratios got off on the concrete mix, and there was more sand than there was gravel.

Now not enough for anyone to notice. Later they realized the mistake, and it took them almost two years, and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix that weakened foundation.

They had to fix it, because there's nothing more important than a foundation. That's true of a building. That's true of a family. Unless the Lord builds the house, they who labor, labor in vain. That's true of a nation.

We're fortunate to live in this nation. There has not been a nation in the history of the world blessed as we have been blessed. Why have we been blessed in the way that we have been blessed? I would submit to you because of our foundation.

I was flying to New York or something last year. I'm reading a book about the pilgrims. You've read about these guys. They're unbelievable. They were committed to Christ. They refused to let their culture influence them.

They wanted to influence their culture, so as a result they became highly unpopular. Before they ever came to America, they were exiled in Holland for 12 years. You know their story, how difficult. God put them in the iron blast furnace of affliction in Holland to get them ready for the real heat they were going to encounter here.

But he forged their character. An opportunity came up. They got on this little ship called the Mayflower. They went below deck, stayed there for 11 weeks. Next time you're on a volleyball court, think of them, because there are over 100 of them crammed into an area the size of a volleyball court.

When they got here, they really didn't have much. They had the clothes on their back. They had a little seat, a few tools, but virtually they had the clothes on their back and they had a Bible. That was it.

But you know what? That was enough. And what they began to do was they began to sit down rebar and they began to pour concrete to lay the foundation for a new nation that has been blessed more than any other nation in the history of the world.

Now, I have a question for you. How come no one on your street is picking up their family and moving to Iraq? Why? How come nobody's going to Cuba that you know? How come when our baseball team plays Cuba, our guys don't defect?

How come? You want to know why? Because we have a different foundation than Cuba. We have a different foundation than Iraq. But in our times, in our time, the foundation that was so carefully poured by the pilgrims, then by the Puritans.

I've got a book in my briefcase that I'm reading on the Puritans right now and their view. They were called by God to come here. They knew it. Read Marshall's stuff. You've seen all that jazz. They knew they were called by God to come here, and they were.

And so what did they do when they showed up? Our earliest documents, they made compacts. They made covenants. They made covenants with one another and with Almighty God. And so our laws began to reflect that.

That's why it's great to take your kids to D .C. if you ever get a chance. Go to D .C. Because Scripture's everywhere in Washington, D .C. Now, they would have removed it, but it's chiseled in marble.

They can't remove it. It's everywhere. You see? But we've got revisionist history, so we don't teach that to our kids anymore. But, see, the greatness is because of the nature of the foundation. But in our times, the foundations are being destroyed.

See, up until about 40 years ago, if you went to law school, you had to study Blackstone's commentaries. And Blackstone would give the law, then he'd give the scriptural references which were the foundation of the law.

And you had to study the Book of Romans. You went to law school, you had to study Romans because it's the classic illustration. It's the ultimate illustration of a reasoned argument. So you study the Book of Romans.

You see? Certain things were foundational. But in our times, in our times, the foundations are being destroyed. And please understand, I'm not just talking about the nation because it's happening in the nation.

I'm talking about within the church of Jesus Christ. The foundations are being destroyed. In essence, this conference could be boiled down to the fact that we're discussing what Scripture says when you get into Genesis 2 .18.

I mean, that's really where it starts. And we've got this debate, you know, about the guy, about Adam, and about his wife, and, you know, helper. Well, not helper. I mean, that's like, you know, you don't want to call her helper.

I mean, God called her helper. And God refers to Himself as a helper, but that still doesn't cut it. So we've got a problem right off the bat in Genesis 2 .18. But why do we have a problem with Genesis 2 .18?

Because we've got people in the church that don't believe Genesis 1. See, if you don't believe Genesis 1, and most Christian colleges don't, by the way. See, we're getting down to it now, aren't we? See, why would we submit to 2 .18 when we don't submit to Genesis 1?

You see, that's why we've got a problem with 2 and we've got a problem with 3. You know, in actuality, you've got evangelicals that really don't take Genesis seriously until you get to Genesis 12. Think about that.

The stuff that's being taught, and even Genesis 12. We've got a problem with that. Because God called Abraham. Hey, I want to make this covenant with you, and I want to, you know, the land, to feed the blessing, I want to bless you, the sinner.

But see, that's wrong because God doesn't know the future. You're in this open theism stuff. Coming out of Bethel Seminary. Clark Pinnock, you know, you hear this stuff? It's coming, and it's sweeping.

God doesn't know the future. Okay. Within Genesis 12, God. How the heck could he make a covenant with Abraham about the future? Anyway. See, in our times, the foundations are being destroyed.

Now, the question is, how much further are we going to go?

In the church, how much further are we going to go? All right, you got my drift. Let's go to the second observation. How else can I encourage you? Huh? Good night. Here's the second thing. In our times, hold on.

Before I do number two, let's talk about this. I grew up in California, and I've been in a lot of earthquakes. I mean, a whole bunch. But the biggest earthquake hit when I was in college in the 60s. It wasn't a literal earthquake.

Moral Relativism and the Loss of Absolute Truth

It was a philosophical earthquake, a moral earthquake. Usually, an earthquake hits, and there will be aftershocks. But the aftershocks diminish. This earthquake that hit in the 60s, the aftershocks are still with us, and they're not diminishing.

They're getting stronger. Because, you see, up until the 60s, and a guy like Alan Bloom, the former scholar at the University of Chicago, who wrote The Closing of the American Mind, died a few years ago.

Bloom, not a Christian, a Jewish man, talked about America, what was great about America. He said, why was America great? In essence, he said, America was great because every home had a Bible. That Bible represented the moral code of that family.

That Bible represented the thinking. It represented the values of that family. And in essence, even if the family didn't have a personal relationship with Christ, that Bible represented their morality and what they believed to be true.

So they believed in something called moral absolutes. They believed that God gave the law to Moses on Sinai. He brought it down. It became the basis of Western Judeo culture. So your average American for several hundred years believed in the Ten Commandments.

They believed that certain things were right. They believed certain things were wrong. Why? Because God said so. That was the moral climate. You see, back then, the foundations were strong. But here's the deal.

In the 60s, this new thing came through called moral relativism. You know all about this. Basically, moral relativism says there is no absolute creator. Therefore, there is no absolute truth. Therefore, you can do anything you want.

So if someone says, well, that may be wrong for you, but that doesn't mean it's wrong for me. We've all heard this. My daughter goes to Biola University out in Los Angeles. And last spring, I was going out there to do a week of teaching.

And I got in real late, got to the hotel about midnight, and I called Rachel. And she said, Dad, chapel's at 930. Why don't I come by and pick you up at 10 to 9? I said, that's great. And I was exhausted, so I hit the sack.

I started to adjust the alarm, set the alarm, but it was flashing 12. I didn't have time to mess with it, so I just called down to get a wake-up call. I went right to sleep. Woke up. Didn't have a clue where I was.

Figured it out. Oh, yeah, I get it. Okay. I looked at my watch, and it was 830. I thought, man, I've got to be downstairs at 1520. So I jumped in the shower. I thought, why didn't I get a wake-up call?

I'm hustling to get down. I got down there in time. Now, I knew Rachel wouldn't be there at 10 to 9. It's sort of a genetic issue from the other side of the family. Rules of men and women, you know. Anyway, all right.

But I figured she'd come rolling about 9. I'm standing there at 9. She's not there. 5 after 9. She's at 10 after 9. I'm thinking, Rachel, I've got to be there. I mean, I'm a little upset. In fact, I was hacked off, to tell you the truth.

10 after 9. No sign of her. If I had asked the guy over here, excuse me, sir, what time do you have? He would have looked at his watch and said, it's 10 after 7. And I would have said, no, no, it's 10 after 9.

And he'd say, no, it's 10 after 7. And I would say, well, it may be 10 after 7 to you. But that doesn't mean it's 10 after 7 to me. Now, that's ludicrous. Because just as God has fixed time, absolutely.

So God has fixed morality, absolutely. And I'm going to tell you something. You can't change it. You can't do a referendum. You can't do a vote. Your general counsel can't change it. Now, you can mess around with it if you want.

But you're wrong. Because He's fixed it. That's why the foundations are being destroyed. Let's go to the second thing. In our times, truth is no longer essential. My son John is a senior in high school.

Truth, Church Discipline, and Moral Courage

We recently went to traffic court. We go there often. We walk in and they go, John, how are you doing? Come on in. There you see what we got you ready for. Anyway, John's a seasoned ticket holder there.

We go in. What are we doing here? Am I losing this? We walk in. We walk in and we're waiting our turn. And we go up before the judge finally. And the judge is looking at his notes. And he says, John, I see here that you have three tickets.

And John said, no, your honor, I have four. And the judge, he looked at John and he said, John, you shouldn't have told me that. And I stepped in and I said, no, your honor, you should have told you that.

I'm trying not to raise a Bill Clinton here. And that's what I said. And I'm not making a joke. Now Crawford and I are buddies. And I know what Crawford said, but I'm not joking. See, the judge said, you shouldn't have told me that.

No, he should have told you that. Right? Because truth is essential. And whenever I say that, some people get upset. You know, you shouldn't talk about... You shouldn't say that about Clinton. Well, why not?

My gosh, why not? And some people get offended that I would... Why are you offended that I would say that? Listen, I'm trying not to raise Bill Clinton. Aren't you? I'm trying to do better than that. See, I'm trying...

You know what I'm trying to do? Well, I'm trying to raise... Now, my daughter's pretty much gone. But I'm trying to raise two teenage boys. I hope... I hope that when they become married male adults, that they'll go to church.

And I hope they carry their Bibles to church. But I'm going to tell you something. I'm trying to raise them to carry a Bible, but to not lie to their wife. And to not lie to their daughter. And to not lie to those whom they serve.

And I'm trying to raise them so that they won't carry a Bible and have sex with some 23-year-old chick. You know what I'm saying? I wouldn't say a word about him if he didn't carry a Bible. But he does.

And when he carries his Bible, you know what he's trying to do? He's trying to associate with the Lord Jesus Christ. And he's trying to associate with the church of Jesus Christ. I'm going to tell you something.

He's a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock. Let's make sure this is on. Okay? They should have put his tail out of that church a long time ago. But they didn't do it. Why not? I'm going to tell you why.

Because truth is no longer essential. I'm not talking about the world that's been that way all the time. In the church, truth is no longer essential. What do you do for brothers in sin? What does the Word of God say?

And you know, when all else fails, read the directions. What is it, David, brothers in sin? What do you do? You go to him. If he listens to you, you want him. If he doesn't listen to you, what do you do?

Go get a couple other guys. You know that verse we always use at prayer meeting when nobody shows up? Oh, Lord, we know. We're two or three together. Hey, listen. When you got one, he's there. You don't need two or three for him to be there.

You know that verse. But since it's in the context, you go to this guy, he won't listen to you. You go and get two or three others. So I go to you two guys and say, this guy over here, you know, we know him and he's all messed up.

We've got to go talk to him and talk to him about his sin to turn him back. And you go, oh, yippee, I've always wanted to do that. No, nobody wants to do that. Why? Because we don't want to what? Judge.

Well, judge not lest ye be judged. Yeah, but what's the rest of it say? Before you judge, take the two by four that's out of your eye before you go take the sliver that's out of your brother's eye. The scripture doesn't.

Listen, the scripture says that we are to judge those in the church, doesn't it? Read First Corinthians five. Matthew 18 is saying the same thing as Galatians six one. Brethren, if any of you were caught in any trespass, let those who are spiritual restore such one in a spirit of gentleness, looking to yourself, lest you too be tempted.

So you get to First Corinthians five. There's the guy living with his father's wife. Whatever she is, he's living. Pagans don't even do that. Paul says, remove the wicked man from your midst. Paul says, what do I have to do later?

He says, what do I have to do with judging outsiders? The obvious answer is nothing. But those in the church, we judge. But see, truth is no longer essential. So we have churches that are weak and sick and cancer ridden.

So some guy, chairman of the board, you know, Joe Evangelical, chairman of the board. He teaches Sunday school. He's been through Bible study fellowship. He went to Promise Keepers. He bought a hat. I mean, this guy, he's got the whole thing.

But he hits his midlife crisis. So he, you know, he gets involved with some guy he sits next to in the choir and gets emotional. But he gets sexually involved. He leaves his wife, abandons his kids. And what do we do?

What do we do? Nothing. You know what? I'm sick and tired of that. This is being taped. So I'm very close to a situation where that's happened right now. And I'm watching what this guy has done. He has just, he has, he has killed his family.

And you know, and then he transferred his letter. You know what? I'd like to take that letter and cram it down that sucker's throat in the name of Jesus. You know what I'm saying? Does that not hack you off some?

You know, I'm going to tell you something. We are feminizing the church of Jesus Christ. And understand how I mean it. I'm talking to guys. We have, the other day when Robert was up there talking about when those four guys beat up his boy.

And then Robert went and met with the dads, met with the boys and then everybody was with him. Oh, that's good. That's good. You're supporting him. And then Robert pulled up with his boy next to those four boys and said, listen, if you touch him again, we're coming after you.

We're going to hunt you down. You know what happened? When Robert came down, I said, did you sense the audience? You lost them. You did. You know why? Because the church has been feminized. We don't think that's spiritual.

We don't think it's spiritual for a man to be aggressive. We don't think it's spiritual to judge sin. We don't think it's spiritual for a man to protect his family. We're feminizing boys in the church because we take, read Stephen Clark's book, Man and Woman in Christ on feminization.

We take certain traits like aggressiveness, aggressiveness, courage, boldness. Paul said, pray for me that I might have what? Boldness. We take courage, aggressiveness, boldness. You put those up against sensitivity, gentleness, vulnerability.

Now, are all those good? Absolutely. They're all good. You know what we tend to do in the church? We take sensitivity, gentleness, and vulnerability and we raise those and elevate those over aggressiveness, boldness, and courage.

And that's wrong. What we should do is use the appropriate trait in the appropriate situation. Right? Could Jesus be gentle? You bet. The Lord's near to the broken heart and he saves those who are crushed in spirit.

And we've all been crushed. And he comes right alongside and he ministers to us gently, doesn't he? Because that's what we need. The appropriate characteristic for that situation. What about when there's sin in the church?

What do we do? We back off. We punt. Somebody's threatening your wife. What do you do? And we confuse. We confuse little boys growing up. Single mothers have to be very careful raising little boys because they don't understand little boys.

You can put an innate fear in a little boy of getting hurt and you'll feminize him. Because I'm going to tell you something. Little boys are supposed to grow up to be men and men are supposed to get hurt.

Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. Jesus loved us enough to get hurt for us. I'm going to love my wife in the way that I will get hurt for her if it kills me I'll stand for her.

But if I have an innate fear of getting hurt then you know what? It robs me of masculinity. You see? Why? Because truth is no longer essential. When I was a kid my mom had these women's magazines. What time is this thing over?

Anybody know? No, that's right. Seriously. What time is it over? 3 .45. And we're on central time? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah, that's right. Anybody hot in here? I'm telling you. I'm starting to get a tan in here.

Yeah. Alright. Keep those doors open. When I was a kid my mom had these women's magazines and on the back of them there were these ads for Breck shampoo. Anybody remember this? The Breck girl and it was a portrait and this gal her hair was always so lustrous and shiny.

You know? Just kind of I remember going with my mom to a Christian bookstore. I'm just a little kid. I walk in to this Christian bookstore and I see this picture of Jesus kneeling at a rock and I looked at that and Jesus' hair looked just like the Breck girl.