February 16, 2021 Show with Jeremy Stalnecker on “March or Die: Basic Biblical Principles in How to Find Hope in Adversity”

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Good afternoon, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Lake City, Florida, and the rest of humanity living on the planet Earth, who are listening via live streaming at ironsharpensironradio .com. This is Chris Arnzen, your host of Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, wishing you all a happy Tuesday on this 16th day of February 2021.

And I'm thrilled today to have both a first-time guest and a first-time co-host. First, let me introduce our primary guest today. His name is Jeremy Stolnecker, and he is a United States Marine who was assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division as an infantry platoon commander, and who in 2003 deployed to Kuwait in support of what would become Operation Iraqi Freedom.

He is also a former pastor, an author, and co-founder of Mighty Oaks. And today we're going to be addressing his book, March or Die, Basic Biblical Principles and How to Find Hope in Adversity. And it's my honor and privilege to welcome, for the very first time ever, to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Jeremy Stolnecker.

Thanks, Chris. Really looking forward to it and appreciate the opportunity.

And I'm hoping, I forgot to ask you this before we went on the air, but I'm hoping I pronounced your name correctly.

You did it exactly right.

And let me also introduce my first-time co-host, Gabriel Wrench, who is a host at Cross Politics Studios. And it's great to have you for the very first time co-hosting with me, Gabriel.

Yeah, thank you, Chris. Glad to.

Great. And let me immediately give our listeners our email address if you'd like to join us during the conversation with questions of your own. It's ChrisArnzen at gmail .com, C-H-R-I-S-A-R-N-Z-E-N at gmail .com.

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I think it will be, the program will be of special interest to you. But, Jeremy, first of all, why don't you tell our listeners something about Mighty Oaks? What exactly is that organization?

Sure. The Mighty Oaks Foundation, we either, you know, police, fire, that first responder community. I could stay here, but we primarily have week-long programs. We do 30 of these this year. Four locations across the country where we will bring a student.

We pay for the program, get them there, first responder, peel back the onion and get underneath that, ship issues, a lot of other things going on. We acknowledge it, we deal with it in terms of what it is and what it was.

Have an impact on us, trauma and the treatment of trauma from a faith-based perspective that we've had about four that week-long program. Hide that, speak about rededication of faith, opportunity, and we've seen.

Additionally, we work with the active duty community. We have the speak on bases and the active duty units.

Amen.

You know, years ago, I very sadly backslid into the sin of habitual scandalous drunkenness. That was after 18 years of sobriety after becoming a Christian. I enrolled in an addiction recovery program that was thoroughly Christian.

Hebron Colony Ministries in Boone, North Carolina. I can never stop singing the praises about that organization. But the number of people, the percentage of people who were residents there, or as they call them, students, the majority were not truly regenerate people, although especially since this is a southern ministry, even though I was a Yankee or am a Yankee, I was one of only two or three Yankees there.

Everybody else was a southern boy. Because of that, you have a lot of the students that were raised in Christian homes, but they could have been from nominal backgrounds. But I could sense that certainly the majority were not regenerate people who happened to have fallen back into sin.

These were people who were very foreign to Christianity, but they knew that they had a serious problem that needed to be overcome. That is either because of a realization that their lives were just falling apart, or because of legal requirements to prevent them from going into prison or going back to prison.

What is it that keeps people who hate God or are indifferent to Him wanting to stick it out in your ministry? As you said before, because you said that not all of the folks there who are enrolled in the Mighty Oaks program are regenerate brothers and sisters in Christ.

You have a number that are not. What makes them say, I'm going to stick this out?

That we would even diagnose as coming from trauma in my world, in the military world, come from traumatic brain injuries and those kind of things, and they look like PTSD or other things. I acknowledge and can that traumatic brain injuries are concerning for most of these folks, whether it is what would be diagnosed as post-traumatic behavior.

On the other, they begin treatment for those. They begin with the inpatient programs. They begin with the administration. They've done all the clinics. They can't get their feet underneath them. They have no solid foundation on which to deal with these many, many cases as gaining value to those things.

We, and they need to get the time off. We've had great success getting them that time off. We cover the cost of travel. We have four locations across the country, and we'll pay to get them there. We believe that God is here.

He has a point to begin. You don't have to like this. Clearly what you're doing, take some time over there to compare your life model for you. And when people begin to do that, again, the investment is short.

It's not a long multi-week thing. They've had the opportunity. The keys that help. Segregated programs can say to them, I know where you've been because I've been there. And all I'm asking you to do is listen to me for a few days.

And with that, many of them.

We're going to be repeating this, God willing, later on in the program. But the website, if you want more information for Mighty Oaks Foundation, is MightyOaksPrograms .org. MightyOaksPrograms .org. And Gabriel Wrench, tell our listeners about CrossPolitik Studios.

I have seen your exhibitor booth at the G3 conference, at least one, for CrossPolitik. But tell us about this organization.

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Yeah, so it's in my generation. I'm about 40. Want to bring the worship of Jesus. We've seen kind of growing up who don't know how to apply the Bible. And then you go out and...

Exactly.

I don't know what happened, Gabriel. Excuse me.

Sorry. Okay.

And would that be Christ Church of Moscow, Idaho?

Great.

Yeah, I have interviewed your pastor, Doug Wilson, and look forward to his return. In fact, for those of you listening who happen to enjoy the reading and preaching of Doug Wilson, he is going to be returning, God willing, on Friday, March 26th to Iron Sherpa's Iron Radio.

So you might want to mark your calendars. Quickly, just because I think his name or his nickname is hilarious. Who is Chocolate Knox?

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I wanted to, although you guys were so busy at the CrossPolitik Studios exhibitor's booth when I was there at the last G3 conference, but I wanted to introduce myself to David Shannon as the Vanilla David Shannon.

But I never had the opportunity. And if anybody wants to find out more about CrossPolitik, you can go to their website, which is CrossPolitik .com, not politics with an S at the end, but CrossPolitik .com, and hopefully we'll remember to announce that later on in the program.

Well, Jeremy, we have a tradition here at Iron Sherpa's Iron Radio whenever we have a first-time guest. We have a brief portion of the earlier part of our interview dedicated to that guest giving a summary of his or her salvation testimony, which would include the kind of religious atmosphere you were raised in, if any, and what kind of providential circumstances our sovereign Lord raised up in your life that drew you to himself and saved you.

We do hope to have Gabriel Wrench back as a guest on his own at some point in the future. Today he is a co-host, but we'll have Gabriel give his testimony the next time he returns for the sake of time restraints.

But if you could, Jeremy, give us a summarized version of your salvation testimony.

I'd love to. I grew up in Indiana. Eventually, he would raise me to that, although I didn't understand how it applied to me necessarily. I will never forget the Sunday school class where a teacher was sitting there.

Do you know that Jesus is your Savior? I didn't even know what that meant exactly, but I knew that I wasn't going to ask her for the answers. So she asked the question. I buried it away. I asked her what it means to that eternal relationship, and that was the beginning, certainly, of what you do in your 20s.

I made that faith my own and really leaned into growing in that. And of young people who were raised in, because they could get away from that, they did, because of the inauthenticity of the parents. Love the Lord.

Now, were you a truly regenerate Christian during your service?

As an active United States Marine?

Yes, I was a Christian, and I knew that. I never doubted that. As I now my commitment core that I really understood to do the work that God had called me to. The Creator and living a life that glorifies my 20s, to really get a hold of that and to understand that and to commit my life to doing that, that's the reason I was able to make that decision.

And I was a Christian. I was walking away from what God wanted me to do. And so I'm very thankful for that. But it took some time. I was married. Most of my days, focus times, my wife accepted. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

And I'm thankful for that. But that's where I was in my early 20s. And it was a process. But God brought me into really understanding that. And again, repenting of that and acknowledging that he had something bigger in store.

And I think that you would agree with me. I just wanted to do a little bit of damage control in regard to something that you said earlier that may indeed be true about people who leave the faith they were raised in because of the insincerity of their parents.

We obviously would have to acknowledge that there are many very godly Christian parents who really gave it their all in a human sense to raise their children in the faith. And nonetheless, the children or child totally abandons the faith.

After all, we cannot breed Christians. As the old saying goes, there is no grandchildren in heaven. In other words, God doesn't have grandchildren. He has children. And his elect are not always the children of Christian parents.

So we just have to make that clear.

I concur with that in their lives.

Amen.

Well, we have to go to our first break right now. And once again, if anybody has any questions for Jeremy Stolnecker, and we are going to be getting involved in a discussion on his book when we return, March or Die, Moving Forward When Your World Seems Out of Control.

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Welcome back. This is Chris Arnzen. If you just tuned us in, our guest today is United States Marine Jeremy Stolmecker, and co-hosting with me today is Gabriel Ranch of Cross Politics Studios, and we are addressing today Jeremy Stolmecker's book, March or Die, Moving Forward When Your World Seems Out of Control.

If you have a question for Jeremy, our email address is chrisarnzen at gmail .com, chrisarnzen at gmail .com. Well, Jeremy, obviously, one thing that we need to do immediately is explain the ominous title of your book, March or Die.

It sounds like the perfect gift you should give every son who turns 18 years old, but if you could, tell us about that.

On February 2003, the 18th of that year, the 1st Marine Division along with the 3rd Infantry Division from the Army that breached the border at Baghdad would be our final destination. Along the way, we hit one of the craziest things.

A lot of the craziest. That wasn't unusual. Out of nowhere, this bridge is strategic because it will serve as a point. I was navigating for the battalion, navigating, so I was the second vehicle back in our column.

We got to the enemy, in fact, mortar rounds started to fall around our vehicles. Machine gun position on the near side pointing toward us began to engage, and we had to deal with that, and we did. We dealt with the first part of that, which was the machine gun position.

Eventually, in what seemed like hours, it was my vehicle, all the Humvees with figure out what to do, how to navigate the enemy that was there. An enemy anti-aircraft gun that was positioned there began to move our direction.

It was swinging around toward us. The mortar rounds fell. It was a really bad book as well. And just like that, you only have two choices. You can stay where you are and die, by the way. You can stay where you are.

You can stay, probably isn't the physical, spiritual life. Emotionally, we can just give up and die. We can say, when I checked in, what do you think popped into my head? We've got to march, or we can teach and preach to my feet, a light to my path.

It's pursuing God one step at a time. It's trusting him for what's ahead. But so many people decide, because I can't see the end from the beginning, I'm going to quit because it's overwhelming. I'm going to give up.

Keep going. Don't give up.

Marching Forward When Life Feels Out of Control

Now, knowing that you have a very unique background, which is a rare background, I mean, there are many United States Marines and veterans who may have similar stories, but it still makes up a small percentage of the entire population.

I'm assuming, especially judging from the subtitle, moving forward when your world seems out of control, that this has a much broader application to a much wider spectrum of people. Who exactly is your intended audience for this book, or intended readership?

Intended readership would be anyone who has had struggles in life, anyone who encounters an enemy, encounters obstacles. I'm just not sure I can do this anymore. Look at my entire laid out story of my time in Iraq, which wasn't long.

The war was almost 20 years long there. I was there for a relatively short period of time. But I tell stories like that one, like that engagement at the bridge, when we went into Baghdad, when we crossed the Burj, combat story application.

You can ask God to reveal to us the lessons he wants us to learn as we move through these things. And since my experience is, as you mentioned, unique, but unique to the broader opportunity to tell an interesting story like that one application.

And I've young people who, years of their life, what I need, I need to keep marching. I need to keep putting one foot in front of the other. Read, it has a historical, more than anything, to give some principles for moving.

And tell us about the chapter in your book, or the section of your book. Understand that the biggest fights in your life come when you least expect them. That always makes, at least initially, any conflict or trial or trauma, at least initially, more difficult to grasp and respond in a godly way to when they're unexpected, when we're taken off guard, et cetera.

But explain that.

In the middle of the day, the ground around us was flat. We could see for, this was not a good, again, thoughts that pops into your mind when people are shooting at you. This is not supposed to happen.

This is a thought I added. At a brief, you know, division level intel says there are no enemy combatants on the bridge. You're going to move there. It's going to be an easy day. And it turned out to be anything other than that.

That same thing. It's the one you don't expect. Ones we didn't think apart. We never saw that patient. That, in our minds, was not even a possibility. And the problem with that, we didn't anticipate it for many people.

Overwhelming. Lifelong victims of a one-time event. Thinking about what the conversation is about. Something in my life is going to turn. What am I going to do when that happens? Control everything that happens in your life.

You don't get to control that. We like to, but we can't. But what we do get to control.

Most of, most of us. Gabriel, did you want to say something? I'm sorry.

Yeah, no, I was just.

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