Description

Paul McDonald and Rob Porter we dive into the 2005 film Kingdom of Heaven starring Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, and Jeremy Irons.  We compare how our initiation mirrors Balion’s experience.  We discuss how investing 1% every day will yield a bountiful harvest down the road.  Our job is not to build a bigger kingdom, but to make the one we have burst with life.

Join us as we discover God’s truth in this movie.

About Rob

Rob Porter is married to PJ, with 2 joy-bomb daughters Abigail (5) and Chloe (3). Rob serves as a facilitator at the Become Good Soil Intensives, led by Morgan Snyder (https://www.becomegoodsoil.com). He offers what he has received to allies in New Zealand, the UK, and beyond. Originally from the UK, he has recently moved to the land of Gondor and Mt Doom (New Zealand), where he invites men to join him on regular expeditions in the pursuit to recover masculine initiation. Rob is a pioneer and an adventurer of a life lived from the heart."

"The result of having abandoned masculine initiation is a world of unfinished, uninitiated men." John Eldredge - Fathered by God

Questions

• Where are you being initiated these days?
  
• What pictures and scenes resonate with your story?
  
• Where do you feel like a little boy?  What is going on when that happens?
  
• Like Rob’s acorns, how can you mark your investments in the “great good that is unfolding?”
  
• Where are you looking and measuring to see if you’re enough, you’ve done enough?
  
• How has your identity been bestowed on you?  Did you receive a physical token from an older man? (And if you haven’t experienced that, ask God to provide this experience)
  
• How do you chase your validation, the sense of being enough?
  
• How do you perceive Father?  What words would you use to describe who you think God to be?
  
• What past events do you worry about, struggle with, regret?  Can you ask God to redeem your mistakes, to heal the wounds you have caused, to use the pain to draw others to Him?
  
• Where have you said, “Yes,” to a little evil in pursuit of what you thought was a greater good?  How did that change you?
  
• When have you woke up thinking, “How did I get here, to this point? I never thought I would be here.”
  

Edited and mixed by Grayson Foster (https://graysonfoster.com/)

Audio quotes performed by Britt Mooney, Paul McDonald, and Tim Willard, taken from Epic (written by John Eldredge) and Song of Albion (written by Stephen Lawhead).

Southerly Change performed by Zane Dickinson, used under license from Shutterstock