Leader's Guide
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A Leader's Guide with information on leading your own Killing Lions Campfire.
00 – Invitation
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Start a Killing Lions Campfire – A small group experience for men – Powerful things take place when guys get together to talk about the masculine journey. Outdoors. Informal. Around a campfire. Filmed on location in Moab, Killing Lions Campfire is your way to facilitate those life-changing conversations. Our dream is for men to hold a thousand campfires this summer. Watch this video for more on this invitation.
01 – Going Soft
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Episode 1: Going Soft – Killing Lions is more than fatherly advice. It is an invitation into a journey: either to be the son who receives fathering or the father who learns what must be spoken. Most importantly, these conversations speak to the searching generation, and powerful things happen when guys get together to talk about the masculine journey. Killing Lions Campfire is your way to begin these life-changing conversations.
02 – Looking for Answers
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Episode 2: Looking for Beauty – The second installment of the Killing Lions adventure series filmed in the deserts surrounding Moab, Utah. The men head west into stunning beauty, into open country where the questions men face can rise to the surface. Wildness, raw conversation, and sandstone. Based on the book Killing Lions by John and Sam Eldredge.
03 – The Right Decision
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Episode 3: The Right Decision – It's Day Two on the White Rim Trail and a dramatic crash opens up conversations about fear, setbacks, and being sidelined. It's the choices made in tough moments that express true courage. Based on the book Killing Lions by John and Sam Eldredge.
04 – Older Guys
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Episode 4: Older Guys – This fourth installment explores the integral role older men play through the gift of fathering, advice, and wisdom.
05 – Pain Is Not Your Biggest Battle
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Episode 5: Pain Is Not Your Biggest Battle – The epic journey on the White Rim comes to a surprising close, and the battles suddenly shift to a much deeper level. Here is a lesson for everyone.
06 – Women
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Episode 6: Women – Seven days in the desert and the talk turns to women, love, and how to make it all work.
07 – Money
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Episode 7: Money – The guys have an honest conversation about money, jobs, and the love/hate relationship we all feel towards them. John offers a new way of thinking about work and fulfillment through the lens of the Kingdom.
08 – Work vs. Dreams
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Episode 8: Work vs. Dreams – When does work stop feeling like something we need to push through, and when do we get to begin living our dreams? Understanding the process and how to become the kind of men who can handle our dreams when we get there is what these years are all about.
09 – Searching for Validation
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Episode 9: Searching for Validation – The need to feel strong, to have what it takes, and to find validation is deep in all of us. True validation comes through attempting tough challenges and through the words spoken over our lives.
10 – The Friendships of Men
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Episode 10: The Friendships of Men – "Without a friend you cannot live" said Thomas à Kempis. Episode 10 goes behind the scenes into how deep friendships are formed and fought for.
11 – Living With Courage
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Episode 11: Living With Courage – A one-hundred foot free hanging rappel off the Morning Glory Arch. If you want to learn to live with courage, you have to start living with courage.
12 – Wilderness
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Episode 12: Wilderness – In a world of cell phones, computer screens, and freeways our souls need places of restoration. The ocean, the open fields ... the heart craves wilderness.
13 – Feeling Competent
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Episode 13: Feeling Competent – As our world becomes more and more complicated, it's easy to give up mastery on small levels. But when we realize we have given everything away it's time to take some things back into our own hands. The need to feel competent in our own lives is powerful
14 – Finding a Life with God
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Episode 14: Finding a Life with God – True masculinity is a profoundly spiritual thing. In order to find a life with God, you have to find Him in the things you love and in responding to the world He created.
15 – Adversity
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Episode 15: Adversity – There is nothing like adversity to expose what is inside a man's heart. Something as simple as a flat tire can offer opportunity for growth and learning the strength to handle our lives.
16 – The Darkest Lion
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Episode 16: The Darkest Lion – Every man has an Enemy, but few choose to face it. Those few are the ones who find life. The second-to-last episode in the Killing Lions series!
17 – The Man You Are Becoming
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Episode 17: The Man You Are Becoming – Here in the final episode, the guys tackle the hardest question of all: do you like who you are becoming? Discover the secret of becoming the man you want to be: that no time is wasted, that you have a Father who loves you, and that if you don't like who you're becoming... you've still got time to change that.