12. Interview with Joshua Brown: Retired Marine and Praetorian Project Pastor

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Today we have the pleasure of interviewing Joshua Brown, recently retired Marine and now Pastor to the military. He’s a pastor with the ministry the Praetorian Project, a ministry which plants pillar churches near military bases. Joshua, welcome to the show.

Resources:

• Praetorian Project
• Pillar Church of TopSail

Episode Notes:

• Joshua's background and how he ended up joining the military
• Joshua's testimony and how this played into military service: Secular worldview implosion to faith
• How Joshua is applying faith in the military and future vision: 20 years in Marine, now a Pastor at Pillar church with Praetorian Project. Pillar Churches are a military focused ministry effort that understands the military lifestyle and seeks to ease transition between duty locations and shorten/eliminate church search.
• How Joshua applies faith to family, especially with raising multiple teenagers: Being a marine = better father, being a father = better marine, doing them a Christian refines us by absolute truth. Impossible to grow in the same direction as spouse unless growing towards Christ
• Biggest struggles Joshua experienced while serving as a Christian: Temptation to cover things up while in the artillery career field.
• How Joshua has seen God working through your successes and failures in his military career: Failures from not being in the word. Successes from working hard to follow Jesus
• What book of the Bible Joshua goes to in times of difficulty: Psalms and Gospels
• How Joshua makes spiritual growth a daily priority: Start with scripture
• Advice to other believers in the military who are struggling
• Joshua closes us in prayer

REFLECT:

• What does this episode reveal about God’s character?

• How does this episode cause us to see our need for a Savior? 

• How can we apply lessons learned from this episode to our life?

Follow Christ for this day!

• ✝️ “Choose this day whom you will serve...” ‭‭Joshua‬ ‭24‬:‭15‬

• ‭✝️ “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭10‬:‭9‬ 

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