Sunday, May 3, 2026 • Today's Principle: Discipline

When companies replace managerial judgment with scheduling algorithms, they reveal a pattern that runs deeper than corporate policy — men in authority choosing ease over the hard, costly decisions they were put in place to make. Today's episode drives into the principle of Discipline from Chapter 4 of Men of the Republic, using Paul's image of violent self-mastery in 1 Corinthians 9 to call men to stop outsourcing the hard thing — in their households, their workplaces, and their own habits. The charge is direct: name the decision you've handed off, and own it this week.

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:25-27; Hebrews 12:11

Today's Charge: Identify the one hard decision you've been letting something else absorb — a conversation, a standard, a correction — and do it yourself this week.

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Today's Discipline chapter reference: Ch 4 — Discipline as Formation