Rick Burgess, host of "The Rick Burgess Show," has recently put pen to paper to publish a book aimed at addressing the lack of masculinity in society.
The book, "Men Don't Run in the Rain," shares the wisdom he took from his father, Bill Burgess, on being a man.
During this week's "1819 News: The Podcast," Burgess discussed his father, the new book and true masculinity, which he lamented was dwindling in the church and society as a whole. He shared how he has turned his father's lessons into Biblical lessons.
"I found that if I told stories about this truly unique man, my dad, Bill Burgess, it was a winner every time," Burgess told host Bryan Dawson. "The men loved him. And so they would almost, through him, go, OK, talk about whatever you want to now, because we love your dad."
"What we're discovering is that when people read this book, once again, they fall in love with this man," he later added. "And then he's being used again to work them ultimately to a Biblical application that's even bigger than his application."
Burgess, who is well-known across the state from his "Rick & Bubba Show" days, also took issue with the "victimhood mentality" prevalent in society, especially in the broken homes found across the United States. He shared a story about his father coaching against then-Samford coach Terry Bowden, who blamed the "horrible" weather for losing to Burgess' Jacksonville State team.
Partial transcript as follows:
We'll help you be able to not make the same mistake again, but you have to own it. And another example you hear all the time is when people are inventing the hippie version of Jesus as opposed to the Jesus of the Bible. You know, we go there and we go, I'm going to take these things about Jesus I like.
I'm going to ignore those because those are kind of uncomfortable. And one of the places they do it the most is the woman caught an adultery. And you always hear that Jesus told these men that if they were without sin, they throw the first stone ,and they never say the last thing that he said to her.
"Go and sin no more." They leave that part out. What he was saying is, they don't have the right to condemn you, but I do.
And if you don't want me to condemn you, you must repent of this sin. You were an adulterer. You have sinned.
Now, own it and repent of it and turn the other way. And how about this? I'll make you pure, and I'll make you fully righteous.
But you have to go and sin no more. You have to repent of the sin.
And so what's happening now, I think this victimhood that you're talking about that's everywhere in our society, I think it's straight from the pits of hell.
Because if I can adopt a victim mentality, you just talked about it when you were in jail, if I can adopt a victim mentality, I'll never repent.
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