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COLORADO SPRINGS — Ken Harrison, CEO of WaterStone and volunteer chairman of Promise Keepers, explores issues of trauma, coming face to face with ISIS, and accepting God’s redemption with Victor Marx on the latest podcast of “On the Edge with Ken Harrison.”

The podcast, available in both audio and video form, can be found on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Podcast listeners can also receive a challenging weekly devotional that will inspire them to put their faith into action.

Victor Marx is a high-risk humanitarian with successful missions to Iraq, Syria, North Africa, and Southeast Asia – many times in non-permissive and high threat environments, helping orphans and widows.

Severely abused and tortured as a child, by the time he graduated from high school, Marx’s lifestyle was filled with drugs, fights, and theft. The discipline of military life and faith in God helped him recover from his traumatic childhood and empowers him to help others. Today, Victor focuses his attention on the plights of those affected by ISIS, troubled juvenile offenders, and supporting military personnel from all branches including the special operations community.

Highlights of Marx’s interview in the podcast include:

God is the ultimate healer of our traumas.
“I’ve been abused physically and sexually. I’ve seen and experienced horrible, evil, evil things, and I want to thank God that he is the redeemer. He can put a man or a woman’s mind back together because we can have his mind and we can be transformed by the renewing of our own mind, if we’re not conformed to this world. A really huge step for me was being born again and it was the gospel, just the simple gospel.”

The negative narratives we tell ourselves have the power to stunt our growth as vessels of God.
“As a teen, I struggled with self-esteem because I was thin and tall and I wasn’t good at sports, even though I was fast and fluent in martial arts. Later in life, I was working out with a powerlifter and he told me with my body composition, I could be huge. I didn’t believe him because of the negative narrative I had in my head about myself. But, he was able to convince me to try. It was through his narrative of me, that I was able to add muscle to my frame. He broke the glass ceiling for me by speaking truth to me.”

“It was because of a brother that I was able to believe. Men, don’t make your own glass ceiling. Sometimes it takes someone else telling you the truth of what you can do and far beyond. Some men think, ‘I can never get a degree. I can never speak another language. I’m only limited to this’, but we are limited by self vows, lies of the enemy. Instead, we need to seek God and ask, ‘God, you made me. What do you want me to do?’”

The Bible tells us that we are not mere men, we’re more than men.
“The Lord has made you his child and no one can ever take that away from you. Nothing can ever stop you from being his child. He deposited a piece of himself in you called the Holy Spirit and the more you surrender to the Holy Spirit, the more he will begin to grow in you as you read God’s word, pray and seek him as a tiny mustard seed. Jesus says, ‘if you love me, keep my commandments’ and there are only two of them: love God with all your heart, soul, and mind and love your neighbor as yourself. And as you grow in those, that little tiny seed turns into the giant mustard seed tree that benefits so many people. Your life will become a song to the Lord and you won’t have to stay in bondage anymore.”

MEDIA NOTE: Please email Press@theKcompany.co to schedule an interview with WaterStone CEO Ken Harrison or any of his guests.

• KEN HARRISON is the host of “On the Edge with Ken Harrison,” a podcast building godly people for a better tomorrow. The podcast, available in both audio and video form, can be found on YouTube and your favorite podcast platform, including Apple and Spotify. The podcast also offers listeners the opportunity to receive a challenging weekly devotional that will inspire them to put their faith into action.Harrison serves as CEO of WaterStone, a Christian Community Foundation whose clients donate over $1 million per week on average to build God’s Kingdom. For nearly 40 years, Waterstone has assisted givers in supporting their favorite charities by crafting customized, innovative giving solutions that empower donors to prioritize income, minimize taxes and optimize giving.Ken started his career as an LAPD street cop in South Central and then spent nearly two decades in commercial real estate nationally and internationally. After successfully building and growing his company, he sold the majority interest to the second-largest commercial real estate company in the world while continuing as CEO of U.S. valuation and chair of international valuation.Ken volunteers his time as the chairman of Promise Keepers. His mission is to provide executive leadership and strategic direction to the ministry while inspiring men to be bold, humble and ambitious about their faith.Ken has been married to his wife, Elliette, for 29 years and they have three children.Harrison’s newest book, The Rise of the Servant Kings: What the Bible Says About Being a Man, is available wherever books are sold.

“Always remember, your greatest blessing will only be found on

 the other side of your greatest fear — that is why God brings us to these battles.” – Jason Benham

COLORADO SPRINGS COLORADO SPRINGS — Ken Harrison, CEO of WaterStone and volunteer chairman of Promise Keepers, explores issues of religious persecution, a reality series backfire, and how to find success on God’s terms on the latest podcast of “On the Edge with Ken Harrison.”

The podcast, available in both audio and video form, can be found on Apple, YouTube and all top podcast platforms. Podcast listeners can also receive a challenging weekly devotional that will inspire them to put their faith into action.

Twin brothers, David and Jason Benham, are former professional baseball players, nationally acclaimed entrepreneurs, and best selling authors. Their accomplishments have been recognized by dozens of publications, including Inc. Magazine, Wall St. Journal, Business Leader Media, Franchise 500, and more. Their rise to success earned them a reality show with HGTV that was set to air in the fall of 2014 — yet the show was abruptly canceled because of their commitment to Biblical values. Appearing on CNN, Fox News, ESPN, ABC’s Nightline, and Good Morning America, the Benhams continue to stand up for what they believe and encourage others to do the same.

Highlights of David’s and Jason’s interview in the podcast include:

• • • God calls us to make our theology our biography.
      “Our dad would always say, if your theology is not your biography, then your theology is worthless. In other words, you can talk and pray all things God, but if it doesn’t translate into the way that you live, act, and conduct yourself, whether it’s in the marketplace, behind a pulpit or wherever you are, then your theology is worthless.”
    • God challenged the Benham Brothers on a world stage to choose if they would deny Him in favor of platform, viewers, money, and recognition.
      “We didn’t know that God was going to put us through divine sabotage and put us in a position to stand boldly for the whole world to watch. David and I would walk into places and people would clap, stating ‘You are so heroic.’
      “Little did they know, what they really needed to see is where we stood right before that. God put us on our knees and we had to repent of a man-pleasing spirit. We were operating out of a fear of man rather than a fear of God and because of that, we had a false peace. “The secret to courage is first recognizing your inner coward, so then you can allow the Holy Spirit to unleash your inner lion.”
    • Boldness apart from brokenness makes us bullies.
      “God has called you specifically to be a bridge between heaven and earth. God doesn’t want us to just pray, ‘Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven’ — He wants us to participate. Jesus was the ultimate bridge, but now we participate in bridging that gap. As Ezekiel 22 says ‘God is looking for a man and a woman who will stand in that gap and become that bridge,’ but there are ditches on both sides because as we learned through our story: boldness apart from brokenness makes a bully.”“Boldness apart from brokenness makes you a bully. Brokenness, apart from boldness, makes you a bystander. But, what God wants is for you to stand boldly on a foundation of brokenness so that you can become a bridge.”
    • God defines success as faithfulness “It doesn’t matter if you are working for a man who owns a landscape company, the cook at Waffle House or a CEO — it doesn’t matter where you are. What God is calling for is faithfulness: for you to make your work your worship. And when you’re faithful, God promises that he is going to bless that abundantly and you’ll do things like give more in value than you take in pay wherever you are.”

  MEDIA NOTE: Please email Press@theKcompany.co to schedule an interview with WaterStone CEO Ken Harrison or any of his guests.

• KEN HARRISON is the host of “On the Edge with Ken Harrison,” a podcast building godly people for a better tomorrow. The podcast, available in both audio and video form, can be found on YouTube and your favorite podcast platform, including Apple and Spotify. The podcast also offers listeners the opportunity to receive a challenging weekly devotional that will inspire them to put their faith into action.Harrison serves as CEO of WaterStone, a Christian Community Foundation whose clients donate over $1 million per week on average to build God’s Kingdom. For nearly 40 years, Waterstone has assisted givers in supporting their favorite charities by crafting customized, innovative giving solutions that empower donors to prioritize income, minimize taxes and optimize giving.Ken started his career as an LAPD street cop in South Central and then spent nearly two decades in commercial real estate nationally and internationally. After successfully building and growing his company, he sold the majority interest to the second-largest commercial real estate company in the world while continuing as CEO of U.S. valuation and chair of international valuation.

  Ken volunteers his time as the chairman of Promise Keepers. His mission is to provide executive leadership and strategic direction to the ministry while inspiring men to be bold, humble and ambitious about their faith.

  Ken has been married to his wife, Elliette, for 29 years and they have three children.

  Harrison’s newest book, The Rise of the Servant Kings: What the Bible Says About Being a Man, is available wherever books are sold.

COLORADO SPRINGS Ken Harrison, CEO of WaterStone and volunteer chairman of Promise Keepers, explores issues of critical theory, the “nonessential” church and the necessity of mentoring the next generation of Christian men on the latest podcast of “On the Edge with Ken Harrison.”

The podcast, available in both audio and video form, can be found on Apple, YouTube and all top podcast platforms. Podcast listeners can also receive a challenging weekly devotional that will inspire them to put their faith into action.

John Stonestreet serves as president of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. He’s a sought-after author and speaker on areas of faith and culture, theology, worldview, education, and apologetics. John is the daily voice of BreakPoint, the nationally syndicated commentary on the culture founded by the late Chuck Colson. He is also the voice of the Point, a daily one-minute feature on worldview, apologetics, and cultural issues.

Highlights of Stonestreet’s interview in the podcast include:

Defining critical theory
“Critical theory puts forward a story of the world based on power and balance. There are some that have power and there are some that don’t —and when you have power, you always oppress those that don’t. One of the problems with this theory is that it gives moral authority to oppress those that are identified as oppressed groups.”

“According to critical theory, your most important identity is defined by the groups that you are part of. Christianity gives us a common humanity. Every single person’s made in the image, likeness of God. Christianity doesn’t trivialize race. Christianity talks about different tongues, tribes, nations, and languages — that’s what scripture tells us. But, Christianity gives us a common humanity that goes a level deeper and that is what gives us dignity.”

The “nonessential” church
“There was a tradition of Christians who already thought of church as nonessential prior to COVID-19. That is what concerns me — it wasn’t only that the government openly called church nonessential. It was that many Christians revealed themselves as believing the church was nonessential and a nonessential part of their lives. Is that a problem with the church or is that a problem with the Christian? And I think the answer is both.”

“If we think that the entire transaction of Christianity is ‘I’m a sinner and I am now forgiven’ without any followup, then we completely decontextualize salvation from the larger story of the Bible, which is God creates this world and God raises up in Christ a new creation to help him in this process of making all things new.”

Mentoring the upcoming generation of Christian men
“As Christian men, we love our families, care for our families, disciple our kids, take care of what we can’t take care of and we mentor the boy at church who doesn’t have a dad. It is the responsibility of men to mentor these boys that are lacking father figures so we can lift them up.”

MEDIA NOTE: Please email Press@theKcompany.co to schedule an interview with WaterStone CEO Ken Harrison or any of his guests.

KEN HARRISON is the host of “On the Edge with Ken Harrison,” a podcast building godly people for a better tomorrow. The podcast, available in both audio and video form, can be found on YouTube and your favorite podcast platform, including Apple and Spotify. The podcast also offers listeners the opportunity to receive a challenging weekly devotional that will inspire them to put their faith into action.

Harrison serves as CEO of WaterStone, a Christian Community Foundation whose clients donate over $1 million per week on average to build God’s Kingdom. For nearly 40 years, Waterstone has assisted givers in supporting their favorite charities by crafting customized, innovative giving solutions that empower donors to prioritize income, minimize taxes and optimize giving.

Ken started his career as an LAPD street cop in South Central and then spent nearly two decades in commercial real estate nationally and internationally. After successfully building and growing his company, he sold the majority interest to the second-largest commercial real estate company in the world while continuing as CEO of U.S. valuation and chair of international valuation.

Ken volunteers his time as the chairman of Promise Keepers. His mission is to provide executive leadership and strategic direction to the ministry while inspiring men to be bold, humble and ambitious about their faith.

Ken has been married to his wife, Elliette, for 29 years and they have three children.

Harrison’s newest book, The Rise of the Servant Kings: What the Bible Says About Being a Man, is available wherever books are sold.