Ray's Interview with Janet Parshall
Ray's interview with Janet Parshall, host of Moody Radio's In the Market broadcast, occurred on October 15, 2026. The interview covered Discipled Warriors.
Ray's Interview with Janet Parshall, host of Moody Radio's In the Market broadcast, occurred on October 15, 2026. Link to In the Market. In the interview, Janet asked Ray specific questions about his military career, his educational career, how he started the Discipled Warriors Ministry, and how the Discipled Warriors Handbook supports the ministry.
Link to the interview
https://www.moodyradio.org/radioplayer.aspx?episode=1161965&hour=2
Specific Portions of the Interview's First Segment
3:20-4:47 Janet summarizes Ray's military career, which included time as a Green Beret, a Ranger, a Sniper School Commander, and a professor at West Point. She also covers his work at Mid-America Christian University, when he started the Discipled Warriors Ministry, and his first book, Discipled Warriors Handbook.
Her first question to Ray is: How do you go from a stellar military career to becoming a professor at Mid-America Christian University (MACU)?
4:48-6:10 Ray answers Janet's question by summarizing how he began working at MACU after following a sign for the university and asking a question.
6:11-6:50 Janet discusses how building character in the military transitions to building young people in a university setting.
6:51-8:15 Ray summarizes why he joined the military, what he learned, and how he tries to influence young people's character development as a professor.
8:16-8:19 Janet asks Ray what he taught when he was at West Point.
8:20-9:09 Ray tells her that he taught English, discusses his three-year assignment, and that he was deployed to Iraq when he left West Point.
9:10-9:15 Janet asks Ray where he got his PhD in Educational Leadership.
9:16-10:08 Ray discusses his time at MACU as Director of Institutional Effectiveness and why he chose to earn his PhD from Oklahoma State University.
10:09-10:42 Janet summarizes the first segment and previews the second segment before the break.
Specific Portions of the Second Segment
11:17-12:08 Janet opens the second segment with a brief discussion about the Latin root words for "discipled" and "disciplined" to contextualize the name of Ray's book, Discipled Warriors Handbook.
12:09-12:36 Ray responds to Janet's discussion, saying the ministry's name was intentionally chosen to focus on discipline and discipleship.
12:37-13:50 Janet shifts the discussion to the Handbook, correctly summarizing it as a workbook, and asks, "Why is it important that we raise Godly men?"
13:51-14:36 Ray uses Genesis 2:15 as the starting point to discuss why men have a different role than women and why fulfilling that role, as God's stewards, matters to society.
14:37-15:13 Ray continues by noting that, while men and women are created equal in Genesis 1, they have different ways to further God's Kingdom.
15:14-15:42 Janet asks how spiritual warfare attacks men and families.
15:43-17:41 Ray summarizes the enemy's goal: to prevent the spread of the Gospel, destroy families, and influence men to abdicate their responsibilities.
17:42-18:39 Janet closes the second segment by describing the Handbook as a basic guide to Christianity and a systematic theology.
Specific Portions for the Third Segment
18:50-19:16 Janet opens the third segment with another brief summary of Ray's background and asks how the Handbook was "birthed" out of conferences.
19:17-21:15 Ray describes how the ministry began at Woodland Hills Baptist Church in Newcastle, OK. He summarizes the ministry's Cohort Kickoff program.
21:16-21:49 Janet asks Ray to discuss the core question: Why am I here?
21:50-22:44 Ray states this is a question all men ask and suspects women also ask the same question.
22:45-23:23 Janet asks how men can find the answer to that question without Jesus.
23:24-23:55 Ray acknowledges that non-believers must find that question very difficult.
23:56-24:44 Janet asks about Lesson 1 of the Handbook, How Do We Know God Exists?
24:45-25:20 Ray briefly discusses how we all know God exists before the end of Session 3.
25:21-25:44 Janet closes out Session 3 before the break.
Specific Portions of the Fourth Segment
26:18-28:29 Janet opens the Fourth Segment with a summary of Ray's career and a discussion about the Handbook. She asks Ray to expand on his response about how we know God exists.
28:30-30:05 Ray explains that we all know there is existence beyond our physical senses. He says the non-physical world isn't measurable, and we need something to explain what we all know is true: the Bible.
30:06-30:27 Janet segues into the Handbook's second lesson and asks Ray to explain how we know the Bible is true.
30:28-33:24 Ray says the second lesson focuses on why he believes the Bible, using his professional background to support his reasoning. Apologetics can only carry a person so far, and a "leap of faith" is required to accept the Bible as true.
33:25-33:47 Janet redirects and asks Ray about a specific passage in Lesson 2.
33:48-34:55 Ray explains that because God created each of us to be unique, we all respond differently to an essay-writing prompt.
34:56-35:16 Janet asks Ray to describe what a "warrior's mindset" is.
35:17-37:07 Ray uses "go to the sound of guns" as an example of the mindset. We must work as a team to win battles and wars.
37:08-37:40 Janet closes out the fourth segment with an appeal for men to get the Handbook.
37:50-39:12 Janet opens the fifth segment by summarizing the ministry and Handbook and asking, "What should men understand about spiritual warfare?"
39:13-40:10 Ray states that God created us to be victorious through Jesus.
40:11-40:20 Janet asks, "What is the biggest fear men have that prevents them from being what God called them to be?"
40:21-41:00 Ray tells them they are filled with doubt because they are listening to the enemy.
41:01-41:44 Janet discusses the choice to be fearful or faithful. She then asks Ray to discuss a man's greatest need and how women can provide that.
41:45-44:20 Ray opens by saying a man must show his wife safety and unconditional love so that she can show her man the respect he desires by being his helper. He also discusses how choice is the way we bear God's image.
44:21-45:43 Janet discusses the application at the end of the Handbook and how the Handbook is good material for men's group studies.