James 5:16

James 5:16
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

Author Stephen Arterburn & David Stoop

Torn Between Two….

In order to meet the basic psychological needs to know and be known, to love and be loved by others, men need deep caring relationships with other men. It’s to this level that James instructed Christians, “Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.” (James 5:16). A man who doesn’t have at lease one other man to whom he can be accountable regarding his failures, hurts, and temptations is a prime target for masculine anger.
The angry man in our society is caught between mythical masculinity on one side and true masculinity on the other. He feels the pressure to achieve, to earn, to conquer, to win – and to do all these things on his own. But he also feels the need to love and to nurture those he loves, and to be loved and nurtured by those who love him. He futilely attempts to reconcile the two in his own life. He is torn between being invincible and vulnerable, aloof and involved, self-serving and succoring . . . The roots of the conflict send up numerous shoots of anger-producing tendencies in his life.

Sam’s response
That verse and conversation has a whole different meaning when you live on a FOB with 700 men all carrying loaded weapons who daily go out and hunt other men. Thanks to rank we don't need to worry too much about the whole alpha male thing, but yeah, there's a couple dudes here that think they're masculine, luckily we have no females to show off for...