Blog for Christian Men to Challenge and Equip
Blog for Christian Men to Challenge and Equip
The Stages of the Masculine Journey
If I were to sketch out for you the masculine journey in broad strokes, I believe this is how it unfolds, or better, how it was meant to unfold: Boyhood ...
The Messiah in the Desert
When the word “desert” comes to mind, most people think of a barren, sweltering, uninhabitable, hostile, waterless, sandy, and lifeless place. Spiritually, the desert is often a place of wandering, ...
Jack Nicklaus II: Listen to Your Children
As parents, we are often living lives filled with distractions, emotional challenges, and professional and personal disruptions. No matter what you face, take every opportunity you are given to listen ...
Prayers of American Presidents
Editor’s note: Tomorrow is the National Day of Prayer in the United States, which occurs annually on the first Thursday of May. The modern law instituting this time to “turn ...
Your Brain on Porn
Like sand on a beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned—Sharon Begley, Newsweek Science Editor1Restart and reboot yourself. You’re free ...
Billy's Heaven
Editor’s note: Most Saturdays for 15 years, Don Wilton drove the long road to meet with Billy at his home in Montreat, North Carolina. There the two friends spent hours ...
Randy Travis: Amazing Grace
Editor’s Note: Randy Travis experienced tremendous success as a country and gospel singer. But in 2009, his seemingly charmed life began a downward spiral. His marriage dissolved, he discovered that ...
What Will You Do With Your One Extraordinary Life?
I have been teaching as an adjunct professor at Pepperdine Law School for more than a decade. It’s a place filled with bright, ambitious law students, many of whom have ...
Get Real Real
In my first couple of weeks [at Baylor University], I met a kid I’ll call Peter. I can’t remember what his parents did for work, but whatever it was, it ...
The Scandal of Abba
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from ...
Redeeming the Story of Fatherlessness
I have difficulty praying the Lord’s Prayer because whenever I say “Our Father,” I think of my own father, who was hard, unyielding, and relentless. I cannot help but think ...
Becoming a More Kingdom-Minded Man
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will ...
Crossed Wires
My first car was not the regular 1979 but the upgraded Buick Century, the model with a spoiler on the back. And spoiler alert: your grandpa’s Buick did not have ...
And Lo, the Kingdom of God is Like a Terrible Football Team
My son is like me. He’s not much into athletics. But we signed him up for a flag-football league when he was in sixth grade. My wife told me the ...
The Leadership Genius of Jesus
Titles and DeedsLet me tell you about the worst boss I ever saw. He was given authority prematurely, and he abused it wildly. He harshly ordered people when he should ...
How to Work for Racial Justice
Three hundred and eighty-one. That’s how many days the Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted. Sparked by lifelong activist and justice-seeker Rosa Parks, fueled by Black women who organized car pools, printed ...
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