Hard times are painful, but also redemptive—meaning that in the hand of God they accomplish good things in our lives.
Honorable men don’t settle for lives of regret.
The Bible teaches repeatedly that we each have a destiny—a specific calling and/or purpose—that is determined in advance by God.
Beer, well respected and rightly consumed, can be a gift of God. It is one of his mysteries, which it was his delight to conceal and the glory of kings to search out. And men enjoy it to mark their da...
Being a man is a privilege, not an entitlement. It is a surrender of our priority. It is a laying down of our lives, not physically but inwardly—our preferences, our pleasures, sometimes even our drea...
But running from emotional pain is never a good idea, as it only leaves us damaged of soul and hindered in our ability to fulfill our purpose. We have to turn and face our torturous seasons and the sc...
Charlemagne’s support for brewing enhanced an already vibrant Christian beer culture in the medieval church, one that is difficult to exaggerate. An example comes to us from a letter that Pope Gregory...
David knew what it was to be a man. As he lay dying, he called his son Solomon to his bedside and gave him final instructions: I am about to go the way of all the earth. So be strong and show yourself...
That the poisoning of souls through church hurts is killing us.
FAR BETTER IT IS TO DARE MIGHTY THINGS, TO WIN GLORIOUS TRIUMPHS, EVEN THOUGH CHECKERED BY FAILURE, THAN TO TAKE RANK WITH THOSE POOR SPIRITS WHO NEITHER ENJOY NOR SUFFER TOO MUCH, BECAUSE THEY LIVE I...
Facing the reality of that painful season when it felt as though you were in a sandstorm with no skin is the key to becoming whole now.
Far better to know people for the cruel creatures that they are, and to love them despite their flaws, than to love them as we wish them to be and constantly be disappointed and hurt.
G. K. Chesterton: The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children. And
A man cannot fulfill his purpose if he is living for applause, approval, and affirmation in this world. It simply will not come—not enough, certainly, to answer the needs of his soul.
In 2003, scientists at the University of Wisconsin reported that a pint of Guinness a day is good for the human heart.
This is a good moment to remember one of Mansfield’s Manly Maxims: Manly men tend their fields. It means that we take care of the lives and property entrusted to us. It means that we take responsibili...
The more you rehearse the wrongs against you and the more you stay in that trap, the more the syringes of bitterness release their toxins into your soul.
Nonetheless, Lincoln’s story is, in part, that of a man who beat back the spirits that came for him in the night. He might well have been crushed by his woes, by the death of the first son and then th...
Passive men wait for knowledge to come to them. Weak men assume what they need to know will seek them out. Men of great character and drive search out the knowledge they need.
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement. —Aristotle, from The Nicomachean Ethics
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