Because of what a man is meant to be for his family, his society, and his God, he cannot allow failure and loss to destroy him. He should live knowing that such seasons are possible, and he should hav...
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...
We will never become the men we are called to be unless we learn the art of friendship and intentionally cultivate deep, meaningful, rowdy relationships with other men.
Find it interesting, given the controversies over alcohol that would eventually erupt in the history of the Christian church, that the arrival of Christianity in the world and its eventual sway over t...
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.
Prophets (must) humbly accept the truth that they see through a glass darkly, that they know only in part. In other words, they make mistakes. Mature prophets urge everyone to who they prophesy to jud...
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 loftiest statement of your cleansing and redemption—after all the pain you’ve endured—is that now you realize what God was doing and you can get on with that high calling for your life.
Churchill wrote, In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.
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...
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused, he once wrote. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?
Every Christian has a capacity for the most magnificent Christlikeness. Yet, every Christian also has the potential to commit the most disgusting and horrible acts of the flesh.
There is no such thing as perfection in a church. Instead, what you should be looking for is a covenanted body, a leadership team that has the goods for coaching you in Christ, and a place where you c...
While Churchill was relieving himself, one of the leading nationalizers entered the room and began doing his business right next to Churchill. The irritated conservative moved to the far end of the tr...
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.
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
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.
God will not free us until we free others.
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