“Man doesn’t make kings. God does.” –Robert the Bruce, Scotland, 1274-1329 What is the most important thing? What if you had another chance? What if there was a secret treasure waiting to be found? What if there was an ancient path that led to...
READ MOREAs a parent to teenagers, I can say confidently that the core passion of my life is the intention of raising wholehearted kids. The process of participating with God’s initiation of the children entrusted to my care into mature and wholehearted...
READ MORE“This is neither theory nor theological wrangling. It’s an excavation of the heart. A rescue mission to steal back the truth of us.” –Charles Martin, New York Times bestselling author Though I’ve navigated many acute moments of wilderness...
READ MORENever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, its the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead Our capacity to be strengthened by God and to find peace in God is constantly at risk. It is at risk...
READ MORE“When a father and son do spend long hours together, which some fathers and sons still do, we could say that a substance almost like food passes from the older body to the younger.” –Iron John, Robert Bly I’m guessing we dads looked a bit...
READ MOREFriends, Who would you like to have become when we round the corner into 2030 a decade from now? As we enter a new year and a new decade, I wanted to begin with a personal 14-minute video as a way of sharing my heart and strength with you as a...
READ MOREI can tell you a whole lot more about the features of a Ford F-150 than I could’ve a week ago. Which trim packages upgrade to LED box lighting. The range of performance and optional distinctions between the XLT, Lariat, and King Ranch. The...
READ MOREI am furious. They promised. Today was my chance. My only chance. And yet, the magician vanished as quickly as he appeared. Mostly what I see in his wake are chaos and rumors. Yet here and there, I can’t help but notice what I can only call...
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READ MORE“Love and relationship are the bottom line of the Kingdom of God. And they must be ours if we are to establish a Kingdom culture in our homes.”
-Danny Silk, Loving Our...
READ MOREThe masculine initiation can often be characterized not as a series of high achievements, but rather as a series of humiliations of the false self. Within the span of a single month last year, the world lost too many really good men. A few were...
READ MOREThough it is rare, there are people who have built a strong inner character, who have achieved a certain depth. In these people, at the end of this struggle, the climb to success has surrendered to the...
READ MOREDefine yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. Let this become the most important thing in your life. – Brennan Manning, Abba’s Child When we excavate our layers of defenses, we find a...
READ MOREIt is the pungent aroma of elk that catches me first, a musk unlike any other in the wild. And it is intoxicating to a bowhunter. The prehistoric smell is a sure sign of close proximity to these giant ghosts of the forest. As least it should be....
READ MOREIt is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
... READ MOREFor a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its...
READ MOREThe world has yet to see what God will do with and for and through and in and by the man who is fully consecrated to him.
–Henry Varley
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How are you arranging your days?
Dallas suggest that there is a possibility and a promise that, in time and over time, we can indeed arrange our days so...
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In Renovation of the Heart, Dallas says,
“Our soul is like a stream of water, which gives strength, direction and harmony to every other area of our life. When the...
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I break the limits I have made with
who God can be,
what God can do,
and how God can do it in my life.
It’s...
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