The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.– Psalm 23:1 In his beautiful book Life Without Lack, Dallas Willard unpacks the meaning of Psalm 23:1 with these words: I am in the care of someone else. I’m not the one in charge. I’ve taken my kingdom...
READ MOREIt doesn’t matter if I’m onstage or not. I find the communal experience of a rock concert achieves a kind of transcendence. It’s the closest thing to what I think people expect church to be like. Or maybe just what I’ve always thought church...
READ MOREHow do we go about living in the Kingdom of God, on a daily basis? What is practical? What is sustainable? And how do we make it last? As Eugene Peterson, author of the Message paraphrase of the Scriptures, reminded us, prayer is about being...
READ MOREWhat do we need as we turn our gaze toward a new year? What is helpful? What isn’t? Where do we find Life? And how do we make it last? There’s a story I love about scientists in Capetown, South Africa, studying an extraordinary species called...
READ MORELook for an opportunity to call out masculine strength, celebrate a milestone, and participate in the masculine initiation of those entrusted to your care.
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I step in shit all the time and recognize it when I do. I’ve just learned how to scrape it off my boots and carry on.– Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights It hurt like hell. The moment the block of Ponderosa pine slipped through the grip of my...
READ MOREWhen a man knows the end is near, only the important surfaces. Impending death distills the vital. The trivial is bypassed. The unnecessary is overlooked. That which is vital remains.– Max Lucado To become the kind of trustworthy king to whom God...
READ MORE“What was your dad like?” Perhaps it’s the question I most fear and most hope will be asked of my kids when they are old. Apprehension had already staked a claim as I prepared for this exploit into the unknown. Poring over maps of sheer high...
READ MOREI’ve had the privilege of featuring the mission and message of Become Good Soil and Becoming a King on over 50 different podcast platforms this past year. My intention was to offer authentically, allowing each conversation to be led by the Spirit...
READ MORE“It is profound how different our experiences can be inside our own skin. When it comes to sensations in the body, we are not on a level playing field. To love and be loved, to know and be known, it’s so important that we practice story-informed...
READ MORE“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that...
READ MOREThe Become Good Soil Intensive is one of our premier leadership training events and has been catalytic for men from around the globe for over a decade. Each Intensive is built on the foundation of the previous ones, and we are thrilled to...
READ MORE“We can see God in everything and miss him in anything.” –Ken Helser, A Place for the Heart I had heard the story a dozen times. But every time, through tears, I found myself doing the math. Every week… Every year… For more than ten years… ...
READ MORE“One of the most important tasks of a moral society must be to make boys into good men.”–Abigail Shrier, Wall Street Journal Abigail Shrier is among the rare and brave public figures giving voice to what research indicates is a presenting crisis...
READ MORE“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...
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