And the winner is!

And the winner is!

Congratulations to our winner, Louie Allen, for winning the grand prize in our Heroic Manhood campaign!  His name was randomly selected from the men who accepted the six week challenge. The real winners, however, are wives, children, grandchildren and others impacted...
Losing and Finding

Losing and Finding

The men closest to Jesus while he walked the earth heard him say some startling things.  One of the most startling was when he called us to die to ourselves. “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.  For whoever...
Heroic Grandfathers Love Their Grandkids’ Parents

Heroic Grandfathers Love Their Grandkids’ Parents

Perhaps the greatest impact I can have on my grandchildren is to love their parents.  When my own grown children and their spouses have their emotional tanks filled, have margin in their day, and are physically and spiritually replenished, it is more likely that they...
Heroic Dads Don’t Just Teach – They Imprint

Heroic Dads Don’t Just Teach – They Imprint

Parenting expert Dr. James Dobson once explained how kids are like geese.  Shortly after a gosling hatches from its shell it becomes attached, or “imprinted,” to the first thing that it sees moving.  The tiny gosling follows that particular object, usually the mother,...
Job 29 Leadership

Job 29 Leadership

We often hear of the Proverbs 31 woman. The description found in Proverbs 31:10-31 is held up as a model of an industrious, other-centered, God-fearing woman. No one particular chapter in Proverbs describes the model man, but a passage in the book of Job serves as a...
Heroic Husbands Develop A Healthy Sexual Appetite

Heroic Husbands Develop A Healthy Sexual Appetite

Well-known author and pastor Andy Stanley said that “lust isn’t a problem to be avoided; it’s an appetite to be managed…lust is actually a good thing within the right relationship.  Truth be known, if it wasn’t for lust, you wouldn’t be here!” But most men wrestle...