A man is made under heat, on purpose
Nobody is coming to hand you the instructions. That is the thing that took me longest to accept. There is no ceremony, no older man with…
One of three
Whose approval have you been living for?
The only opinion you were ever accountable to belongs to God. Everything else is an audition, and auditions do not end. This is the ground the rest of it stands on, and it shows up in how a man prices, how he leads, and how he treats people who can do nothing for him.
Who Are You Still Trying to Convince?
There is a specific experience that men have and never discuss. You accomplish something real. Something that took years. And there is a moment, brief, where…
The Good Man
The most difficult performance to see, because everything it produces is genuinely good. What it looks like He is the one people describe as a good…
When You Are Not Sure You Believe It
A substantial number of men in church every Sunday are not certain, and not one of them has said so out loud in that building. If…
Why You Have No Friends
Most men over thirty-five do not have close friends and almost none of them will say so. They have men they know. That is a different…
The Only Verdict
Everything in this book comes down to one thing and I want to state it as simply as I can before the end. You have been…
The Man Who Never Told Anybody
This is the practical center of this. The question Who knows the truth about your life? Not the summary. Not the version at church or at…
A Man Under Authority
One more thing before the end, because there is a failure mode this could produce and it is worth closing off. A man who stops performing…