Category: Kingdom

You Can Stop Now

You’ve been handing God your resume for decades. It’s time to put it down.

Two men go up to the temple to pray. As Jesus tells the story, he deliberately sets them up as opposites.

The first is a Pharisee. Forget the cartoon villain you might imagine; that’s not how people saw him. They saw the finest man in town. He was disciplined, generous, loyal to his wife. He tithed on everything. If he lived today, he’d be the deacon, the guy who arrives early to set up chairs, the man every mother points to. On the surface, he had it together.

The second is a tax collector. A sellout. A man who got rich turning on his own people and skimming off the top. Everyone in that temple knew exactly what he was, and he knew it too.

And here’s how they pray.

The Pharisee stands up where everyone can see him and lists his achievements to God. I thank you that I’m not like other men, robbers, cheats, or even this tax collector over here. Every word is true. He really is all those good things. He’s not lying. He’s just focused on the wrong thing.

The tax collector stands at a distance. Won’t even lift his eyes. Just beats his chest and says seven words.

“God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Luke 18:13 (NIV)

No resume. No list. No comparison to the man next to him. He had nothing to offer. He could only ask for mercy.

And Jesus delivers a word that would have made every head in the room snap around:

“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God.” Luke 18:14 (NIV)

The sellout went home right with God. The good man went home exactly as he came.

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Here’s the thing most of us never grasp, no matter how long we’ve been in church.

The Pharisee’s problem was not that he was bad. He wasn’t bad. His problem was trusting his goodness to make him right with God. He walked into that temple as his own savior. A man who is already saving himself doesn’t need a savior. He walked out with exactly what he brought in: himself. And it was never going to be enough, no matter how high the pile got.

The tax collector brought nothing but need. And need is the one thing God can actually fill.

You can’t receive a gift while your hands are still full of what you were trying to earn.

That’s the bottom line. Unfortunately, it’s the one truth that most religious men don’t really believe about themselves. We’ll say grace is free. We’ll sing it on Sunday. But between Monday and Saturday, we keep repeating the Pharisee’s prayer in our minds: at least I’m not like that guy, at least I did the devotions, at least I showed up. We hand God our resume and hope it’s enough.

Paul, who had the best religious resume of anyone alive, says he counts the whole thing as garbage. His actual word is even stronger. He does this so he can have a righteousness that isn’t his own.

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast. Ephesians 2:8–9 (NIV)

Not from yourselves. The gift of God. So that no one can boast. There is no resume in that sentence. Only a gift, and empty hands to receive it.

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Let’s bring this to where a lot of us live in the second half.

For decades, you’ve built a resume. The provider who never missed a day. The man who kept his word, paid his debts, stayed when other men left. And underneath, for many faithful Christian men, there’s a quiet reminder of the Pharisee’s prayer: I’ve been good enough. Look at the pile. We’re exhausted by it, and we don’t even realize it, because we’ve carried ourselves for so long that we’ve forgotten there was another way to walk into the room.

And here’s what the gospel says to that tired man. You can put the resume down. Not because it’s bad, but because it was never what made you right with God in the first place. Jesus already did that fully at the cross, when you had nothing to offer. The verdict is already in. It came two thousand years ago, with your name on it, and it didn’t depend on what you could bring.

You have been trying to earn something that was already yours as a gift. You can stop now.

That’s the freedom the tax collector walked out with. It’s what the Pharisee missed. It’s not freedom from being good. The tax collector’s life surely changed after that day. It’s freedom from having to be good enough. Freedom from the scoreboard you’ve been feeding your whole life. Freedom to serve God and love people out of gratitude, not fear, because what you were afraid of losing was never at risk. It was settled at the cross before you ever picked up the pen to start your resume.

A man who knows he’s already accepted doesn’t stop working. He works better: freer, steadier, with nothing left to prove. But he’s no longer working for the verdict. He’s working from it. That is a completely different way to be a man.

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Here’s what I’d ask you to do this week.

Somewhere in you there’s a resume you’ve been handing God. It’s a list of reasons you think you’re okay with Him. The devotions, the church attendance, the decency, the fact that you’re not like that guy. This week, notice when you reach for it. You will, probably by Wednesday. When you catch yourself repeating the Pharisee’s prayer, stop, and pray the tax collector’s instead. Seven words. God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

Not as groveling but as relief. Like a man finally setting down a load he was never meant to carry, and never strong enough to carry anyway.

The question underneath the whole week: What have I been trying to earn from God that He already gave me for free?

Put the resume down. Your hands were made to receive, not to keep proving. It’s finished. You can rest now.

If you’re ready to stop building your resume and allow God to transform you from the inside out, I’d love to walk you through the Rebound 8-Week Transformation. Take a look at www.reboundlifecoaching.com

— Ron

What You’re Holding is Holding You

Jesus asks every man to give up one thing, and it’s always the thing costing him his life.

A man runs up to Jesus and falls on his knees in the road.

He’s not begging for healing or asking to be set free from something. He’s just the opposite. He’s the success story. Young, wealthy, respected, religiously serious. The kind of man every father in the village held up as the one to emulate. He’s done everything right, and he knows it, yet something is missing. So he runs, drops to the ground, and asks the question that has haunted his whole life: What must I do to inherit eternal life?

Mark records the detail.

Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor… Then come, follow me.” Mark 10:21 (NIV)

“Jesus looked at him and loved him.” This isn’t a cold demand from a distant God. This is love looking a man dead in the eye and telling him the one thing no one else had the nerve to say.

You know how the story ends. The man’s face falls. And he walks away sad, because he had great wealth.

He is the only person in all the Gospels who comes to Jesus sincerely, is personally invited to follow—and says no. And Jesus lets him go. He loved him and let him walk away. Jesus didn’t chase him or soften the terms. Just watched the man he loved choose the thing that was killing him.

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Here’s what we often get wrong.

We hear “sell everything,” and we assume, “That’s about money, and I’m not rich, so this one’s not for me.” And we miss the point.

It was never about the money. It was about the one thing. Jesus looked at this man and pointed to the one thing that had grown into his real god, the thing he trusted instead of God, the thing he couldn’t live without. For this man, it was money. For you it might be something else entirely.

Jesus doesn’t ask every man to sell everything. But he does ask every man to hand over the one thing he’s holding onto instead of God.

Following Jesus will cost you exactly one thing. It’s the one thing you’ve been trusting to save you instead of him.

And that’s why it feels like you’re dying. Because that one thing — the career, the reputation, the control, the comfort, the grudge, the secret, the image you’ve spent forty years building — it doesn’t feel like an idol. It feels like you. Handing it over feels like losing yourself.

Jesus never pretended otherwise. He didn’t hide the cost in the fine print. He held it up in broad daylight.

“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.” Mark 8:34–35 (NIV)

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Here’s the life-changing good news.

The thing Jesus asks you to give up is the thing that was already killing you.

That man’s wealth wasn’t making him alive. He ran to Jesus in the first place because it wasn’t enough. Something was still missing, and he knew it. The very thing he couldn’t let go of was what had left him on his knees in the road, asking a stranger how to really live. Jesus wasn’t trying to take something good from him. He was trying to pry his fingers off the thing that was strangling him.

He’s not asking you to lose your life. He’s asking you to let go of what was costing you your life—so He can give you a real one.

You think He’s asking you to trade a real life for a religious one. To give up the good stuff for duty and rules. That’s exactly what the rich young man thought, and that’s why he walked away.

The truth is the reverse. You’re trading the thing that was quietly killing you for the only life that was ever real. You lose your life to find it. Every man who has actually done it says the same thing on the other side: I thought I was giving something up. I had no idea what I was getting.

The cost is real. I won’t insult you by pretending it isn’t. It will feel like you’re dying. But it’s the death of what was already taking you under. On the other side of it is the man you were made to be, and a life you cannot currently imagine from where you’re standing.

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Here’s what I’d ask you to consider this week.

You already know your one thing. The second you read “whatever you’ve been trusting instead of God,” something specific came up. It’s the thing you’d fight hardest to keep. The thing you trust to make you okay more than you trust God. Don’t argue it away. Tell the truth.

You don’t have to let go of it this week. That may be years of work. This week, do the one thing the rich young man wouldn’t: stay in the conversation. Don’t walk away sad. Bring the thing to Jesus and say, “I think this is my one thing. I don’t know how to hand it over yet. But I’m not leaving.”

What am I holding onto instead of God — and what has it already cost me to keep it?

He’s looking at you the way He looked at that man in the road. With love. And telling you the one true thing. The only question is whether you’ll stay in the road long enough to find out what’s on the other side of letting go.

Don’t walk away sad. Whatever he’s asking you to release, he’s only trying to free your hands for something better.

— Ron

What If Jesus Wasn’t Who You Thought

We’re tempted to make him into what we want.

Four fishermen are in a boat in the dark, and they are afraid.

They’re not afraid of the water. They’ve worked this lake their whole lives. They’re afraid of the man asleep in the back of the boat.

The storm came up fast, the kind that kills men on the Sea of Galilee, and these were professionals — they knew they were going to drown. They woke Jesus up; he stood and spoke to the wind the way you’d speak to a dog that got up on the couch. Enough. Down.

And the wind lay down.

The water went flat as glass. And Mark tells us that right there—after the danger had passed, after they were safe—the fear actually hit them.

They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!” Mark 4:41 (NIV)

Pay attention. The storm didn’t make them ask that question. Jesus did.

They were more unsettled in the calm, standing next to Him, than they had been a minute earlier staring down their own deaths. A storm is just a storm; every fisherman has faced one. But a man who tells a storm to stop — and it stops — defies expectation.

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Most of us have spent our whole lives with a Jesus who could never do that. We create a Jesus who is kind, gentle, and endlessly agreeable. A Jesus who mostly wants us to be nicer and feel better about ourselves. We put Him on the felt board in Sunday school and He never really came off it.

We tamed Him.

A tamed Jesus is a Jesus you can follow from a comfortable distance. He asks for a little of your Sunday and none of your Monday. He’s a life coach with good quotes. You can respect a Jesus like that. You just can’t be changed by Him, because there’s nothing in Him big enough to change you.

The problem with a safe Jesus is that a safe Jesus can’t save anybody.

The men in that boat did not meet a life coach. They met the God who made the sea, standing in a fishing boat with sawdust still under His fingernails from the carpenter’s shop. Fully a man — tired enough to sleep through a storm. Fully God — able to end one with a word.

This is Jesus. Not a nicer version of you or a gentle teacher who affirms your choices. This is the Lord of the wind and the waves, who stepped into your world, into a fishing boat, and eventually onto a cross.

Paul says it plainly: in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form—all of it. The full weight of God, walking around in a body, eating fish, getting tired, telling storms what to do.

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Why does this matter for a man in the second half of his life?

Because you cannot give the second half of your life to a Jesus you’ve made small.

A tamed Jesus will get your church attendance. He’ll get the leftovers. But He will never get your life, because you don’t hand your one remaining half to a mascot. You only hand it to someone worth it. Someone with the authority to actually do something with it.

The men in that boat followed Jesus into places that cost them everything because they had seen who He was. Their courage didn’t come from working up more commitment. It came from a bigger view of Him. It always does.

You don’t need to try harder to follow Jesus. You need to see Him more clearly. Once you do, following takes care of itself.

So before we talk in the coming weeks about how to follow Him—prayer, obedience, the cross —we have to start here: with who He is. Because everything else is just religious effort until a man has stood in the boat, felt the fear, and asked the only question that matters.

Who is this?

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Here’s what I’d ask you to work on this week:

Somewhere along the way, you built a picture of Jesus in your head. Most of us did it when we were young and never updated it. This week, go back to the Gospels — Mark is short, start there — and read three chapters. As you’re reading, ask one question about Jesus: what is He actually like? Not what you were told he’s like, but what he says and does on the page.

Don’t study it. Just watch Him. Let Him be as strong and strange and real as he is in the text, instead of the tame version you’ve been carrying since you were ten.

Is the Jesus I’ve been following big enough to be worth the rest of my life?

If He’s only as big as the felt board, of course you’ve held back. Any man would. But that’s not who’s in the boat.

— Ron

I Am With You

Some of the most important leadership in the world isn’t out front. It’s the man beside you who won’t let you go alone.

The most powerful four words one man can say to another

THIS WEEK

Last week, we considered Barnabas and the importance of believing in someone. This week, I want to introduce you to a man who remains unnamed in the Bible, yet whose leadership might be the kind we need most. He is simply called Jonathan’s armor-bearer.

Israel’s army is pinned down, outnumbered, and demoralized. Jonathan, King Saul’s son, gets a daring idea. He looks across a rocky pass at an entire enemy garrison and decides that perhaps God wants the two of them to confront it. Just the two of them. Against a garrison.

It’s the kind of idea that could get them killed. Jonathan turns to his armor-bearer, this unnamed man in history—to see what he thinks.

“‘Do all that you have in mind,’ his armor-bearer said. ‘Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul.’”—1 Samuel 14:7 (NIV)

“I am with you heart and soul.”

He didn’t say, “Let me think about it.” He didn’t respond, “That’s insane; we’ll die.” He didn’t hedge, ask for a plan, or calculate the odds of survival.

He said: wherever you’re going, I’m going. Whatever your decision is, I’m in. All the way. Heart and soul.

Together, they climbed up that pass, and God routed the entire garrison through them. Just two men. The enemy’s line panicked and broke, marking the turning point of the entire battle, and it all began with one man saying to another, “I’m with you.”

Some of the most important leadership in the world isn’t out front. It’s the man beside you who won’t let you go alone.

We’ve been conditioned to picture leadership as always being at the forefront. The visionary. The one with the plan, the platform, the voice. And while that’s one type, there’s another kind that Scripture honors just as much. The world has a much greater shortage of it. It’s the person who stands beside someone facing a challenging call and says, “I’m with you. You’re not doing this alone.”

Think about who in your life is currently trying to climb some challenging pass.

– A friend starting over after a job loss.

– A younger man in your church stepping into something larger than he feels prepared for.

– Your pastor, who may be feeling more exhausted and alone than anyone realizes.

– Your own grown son, struggling with heavy burdens while pretending he’s fine.

Most of them don’t need you to fix things. They don’t need your five-point plan. What they need is what that armor-bearer offered Jonathan—a companion who simply says, “I’m with you. Whatever this is, you don’t have to carry it alone.”

You will never know how many men are just one, “I’m with you” away from finding their courage.

Here’s the challenge: Being the person beside someone means you might not get credit. History didn’t even record the armor-bearer’s name. He understood that if the story were ever told, Jonathan’s name would be the one remembered, not his.

He did it anyway because he cared more about his friend and the work God was doing than about being recognized for it. That’s what second-half leadership looks like. After spending the first half chasing recognition, you have nothing left to prove, making you ideally positioned to support someone else and focus on them.

DO THIS ONE THING

Come alongside one man this week.

Think of a man in your life who is facing a difficult climb—a struggle, a calling, or a heavy season he may not be open about. This week, reach out to him. Let him know, “I’m with you. You’re not carrying this alone.” Then show up, check in, and be there again next week. Don’t wait to be asked. Men in tough situations rarely ask for help. Be the armor-bearer. Go up the pass beside him.

THE ANCHOR VERSE

“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.”—Proverbs 17:17 (NIV)

Born for times of adversity. Some of the men around you are facing their adversity right now. In a sense, you were born for this. Be the one who shows up when things get tough.

You’ve endured enough of your own difficult seasons to understand the impact one steady person can make. Now, you have the opportunity to be that person for someone else.

Who in your life is struggling with something significant right now that you could support? What is stopping you from telling them, “I’m with you” this week?

That’s the essence of the armor-bearer. He didn’t solve any problems; he simply refused to let his friend face challenges alone. Never underestimate the value of your presence to a man in distress.

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— Ron

Three Things that Really Helped Me

A man who falls alone stays down longer. A man with a brother nearby gets up faster — not because the brother fixes anything, but because the brother is there, in the actual moment, saying I’ve got you instead of here’s what you should do.

THIS WEEK

I have an entire shelf of books that focus on how a man can rebuild his life after experiencing burnout and drifting. These books explore the journey of returning to God, reconnecting with his marriage, and rediscovering himself in the second half of life. Many of them offer structured approaches, such as the seven habits, the five disciplines, or the twelve steps, to achieve a renewed spiritual life.

Some of it is good. I’ve recommended a few of those books myself.

But if I’m honest, most of those lists weren’t what helped me. They were good ideas I read and quickly forgot.

This week, I want to share what helped me rebuild. Not the polished version, but the true one.

There were three things. That’s it. No twelve-step plan. Three things that were simple enough to do, and true enough to matter.

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The first one was small, and it changed everything. I stopped performing.

For years, I presented a version of myself to others that was capable and steady—the guy who seemed to have it all together and didn’t face the same problems as others. Maintaining that image took more energy than I ever acknowledged, even to myself.

What broke it open wasn’t a retreat or a sermon. It was one conversation. I sat across from a friend I trusted, and instead of giving him the version of my life that sounded fine, I told him the actual thing. The thing I was usually embarrassed to talk about.

I remember how it felt afterward. Lighter. Not because anything was solved that day. Lighter because for the first time in years, I wasn’t carrying it by myself.

“The thing that lives only in silence has power over you. The moment you say it out loud to one other person, that power starts to break.”

That single conversation didn’t fix my life. But it was the hinge on which everything else turned.

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The second thing was finding one man who could say “me too” instead of giving advice.

I didn’t expect this when I started. The most helpful support I received wasn’t from a counselor using a specific framework—although I recognize that counseling has its value. What made the biggest difference was a man who had experienced the same things I was going through and could simply say, “Me too.”

Advice can often feel overwhelming when you’re facing something difficult. Everyone seems to have their own theories to share. But what I really needed wasn’t another theory. I wanted someone who had genuinely experienced this kind of darkness and emerged on the other side. I needed someone who could calmly assure me, without any guarantees, that there is indeed a way through to the other side.

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. — Ecclesiastes 4:9–10 (NIV)

A man who falls alone stays down longer. A man with a brother nearby gets up faster — not because the brother fixes anything, but because the brother is there, in the actual moment, saying I’ve got you instead of here’s what you should do.

I didn’t go looking for a mentor. I just found one man who’d been through something like what I was going through, and I let him know me. That relationship did more for me than anything I ever read.

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The third thing is harder to explain, so let me try.

For years, I read the Bible the way a preacher reads the Bible. Every passage, some part of my brain was already asking how it would preach. Where the illustration was. What are the three points?

I had turned the Bible into material for something I delivered on Sundays.

What helped was learning to read a passage and let it speak to me. Not mine it for material. Not manage it. Just sit with it.

“The road back wasn’t more discipline. It was the strange, uncomfortable practice of needing God again, instead of just managing my relationship with him.”

I still catch myself slipping back into the old habit more than I’d like. But every time I catch it and choose differently, something in me settles that nothing else touches.

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That’s it. Three things: I stopped performing, found a friend who said “me too,” and allowed the Bible to be honest with me again, instead of just being useful.

None of it is complicated. It’s really one decision, made three different ways — stop managing your life from a distance, and actually let yourself be in it.

THE ANCHOR VERSE

Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. — Galatians 6:2 (NIV)

Not carry your own burden well. Not manage it quietly so nobody has to see it. Carry each other’s.

The question for this week: Who is actually carrying anything of yours right now? And if the honest answer is nobody — what’s the smallest step you could take this week to change that?

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— Ron

The Forge of Worship

Worship is far more than singing songs on Sunday. It is a powerful act of surrender that recalibrates the heart. When a man bows before God, he steps off the throne of self-reliance and kneels in humility before his Maker. In that posture, pride is broken, identity is restored, and a fresh vision is received.

Building Mature Men through an Encounter with Jesus

If you’re in the second half of life like many of the men I coach, you probably know that restless ache for deeper purpose. The career peaks are behind you, family responsibilities have shifted, and you’re asking, ‘Lord, what now?’

The answer isn’t in striving harder. It’s found in genuine worship. As Psalm 95:6 says, ‘Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker.’

This is the invitation into the forge where God shapes spiritually mature men.”

Worship: The Key to Spiritual Maturity for Men

Worship is far more than singing songs on Sunday. It is a powerful act of surrender that recalibrates the heart. When a man bows before God, he steps off the throne of self-reliance and kneels in humility before his Maker. In that posture, pride is broken, identity is restored, and a fresh vision is received.

For men in the second half of life, this is essential. The world tells us this season is about coasting or slowing down. But worship reorients us toward greater fruitfulness and purpose in Christ.

How Worship Builds Men Who Finish Strong

True worship molds us into leaders who finish the race well. As we bow before the Lord, anxiety gives way to confidence rooted in God’s promises. We gain the strength to lead our families with integrity, make wise decisions, and stand firm through life’s challenges. Worship is not an escape from responsibility—it is the training ground that equips us for mature, faithful living.

When Worship Aroused Men to Purpose

History shows the transforming power of worship when men encounter the Holy Spirit.

In 1727, during the Moravian Pentecost in Herrnhut, Germany, a group of ordinary men gathered in worship and prayer. The Holy Spirit moved powerfully among them, leading to hours of repentance and surrender. Out of that encounter came the first great Protestant missionary movement. Those men carried the Gospel to distant lands and sustained over a century of continuous prayer.

Similarly, in the Welsh Revival of 1904–1905, rugged working men entered chapels and left transformed. Hardened lives were changed, communities were renewed, and men rose up with new courage and calling. In both cases, worship was the catalyst that turned ordinary men into instruments of God’s purpose.

The Challenge in Modern Worship

Today, many churches face a quiet crisis in worship. Services often emphasize polished music, lighting, and emotional experience over deep encounter. As a result, men frequently stand disengaged, arms folded, feeling more like spectators than participants.

When worship lacks challenge, physical expression, and a clear call to obedience, it fails to disciple men effectively. The masculine edge of surrender, strength, and mission gets softened, leaving many wondering why their hearts remain unmoved.

Practical Ways Churches Can Build Worship That Forms Men

Churches that want to raise spiritually mature men can make these intentional shifts:

  • Encourage physical postures of worship such as kneeling, lifting hands, or bowing. These actions reinforce the heart’s surrender and make Psalm 95:6 a lived reality.
  • Create space for purposeful response. After strong worship, invite men to come forward for prayer, confession, or commitment. Let mature brothers pray bold, direct prayers that send them out with fresh resolve.

My Charge to You

Men, worship is not optional in the second half of life. It is the place where God forges our character and clarifies our calling.

Commit to engaging fully in corporate worship. Sing with conviction. Kneel without hesitation. Allow the Holy Spirit to work deeply in you.

Then lead your family in the same way. Gather them regularly to worship, pray aloud, and model humility before God.

The second half of your life can be marked by greater impact and maturity—if you let worship do its work.

Take Psalm 95:6 as your guide: Come, worship and bow down; kneel before the Lord your Maker. Step into the forge and let God build you into the man He created you to be.

If this stirs your heart, leave a comment or reach out. I’m committed to walking alongside men like you as we follow Jesus with renewed fire.

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Living into Your Kingdom Purpose: Step 5

You were made for more than survival. You were made to reign in purpose.

You now have your Kingdom Purpose Statement and proof you can walk it out.

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You were made for more than survival. You were made to reign in purpose. Let’s finish what God started in you.

Living into Your Kingdom Purpose: Step 4

Purpose dies in comfort.

Today’s the day we’re taking specific action.

Purpose dies in comfort. It ignites in courage. This is the day Rebound men stop hesitating.

Today’s action: Take ONE bold step toward your Kingdom Purpose Statement (make the call, send the message, start the project, confess the sin, forgive the person—whatever obedience looks like).

Comment on the step you took (no details needed, just “I did it”). Watch what God does when a man finally moves.

Living into Your Kingdom Purpose: Step 3

A man living his Kingdom Purpose doesn’t leave his family on the sidelines.

Congratulations on getting this far. You’re serious about making an impact.

A man living his Kingdom Purpose doesn’t leave his family on the sidelines. He leads them into it.

Today’s action: Gather your wife and kids (even for 5 minutes). Read Ephesians 2:10 out loud and tell them one way you’re stepping into your purpose this week. Ask them how they see God using you.

Comment “Family activated” when it’s done. Your legacy starts in your living room.

Living into Your Kingdom Purpose: Step 2

Kingdom Purpose isn’t a feeling—it’s a decision.

It’s day 2 of Discovering and Living into Your Kingdom Purpose.

Kingdom Purpose isn’t a feeling—it’s a decision.

In the Rebound 8-Week Transformation for Christian Men, I teach the same 5-Minute Decision Protocol:

  1. What does God’s Word say?
  2. What does my identity in Christ demand?
  3. What’s the next obedient step?

Today’s action: Run ONE decision you’re facing through that filter. Then do it.

Comment “Protocol activated” when you’ve done it.

Purpose without obedience is just a nice idea. Let’s make it reality.