I am very new to this being a man thing, and I'm still not there, and I’m on a path. I grew up in a culture that told me going to war made you a man. Going to prison. Getting locked up. Coming back fr...  Read More

His story began and ended among the ranks of the working class. Abandoned as a child, he was passed through eleven foster homes before he landed in a family willing to meet his most basic needs. As so...  Read More

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...  Read More

It 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 m...  Read More

How 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 Script...  Read More

What 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,...  Read More

When 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 b...  Read More

Every one of [the old men] had a good knife in his pocket, sharp, the blades whetted narrow and concave, the horn of the handle worn smooth. These men had known hard use, nearly all of them....You cou...  Read More

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, GreenlightsIt hurt like hell. The moment the block of Ponder...  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...  Read More

I’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, allo...  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...  Read More

“It may be that when we no longer know what to dowe have come to our real work,and that when we no longer know which way to gowe have come to our real journey.The mind that is not baffled is not emplo...  Read More

The 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...  Read More

“We can see God in everything and miss him in anything.” –Ken Helser, A Place for the HeartI had heard the story a dozen times. But every time, through tears, I found myself doing the math. Every week...  Read More

“One of the most important tasks of a moral society must be to make boys into good men."–Abigail Shrier, Wall Street JournalAbigail Shrier is among the rare and brave public figures giving voice to wh...  Read More

“Man doesn’t make kings. God does.” –Robert the Bruce, Scotland, 1274-1329What is the most important thing?What if you had another chance?What if there was a secret treasure waiting to be found?What i...  Read More

As 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 entru...  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 authorThough I’ve navig...  Read More

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, its the only thing that ever has.-Margaret MeadOur capacity to be strengthened by God and to find peace i...  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 ...  Read More

Friends,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 sh...  Read More

I 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 betwe...  Read More

I 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 ca...  Read More