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How have you learned the Father? This is one of the most central questions to our spiritual formation. It’s a question posted by George MacDonald as he unpacks Sonship in Unspoken Sermons. It’s a question that has stopped me in my tracks. If we were to dive deeply into this question, become fully aware of...

I pulled out of the carpool line at the kids’ school today and felt a blog rising up in my heart. Rather than write it, I sensed the Holy Spirit’s nudge to record it as an audio. Never did that before but hope it’ll be good nourishment for you today. When you have a chance...

lis·ten/ˈlisən/ v. give one’s attention to; hear Talk less, listen more. Why is it so important to make your point? Why is it so important to be right? ~ Dave Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention, gain understanding. Listen, my son, accept what I say, and the years of your life will...

What a phenomenal title.  I wish I could take credit from it, but I borrowed it from a chapter title of a much better writer than myself, Matthew Crawford, in Shop Class as Soul Craft.  I strongly recommend reading his book.  One of the most formative of yet for me on the masculine journey. Recently,...

God is clearing the land and rebuilding his kingdom with you. Wear work gloves. Your best days are yet to come. When your memories exceed your dreams, you are headed for the grave. – Bart   I will always show you where to go.     I’ll give you a full life in the emptiest of places—...

  When my son was six, I posed this question to him: “Joshua, what does a man need to survive?”  After careful and honest consideration, his response was: “A wallet and a cell phone.” It was brilliant. And painful. Brilliant because of his perceptivity about our culture; painful because the culture in which my kids...