“Men, to stand up and act like a man, you must first bow down and surrender to Jesus. That’s where it starts. Recognizing that we have all sinned against a Holy God and there is nothing we can do to get us back to Him. The only way we make it back to the Father is through the Grace of Jesus’s blood poured out for us.” (47)
“One of the key ways to fight pride in your life is to worship. Find a gospel-centered church, sit under the teaching of the Word of God, and when you come before the Lord, don’t pretend it’s Christian karaoke. It’s not. In my church, we sing our faces off. Hands up. Top of our lungs. Why? Because we can. Because the God of the universe actually took the time to think us up.” (65)
“Humility is not a feeling. Humility is a posture. A response to God. A response born out of knowing who He is and who we are in light of Him. Humility is like exercise; it’s a thing we do. An action. We posture ourselves before the Lord and bow. Knee to the dirt. Face to the carpet. And when we do, the Bible tells us that He will lift us up, exalt us, in His time.” (67)
“Let me let you in on a secret. There is a part of the American dream that is 100 percent at odds with the message of the gospel. The pursuit of comfort. Nowhere in scripture does it say to pursue it or that God owes it to you. If you wanna pursue a comfortable life, then do not follow Jesus. Just don’t.” (72)
“Men are expert isolationists. You know why? Because we think, I got this…You were created in the image of God, and God said it is not good that man be alone.” (76)
“The rebellious person gives in to the temptation of the forbidden fruit, follows their own desires, and ends up, despite some fun along the way, being devoured. Lion food, which just becomes lion poop. The religious person gives in to the temptation of the fig leaf, thinking that by the works of their own hands they can cover over their sin and shame and therefore don’t need God. They follow their own rules and they end up, despite great effort, being devoured. Also lion food and lion poop.” (83)
“But the gospel-centered person follows Christ. Regardless of what you’ve done, regardless of your past, regardless of what has been taken from you, regardless of how many times the enemy has defeated you, if you are in Christ, then you are fighting from victory and not for victory.” (83)
“Here’s the reality of the world in which we find ourselves—the opposite of faith is not doubt, the opposite of faith is fear. Fear paralyzes and faith moves to action. To take up the shield of faith means that you take action in your family, in your church, in your community.” (109)
“Being a man means you leverage that authority to endure pain on behalf of others. Proverbs 24:16 says, The righteous man falls down seven times and rises again. Perseverance is not a value in our current culture. Very few people keep doing the same thing over and over in our culture.” (133)
“To be strong is not necessarily to be tough. It’s to be tender for and with the people that God has placed in your life. It is to make yourself vulnerable. It is to expose yourself to great pain and great discomfort for the benefit of the ones whom God has placed in your life. That’s what it means to be a man.” (134)
“You and I are not primarily tools in the hand of God to be used or even soldiers in His army to fight; we are primarily sons in God’s family to be loved.” (184)
