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You Were Never Meant to Be Quiet

Jesus had twelve disciples. But He only gave a nickname to two of them. James and John. Sons of Zebedee. Fishermen from Galilee. He called them Boanerges — Sons of Thunder. Not Sons of Patience. Not Sons of Politeness. Not Sons of “Let’s not ruffle any feathers.” Thunder.  I’ve been sitting with that for a while now. Because I think a lot of men have been told — by the culture, by the church, sometimes even by the people closest to them — to be quieter. Smaller. Less. To dial it back. To soften the edges. And somewhere along the way, we listened.   There’s a version of maturity that looks a lot like passivity. We call it keeping the peace. We call it being the bigger man. We call it wisdom. Sometimes it is wisdom. But sometimes — and I want to be honest with you here — it’s just fear wearing a spiritual costume. James and John weren’t perfect men. There’s a moment in Luke 9 where they ask Jesus if they should call down fire from heaven on a village that didn’t welcome H...
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When the World Is on Fire, What Does a Man Hold Onto?

I am not writing this from a safe distance. American soldiers are dead. Missiles are flying over cities that were vacation destinations last week. Markets are reacting. Families are watching the news and not sleeping well. And underneath all of it — underneath the headlines and the geopolitical analysis and the social media takes — there is a quieter, more personal question that most men are carrying but not saying out loud. What do I actually hold onto when the world feels like it is coming apart? Not what am I supposed to say I hold onto. Not what sounds right in a Bible study. What do I actually reach for when the ground starts moving? I want to answer that question honestly. Because I have been there. And the answer changed my life. The Thing Nobody Wants to Admit Most men are not okay right now. Not because of the war specifically. But because the war is the latest thing in a long list of things that remind us how little control we actually have. The job that is no...
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