2025: A Year of Writing, Teaching, & Formation
This was a exciting and challenging year as welcomed the birth of our third child a week after our oldest daughter was also starting kindergarten. This required me to adjust my writing and teaching schedule to spend more time in dad mode.
I’ve also been steadily working on my upcoming book, 12 Rules for Kingdom Men, which I plan to publish next year. The work has been slower and more demanding that anticipated, but necessary to say what needs to be said. It’s written for men who know they were made for more – and are ready to take responsibility for the strength they carry.
YouTube Highlights
Here are a few highlights from my YouTube channel, including my playlist – More Than a Fairytale
What happened to the villains?
What makes a man?
Fear no death
Top 10 Post of 2025
- By this time tomorrow – Trust God’s power and timing. While he often plays the long game, he can also do what seems impossible and work things out for you by this time tomorrow.
- Leverage tools – Use all the tools available to you to advance the good God has given you. Take wisdom with you without living in fear.
- Lessons from nature – Consider the ant and all of creation as you ponder the mysteries of God. Nature is not God, but it does reveal his power and divine character.
- Pruning gifts – Raw talent is most effective when it is pruned. Natural gifts do not negate the need for discipline and training.
- Mending hearts – God can mend your broken heart. Live in hope and do not give up as the pieces are put back together again.
- Being directed – Continue to make your plans without worrying too much about going to the right or the left. Be wise as you make decisions while also living by faith – trusting God is directing your steps even when things might not make sense to you.
- Strength renewed – There’s no need to hoard your strength. Give yourself freely – knowing more life will come. This is the pattern of the resurrection revealed even in our very bodies.
- No more Mr. Cynic – There’s no need to deny the disappointing realities of life. But cynicism distorts our vision – blocking us from the true goodness and beauty still available. Whatever it takes, resist the appeal of being Mr. Cynic.
- Mutuality doesn’t mean the same – Pursue mutuality in your practice of love, without assuming your expressions will look the same. While we’re all called to love, our practice will reflect our particular station and gifts in life.
- Finding ourselves through beauty – Enjoy beauty in all its many forms. And allow it to change you – calling you to reflect on who you are and who you want to be.
Honorable Mention
- Sexual vampire – Enjoy the many blessings of sex without becoming a needy vampire. Learn to give and receive freely in love without using sex merely to manage your own fears and insecurities.
- Remember Hagar – Trust in God’s promises, and his timing. Don’t attempt to arrange it on your own terms, as God’s promises are fulfilled through the power of his Spirit, not by human efforts. Remember Hagar.
- Rescue the beauty – Rejoice and be glad every time the beauty is rescued because this reminds us of what Christ did for us.
- When Peter Pan’s tragedy is our own – Enjoy the thrills of boyhood without falling into the tragedy of Peter Pan. Find the men who will show you how to mature without losing heart.
