In light of the recent legal ruling by Judge Walker that overturned Proposition 8 Jennifer Roback Morse listed a few conclusions if this ruling is to stand:

* Redefining marriage as the union of any two persons will undermine the biological basis for parenthood, which amounts to a redefinition of parenthood.

* Same sex Marriage will marginalize men from the family.

* Redefining marriage will increase the power of the state over civil society, including religious bodies .

Read her excellent article The Institution Formerly Known as Marriage

Here are other excellent insights on Marriage.

How Marriage Shapes our Culture, Children and Ourselves

Durable Goods, Durable Evils

Every person who has ever lived, has experienced the wounds from being alive. We also have wounded others with our words, actions and looks. At times our wounding of others has been unintentional, at other times it has sadly been intentional.

Theophostic Prayer ministry has changed my life more than any other spiritual practice or experience. The name Theophostic means “God’s Light”. When we experience an emotional wound or trauma in life, a door is open in our life for the lies of Satan to gain a foothold in our destiny.

Theophostic prayer has blessed my life more than I ever imagined. My ONE regret is that I did not pursue Theophostic Prayer more when we first heard of it 15 years ago.

Theophostic Prayer

I can’t recommend enough the book: A Miller Miles in a Thousand Years. With insight and joyful playfulness, Donal Miller courageously injects hope and destiny into the Story that God is writing with our lives. Transparency is the hallmark of any book Donal Miller writes, but with this new book he unfolds the manifest glory of each and every life. No one is left behind, read this book with a friend who has lost hope that his hearts desire will be realized in their life. This book will become like fresh oxygen to those who have been on life support for too long.

I read this artice today from The Saturday Times in England. It is shockingly honest and insightful. It contains a few inaccuracies about marriage bit overall an good insight to what is going on in the culture of single men in the UK.

Guyland: stuck in the world of male spinsters

This is a great video to encourage young men the hope we have in Jesus to become sexually whole and pure. Please watch this video, it is long, but if you can’t watch all of it, just watch part of it. Really encouraging.

Mark Woodward – God’s Power to Keep a Young Man Pure from Pure Passion on Vimeo.

I am reading the book; The Eight Masks of Men by Frederick G. Grosse. I have read many books on the numerous maladies that affect men and keep men from walking in close intimate and nurturing relationships with other men, like David & Jonathan in the Old Testament, but this book is special. This book presents insights that give me hope for my self and the men that I meet with. He lists the eight masks that men wear and the God given desire beneath the mask that men wear. I am being personally challenged in ways that I did not realize that I needed. If you work with men, I encourage you get a hold of a copy and spend some time and allow Jesus to search your heart and admit the masks that you may wear.

Here they are:

Loneliness; hides: desire for community
Rage and anger; hide: pain and hurt
Compulsion; hides: desire for love
Performance; hides: desire for acceptance
Control; hides: desire for friendship
Producing; hides: desire to just “be”
Competition; hides: desire for humility
Institutional religion; hides: desire for spiritual growth

Do you see yourself in this list?

The name for this website came to me one day when I was walking near our home and seeing someone ahead of me, I sensed that I should pray for them. I looked at them from behind as I walked; and asked Jesus “ what do I pray for this person?” He said “pray that the glory that I created them for would be restored”. It reminded me of John 17: 22 “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one.”

This is what I am about, encouraging the glory that Jesus has given us to be manifested in the lives of men. This thought was further reinforced by listening to Gary Barkalow whose site The Noble Heart has a series of teaching on this subject.

In this world, men are lost. There is an ongoing battle for their identity. It is not to be found, in sports, sex, money, games, cinema, etc… It is found in accepting that we were made for Him, to have our life of joy, being found and wanted by Him and to live in that relationship.