STRENGTH AND HONOUR: THE COURSE
Men play an essential role in the well-being and flourishing of society. In their fullest expression, men supply steady, grounded leadership and direction for their communities. The stability and encouragement godly men provide permit those around them the safety to thrive.
When men do not fulfill their highest purpose, the consequences ripple outward. We see this quite clearly in cultures that fail to understand and value men’s purpose in the world. People feel increasingly isolated, unhappy, and unfulfilled. Genuine connection and fellowship are scarce, divorce is widespread, and families are quietly collapsing under the weight of disconnection.
When men are not called to fulfill this duty, this purpose, there is only ever one thing they turn to instead: empty pleasure. It takes a million forms, but ultimately, it is the only other option. This option is tragically the one more and more men are choosing.
Pornography provides the pleasure of sex without true intimacy. Gluttony provides the pleasure of food without true nourishment. Pride provides the feeling of success without bearing the fruit of actual growth.
Everyone around men—especially their wives—feels the burden when their men retreat into distraction. The motivations for this retreat are old wounds and childhood traumas men endure silently without ever acknowledging them or allowing them to heal.
This sense of duty and purpose has grown so faint in the male psyche due to the steady cultural denigration of masculinity that many boys experience from a young age. The cultural pendulum swings relentlessly between diminishing the masculine and diminishing the feminine, never finding equilibrium, always shifting, always unstable.
It’s time for men to anchor their identity in something deeper than the ever-changing tides of culture, and rebuild themselves on a foundation that is strong, enduring, and true.
From now on, you will catch men
A man becomes a man when he masters the two dogs chained to his wrists: lust and violence. Though it sounds simple, this is the spiritual battle, in which the true enemy is pride. A man is shaped by being broken—inside and out—by sitting alone in his darkest moments long enough to hear his own pain. In letting his ego die, he begins to heal, and from that ruin he rises.
He keeps his violence in check because he understands that force that is not aimed to protect is prideful, and unrestrained lust is weakness. Cowardice, too, is born of this same pride and frailty. Godly men walk humbly in meekness.
A man rises when no one believes in him. He builds in silence, fights in pain and grows through struggle. A man doesn't beg for respect, he earns it. The world won't hand him peace so he forges it through discipline. And when the storm come, he doesn't pray for it to pass.
He becomes one.
“A man” is not what you think it is.
In fact, the concept of masculinity is in major flux. Once, a man was only considered successful based on his abilities to track and hunt animals as a way to feed his community and make offerings to the gods. Then, a man was only considered successful by his ability to bring forth many crops from the earth. After that, a man’s success meant going to work every day to bring home enough money to feed, clothe, and house his family. Now, food comes readily available from the supermarket, and men and women alike are able to work jobs to support their families financially. Men can no longer define their success based on material achievements. Where does that leave us?
This change was entirely necessary for the furthering of humanity’s spiritual evolution, but it was only one step in the right direction. What is required now is not just more change, but total transformation.
The truth is that it is time for men to step into a new way of being, one that honours the role they were created for while reimagining it’s application in this modern world. It is time for men to accept
the formidable pursuit towards godly masculinity.
Whether you see physical prowess or business acumen as the epitome of manhood, whatever your image of the ideal man is, you do not have the complete picture.
Embodying true masculinity is difficult because the current zeitgeist has deluded people (women) to the point where they don’t see a need for men, and, subsequently, men don’t see a reason to improve themselves and step into their sacred manhood when the world seems to just turn on them regardless. The trauma that men experience at the hands of this modern world creates a real stumbling block when it comes to self-actualization and allowing a new reality to take form.
Despite all of this, a new reality is possible. It is possible for men and women to find true harmony and actualization together. It is possible for us to recognize our spiritual design and to live in accordance to that highest purpose. Men are a vital part of bringing this transformation to fruition. It cannot happen only halfway.
If you’re reading this, you are ready to step into full responsibility for making this transformation happen. As you transform your self, so the world around you changes.
A RISING TIDE LIFTS ALL BOATS.
The commitment is yours to make. Join me in becoming formidable. Not perfectly, but increasingly. To heal your core woundings and to use this healing to become the man with so much purpose that empty pleasures no longer have power over you.
God will strengthen you continuously on this path, that you may honor him with a humble obedience, and a formidable pursuit towards godly masculinity, and your own spiritual evolution will encourage others to find this deep form of proper purpose as well.
Join the formidable pursuit.
Mission Brief
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TAKE AIM
In Lesson 1, you will set your intention to become formidable.
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WHO IS YOUR HERO?
In Lesson 2, you receive the tools to discover your personal masculine ideal and learn how to trace your trauma all the way to the root to heal it once and for all.
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PRIDE VS HUMILITY
In Lesson 3, you will learn the true meaning of godly masculinity and how to fight your daily spiritual battle as a man.
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LIMITATIONS
In Lesson 4, you will learn how to apply discipline, confront the unknown, and abolish your victim mindset.
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AWARENESS
In Lesson 5, you’ll learn how to master your mind and become conscious in every moment, allowing you to truly live as a godly man.
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Protect, Serve, Lead
In Lesson 6, you will learn how to apply the three core tenants of godly masculinity to raise the standard in your own life.
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BECOMING THE STANDARD
In Lesson 7, you will take the warrior pledge and cross the threshold into true masculinity, once and for all.
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NOT PERFECTLY, BUT INCREASINGLY
In Lesson 8, you will learn tools to support you as you navigate real life situations from your godly masculine essence.
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MASTERY
In Lesson 9, you will gain mastery over all previous concepts by learning how to raise up the men in your own life, and why it is important.