First, the knight embodied a well-defined set of ideals.

How does this apply to fathers with sons looking to them for leadership? Often in the following ways: • We invest our sons with marketplace competence, but not moral conviction. • We help our sons to become socially successful, but not spiritually significant. • We give our sons good things, but not the best things.

Second, most fathers lack a directional process that calls their sons to embrace the manhood they should be able to define.

First, we have failed to deliver to our sons a clear, inspiring, biblically grounded definition of manhood.

What is a transcendent cause? It is a mission that lifts us beyond ourselves, a passion that stirs us to a self-sacrifice and causes us to contribute to the larger community. A transcendent cause is not something we do in addition to everything else; instead, it is the one factor that motivates everything else we do. Put in the simplest terms, we

SOURCE #2: FAMILY Historically, Dad was a critical piece in the manhood puzzle. But in our age of absent fathers, this piece is missing.

How does a father train his “page” to obey God’s will, to embrace these ideals as his very own? I believe there are four primary ways: 1. A father must set a godly example. ... 2. A father trains his page to obey God’s will by teaching spiritual truth. ... 3. A father trains his son to obey biblical truth by sharing stories. Imagine a young boy in

Honesty “Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, for we are members of one another” (Ephesians 4:25).

A transcendent cause must be truly heroic, a noble endeavor calling forth bravery and sacrifice. • A transcendent cause must be timeless. It contains significance beyond the moment. • A transcendent cause must be supremely meaningful. It pulsates with meaning.