Running Toward Danger | Featuring Darin Kinder

So much work remains. So much evil to fight. So much healing to reach for. So many wounded to love. Consider this your invitation to join in that work. To do what is right, no matter the cost. To hold to the straight line in the midst of the battle. To define your success by faithfulness in the choices you make. The darkness is there, and we cannot

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Life is comfortable when you separate yourself from people who are different from you. That epitomizes what my life was like: characterized by comfort. But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.

Our churches’ typical method for dealing with men doesn’t produce engaged men, or trained men, or settled men. Instead, we arm men with a few Bible verses and a weekly speech. Then we send them off to a “life group” at someone’s home, where it’s assumed they will “connect” by talking about that week’s speech. What so many men get out of all this is

Our fathers taught, “Your actions speak so loudly I can’t hear what you say.” Today’s young people tell us, “Don’t talk the talk if you don’t walk the walk.” Each maxim merely reflects a higher wisdom that urges Christian leaders to “conduct [themselves] in a manner worthy of the gospel” (Phil. 1:27).