The Heart of a Warrior

One sign of disorientation is a man who settles for being a servant of the kingdom rather than a Warrior for it.

God’s intentions for us are clear, and they are wonderful. But they involve learning, and I am not the Teacher. I know him, though. He has been training me for a number of years, and he is always eager to take on new apprentices, Warriors to train and share his way with. It is not a journey for the faint of heart, but it is unique, noble, unpredict

Healing the heart is our Father’s imperative work and our introduction to training. Training? Yes, training, learning to experience being a Beloved Son. In the midst of battle, the enemy counts on a man never experiencing that he is a Beloved Son. Lack of this aspect of training makes for a far easier fight for our enemy and a continued small-story

You and I were never meant to go it alone. And we never are truly alone. We never have been and never will be. God has a plan, and it has always been more than just to save us from judgment, glorious as that part of the plan is. It has always been to share Life with us by bestowing love on us and giving to our hearts, through intimacy, oneness with

A man’s first moments of training are to recover from his past, from the losses and wounds accumulated in the course of his life journey. We don’t go back to the past to stay in it; we go back as men to honor our moments of loss, to grieve them, to acknowledge that they happened, they hurt, they mattered, and they need to be treated. We go back wit

Try this: Missions find you. You don’t have to find them. A man will have several missions in his lifetime. They are bigger than he knows and always have a purpose that includes both his heart and the hearts of others.

The Heart of a Warrior must learn that God is good and is up to good in his life and in the lives of others. The Father’s aim is to deploy his Beloved Sons into many different situations where he wants a kingdom presence.

The gospel is about way more than just being forgiven for sin. Wonderful though that is, if we stop there, then we’re vastly short-selling the hugeness, the surpassing glory, of what God has accomplished through Jesus. The gospel is about restoration, a future, and a hope. For all you bottom-line guys, here is what the gospel in its fullness is abo

Until we are trained, then regardless of our standing as believers, our false self will be the voice that speaks most of the time about most things. Complaining, accusing, labeling, judging, being impatient and frustrated, name calling, overdramatizing, getting angry and vengeful—all are a part of false self’s commentary.