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A Sacred Sorrow

2/18/2015

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Soon after September 11, 2001, Michael Card received a note from a friend who observed that the American church had no songs to sing in response to the horrific attacks. The friend challenged Card, saying, “You need to write laments, to equip ‘lament teams’ ” (p. 7). In A Sacred Sorrow Card has offered his response—a clear call for believers to embrace suffering and to offer lament as an act of worship. He invites believers to “recover the lost language of lament.”

Twenty-three short chapters discuss Job, David, Jeremiah, and Jesus as examples of lamenters. After four introductory chapters, Card spends four or five chapters on each of these four persons and then draws conclusions in chapter 23. Six appendixes follow, including a section on “Journaling/Writing Your Own Lament” and a short bibliography of related works the author has found meaningful. 

In his companion book, A Sacred Sorrow Experience Guide, Card offers a ten-week plan with five days of reflection in each week. They mirror the arrangement of the book in that week one is introductory, then two weeks are spent on each of the four biblical characters, giving short background comments with suggested biblical readings, and then concluding with a week of reflections. The background comments are largely based on or excerpted from the main book. Each day has two or three reflective questions. Day five of each week invites readers to write their own laments. His method is to ask readers to “reflect on” certain thoughts or images “as you compose your own lament.” The focus is on the individual lament rather than corporate lament.

Card limits his focus to the four biblical characters to encourage recovering the lost language of lament. That is, he does not share his own story, he does not address the attacks of 9/11, nor does he specifically address other life pains. Likewise the Experience Guide is very general in application, trusting readers to make connections to the biblical stories and compose their own laments while reflecting on them. He does not explain the structure of lament psalms, and so he does not develop that structure as a template for modern use.

Card sees lament as a journey toward an outcome. He asserts Job’s “pain and deep sense of abandonment by God” was actually a “false perception” (p. 59). Job, Card says, prepares believers for the journey through the Book of Psalms. That journey progresses from Psalm 1, “a hymn to Torah obedience,” through laments for which “Torah obedience provides no answer” (p. 42). The journey ends in the final praise hymns of the Psalter, that is, in praise for God’s loyal love.

Card says the Writings, the third section of the Hebrew Bible, were put together during a time of existential change in Israel in which “God was preparing his people for a deeper understanding of himself and his hesed” (p. 41). In his conclusions Card states his belief that in the New Jerusalem lament will be “over forever,” for believers will “leave [their] laments and forget once and for all the vocabulary of their pain and the syntax of their sorrows. Lament will become the faithful companion with whom we part ways when the journey comes to an end” (p. 142). Card asserts that as a journey “lament is one of the most direct paths to the true praise we know we have lost” (p. 21).

The most important contribution of Card’s work is its function as a call to view prayers of lament as legitimate. On the one hand it is a common biblical model, and on the other hand without lament life’s wounds “continue to fester. The longer they are denied the more gangrenous they become” (p. 77). Card is not the first to make a call to the church to revive the use of lament, but it is a welcome call and challenge to avoid denying life’s pains and to speak honestly about them in one’s pursuit of God. 


This book review was written by Brian L. Webster and David Beach



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Adam:  God's Beloved

2/17/2015

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Like many of Nouwen’s other books, Adam is simultaneously simple and profound.  This insight into reality – that the simple is profound and the profound simple – is woven throughout Nouwen’s work.  Life itself is both simple and profound, as is the life of a disciple of Jesus, as is the life of prayer, as is the life of ministry, as is death, as is life after death.

In Adam, Nouwen confronts this interweaving of the simple and the profound in the most deeply personal way possible.  At first glance, the book appears to be a biography of Adam Arnett, a seriously handicapped young man, narrated by Nouwen who became his caretaker in Daybreak, the L’Arche community home in Richmond Hill, just north of Toronto, Canada.  Yet, as the reader turns the pages of the text, the biography becomes an autobiography at the same time.  Indeed, Nouwen’s telling of Adam’s story morphs into the parallel story of Nouwen’s life during his time with Adam and afterward.

Nouwen writes soon after Adam’s death and, as we learn, during what was to be the last year of his own life.  Nouwen was convinced that Adam’s person and life was an incarnation of the person of Jesus Christ.  This faith-conviction motivates Nouwen to share his incarnational insight through his gift of writing.  Nouwen’s prayerful reflections led him to see a paralleling of many of the aspects of the life-story of Adam with that of Jesus as described for us in the four Gospels.  What Nouwen composes for his readers is, on one level, this parallel.  For Nouwen, Adam’s life had a hidden period, public period, passion, death, burial, and form of resurrection.  This comparing of Adam’s life-story to that of Jesus provides the structure for the text.

Woven into Adam’s story is Nouwen’s own story at that moment in his life.  In some respects, Nouwen’s life-story reverses Adam’s and Jesus’.  Nouwen lived a very public life as teacher, lecturer, and writer for most of his career.  Now, in what were to become the last two years of his life, he experiences a much more hidden life as pastor of Daybreak. 

During this hidden life, even the renowned spiritual master encounters himself and Jesus in new, surprising, and challenging ways.  In his role as caregiver to Adam, Nouwen experiences the depth of human fragility, vulnerability and dignity.  The normally fluent speaker and writer is so challenged that his usual insightful, confident speech about the spiritual life is reduced to a simple recounting of experiences and reflections on how they connect to the life of Jesus.  Nouwen writes almost as a student or novice encountering new spiritual realities for the first time.

Adam does show us Nouwen at his best -- as a human being.  Here we see a Nouwen who is faced with his own vulnerability as a human being and disciple of Jesus Christ.  He writes, haltingly at times and repetitively at others, of his ongoing discovery of his own vulnerability and neediness.  Here is Nouwen without the defenses of his brilliant intellect and polished literary skills.  Here, indeed, is Nouwen a “wounded healer” himself.  Ironically, it is Adam, also a wounded healer, who becomes Nouwen’s spiritual guide.  It is Adam who, through his own unchosen vulnerability, becomes the inspiration for Nouwen to touch the depths of his own vulnerabilities.

Nouwen recounts how this process led him into his own personal crisis.  He puts it this way:  “I was going through the deep human struggle to believe in my belovedness even when I had nothing to be proud of.” (79)  Coming through his crisis, Nouwen states that:  “Somewhere though I recognized that Adam’s way, the way of radical vulnerability, was also the way of Jesus.” (79)  This, I believe, is Nouwen’s great, perhaps greatest, discovery of his own personal spiritual life.  It is this autobiographical truth that is Nouwen’s “pearl of great price.”  It is this that he wishes to share with any and all who would read his book.  And, I don’t believe Nouwen would care if readers and reviewers said that this wasn’t his best work.  I suspect that Nouwen was quite at peace during his dying because he had come to know the truth about himself in a way that he had never known before:  that like Jesus and like Adam Arnett, he too, Henri Nouwen, was God’s Beloved.  Nothing else really matters.

- Dr.George Matejka, Chair, Philosophy Department, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, OH wrote this book review - 


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I don't know

2/16/2015

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Almost everyone loves to hear stories of God “showing up.” We feel trapped by circumstances, we pray in desperation, and a providential answer arrives just in time. We know it’s God, and it’s easy to praise Him--for a while.

But so much of life is lived in the “idk” (“I don’t know”)—those in-between times when our problems proliferate and threaten to obscure God’s goodness. We wonder where He is.

A cluster of psalms attributed to Asaph (Psalms 73:1–83:18) deal with life in the “idk.” Again and again, the psalmist revealed the raw honesty of his heart as he saw his people violated and tyrants prospering.

In Psalm 77:1-20 he wrote, “All night long I prayed, with hands lifted toward heaven, but my soul was not comforted” (Psalm 77:2). That anguish soon slipped into resignation: “This is my fate; the Most High has turned his hand against me” (Psalm 77:10).

“But then . . .” (Psalm 77:11).

For those who trust in God, every moment living in the “idk” has a corresponding “but then.” Asaph continued, “But then I recall all you have done, O LORD; I remember your wonderful deeds of long ago” (Psalm 77:11). He then celebrated the “God of great wonders” who displays “awesome power among the nations” (Psalm 77:14). The conclusion is one of triumphant memories, not despair over the present.

Despite the fear that permeates many of Asaph’s psalms, the focus is on God, His past goodness, and His promise to be ourGod. We anticipate a day when justice will reign. Then we will look back and see how God was near us every step of the way.

The times when we don’t know what to do are the times to let God build our faith. When we don’t have anywhere else to go, He has us exactly where He wants us.


This post was written by Tim Gustafson of Our Daily Journey.  

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Sunday Meditation

2/15/2015

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Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.
Matthew 5:23-24


The process of recovery increases our awareness of the ways we have hurt other people. For many of us this realization leads almost instaneously to shame. And shame leads almost immediately to increasingly desperate attempts to be perfect in order to mask the feeling that we are fundamentally flawed. The downward cycle of failure-shame-trying harder-failure will gradually immobilize us as our self-contempt and depression increase.

In this text Jesus invites us to give up on trying harder. He suggests a completely different and very practical way of dealing with failure. Notice that Jesus assumes that living in community will lead to the need for making amends. The assumption is that we will not be perfect. We can expect to fail from time to time. Failure need not lead to shame or perfectionism because failure is normal. We all experience it. Accepting this basic reality is the first step in the process toward a healthy response to failure.

Jesus suggests that awareness of our failure doesn't have to lead to trying harder. It can lead to honesty and making amends. We are to speak directly about the problem, ask for forgiveness, make amends as appropriate, and be reconciled if possible.

I fail, Lord.
And then I am ashamed of my failure.
And then I work twice as hard not to fail.
And then I fail again. Lord.
And then I become even more ashamed of my failure.
And then I work ten times as hard not to fail.
And then I fail again..
Help!
Free me from the cycle of failure-shame-perfectionism.
Give me the courage to ask for forgiveness and to make amends.


Amen.

Copyright Dale and Juanita Ryan 
National Association for Christian Recovery



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7 questions Christians need to ask themselves

2/14/2015

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On a daily basis, hundreds of questions come to mind about this faith that I profess. As a pastor, sometimes it is hard to admit that there are times that I need to be intentional about my spiritual growth. This type of progression doesn’t come naturally, because I think humanity’s natural tendency is to follow that which is comfortable and easy. “Comfortable and easy” has me written all over it. Even though this is the case, there are frequent occasions when I need to get real with myself and ask the hard questions. Allow me to take the time to invite you into my own growth process for a few minutes…It is possible you may have to ask yourself these questions too.

Among hundreds of others, I think there are 7 Questions Christians Need to Ask Themselves.

1. Why Do I Follow Jesus? 

I often think about the stories in the Bible about the amazing miracles Jesus accomplished. Whether it was turning water into wine, healing a sick person, or making food appear when supplies were limited, each time He performed these feats His “fan base” would grow considerably. People would follow Him around and immediately come to His side when He showed them something incredible. This was great, but I can imagine that many followed in hopes that He would do these great things for them. In today’s Christian culture, there are many who simply follow Jesus because they want to have their eternal destiny “locked in”. I am not diminishing this concept, but I fear that if this is the only reason we follow Jesus then our faith becomes about what Jesus has or can do for us instead of the light we should be in the darkness.

2. What Gives Me Joy?

So many Christians get the concept of happiness and joy mixed up. In our most immature state, it is easy to want to “abandon ship” when a series of tribulations come our way. I often get discouraged about things that simply do not affect the flow of the kingdom AND, I tend to forget that God has answered much bigger prayers in the past. I have seen miracles and He has spoken to me. Wretched, poor, nothing-to-offer; me. What brings me joy is a delight in knowing that the same loving force that created the universe has everything under control, and loves me…even when I am experiencing temporary chaos.

3. What Am I Doing to Grow?

Do you think farmers get upset because their crops need water and sunlight? Do you think they feel as if it is legalistic to assume that their livestock need fed in order to eventually feed the multitudes? Of course not! A good farmer does what it takes to make sure they are planting and harvesting as much as they can each year. They take advantage of the fertility of their land so that their yield will be bountiful. When a pastor stands up in front of his or her congregation and talks about “legalistic” things like spiritual disciplines (scripture reading, giving, community worship, prayer, etc) they are simply teaching their people how to effectively feed their soul. They are teaching the farmers to farm and experience their own personal harvest. Do we, as Christians, rely on one hour every week as the sole means for our spiritual growth, or does it carry throughout the week?

4. Have I Sacrificed Anything to Follow Christ?

Now, please hear me when I say that this is not a question I publicly ask to send the accuser your way. I think it is a genuinely innocent question that all need to ask themselves. Whether it be in the areas of time, talent, or treasure can we really think of a time in which we had to release something we valued to God? Sometimes we think that we are being persecuted because someone made fun of our prayer time before our lunch break, or we see the direction the government is going in a certain political area…but…what would our faith look like if it was all we had left? Many do operate this way. Just something to ponder…

5. Do I Value Comfort Over Christ?

I can’t tell you how many times I have heard people complain about the taste of the communion wafers at various churches I have attended. Really?!?!…Really?!?! We are remembering a time in which Jesus just got done saying “goodbye for now” to His followers and indicated death was coming, AND for some reason we complain because of the taste of a cracker. Okay…that part of my rant is complete, but in all seriousness, when God asks us to become uncomfortable for His purposes, how do we react? Do we disobey, or give our all?

6. How Do I Treat Non-believers?

It may come as a surprise to many, but non-Christians have no reason to act like Christians. Yep, you heard correctly. So, with this as an understanding, why do we base our judgement of non-Christian behavior using Christian values? Granted, I believe that Christ-following is the source of an abundant life, but we can not expect people who don’t know Him to fully live as if they do… God has sent the Church into the world to serve these people regardless. They are human. They are loved by God. We were in their shoes too at one point. Do we treat people who don’t know Christ with compassion, understanding, and love? Or, do we spit venom at them to inflict mortal wounds? Sure, we must share Christ with all, and be the light of Jesus in this dark world but do we really accomplish this when people flee from our sight when they learn our affiliation?

7. How Important is My Faith?

Assuming that mostly Christians are reading this blog today, the question I have is about how we view the priority of our spiritual life. Ask yourself if your faith is a hobby, habit, or a hunger. When we look at things in this way, it will help us honestly evaluate our relationship with God. Whether it comes to church attendence, giving, prayer, or general growth, can we honestly say that we have a hunger for the things God considers a priority. Is our faith a hobby that we take part in when we don’t have anything else to do or when everything is running smoothly? Is it a habit we have always taken part in, but there is no real meaning attached? Or, do we have a deep hunger for God’s spirit to guide, grow, and send us daily?

When we take the time to honestly evaluate our faith, things can get rather hairy. It may cause us to *gulp* change some things and go a different direction. This is just how it works. Trust God to reveal the sharp edges He wants to chisel as you ask these questions.

Keep Him the center. The world is at stake. Hell hates it when you do.

Love you all.

This post was written by Rev DeCrastos.  You can find his original post here:  http://other-words.net/2015/02/03/7-questions-christians-need-to-ask-themselves/


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Dressed in gentleness

2/13/2015

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Once in a while we meet a gentle person. Gentleness is a virtue hard to find in a society that admires toughness and roughness. We are encouraged to get things done and to get them done fast, even when people get hurt in the process. Success, accomplishment, and productivity count. But the cost is high. There is no place for gentleness in such a milieu.

Gentle is the one who does "not break the crushed reed, or snuff the faltering wick" (Matthew 12:20). Gentle is the one who is attentive to the strengths and weaknesses of the other and enjoys being together more than accomplishing something. A gentle person treads lightly, listens carefully, looks tenderly, and touches with reverence. A gentle person knows that true growth requires nurture, not force. Let's dress ourselves with gentleness. In our tough and often unbending world our gentleness can be a vivid reminder of the presence of God among us.



"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.  Against such things there is no law." - Galatians 5: 22 (NIV)



This post was written by Henri Nouwen.  His website can be accessed here:  http://www.henrinouwen.org


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Teaching tithing

2/12/2015

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When my children were younger, my aunt attempted to teach my son about tithing.  What she didn't know was that we had already taught him this concept.  She laid out 10 dimes and started to tell him that God only wanted one dime the rest were his to keep.  My son, who has always been money savvy, said, "God wants all of it!  I give Him one to show Him that I love Him."  I was beaming.  I thought, "yeah, way to go son!!"  My Aunt said that he was correct and that he must have already known about tithing.  

We had an experience earlier in the week where I taught him the concept.  I had given him a small bag of french fries.  I asked him to let me have one.  He said, "No!  These are mine!!"  I reminded him that I paid for the fries.  I was the one who gave them to him.  If I hadn't given them to him, he would have nothing.  By all rights, those fries belonged to me because I gave them to him to enjoy.  

Later in the meal, we talked about how I got that money.  "God gave me a job so that I would have money to spend on you so you could get fries.  So everything I have belongs to God.  He can have whatever He wants because He supplied me with everything.  Without God, I would have nothing."  

He was just a young boy, I didn't want to wear him out.  So the next day we picked the conversation back up.  "Some people believe that you keep most for yourself and just give God a little bit.  In our family, we believe that everything belongs to God.  I give Him money at church to help pay for His building and other things."  He wanted to know what the "other things" were.  I told him about electricity, water, the pastor's expenses... at that pointed he interrupted me, "Does that pay for the pastor's daughter to have things?"  I said, "yes."  He said, "well, if it pays for her, I don't want to give any!"  He was joking....  We had reached the end of our conversation about money and God's generosity.  I had worn him out.  

Nevertheless, he caught on to the concept that I was trying to teach him...  Just ask my Aunt.

How do you view money?  
Is it yours?  Is it God's?



"This is a church of poor people, and I want the poorest to give without being embarrassed and the richest to come without being begged." ~ Bresee 


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This is just perfect!

2/11/2015

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The seminar speaker emphasized a positive mental approach to everything. And I’m okay with that, for the most part.

He elaborated on how we might stay positive in the face of annoyances. Suppose someone rudely swoops into that prime parking spot just ahead of us. Simply stop and say, “Well, that’s just perfect! Now I can get more exercise by walking farther.”

Such an approach can help us stop whining about trivialities. Some situations are far from “perfect,” however. Sometimes maintaining a positive mental attitude is not only difficult, it isn’t even sane.

In a sense, the entire Bible is devoted to the fact that everything is not perfect. Whole sections of Scripture tell of unspeakable deeds: Murder, rape, cannibalism, treachery, genocide—Earth’s intolerable experiences are well documented.

Bookending all that mayhem is a long-ago and faraway garden where the first man and woman lived in perfection, as well as a promise that the Creator of that garden goodness will return to make everything new (Genesis 2:1-25; Revelation 21:5). And in the middle, woven into the flawed fabric of life, is a unifying thread that gives us reason for real joy.

“[Christ] . . . existed before anything was created,” writes Paul. “He holds all creation together” (Colossians 1:15,17). “He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross” (Colossians 1:20).

When we trust Jesus, we trust the One who put all of this in motion. He came to walk among us and offer the perfect sacrifice for the damage we have inflicted on His creation. And He’s restoring everything to its proper order. One day we’ll say without a hint of irony, “This is just perfect!”



This post was written by Tim Gustafson of Our Daily Journey




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The testimony of the ice cube

2/10/2015

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A Manchineri believer in Brazil, Genesio, recently told missionary Peter Rich, how ice cubes led to his salvation.

 “I used to think that only people that preached God’s Word were able to have ice cubes. I didn’t know what they were. One day I asked my mother, ‘What are those hard things that missionaries have in their cups?’ ‘Son, she replied, ‘That’s just something other people do.

“But I was still curious so I asked Peter, What are those things in your cup? He told me that it was water made hard with cold. I knew he was lying to me. I went home and said to my mother, ‘I think Peter is lying to us. He said those hard things were just water. I know that’s not true.’

“Then one day after we had finished some work we were doing for the missionaries, Peter gave me some water with those hard things in it. I drank the water and asked if I could take the hard things home with me. Peter gave me some water with the hard things in it. I ran home as fast as I could and asked for a bowl to put them in. My mother and brothers and I poked them with our fingers and wondered what they could be. Around midnight we noticed that they were turning into something like water. What could it be?

“Later I was watching when Peter was filling a little tray with water. He said he was going to put them in that box they call a refrigerator and by the next day the water would turn hard. Peter said, ‘Come back tomorrow and I’ll show it to you.’

“The next day I went back and the water was hard. Peter showed me the back of the box and explained that the process that made heat which made the water get hard.

“Not long afterwards I was talking with my brother Tshiko. He was telling me that he didn’t believe the things that the missionary was teaching. I told Tshiko that I also did not believe at first but after seeing how a box made by mere men could take water and transform it into hard rocks I now believed that a God who created all things could surely transform the soul of a wicked person into His image.

“From that time on I looked forward to the meetings because I wanted to learn all I could about this God. I never had any trouble listening from then on. Now I know the true God.”

Genesio along with several other Manchineri believers continues to help Peter translate the Scriptures into the Manchinere language.

Pray that Peter Rich and his co-workers, Genesio and his brother Raimundo, will clearly and accurately translate God’s Word into Manchineri.

This post was written by D McMaster.  You can find the original post here:  http://usa.ntm.org/mission-news/52278/the-testimony-of-the-ice-cube


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Are you a weenie?

2/9/2015

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I heard this saying by an old man in a bar, "men have three knees.  They have a left knee, a right knee and a weenie.  My observation is that a real man tends to use his weenie the most."   

This seems to be the way that many men think.  Hugh Hefner is considered by many men to be a "real man" because he has women available to him.

However, the truth is, Hugh Hefner exploits women and engages in sex trafficking.   The Playboy bunny has become a popular symbol.  It attracts women as well as men.  Sadly, women are willing to be exploited because they think it makes them popular, makes them money, and makes them famous.  

Men are attracted to the Playboy bunny because it allows them to act with their third knee and seek sensuality.  When they do so, they brag about their sexual exploits, have sexual contests with other men, and put down men who are faithful to one woman and one God.  In other words, these men act like weenies.

The truth is:
  • The more promiscuous you are before marriage, the more likely you are to commit adultery AFTER marriage. 
  • Couples who engage in sex before marriage are far more likely to divorce
I can assure you that sex according to God's design is what makes a man real man.

So, when you are tempted to use your third knee, know that this is true:  a real man uses his left and right knees the most.  He uses them by kneeling in prayer and submission to his Savior and Deliverer.

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