One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another man, to show them what it looks like to do away with that boyhood stuff. As a result, they often move into adolescence and then adulthood looking like men but still speaking, reasoning, and behaving like boys.

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

Scripture paints men as they really are, hiding none of their blemishes or barbaric ways. The honesty of scripture is one of the reasons I knew that the Bible would be the place to go to learn what a real man should be and do.

People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.

Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

Courage is doing your duty in the face of fear.

Remember, you are moving toward a lifetime commitment. Whatever is concealed now will eventually be revealed.