Promote Mentoring
During this month of January, National Mentor Month, we can start the year with a push to promote mentoring. We can talk it up among friends, family and coworkers. We can write about it on internet blogs like this one. We can call in to radio talk shows and talk it […]
Posted on January 4th, 2008 by Jeff Purkiss
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The roles and responsibilities designed for men have been twisted and distorted beyond recognition. Men do not know how to be men. And our families, communities, churches and nation are paying the price. We must find ways to pass on Christ-centered manhood to our boys.
Philip Lancaster sums it up well: Our national crisis is a […]
Posted on November 24th, 2007 by Jeff Purkiss
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Imagine a beautiful maiden waiting for her knight in shining armor. She longs for a man of courage and integrity, a true gentleman, a Godly man. One who has persevered as a squire, now fully trained as a knight.
Does this young man exist only in fairy tales? No – he is real, he is […]
Posted on November 24th, 2007 by Jeff Purkiss
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We can build a powerful historical case for the Supreme Court’s declaration that “This is a Christian nation” and “We are a Christian people.” (1811, 1892, 1931, 1952) Yet today, the evidence has dwindled to a mere pittance.
So how’d we get into this mess? Why have the cultural norms turned […]
Posted on November 15th, 2007 by Jeff Purkiss
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