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Raising Real Men is highly recommended by Teaching Good Things!
Kathy Brodock of Teaching Good Things says: Raising Real Men should be a regular bed-side read.  It’s practical advice on raising godly young men was such a great reminder!  Mothers, particularly, need to read this book.  There is so much we need to understand about our boys’ differences, and understanding those differences is crucial to their growth…
Saving Money, Finding Treasure and Math – Today’s Celebration!
We are so excited about the official release of Raising Real Men! This is something we have poured our lives into and it is very exciting to see God using it for His glory. It encourages us to read comments like: "Just received the book over the weekend. By page 2 1/2 of the introduction…
Douglas Wilson on Masculinity
Pastor Douglas Wilson, author of Future Men (and one of our early reviewers!) talks about five aspects of masculinity in this video, "The Redneck's Last Words."
Welcome to our Official Release Celebration!
Raising Real Men will be officially released by Great Waters Press on January 29th. We're having a party to celebrate and you are invited! Every day from now until then, we'll have a giveaway - that's right, something everyone can have for free! - and a contest with fantastic resources and prizes provided by our…
Bearing One Another’s Burdens
Hey guys, some of you may be familiar with Jeff & Kate Estes of Hands and Hearts history kits and their awesome blog but we didn't meet them until last year when they reached out to help us deal with the financial aftermath of our little Katie's heart problem. Their love and good counsel was…
Boys, Violence, and What About It
Here's a great essay from the journal First Things -- Sally Thomas' thoughts on boys, violence, and how to think about them: What I think I have come to understand about boys is that a desire to commit violence is not the same thing as a desire to commit evil. It’s a mistake for parents to presume…
Cool Headed Dad
Wow.  A dramatic story from Haiti - a father of two, trapped and seriously injured in a collapsed building, kept calm, treated his own wounds, improvised solutions to immediate problems, then wrote bloodstained letters of Christian counsel to his sons.  He was pulled from the wreckage after 65 hours. Writing the notes to his wife and children wasn’t…
Sgt. York Legacy Returns to Tennessee
The Knoxville News-Sentinel reports that the last surviving German machine gun captured by Sgt. Alvin York in World War I has been discovered in the attic of a Massachusetts public library. ...York pulled off one of the great feats of any combat soldier of any time. He single-handedly annihilated a German machine gun battalion on Oct.…
Gangster Risks Death to Do The Right Thing
In Charlotte this week, a long-time member of the Salvadoran MS-13 gang turned evidence against his former friends in federal court, saying he knew he risked being killed but did it because of his mother and brothers. According to the story in the Charlotte Observer, the 21-year-old said he had joined the gang as a young teen and took part…

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