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I know how this usually goes. You are looking on a Saturday night for something to run Sunday morning, and every page you land on wants your address before it will show you anything. Not here.
Before you scroll
Before you scroll: this one is for you
Nine short prayers for a man in a hard moment, and one in your inbox every Thursday. You spend your week carrying other men. This one is not for your group, it is for you.
The guides below need none of this. Those are free and always will be.
The Battle Begins on Your Knees
These work without the book. The Battle Begins on Your Knees goes deeper if your men want it.
Leader Guide
When Men Pray: Leader Guide
Everything a man needs to lead thirteen sessions, including the weeks he does not feel like leading. Session plans, timings, what to say, and what to do when nobody talks.
DownloadStudy Guide
When Men Pray: Study Guide
The book a man writes in. Thirteen weeks of learning one way to pray, then using it, with room to write the prayers he writes himself.
DownloadWhen Men Stand Firm
These work without the book. When Men Stand Firm goes deeper if your men want it.
Study Guide
When Men Stand Firm: Study Guide
The workbook each man keeps. Ten weeks, one part of the book per week, built on four moves: name it, test it, take the ground, tell one man. Every session's teaching is printed in full, so a man does not need the book to use it. Free to print, not for sale.
DownloadLeader Guide
When Men Stand Firm: Leader Guide
Everything a volunteer needs to teach the ten weeks. Timed sessions, the one idea for each, what to say and what not to say, and the protective sentence that has to stay attached to every hard claim. Includes a disclosure protocol and a six-week version. Free to print, not for sale.
DownloadWhen Men Lead
These work without the book. When Men Lead goes deeper if your men want it.
Study Guide
When Men Lead: Study Guide
The workbook each man keeps. Thirteen weeks built on four checks a man runs on himself: who am I when nobody sees, what temperature did I set, who went first, where am I pointing them. Every session's teaching is printed in full, so a man does not need the book to use it. Free to print, not for sale.
DownloadLeader Guide
When Men Lead: Leader Guide
Everything a volunteer needs to teach the thirteen weeks. Timed sessions, the one idea for each, what to say and what not to say, and the protective sentence that has to stay attached to every hard claim. Includes a disclosure protocol and an eight-week version. Free to print, not for sale.
DownloadThe Man They Actually Live With
These work without the book. The Man They Actually Live With is free to read right here, whole, if your men want it.
Leader Guide
The Man They Actually Live With: Leader Guide
Thirteen sessions on the man a family actually lives with. Heavier than most men's studies, so it opens with what a leader needs to know before he agrees to teach it.
DownloadStudy Guide
The Man They Actually Live With: Study Guide
Thirteen weeks through the free book, one small thing to do each week. Part one is the man, part two the marriage, part three the kids.
DownloadHow to run it
Print it, project it, email it to your guys, put it in a binder. Copy it as many times as you need. You do not need permission and you do not need to ask me.
You do not have to be a teacher to lead one of these. The questions do the work. Your job is to read them out and then be quiet long enough for a man to answer honestly, which is harder than it sounds and matters more than anything you could say.
Every guide here is written to work on its own. All the Scripture is printed in it, the questions stand alone, and a leader can run a whole session with nothing but the guide and a Bible. If your church cannot buy fifteen books, run it anyway. That is what it is for.
The book makes it richer. Men who have read the chapter come in with more to say, and the guide points back to it for anyone who wants to go deeper. But it is a help, not a requirement, and nobody should be sitting in that circle feeling behind because they did not buy something.
Talk to me about it
Is this right
for your men?
If you are weighing whether this fits your men, ask me. Tell me how many you have, where they are, and what you are up against, and I will tell you straight whether this is the right thing to hand them. If it is not, I will say so.
Running one of these with your men, or stuck on something? Write me and tell me how it went. I read every one.