My new book, Pastoring Small Towns, with Ronnie Martin was released today. Hoping this book is a blessing to everyone sharing the love of Jesus in little places...

I started using Strava a while back to record my exercises. It’s been less motivating than I’d hoped…apparently all of my friends are secretly training for the Olympics.

Thankful for Tim Wilson and all of the work they are doing in the UK.

Going to The Gospel Coalition?? Join me and Donnie Griggs as we lead an event on pastoring small towns! thegospelcoalition.org/tgc23/auxiliar…

Great review from some real-deal pastors in rural UK. So glad that much of the book translates across the pond. That was a goal for me personally as I have so many friends who are in ministry in the UK and have traveled there many times to both encourage them and learn from them.

Another review from a fellow seasoned rural pastor. Thank you Charles E. Cotherman.

Fresh pod! Ronnie Martin and Donnie Griggs join me on @ForTheChurch to talk about small town pastoring and their new book on the subject. ftc.co/resource-libra…

So excited to hang with my boy Ronnie Martin and a bunch of small town folks tomorrow morning at the Pastoring Small Towns event at The Gospel Coalition . Come join us!

So grateful for all those small town pastors & leaders who turned out at 7AM! It was an honor & privilege to meet you & I hope you were encouraged. Thanks to The Gospel Coalition & Lifeway for the opportunity. Also great to see fellow small town book authors Stephen Witmer & Aaron Morrow

Stories of finishing well are too few. I was so profoundly blessed, encouraged and challenged by this profound story of a life lived well, poured out to the very end. I highly recommend it.

I’m really thankful to receive such a kind review for Pastoring Small Towns. It was an honor to write this book with Ronnie Martin. Our hopes were that it would strengthen and encourage the countless others who, like us, love and serve for the fame of Jesus in small places.

"What is a good man?" "How do I become a good man?" I just gathered with 400+ men seeking to know the answers to these important questions...When men get a vision for being good men, everything gets better. I wrote this to help...I'll keep y'all posted on when it's released.

I was SO encouraged to see this interview about how teenage boys are struggling with healthy masculinity because of messaging online teaching them, among other things, unhealthy body image, and to suppress their emotions. Emotional health and being strong men who can be

I loved Remi Warren words at the end about what his dad has meant to him his whole life, “guiding him to be a good man.” Good dads don’t just teach their kids how to do a task like hunt, surf, make a budget, etc… they teach them the more important guiding principles. I included

Loved this from Richard V. Reeves, author of “Of Boys and Men,” addressing the lostness that so many young men are feeling. This lostness results in addictive behaviors, staggering decline in mental health, apathy, an attraction towards misogynistic role models, etc. As he points

Becoming Good Men book update: A lot of you have asked when will the book be available. I've been SO encouraged by all of your support. Writing a book is one of the most vulnerable things I've ever done, but I really feel grateful for the opportunity to help men in all stages of