Head to the Sermon on the Mount course and open Week 4 — Blessed Are the Meek. Fair warning — this one is going to challenge how you think about strength. Most men have been handed a false definition of meekness their whole lives. Jesus is describing something completely different. And the promise He attaches to it — inheriting the earth — is not a promise for pushovers. We also wrap up the emptying section of the Beatitudes this week. Three rungs down. The ladder is about to shift. Read it before the week gets away from you. Drop a comment below: Where in your life are you running on your own strength when you should be relying on the Holy Spirit? Name one specific area. That's the work for the week — and naming it here makes it real. Let's go!

Head to the Sermon on the Mount course and open Week 3 — Those Who Mourn. This one is heavier than the first two. We're going deep on Matthew 5:4 — the Beatitude most men want to skip — and breaking down the difference between worldly sorrow and godly sorrow. One cycles. One actually changes something. Read it before the week gets away from you. Drop a comment below: When you confess sin, are you more sorry about the consequences — or the relationship with God? Be honest. That answer tells you everything about which kind of sorrow you're working with. Let's go Mighty Men!

Gentlemen, something new is live. Head to the Classroom right now. The Sermon on the Mount course is up and it is not a light read. This is the constitution of Christianity — the most concentrated, world-upending teaching Jesus ever delivered — and we're going chapter by chapter, week by week. This isn't church fluff. This isn't feel-good devotional content. This is Jesus sitting down and telling you exactly what kind of man He's calling you to be. And almost everything He says is going to challenge the way you think. Week 1 is already posted. We're starting at the beginning — the Beatitudes — and the blog post that goes with it will hit different. Here's what I want you to do right now: 👉 Go to the Classroom. Find the Sermon on the Mount course. Start Week 1. Read it. Sit with it. Come back here and drop a comment on the post with which of the 8 attitudes God is putting His finger on in your life right now. That's it. No performance. No having it together. Just honesty. If you came into this community through the Gideon Challenge, this course is the next rep. Subtraction Strategy gave you the framework. This is where we build on it — the Sermon on the Mount is what it looks like to actually live a Kingdom-focused life from the inside out. The men who get the most out of this community are the ones who show up, engage, and do the work. Don't just be a lurker. Be the man God's calling you to be. Classroom → Sermon on the Mount → Week 1. Go. Let's get after it. 💪 — Brian "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men." — Luke 2:52 (NKJV)

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The lessons in this devotional took way too long for me to learn. I wish I would have learned to subtract the things in my life that do not please God when I was younger. Utilize this phenomenal study on Gideon and start your journey to becoming a "Mighty Man of Valor" who lives a life that glorifies God today! You won't regret it! - Lance