Essays.

The foundation for this platform is that men will seek and find that their truest identity is and can only be found in Christ.

Our aim is not to distract, but to engage.  Engage with one another. Engage with our wives. Engage with our children. Engage with ourselves. Engage with our Creator.

I’ve found one of the easiest and most meaningful ways we as men learn and grow is through experience and testimony. Therefore, our content on this site will mostly be a combination of personal experiences, testimonies and shared perspective.

Through it, our hope is you’ll be equally inspired, challenged, and strengthened to intentionally live the redemptive and awe-inspiring life that awaits each of us as we daily surrender and embrace the grace-filled journey before each of us as adopted sons of God. 

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Plumblines Brian Tome Plumblines Brian Tome

Ambition: It’s Time to Get Moving

There’s one thing standing between you and the life you want—one of adventure, transcendence, and meaning, a life that literally changes the world beneath your feet. It’s passivity... and it’s a damn lie. I’m not using that four-letter word lightly. It’s exactly what I mean. That lie will damn your efforts before you even begin. It will keep you pacified with the “good” when the “great” is still out there. It paves the road to a life of safety when what the world needs are men willing to move—to take risks, fail forward, and die with sweat on their brow.

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Plumblines JonCarlos Velez Plumblines JonCarlos Velez

Expression: Declaring Whose We Are

We express our love to God because he’s worthy and because he’s God. He expresses his love towards us through forgiveness, by adopting us into his family through the redemptive and sacrificial death of Jesus. It’s because of this expression, of love and forgiveness, that we can now confidently express who we are and whose we are.

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