While speaking to a group of high school students on a mission trip in Costa Rica, I posed this question to the group:  ”According to American Society, what defines a REAL MAN?” Immediately, hands shot up and the students (both guys and girls) started shouting answers like “a nice car”, “a big house”, “a boat”, “muscles”, “money”, “a good job”, “fame”, and of course “a guy who hooks up with lots of girls”.  Though these students were part of a group that was building houses for poor p Read More...

One of the most misused verses in the entire Bible comes to us from the Book of Ephesians, Chapter 5:22-24…Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. For centuries, I believe these three short verses have been used to oppress the women of cultures all around the world.  Even now, I can imagine the men reading this beginning to puff up their chests and grunt like “Tim Read More...

Dear Mr. Miller, My name is Omar Jesus Bravo and I am writing you to say thanks…  For inspiring me to “get a better story”, follow Jesus Christ whole-heartedly, and live a “page-turner” life! It all started in February of 2007 when I saw you speak at the Fusion / Right Now Conference in Orlando, Florida.  At the time, I was working as an Account Manager at a Fortune 100 Company, I had a six-figure salary, and I was a year removed from my divorce.  Money, materialism, and the American Dream had been my Lord for quite sometime (which was a huge contributor to m Read More...

The flagship article of Real Men Defined is The Original Super Hero as it is displayed on the homepage.  Thus, as Jesus Christ is the Original Super Hero, it only makes sense that we each have a Super Hero inside of us…  Right?Again, Jesus is a Super Hero, we have the Holy Spirit in us, thus we have a Super Hero in us.  I.e. We are (at least) part Super Hero…  Right?I apologize if I’m being redundant here, but though I believe the logic is easy to follow, I question whether or not many of us actually believe that we are really part Super Hero.  After all, the world and Read More...