In my ministry, I want men to experience the healing and freedom when you get real with yourself, with God, and with other men. That’s how we discover not only Whose we are, but the manhood we’re created for and the power to walk it out.

- Gordon Dalbey

"Amid black witch hats and orange pumpkins, the darkness of fall crept in with the trembling voice of a pastor, calling me from his hospital bed the morning after Halloween....

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The REST of Your Life:
Discovering God’s Rest in a Driven, Demanding, Distressful World
by Mary Andrews-Dalbey
$15

"True rest is not about what we don’t do, but what God does do."

A surprising yet enduring path to the rest God has designed for us all. Biblically based and interactive, this 10-week small-group format is filled with fresh insights and engaging stories that will upend your thinking on this timely topic and re-center you in His strength and purposes.

Inviting you to rest in God’s accomplishment both at Creation and on the Cross, this study confronts the personal issues we must overcome in order to trust and surrender to God’s work in our lives. Chapters include The Love of Money, Trying or Trusting, Religious Fig Leaves, and It’s about Time.

"True rest comes not by getting out of stressful circumstances, but by letting God into them."

Not long ago,

I polled a conference of 150 men with this question, "When you were growing up, did your father talk to you helpfully about girls and sexuality?" Only 2 men raised their hands.

At another conference of 350 fathers, I asked, "When you became a dad for the first time, did your own father come alongside you with some help, encouragement, support, or advice—maybe call you up, come visit you, or write you a letter?" Only five hands.

If you're wondering why men's sexuality is out of control and why men feel inadequate as fathers, here's where we start. Not to judge or curse your father, but to face your wound as every generation must, including your son's. Then, to go to Jesus for healing and see Dad as God sees him, to forgive and honor him. Then, at last, to go to Father God to get what no human father can give, and become the man you’re called to be.

Welcome to the journey of manhood
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John Eldredge

“A number of years ago, at a point in my own journey when I felt more lost than ever, I heard a talk given by Gordon Dalbey, who had just written Healing the Masculine Soul. He raised the idea that despite a man’s past and the failures of his own father to initiate him, God could take him on that journey to provide what was missing. A hope arose within me.” (John Eldredge, Wild at Heart, p. 102.)

Bill Gaither

"We have had Gordon at our annual Praise Gathering in Indianapolis several times, and he is always on target. He's very sound intellectually and doctrinally. I would recommend him highly." (Bill Gaither, songwriter/singer/producer)