Reading
The books we read together.
One book every six weeks. We read it slowly, walk it out along the way, and gather to close it before the next begins. Every book has a six-week reading guide to take you through it.
Now Reading
Disciplines of a Godly Man
R. Kent Hughes
The book we are in right now. Hughes wrote the manual: twelve disciplines, no shortcuts, from prayer and the Word to marriage, work, and leadership. The men who keep coming back say it is the one they return to most. Come with your Bible.
The Shelf
Where we have been, and where we are headed.
The books the brotherhood reads through. Pick one up on your own, or read it with us when it comes back around.
The Barbarian Way
Erwin Raphael McManus
Short. Dense. McManus makes the case that the Christian life was never meant to be safe or managed. It was meant to be untamed. The men who read this did not put it down the same as when they picked it up.
Stepping Up
Dennis Rainey
Rainey maps the five stages a man moves through: boyhood, adolescence, manhood, mentor, patriarch. He shows what it looks like when a man fails to transition from one to the next. It convicted a lot of us. Quietly.
They Were Christians
Cristóbal Krusen
Brief profiles of men and women who shaped history and who happened to be serious about their faith. Not hagiography. Honest accounts of people who believed something real and acted on it. Good for men who think Christianity is only for the soft.
M46 Crash Course
Kenny Dallas & Tim Sexton
Malachi 4:6. The last verse in the Old Testament is about fathers turning their hearts to their children. Dallas and Sexton wrote a practical, honest guide for dads who want to do that and are not sure where to start. The men who read it got loud.
Counterfeit Gods
Timothy Keller
Keller argues that the heart is an idol factory, and that every man's deepest dysfunction comes back to what he has built his life on instead of God. Career. Approval. Money. Family. This book names those things without flinching.
A Million Little Miracles
Mark Batterson
Batterson's argument is that God is still doing what He has always done. We just have to slow down enough to notice. The men who worked through this one came back with stories. That is the point.
Under Par
Phil Callaway
Golf is the setup. Grace is the point. Callaway uses the game, its failure rate, its humbling arc, its small victories, to talk about the things men actually need to hear about faith, friendship, and not taking yourself too seriously.
Maximized Manhood
Edwin Louis Cole
Cole's argument is simple and blunt: a man is not made by what he does, but by what he chooses not to do. One of the most widely read men's books in the Christian world, for a reason.
The Man in the Mirror
Patrick Morley
Morley wrote this after realizing he had built a successful life and an empty one at the same time. The book asks the questions most men avoid. Who am I? Where am I going? Why does it feel like something is still missing? Men here still reference it.
How The Shelf Grows
The brotherhood picks what is next.
Every six weeks a book closes and another opens. Before it does, the brotherhood votes on the next read, so the shelf stays ours. No fluff, no hype cycle. If it will not sharpen a man, it does not make the list.
Alternate state, shown when the brotherhood is between books
We are between books right now.
The next one is being chosen, and it is chosen together. Join the brotherhood and you will read it with us from the first page.
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