Table of Contents
Foreword | 11
Part I. Trailhead
- Why Men Matter
- Freedom from Shame
- Living in PurityPart II. Identity
- Warrior: Strength Motivated by Courage
- Lover: A Heart Moved by Compassion
- Mentor: A Mind Compelled by Conviction
- King: A Soul Anchored in ConfidencePart III. Legacy
- Leaving a Life-Giving Legacy
- Your Legacy to Men
- Your Legacy to Women
- Your Legacy to Children
- Your Legacy to the World
Part IV. God’s Charge to Men
Recommended Resources
Foreward
We live in a day when everyone claims they matter. Whatever our color, race, or gender, we are marching, picketing, shouting, and even fighting to say we matter. In all our efforts to prove this, we may not be considering how we lost our significance. How did we get so lost in a day and age when we have so much and have come so far?
To feel as if we matter is to have a sort of epiphany, a sort of awakening to the fact that we have dignity, worth, and value. In an age when technology, speed, and efficiency matter, our humanity is threatened. Machines are taking over. Robots are coming.
You are holding in your hands a message the world needs to hear! This book is a foundational and essential roadmap for men, and the women who love men. It is a guide to help us explore the heart, the core, the essence of a man, and the world that we have to navigate.
Craig explains the mystery of a man’s heart—the inner world of a man—that sacred place where wounds lie buried; where the past so often enslaves a man for decades; where passion lies fallow and where making our lives count matters.
Noble Journey helps us look back, look up, look around, and look forward. Otherwise, we will live in a catatonic state of barely staying alive and live a life full of regrets.Too many men are living this way and Craig invites us to say, “Not me. I will live before I die. I will love deeply until the end. I will not live my one life alone. I will have a friend and be a friend. I will taste the goodness of life and of my God.”
This book is born out of the wealth of wisdom and the years Craig has devoted to helping men know they matter. His track record includes both failure and success. Craig is transparent, showing his own failures, fears, and frustrations as a son, husband, father, and friend. He knows pain and through his pain you will be able to explore your own and find your way to wholeness again. He knows the issues that have tripped you up along the journey from boyhood to manhood.
The message within these pages is contagious. It will make you want to be a better man, a better son, a better father, a better husband, and a better friend—a man who is more alive than dead; a man who wants to thrive more than survive.
This is your invitation to sit with Craig and, as you read these pages, find a companion who, with the strength of a warrior and the tenderness of a caring friend, will guide you through the maze of your masculine heart to discover, explore, and own your dignity as a man.
Yes, dignity! There is dignity in being a man that is often buried by the shame that enslaves our hearts. Craig explains how to move from shame to freedom. Some men may want to flip to that chapter first because there is an epidemic of shame infecting the hearts of men including sexual shame, vocational shame, spiritual shame, and more. We need freedom and the road to it is clearly laid out here.
You will be taken back to your childhood and brought forward to face your legacy and death. You will ponder the vows you said to your wife and learn to close the gap that has somehow found its horrid way between you and her.
This is also a comprehensive guide for boys to become men; for those who have failed to be able to find their way back; for those who are stuck to get unstuck; and for those who are frozen and fearful of intimacy to experience true intimacy. For such a journey as this, we need this book.
I’ve been waiting for years for Craig to finish this manuscript! I’ve heard him give these talks. I’ve cried deeply as he led me and thousands of other men to look within and to look up for our help. I’ve witnessed his encounters with men and women dissecting the great themes of this book and I know the power of transformation we will experience by the encouragement Craig offers us through these pages.
This book should not be read alone. You won’t want to read this by yourself. Get ten copies and ask your friends, your associates, and your team to read it with you. We need the insight, the reaction, the naked truth that Craig uncovers, and we need each other to find our way.
The male heart today is busted, shattered, and fearful of telling our stories to each other. We live alone, isolated, and we are dying inside for someone—anyone—to know us. This book is the invitation to tell our stories, our secrets, our fears, and our longings. This book is a tool to bring us together.
It takes a man to show us how to be men,and it takes a tribe of men to live this out and to reclaim what has been taken from inside us. We can do together what we cannot do alone. This book is the invitation to live this message out together.
Of all the men I have ever met, of all the voices that are speaking today telling us what to do and what not to do, of all the men who have the gravitas to tell us the truth, I invite you to know my friend, Craig Glass, and find your way home!
Author of The Transformation of a Man’s Heart, The Lazarus Life, Inside Job, and Soul Custody. Steve lives in the mountains of Colorado and is the President of Potter’s Inn, a Christian ministry devoted to the care of the souls of leaders in the marketplace and ministry. www.pottersinn.com
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