Samson and the Pirate Monks: Calling Men to Authentic BrotherhoodWith no-holds-barred honesty and poignant storytelling, Nate Larkin introduces a model of community and friendship that is reinvigorating men's ministry across the country, a model he calls The Samson Society. Too many men see the biblical hero Samson as their model for manhood--a rugged individualist of the highest order. Yet, Samson's solitary successes were eventually overcome by moral weaknesses. Larkin, through the story of his own past and the stories of those in The Samson Society, offers a radical, refreshing alternative. |
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... started a new church with the help of others who had left the church in an exodus of staff and leaders. We met in a high school auditorium and in no time had collected a congregation of a hundred souls. In my mind I had become a man of ...
... started a new church with the help of others who had left the church in an exodus of staff and leaders. We met in a high school auditorium and in no time had collected a congregation of a hundred souls. In my mind I had become a man of ...
Page 14
... started to fray under the inevitable pressures of the ministry. When I started going back into sex shops again, there was no one I could tell except Allie, and I couldn't bear to break her heart a second time. Before long the old secret ...
... started to fray under the inevitable pressures of the ministry. When I started going back into sex shops again, there was no one I could tell except Allie, and I couldn't bear to break her heart a second time. Before long the old secret ...
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... started, and I would be forced to miss the whole thing. Unless I was sinning at the time, that is. If I were sinning, I would be left behind to face the Tribulation, which would be even worse. As I saw it, the safest time for me to die ...
... started, and I would be forced to miss the whole thing. Unless I was sinning at the time, that is. If I were sinning, I would be left behind to face the Tribulation, which would be even worse. As I saw it, the safest time for me to die ...
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... started taking prayer requests. Suddenly, right in the middle of a long and reverent silence, I heard, from the pew behind me, where my sisters were sitting, the distinctive bark of corned beef and cabbage. My siblings heard it too, and ...
... started taking prayer requests. Suddenly, right in the middle of a long and reverent silence, I heard, from the pew behind me, where my sisters were sitting, the distinctive bark of corned beef and cabbage. My siblings heard it too, and ...
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... started a program for her five oldest children, something she called “Nights Up.” In our house, kids' bedtime on school nights was eight o'clock, but if it was your Night Up (my night was Monday) you got to stay up, just you and Mom ...
... started a program for her five oldest children, something she called “Nights Up.” In our house, kids' bedtime on school nights was eight o'clock, but if it was your Night Up (my night was Monday) you got to stay up, just you and Mom ...
Contents
I Samson | 59 |
A New Way of Life | 85 |
The Pirate Monks | 111 |
Acknowledgments | 201 |
A Suggested Samson Society Meeting Format | 205 |
Suggested Topics for Sharing | 209 |
Notes | 211 |
Common terms and phrases
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