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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... stay in those seats forever. I was watching baseball from the baseball seats for the first time in my life, and this was a different game. This was not the leisurely ballet of pitch and catch that I had watched from high above the 50 ...
... stay in those seats forever. I was watching baseball from the baseball seats for the first time in my life, and this was a different game. This was not the leisurely ballet of pitch and catch that I had watched from high above the 50 ...
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... stayed anyway, and about nine months later we 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 ...
... stayed anyway, and about nine months later we 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 ...
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... stayed home. The errant males sometimes did make an appearance on Easter or Mother's Day, jumpy as cats, enduring an hour of religion to gain twelve more months of freedom. After the service, while the ladies dawdled and talked, the ...
... stayed home. The errant males sometimes did make an appearance on Easter or Mother's Day, jumpy as cats, enduring an hour of religion to gain twelve more months of freedom. After the service, while the ladies dawdled and talked, the ...
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... stay behind to take care of us. He would know what to do! But when I asked, “Who's there?” an unfamiliar female voice said that my mother had sent her and that I should unlock the door and let her in. Obviously, the communists were not ...
... stay behind to take care of us. He would know what to do! But when I asked, “Who's there?” an unfamiliar female voice said that my mother had sent her and that I should unlock the door and let her in. Obviously, the communists were not ...
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... yelled at him and tied him to a tree, and he would repent. A few days later Dad would let him loose again, and for the next few months Boaz would stay around the house, docile and obedient— 25. climb,. climb. up. sunshine. mountain.
... yelled at him and tied him to a tree, and he would repent. A few days later Dad would let him loose again, and for the next few months Boaz would stay around the house, docile and obedient— 25. climb,. climb. up. sunshine. mountain.
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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