MEET MIKE
Hi, I’m Mike. I’m a man’s man who’s walked a tough road.
The man I am now is not the man I’ve always been. Today I’m a servant of God, a husband and a father. But before I gave my life fully to Christ, like so many other men, I was living life for me. I lived a little crazy for a while, and before that I lived a whole lot of crazy. I’ve done plenty of the things my Christian parents warned me not to, and lived far from God for a long time.
I’m not the man who’s going to talk about perfection or how to walk with God without pain – because that’s never been my experience. I’ve lain in dark pits of depression, I’ve struggled with sin and I’ve made mistakes that led me away from God instead of closer to Him.
It wasn’t until I was broken beyond my own potential redemption, after my son nearly died in 2009, that I found myself desperate for God. But that was only the beginning. It took years for me to let go of myself, to surrender fully. Because I’m a man’s man. I like to build with my hands. I like to get dirty. I like to control what I can. But God wasn’t interested in that side of me.
And so I endured years of pain – both before my son nearly died – and after. I felt shafted and jaded, like I’d gotten the short end of the stick. Until God showed me my purpose: to help men who have been broken by this world, to disciple them, encourage them, and show them how their pain can transform into their purpose. Because, men, pain is just pain until you give it purpose.
The heart of my ministry is to be open in our broken condition, to come to Christ with our arms lifted and fully aware of our flaws. Only then can Christ work through us to deal with the darkness of our past, the sins that have shaped us, and our pain that He will use to glorify the Kingdom. This is accomplished simply by building intentional one on one relationships with other men. Find out more about my discipleship ministry by visiting Disciple 1 Ministries today. Join the mission to fulfill the commission!
If you’d like to learn more about my son’s story, check out Noah’s Road. There you’ll find an old selection of blogs and a radio interview about our son and our journey.
The man I am now is not the man I’ve always been. Today I’m a servant of God, a husband and a father. But before I gave my life fully to Christ, like so many other men, I was living life for me. I lived a little crazy for a while, and before that I lived a whole lot of crazy. I’ve done plenty of the things my Christian parents warned me not to, and lived far from God for a long time.
I’m not the man who’s going to talk about perfection or how to walk with God without pain – because that’s never been my experience. I’ve lain in dark pits of depression, I’ve struggled with sin and I’ve made mistakes that led me away from God instead of closer to Him.
It wasn’t until I was broken beyond my own potential redemption, after my son nearly died in 2009, that I found myself desperate for God. But that was only the beginning. It took years for me to let go of myself, to surrender fully. Because I’m a man’s man. I like to build with my hands. I like to get dirty. I like to control what I can. But God wasn’t interested in that side of me.
And so I endured years of pain – both before my son nearly died – and after. I felt shafted and jaded, like I’d gotten the short end of the stick. Until God showed me my purpose: to help men who have been broken by this world, to disciple them, encourage them, and show them how their pain can transform into their purpose. Because, men, pain is just pain until you give it purpose.
The heart of my ministry is to be open in our broken condition, to come to Christ with our arms lifted and fully aware of our flaws. Only then can Christ work through us to deal with the darkness of our past, the sins that have shaped us, and our pain that He will use to glorify the Kingdom. This is accomplished simply by building intentional one on one relationships with other men. Find out more about my discipleship ministry by visiting Disciple 1 Ministries today. Join the mission to fulfill the commission!
If you’d like to learn more about my son’s story, check out Noah’s Road. There you’ll find an old selection of blogs and a radio interview about our son and our journey.
