Brothers, Over the last several weeks, a handful of us (5–7 men at any given time) have been walking through a structured, eight-week journey into prayer, built around Scripture, spiritual habits, reflection, and the simple desire to truly know God, not just know about Him. I need to share this with all of you because what has happened in my life and inside this circle of men has been nothing short of transformative. 🔥 What Changed For Me Personally For the first time in my life, I feel like I actually understand what it means to converse with the Creator of the Universe. Not recite words. Not send up quick requests when life gets messy. But actually speak, and listen, to the God who made me (isn’t it CRAZY that we can do this?) It feels like a doorway that used to be cracked open has now been blown off the hinges. I learned that prayer isn’t an add-on to faith, it is the relationship. Once that clicked, everything changed. It gave purpose, direction, and intimacy to my time with God. I no longer pray only “when I feel like it.” I’m learning to build a relationship through rhythm and discipline focused on Scripture, silence, confession, and praise. I’ve been overwhelmed by a new desire to praise. I never realized how central adoration is to understanding God’s nature. And, in one of those moments only God can orchestrate, I recently met a Christian law professor who actually teaches about praise in the vocation of law. Our conversation showed me the deep connection between praising God and understanding His will for your life. Connecting those dots flipped a switch in me. My relationship with God feels… real now. And because prayer has begun to shape me from the inside, I can finally start leading my family spiritually in the way I never understood before. My conversations with God now spill over into my conversations with my wife, my kids, and even my work. Prayer is changing the way I carry myself. Not perfectly, but honestly. 🔥 What Changed Within Our Group

Job 5:7 NIV [7] Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward. https://bible.com/bible/111/job.5.7.NIV

Hi Team, My Mother-In-Law passed away this morning. So things will be a little crazy for us the next couple weeks to months. That being said I will see you all Saturday morning!

Resentment is usually quiet, until its not. It’s that inner scoreboard you keep updating: - “After everything I’ve done…” - “I can’t believe they…” - “They still haven’t…” - “Must be nice.” And underneath it is almost always the same thing: “You owe me.” That’s why resentment is so tied to entitlement. Entitlement is the often unspoken belief that I deserve certain treatment. When life doesn’t deliver that, it doesn’t just feel disappointing… it feels unfair. And that’s the doorway resentment walks through. My buddy and Special Operations Chaplain Pete Stone explained this to me- There’s a whole line of psychological research on something called psychological entitlement—basically the tendency to feel like you deserve more than other people, or that you should get special treatment. Researchers even have a standard scale for it (the Psychological Entitlement Scale). What’s interesting is that people higher in entitlement tend to interpret setbacks as injustice and feel more anger when things don’t go their way—even when the situation is out of anyone’s control. Also, resentment isn’t just “anger.” Anger flares and passes. Resentment sticks around. Studies comparing anger and resentment describe resentment as longer-lasting and often tied to that internal “should” language—“They shouldn’t have done that.” “This shouldn’t be happening to me.” So yeah—if you feel resentment a lot, it’s worth asking: Is there a “should” I’m gripping with a closed fist? What the Bible says (straight up) Scripture doesn’t treat resentment like a personality quirk. It treats it like something that grows roots. - Hebrews 12:15 talks about a “root of bitterness” that springs up and causes trouble. - Ephesians 4:31–32 basically says: get rid of bitterness and anger… and forgive like you’ve been forgiven. - And in Matthew 18:21–35, Jesus tells the story of a man forgiven an unpayable debt who then goes out and demands payment from someone else. That’s resentment in story form: refusing to release a debt.

Boys, welcome to Forge Tribe. This started a year ago with a handful of us meeting every Saturday for an hour and a half. No hype. Just men showing up, getting honest, and putting themselves back under the Lordship of Jesus. And it has been changing lives. Men are coming back to Christ. Men are getting baptized. Wives are getting baptized. Marriages are healing. Homes are changing. Guys are laying down sin they have carried for years and finally stepping into freedom. A lot of men have not had a place to be real. Not surface level, not tough guy stuff. Real. Confession. Repentance. prayer. Brotherhood. The kind of conversations that make you walk back into your house different. That is the mission here. We are here to become men who carry the cross. Men who live for something more than comfort. Men who stop drifting and start leading. Men who become the priests of their households, with humility and backbone, loving their wives well, raising their kids with conviction, and building a home that belongs to Christ. One of the fastest ways to get men talking again is shared experience and hardship. That is what The Crucible is for. It pushes us out of isolation and into brotherhood, so we can actually grow. If you are new here, jump in. Introduce yourself. Tell us where you are at. No pretending. Forge Tribe is for men who want to follow Jesus for real. Let’s do it together.