Use It All.

Most men's ministry resources cost a license fee, require a small group kit, or are written like a Hallmark card.

This is not that.

Everything on this site is free for use in any church, men's group, recovery ministry, or pastoral counseling context. Use it on Sunday. Use it on Tuesday night in the church basement. Hand the link to a man on the way out the door. Print the studies. Email them. Quote them in a sermon. Build a six-week series around them.

You do not need our permission. You have it.

How Pastors Are Using This

• 1Sunday morning sermons. Quote a study. Quote the book. Use the Scripture-and-film pairing as your hook. Send the men home with the link.
• 2Men's ministry small groups. Pick a topic series and run a six- or eight-week arc. Each study has discussion questions and a “This Week” action set built in.
• 3One-on-one discipleship. Hand a man a single study a week. Meet for coffee. Talk through the three questions. That is the whole curriculum.
• 4Pastoral counseling. When a man walks in with a marriage problem, an anger problem, a stress problem, or a fatherhood wound, send him home with a study to read before the next session.
• 5Men's retreats. Print the book. One copy per man. Use a chapter per session. The chapters are short on purpose.
• 6Recovery and reentry ministries. The Standing Your Ground field guide and the studies on stress, the nervous system, sober mind, and the father wound are built for this work.

The Standing Permission

Reproduce, print, email, quote, embed, link, share, and translate any of this material in any church or ministry context, for free, without asking.

The one ask: do not sell it. It was given free. Pass it on free.

If you want to credit the source, “Dr. Johnathan Hines, lionsdontbow.com” is plenty.

Want to Talk?

For ministry partnership requests, retreat speaking, or to share how you're using these resources in your church, you can reach Dr. Hines through Dr. Hines Inc.