Kenny Luck
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Sexual Atheism: Christian Dating Data Reveals a Deeper Spiritual Malaise
The guy sitting across from me is a professing and practicing Christian. He drops by my office unannounced today to talk to me about his new online dating life. Specifically, he wants to talk about the over-willingness of Christian women he has encountered on several of his dates who want to jump right from a …
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Fantasies Can Lead to a Double Life
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and final article on “Fantasy Island,” which explores reality and its relationship to fantasy. In this article, Kenny Luck discusses the dangers of living a double life and how this fantasy destroys men’s lives. He also discusses God’s will for men like you who want to grow in maturity, …
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Fantasy Leads to a Double Life
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and final article on “Fantasy Island,” which explores reality and its relationship to fantasy. In this article, Kenny Luck discusses the dangers of living a double life and how this fantasy destroys men’s lives. He also discusses God’s will for men like you who want to grow in maturity, …
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Developing Maturity Takes Huge Effort
This is the third in a series of articles entitled “Fantasy Island,” which explores reality and its relationship to fantasy. Kenny Luck will discuss God’s will for men like you who want to grow in maturity, truth and reality, versus Satan’s plan to replace your reality with his fantasy, escapism and unreality. Women want to …
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Resist the Temptation to Escape Reality
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles entitled “Fantasy Island,” which explores reality and its relationship to fantasy. Kenny Luck discusses God’s will for men like you, men who want to grow in maturity, truth and reality, versus Satan’s plan to replace your reality with his fantasy, escapism and unreality. As …
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Luck: Men, Leave Fantasy Island
One of the most popular TV shows of the 1970s was “Fantasy Island,” staring Ricardo Montalban playing the role of Mr. Roarke, a suave, tuxedo-clad host who, along with his sidekick, Tattoo, greeted his visitors by proclaiming: “Welcome, welcome to Fantasy Island.” The story lines that weaved extravagant fantasies of the newly arrived quests, didn’t …
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The MANtle of Leadership Beckons
My whole life, I have heard the expression “He carried the mantle of leadership well. Privately, I’ve always wondered, “What is a mantle exactly?” Is it a masculine baton you receive, carry, and then hand off? Who gives this to a man? Or, is it a male candle? My wife says it’s that shelf over …
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Moving From the Marvel Comic Fantasy to A Masculine Army
Men don’t give birth but, make no mistake, we are pregnant. Instead of sperm and egg, masculine conception occurs when deep aspirations of being someone great and doing something great are fertilized by a compelling vision of a man. Yes, it’s that simple, that profound, and that complex all at the same time. And just …
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Kenny Luck on Power Politics and the Rise of Guys
“Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save. When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing. Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God” (Ps. 146:3-5, NIV). Gulp! This is strong …
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Wild Fires and a Wild Man
Blazes and bullets. Both make us very afraid and vulnerable. Ask Colorado. The epic and emotionally sapping one-two punch of late has a state’s knees buckling and its psychologists and churches buzzing with activity as its people search for meaning in the midst. Without permission, a 10-ton bomb of unpredictable and uncontrollable reality has been …
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Wired to Make Disciples
The director of ministry at Every Man Ministries is Danny Wallen. Around here we call him “Yoda” because every time he opens his mouth, you feel stupid. I usually have a pencil and pad handy when he goes off in a stream-of-consciousness discourse because the dude knows how to raise up and train men. Standing …
