Once upon a time there was an organization of Christian men daring to cross interracial dividing lines to lead and build others up in Christ. We need a revival right now in Americal to shock the hearts of men to come back to the Lord.

24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

To anyone who has ever been to a Promise Keeper's conference you know how invigorating and life changing they are in the lives of men.I remember writing a letter to our big city news paper regarding the importance of fathers the home. I wrote to two news papers. The first letter was written to our liberal paper and within a week I received a notice that would not publish my letter unless I made the letter more gender nuetral. My second letter was sent to a little more conservative paper across the river. They said they would publish my letter. In our City of Minneapolis, a city that is filled with deep, dysfunctional liberalism, conservative voices are censored. For anyone who has never been to a PK conference, here are the 7 promises of promise keeper.

1. A Promise Keeper is committed to honor Jesus Christ through worship, prayer, and obedience to God's Word through the power of the Holy Spirit.

2. A Promise Keeper is committed to pursue vital relationships with a few other men, understanding that he needs brothers to help him keep his promises.

3. A Promise Keeper is committed to practice spiritual, moral, ethical, and sexual purity.

4. A Promise Keeper is committed to build strong marriages and families through love, protection and biblical values.

5. A Promise Keeper is committed to support the mission of his church by honoring and praying for his pastor and by actively giving his time and resources.

6. A Promise Keeper is committed to reach beyond any racial and denominational barriers to demonstrate the power of biblical unity.

7. A Promise Keeper is committed to influence his world, being obedient to the Great Commandment (Mark 12:30-31) and the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20).

As a Christian who believes in the authenticiy of the holy bible, I believe knowing Jesus Christ is a life changer to everyone open to receiving the word of God in his heart. Whereas liberal media tried to censor the voices of Christian men, God has been working in the hearts of men who attended those conferences before committing their lives to the Church of Christ. We may all be rusty from the Covid closures of our churches, or the fear of contracting Covid if we went to church, but God promises to restore your hearts if you cry out to him.

The key to a changed and improved world isn't spreading the lies of Critical race theory and starting race riots in our cities, but the key is crossing that racial divide and building up our brothers in Christ.

There is a huge difference between these two movements. CRT came to destroy and conquer, but Jesus Christ came to build up and heal the divisions that exist in our land through the teaching of forgiveness.

CRT believes some men have more value than others while Jesus believes all men have value.

If every man,woman and child came to Christ we can have a revival!

As we come of this covid era of working from home and isolation from others we seeing world wide trauma like we have never seen before.

I'm looking forward to serving as a facilitator with Grief share at New Hope Church in Minnesota. I felt this calling after my wife and I lost our precious 10 year-old daughter, Maria, when she passed when the opioid pain medication failed to metabolize in her system following her successful surgery.

We were anticipating celebrating her recovery in the summer of 2007, but the moment the Chaplain came out and said, "They did all they could but were unable to save her" our emotions plummeted into the deepest of despair.

Although we felt like giving up, we felt the loving hands of our Lord gently urging us to return to our New Hope Church one step at a time. I won't lie by saying it didn't hurt because it did hurt.It hurt for many months and at times we thought we would never recover from this pain. But we kept putting one foot in front of the other and kept right on going to church.

Worship, of course, took on a whole new meaning when we couldn't sing the joy filled happy praise songs, but we could sing the mournful songs with flowing tears.

God never abandoned my wife and I and neither did he abandon our son. We were hurting, but we knew that God was walking with us every step of the way on this journey. There were, of course, people we once knew who couldn't go on this journey with us, but there were new friends who had been where we were only a few years before who became our prayer partners on this journey.

The world is suffering from global PTSD caused by the isolation imposed on them by the global governments. I learned of a person with a cognitive disability who died because of the isolation had cut him off from his former friendships. When I look at the numbers, I see people who died by suicide and also by opioids. Each death causes pain in the survivors of these individuals. So many of us want to bury our grief in hopes it would never rear it's ugly head. This never works and often resurfaces with each additional unforseen death. Like the illustration of the Onion, we must peel each layer of loss while working through the emotions of each loss. In the case of grieving children, there is evidence to suggest that children who do not grieve developed long standing cognitive problems in school along with systhemic problems leading to diabetes, depression and a host of other conditions.

There is some evidence to suggest that unresolved grief will lead to early death.

I'm excited about the grief share group starting next week at New Hope Church. To help people recover from their pain through the weekly workbook and video lessons energizes me. I remember the verse from the bible which essentially indicates the need is great, but the laborers are few and it is a reminder that whatever your spiritual gifts are are obligated to us them in some capacity. Instead of taking the easy way out by playing mind numbing games that deadens the soul, it is better to seek the Lord's guidance and get involved in a ministry such as, for example, grief share.

If you are someone who is grieving the loss of a spouse, a parent, a nephew or niece, or a grandparent, I encourage you to try grief share. God wants to heal us from our pain and the best way of doing that is to place one foot in front of the other and attend the same church you attended when your loved one was alive. The other thing you can do is sign up for grief share.