The author gets to the heart of this idea through this passage from the book: If this is how you feel you are not alone. It seems other areas are more easy or simple to move towards Him in than this one. Unimaginable because most have not even tried or have tried and failed to take the first step towards God’s calling in this area. The second is about stopping short of this unimaginable standard of God’s holiness. The first is the very clear standard God calls us to in sexual purity through the following verse:īut among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity. Our author, Steve, begins the book with a chapter labeled “our stories.” The chapter is gripping, and what resonates with me the most is the very humble and transparent stories they share about the beginning of their journey towards God’s standard to sexual purity and the following two aspects from their writings. Your Corral - Cherishing Your One and Only Stopping Short - Addiction or Something Else?Ĭounting the Costs - Just Part of Being Male? If you feel there is no hope for you to turn from the impurity the world goadingly presses onto men at every turn, feel alone in your pursuit of purity as a man or simply want to raise your level of service in His Kingdom, I highly recommend reading this book in its entirety. Topics also covered in the book are practical steps to combat the enemy when dealing with these cracks in our foundation as men to experience true freedom from this male epidemic that knows no bounds regardless of culture, creed, age, or ethnicity. Every Man’s Battle takes a head-on approach to bring to light the subject most men, regardless of age or marital status, cringe and avoid like the plague when the subject is brought up: God’s call for pursuing purity with our eyes, thoughts, emotions, and actions. See their dates here.Stephen Arterburn, Fred Stoeker and Mike Yorkey do some serious work to present God’s standard for male purity. Highlights included "Born for One Thing," "Amazonia," "Into the Storm" and "The Chant." The band will return to road for a European trek in January. Gojira also had a pretty outstanding year, promoting their stellar Fortitude album which continued to push their musical boundaries. 7 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart.ĭuplantier also shouted out friends and onetime tourmates Mastodon for their newly released Hushed and Grim album and credited bassist Jean-Michel Labie for turning him onto Urne's Serpent and Spirit album. While still displaying some of their classic rock influences, The Battle at Garden's Gate showed an overall musical growth and added to their catalog with such standouts as "Heat Above," "My Way, Soon," "Age of Machine" and "Broken Bells." The album arrived at No. I'm like, 'Yes, some things are not lost.' That album is absolutely amazing."
I have more faith in humanity when I hear that. You can say they sound like Led Zep or this or that, it doesn't matter to me. "Seeing a bunch of 20-year-old's grabbing vintage instruments and fucking laying it down like they do, like in the good ol' days. "I think these kids are very talented - I hate calling them kids, by the way, because it shows how old I am," adds Duplantier. Speaking with Revolver sharing several of his picks for the year, the Gojira frontman stated, "There's another album that blew my mind, and I heard about them as being a rip-off of Led Zeppelin, it's Greta Van Fleet's The Battle at Garden's Gate."