No. 001
50 Days of Manhood
Complete Edition · 2026 · The L5 Press · Available now
Fifty days of ordered formation for men. The first stone laid under the family imprint.
I
The House
Why this house exists.
What does a man leave behind when the titles return to the Church?
That question built this house. My life is not divided into ministry and everything else. When I gave the Lord my yes, He received all of it. The pulpits I serve, the congregations in my charge, the office I hold: these are stewardships. They were placed in my hands, and one day I will place them in the hands of other men. That is the nature of stewardship. It is holy, and it is temporary.
But the Lord also gave me a household. A household is not a stewardship that passes; it is a gift that remains. Scripture says it plainly: a good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children (Proverbs 13:22). So the writing gathered here, the teaching, the books that carry our name: this is the portion that does not transfer. To put this in other terms, this site is not my platform. It is our inheritance.
To my children, and to my children’s children: this house is yours. Read all of it. Test every page against the Scriptures. And when your turn comes, add to the shelves. The house is built. Keep building.
II
The Works
The permanent collection.
Every finished work enters the catalogue once, receives its number, and remains. This room is not a store. It is the record of what the house has made, kept in the order each work reaches your hands.
No. 002
So Great a Salvation
The Anchor and the Drift · The L5 Press
The flagship of the house. The anchor of so great a salvation, and the slow drift that neglects it. Hebrews 2:3 asks a question; this book refuses to leave it unanswered.
Arrives September 2026
No. 003
Power Principles
Expanded Edition · The L5 Press · First issued 2012
The first work ever issued in my own name, where the training philosophy was first put to paper. It returns expanded: the elder statesman of the shelf.
Arrives New Year’s Eve 2026
III
The Training Hall
Teachers inform. Trainers form.
The training offered from this house is small by design: courses, cohorts, tables with seats that can be counted. Real formation requires presence, repetition, correction, and practice, and none of those can be mass-produced.
Course No. 001 · Now enrolling
The Berean Course
A training in studying the Scriptures for yourself.
“Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.”
Acts 17:11 · NASB95
When
Saturday,
August 22, 2026
9:00–11:00 AM
Where
The MarketPlace
Movement
Dayton, Ohio
Registration
$25 per seat,
includes the
Berean Kit
Every seat leaves with the Berean Kit: a set of printed study tools built for this course, so the method goes home with you.
Register your seat
Seats are counted, not crowded.
IV
The Daily Practice
A free formation companion
A quiet place to return each day.
Daily Portion gathers Scripture, prayer, guided practice, and formation tracks into one calm daily rhythm. Begin alone, or walk a shared track with friends and see one another’s progress without turning formation into a social feed.
- Today
- Bible
- Tracks
- Prayer
- Practice
No account is required. An optional account adds encrypted continuity across devices and private Shared Tracks.
V
The Reading Room
Words set with care, on owned ground.
The weekly table
Coffee and Discipleship
Pull up a chair, the coffee is on. A weekly training table for developing disciples, served every week without charge.
Take a seat at the table →The long form
The Papers of the House
Numbered long-form work published on the house’s own ground, typeset for keeping, at addresses that will not move. Free to read, always.
Browse the shelf →
From the house’s pages
What does it mean to keep something? Not to store it, but to keep it: the way a household keeps a table, the way a watchman keeps a watch. We keep what we intend to hand to someone. That intention is the difference between an archive and an attic. This room keeps words the way the house keeps its name, in full expectation that someone we love will need them after us. Keep is a covenant word.
“A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, And the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.”
Proverbs 13:22 · NASB95
Carry it further
If this house fed you, hand someone the address.
Everything here is free to share. One tap opens the sending.
Clergy Equip is built especially for pastors and ministry leaders who need margin for prayer, the Word, and the care of people.
VI
The Pillars
The quiet weight that keeps the doors open.
“…James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars…”
Galatians 2:9 · NASB95
Some have asked how to support this work along the journey. This room is the answer.
Understand what a pledge here is, and what it is not. A pledge is support of the mission, not a purchase. Everything in the Reading Room and everything on the papers shelf stays free for every reader, pillar or not. That is the standing rule of this house: the canon is free. A pillar buys nothing. A pillar holds the house up.
That is the whole idea. Pillars do their work quietly. No one walks into a house to admire them; people walk in because the doors are open and the roof holds. The weight the pillars carry is what lets the doors stay open. If you choose to stand under some of that weight, you become part of what holds this place.
Pledges support the work directly through L5, LLC; they are not tax-deductible charitable donations.
Pillars are remembered by the house with gratitude. The word stays free either way.