Forge

Same 365 days.
Which year will it be?

Another year of meaning to

  • Meant to pray more
  • Meant to lead at home
  • Meant to get strong again
  • Meant to call him back

Dec 31 Same man.

A forged year

  • Prayed before the kids woke
  • Led at the dinner table
  • Ran this morning
  • Told my brothers the truth

Dec 31 Forged.

Start your year Look around a sample year first

Not by willpower. Not alone.

You don’t change to earn anything.

Christ has already done what you never could. Forge is how you answer it: on purpose, every day, for one year, with a few men who will ask how it’s going and mean it.

The aim is simple and it isn’t small: a man who glorifies God and leads well, at home first, then everywhere else.

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”

2 Corinthians 5:17

This is the whole daily habit.

Five fires, ten to twenty minutes each, most days of the week. Light them here. That’s a day. Do it again tomorrow, and the day after, and you have a different year.

Today’s fires 0 of 5 lit

You won’t do it alone.

One to four brothers. One meeting a week, called the Anvil. Each man brings five honest answers, in this order, and nobody leaves without being prayed for.

  1. SparkWhat went right
  2. SlagWhere you fell short
  3. HearthHow home really is
  4. StrikeYour one commitment
  5. AskHow to pray for you

If a brother goes quiet, you go after him within 48 hours.

Miss a day? Never miss twice.

You will miss. Sick kids, a brutal week, a flight. It doesn’t end the year. The day after, the minimum counts.

  1. Mon
  2. Tue
  3. WedMissed
  4. ThuEmber
  5. Fri
  6. Sat
  7. Sun

The Ember Day

The minimum that still counts.

  • Soul5 quiet minutes with God
  • BodyA 10-minute walk
  • Mind10 pages
  • HeartOne honest sentence to someone you love
  • Craft2 minutes planning tomorrow

Fifty-two weeks, one fire at a time.

Keep the five fires going all year, most days of every week. Every ten weeks, a campaign turns one of them up with a mission you choose.

  1. FoundationSoul fire · weeks 1–10
  2. IronBody fire · 11–20
  3. EdgeMind fire · 21–30
  4. HearthHeart fire · 31–40
  5. LegacyCraft fire · 41–50
  6. Temper · Forged51–52

Then Temper and Forged, weeks 51–52: you look back on the year and finish it together.

A year from now, you’ll be one of two men.

Start your year

On your phone. Start any Monday. Bring a brother.