Daily Archives: July 17, 2025

My Statement of Purpose

This is not a motivational speech.

This is not a Hallmark moment, a TED Talk, or an Instagram-ready “purpose-driven life” fluff piece. This is a war cry. A battle hymn. A declaration of intent, forged not in comfort but in conflict.

I was not raised to be the man I have become or am becoming. I was not trained for this. I was not handed the tools or the vision by my father the way I should have been. I was not surrounded by men of conviction, purpose, and strength, in-fact quite the opposite. I had to become what I should have been taught to be as a child. I had to learn, from the wreckage of my life and from the ruins of a collapsing civilization, what a man is, what a man must do, and what he must live for.

Every man must have a purpose. Not a dream. Not a feeling. Not a wish. A purpose. A goal. A burden. A direction. A vision of legacy. Without this, he is dead already. He may walk, eat, earn money, even reproduce (unfortunately) but he will never truly build, lead, or really matter.

And this was once known to all men inherently.

The Death of Male Purpose

Until just a few generations ago, this was common knowledge. A man existed to labor, to lead, to fight, to provide, to protect, to build. His identity was tied to the work of his hands and the fruit of his sacrifice. No man needed a seminar to know that he was born to take dominion.

Now, the average man is told that his purpose is his self happiness.

He is told he is most virtuous when he is most “self-expressive,” most “true to himself,” most “comfortable in his skin.” He is told to chase careers, money, entertainment, prestige, sex, and status. He is told that a successful life is one where he gets everything he wants, lives in comfort and has as little responsibility as possible. That he deserves praise for simply existing. That any sacrifice asked of him is oppression.

We have traded duty for dopamine. Discipline for therapy. Dominion for “mental health days.” We are told to serve ourselves, our careers, our government, or whatever political slogan currently sits on the throne of Babylon. But we are not told to serve our wives. We are not told to serve our children. We are certainly not told to serve God.

And boy does it show!

What we have now is a generation of soft, winey, emasculated men, physically alive, spiritually neutered. Addicted to porn, praise, and PlayStations. Afraid of discomfort, allergic to authority, and ignorant of their design. They are the natural product of a culture that mocks fatherhood, punishes masculinity, and rewards cowardice.

The Reality of Legacy

Most men don’t build anything. They spend 40 years building another man’s empire while losing their own house. They give their best hours to a company that will replace them the moment they get sick, and they give their worst hours to the children they hardly know. They try to lead wives who have been trained since childhood to hate submission, to fight headship, and to confuse rebellion with strength.

And when they finally look up, they have nothing. No legacy. No foundation. No future. Just bills, regrets, and broken dreams. I’ve seen this. I’ve lived this. And I’ve declared war on it!

I am not here to participate in that cycle. I am not here to be another brick in Babylon’s wall. I am here to build a house that lasts. A man is not measured by his net worth. He is not remembered for his career or his cars or his hobbies. He is measured by what he builds, by who he leads, by the faith he passes down.

A man is a patriarch – or he is a pathetic pawn.

My Beginning: Not a Blank Slate, but a Battlefield

I was born with Lupus. Not a scratch, not a limp, not a mild inconvenience. An incurable, lifelong affliction that brings daily pain and exhaustion. Every step costs something. Every action is a choice. Every ounce of effort put forth costs me physically.

But God in His sovereignty gave me this for a reason. I make a conscious effort every hour of every day to not complain, to not dwell on the pain or discomfort, to not use this as an excuse for abdication of my responsibilities, and to not allow this burden to effect the spirit of my household.

Fifteen years ago, I stopped taking the medications that numbed the pain. I chose to live in clarity and agony rather than comfort and fog. Because clarity is required for legacy. And pain is the price of purpose. While others complain about minor inconveniences, I bleed for a future they don’t even believe in. And that’s just the physical side.

I started with no inheritance. No generational wealth. No functioning family structure. No roadmap. And no support from my family. What I inherited was a pile of ashes and a name in need of redemption. But you don’t get to choose your starting line. You only get to choose whether you run or quit.

The Modern Wife Problem

I would like to say clearly and without apology: less than 1% of females in the Western world today qualify as even a basic, entry-level wife. Not because they are stupid. Not because they are evil. But because they have been deliberately trained, since birth, to be everything but a wife, by their parents, the government and society as a whole.

They are taught to pursue degrees, not diapers. Careers, not covenant. Freedom, not faithfulness. The culture teaches them to be sexually liberated but spiritually barren. Loud, proud, and perpetually offended. Worshiped for existing, enraged when corrected, and allergic to accountability. They are taught to crave attention to the point it is sinful.

And the average man, even a good man, will spend the best years of his life begging and battling just to get what his great-grandfather expected and received without question: a wife who serves, submits, and builds with him. A wife who was trained by her parents to be a wife.

He sacrifices immense time, energy, and money just to lay the foundation that should have been there already. I speak from experience. Most of my adult life has been spent not only learning what I must be as a man and a husband, but then training my wives to be what their parents failed to make them. I had to teach them how to be what Scripture commands, not just by words, but by example, by demand, and by daily discipline.

And even then, the battle is constant and ever-present. Not because they are unwilling, but because they were untrained. And the world constantly reinforces the lie that their feelings are more sacred than their function. That they deserve constant attention and praise for doing far less than the bare minimum, and they are equal to men.

My Purpose: The Restoration of the Biblical Household

My purpose is to rebuild the ancient household. Not in theory. Not in fantasy. But in raw, lived-out, flesh-and-blood reality. I know with full conviction and clarity that God has called me to be a patriarch, not a figurehead, not a mascot, not a preacher, but a builder of the old ways. A restorer of ruins.

He has called me to live, visibly and unapologetically, the reality of Biblical family order. Including polygyny. Yes, I said it: multiple wives. Many children. A fruitful house. A defiant example. This is not about lust. This is not about indulgence. This is about restoration. About rebuilding what sin, feminism, church cowardice, and governmental overreach have destroyed.

I am called to take responsibility for more than myself. To cover, train, and lead women who desire to serve something greater than themselves. Women who were discarded, wounded, or simply never given the chance to thrive in their God-ordained roles. Women who are willing to be transformed, not by flattery, but by fire.

I do not ask them to follow me because I am perfect. I ask them to follow me because I will not stop. Because I will not compromise. Because I will die building, and they will never have to wonder where their man stands.

Ministry Without a Microphone

I never wanted attention. I still don’t. I do not want fame. I do not want followers. I do not want applause. I sincerely want to be left alone to build in seclusion. But I have come to realize that my house is my ministry. Not social media, sermons, or speaking engagements. My wives, my children, my home, my legacy, and the kingdom I leave my children is my purpose..

That is the pulpit from which I preach. That is the testimony that will outlive me. That is where the Kingdom is built. The world is watching. Other men are watching. Other women are watching. And most importantly, my sons and daughters are watching.

They will know what a man is, what a wife is, what sacrifice looks like, and what legacy demands. They will not inherit confusion. They will inherit clarity, purpose and generational wealth.

The Cost

I know first hand the cost of this calling. I am mocked,  lied about, and vilified by feminists and religious cowards alike. I am attacked by those who claim to follow God and those who follow only themselves. I live in constant sacrifice, constant rejection, and constant tension from the outside world and often even my own wives as they struggle with learning God’s intended role for their lives in stark contrast to what the world teaches.

But I will also live in constant purpose. I live as a man who knows what he is building. I will die as a man who gave everything to give his descendants a starting point.

And that is enough, in fact it’s more than I deserve.

The Future: A House, A Name, A Nation

The legacy I build will not be measured in cash. It will be measured in names. In blood. In fruit. In sons who lead and daughters who build. In many wives who teach the next generation what their mothers were never taught. In land, in households, in unity and dominion.

I am not building a mansion. I am building a house that hell cannot burn.I am not pursuing early retirement. I am pursuing early resurrection. I will be a patriarch to my family, a stone in the foundation of the Kingdom, and a thorn in the side of every coward who dares call compromise “compassion.”

And when my work is done, they will not say I lived comfortably. They will say I lived convicted. They will say I lived with purpose.

Soli Deo Gloria

Let God’s Great Order be Restored no matter the cost!

The Curse of Vanity: A War Against Order, Holiness, and Contentment

“Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.”
— Proverbs 31:30 (KJV)

Introduction: A Generation Consumed by the Mirror

We live in an age of mirrors, not altars. Where men and women once rose early to serve their household or kneel in prayer, now they rise to take filtered photos of their own faces. The culture of vanity has saturated every inch of modern life, seducing women into obsession with appearance, and men into the prideful pursuit of status and external power. This is not accidental, it is a calculated war against divine order.

Vanity is not merely a weakness. It is idolatry, and the exaltation of self in the temple of God. It is a rebellion against humility, contentment, holiness, and truth. And it is destroying our women, our daughters, our men, our marriages, our society, and our witness before the world.

This is a call to war; not against lipstick and earrings in isolation, but against the entire spirit of vanity that exalts appearance over obedience, comparison over contentment, and attention over honor.


I. What Is Vanity? The Biblical Definition

The Bible speaks clearly about vanity. The Hebrew word often used is hebel, meaning vapor, emptiness, futility. Vanity is that which is fleeting, hollow, and deceptive.

“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.” — Ecclesiastes 1:2

Solomon, the richest and most adorned king to ever live, declared all worldly striving to be empty. He had wealth, wives, status, glory, but without the fear of God, all of it was like chasing the wind.

Vanity is not merely enjoying beauty or having possessions. It is the pursuit of identity, worth, or security in those things. It is when the external replaces the internal. When the created replaces the Creator. When women obsess over looks more than virtue. When men chase possessions more than purpose. When families compare rather than build.

Vanity is spiritual rot dressed in attractive clothing!


II. The Seduction of Cosmetics: Makeup, Nails, and Eyelashes

Makeup is no modern invention. In ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Rome, women (and men) painted their faces to signal wealth, fertility, and seduction. It was tied to pagan religion and temple prostitution.

The Bible gives a sober example:

“And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.” — 2 Kings 9:30

Jezebel, the pagan queen whose name now symbolizes manipulation, sexual immorality, and witchcraft, adorned herself with paint to seduce and manipulate. Her end was not one of glory.

Modern women who spend hours each week painting their faces, elongating their eyelashes, dyeing their brows, and glossing their lips are not acting independently, they are participating in an ancient pattern of vanity that exalts sensual appeal over inward holiness.

A woman’s strength is not in her beauty; it is in her meekness, her modesty, her devotion, and her fruitfulness.

“Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart…” — 1 Peter 3:3–4


III. Hairstyles, Hair Dyeing, and Jewelry: Decoration or Deception?

Hair in Scripture is given significance. For a woman, it is her glory (1 Corinthians 11:15). But what is meant to be a symbol of honor has become a platform for rebellion. The dyeing of hair, extreme hairstyles, braiding with ornaments, and attention-grabbing alterations are often not for function, but to project status, sensuality, or pride.

“In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments… the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings…” — Isaiah 3:18–23

God pronounces judgment on the daughters of Zion for their prideful adorning. Jewelry, makeup, perfume, and costly garments are all named in the list, not because the objects are inherently sinful, but because they represent a spirit of vanity. A heart far from God, seeking approval from men rather than God.

When a woman dyes her hair bright red, paints her nails black, and stacks jewelry on her neck, what is she saying? What message does it send? It is not submission, virtue, or holiness. It is identity-by-display. And that is vanity.


IV. Vanity in Men: The Idol of Appearance and Possession

While vanity often manifests in women through makeup and fashion, men are not exempt. For men, vanity often appears through possessions, status, muscle, appearance, and self-promotion.

Today’s man shaves his chest, oils his arms, posts shirtless selfies, flaunts designer brands, and flexes his car or watch or physique. He is not seeking to serve, he is seeking to be admired.

This is not manhood. This is pride in disguise.

“The LORD will destroy the house of the proud…” — Proverbs 15:25

Men are to build, to protect, to provide, to lead. Their strength should be measured in fruitfulness, sacrifice, and leadership; not in jawlines or clothing brands.

Vanity turns men into self-worshipers, men who abandon duty in the pursuit of digital validation.


V. Social Media: The Amplifier of All Vanity

If vanity is a fire, social media is the gasoline. Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook are temples of image-worship, where men and women curate their lives to be admired by strangers. Every photo is a pose. Every caption is a performance. Every post is a bid for attention.

It is no accident that the selfie generation is also the most anxious, depressed, and suicidal generation. We were not made to be worshiped. We were made to worship God.

The Scriptures warn:

“Men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud… lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.” — 2 Timothy 3:2–4

This prophecy is fulfilled in the selfie and influencer culture. Women post cleavage and angles for likes. Men post gym photos and cars for praise. Children grow up learning that approval comes from filters, not fruit.

Social media is not neutral, it is a vanity machine. And households under God’s order must train their children to despise its lies, not participate in its parades.

VI. Keeping Up With the Idols: Possessions and the Race of Comparison

Vanity does not end with makeup and mirror-glances. It extends into the home, the garage, the wardrobe, and the digital feed. The spirit of vanity feeds on comparison, comparing homes, comparing outfits, comparing vacations, comparing children, comparing “likes.”

This disease infects families who once lived content and fruitful lives. Now, they chase after bigger homes, newer cars, trendier décor, and seasonal fashion rotations not because of need, but because of insecurity. They scroll through curated social media pages and begin to believe their homes are inadequate, their lives boring, their children behind, and their husbands insufficient.

And so, the rat race begins. Husbands feel pressure to earn more, not for necessity but for vanity. Wives chase appearances. Children learn the rhythm of restless covetousness instead of thankful contentment.

“Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.” — Proverbs 15:16

The Word is plain. A small, peaceful home under God’s rule is better than a palace decorated in discontent.

Families must be taught to love simplicity, not status. To cherish function, not fashion. To seek usefulness, not impressiveness.


VII. The Hunt for Validation: Empty Praise and Emotional Addiction

Modern vanity thrives on one thing: attention. The woman who paints her face in three shades, sculpts her body through surgery, flaunts her clothing, and regularly posts pictures of herself is not doing so because she honors God. She is seeking validation and attention.

And this is not merely feminine. Men too are becoming validation addicts, boasting of themselves, showcasing their hobbies, signaling their virtue, or flexing their material gain.

Scripture warns:

“Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.” — Proverbs 27:2

To seek praise is to deny God’s sufficiency. Anyone who must be constantly told “You are beautiful” or “You are amazing” is not walking in strength, but in insecurity masked as confidence. Vanity is a fragile idol that must be fed constantly. And when the praise slows, so does the peace.

This is why vanity leads to anxiety and despair. The validation never satisfies and the attention is never enough.

True strength, and true honor, is found in fearing God and fulfilling duty. Not in applause, or compliments, and certainly not in “followers.”


VIII. Historical Patterns: From Babylon’s Paint to Rome’s Decay

Vanity is not a new sin. It always arises in times of peace, prosperity, and moral decline. In Babylon, women wore cosmetics, adorned their heads, and painted their eyes as acts of devotion to pagan deities. In Rome, women bleached their hair, painted their faces with poisonous white powder, and competed with one another in vanity displays.

The result was always the same: national collapse. Vanity is not just a personal flaw, it is a cultural death knell. It signals a people who no longer fear God, who are no longer fruitful, and who no longer train their children in self-denial.

When nations rise, they are marked by modesty, family strength, and discipline. When they fall, they are marked by sensuality, appearance-obsession, and gender perversion. We are not the first empire to collapse under our own vanity. But if we do not repent, we may be the last.


IX. God’s Standard: Modesty, Sobriety, Holiness, and Meekness

The Word of God gives clear instructions on how men and women are to present themselves.

“In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety…” — 1 Timothy 2:9

Modesty is not just about fabric length. It is about spirit. A modest woman is not attention-hungry. She dresses with dignity, not desire for praise. She draws attention to her good works, not her figure.

“Let your moderation be known unto all men.” — Philippians 4:5

The man of God is to be moderate. His clothing, possessions, speech, and presentation should reflect order and humility, not boastful consumption.

“As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts… but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy…” — 1 Peter 1:14–15

We are to be set apart. Holy. Different. Not in rebellion against beauty, but in alignment with God’s definition of beauty, obedience, honor, fear of the Lord, diligence, wisdom, purity, meekness, and fruitfulness.


X. Practical Application: Building a Household that Rejects Vanity

1. Teach your daughters early.
Show them the difference between beauty and vanity. Let them see modest women praised. Teach them that value is in obedience, not makeup.

2. Guard against social media.
Limit or eliminate it entirely. It is the sanctuary of envy and vanity. Refuse to let the world’s standards shape your family.

3. Model simplicity.
Wear simple clothing. Avoid excess. Let your home reflect usefulness and cleanliness, not opulence and status-chasing.

4. Praise the right things.
Compliment your wife or daughters not for their looks alone, but for their submission, service, and joy. Teach them to seek praise from God, not strangers.

5. Rebuke the spirit of vanity.
Call it what it is. Correct it in love. Do not laugh off vanity, it is not harmless. It is rebellion!

6. Preach identity in Christ.
True security, peace, and contentment are found in knowing you belong to God, not in being admired by man.


Conclusion: The Mirror or the Cross?

“If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” — Matthew 16:24

The question before every household, every parent, every man and woman is this:
Will we bow to the mirror, or the cross?

Vanity is the gospel of self. The cross is the death of self. One leads to anxiety, emptiness, and judgment. The other leads to peace, holiness, and glory.

The Great Order requires modest women who build their homes, not parade their bodies. It requires sober men who train their sons, not flaunt their wealth. It requires families who walk in contentment, not comparison. In truth, not performance. In fruitfulness, not self-worship.

Let the world burn incense at the altar of Instagram.
Let them paint their faces, boast in their flesh, and compare their emptiness.

But as for us:
Let us be known for meekness.
Let us wear holiness like robes.
Let us be content with what the Lord provides.
Let our beauty come from obedience.
Let our honor come from heaven.

“The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.” — Psalm 147:11

That is the only approval that matters.

This is the Great Order!