Notes From A Father

What does it mean to become a man of faith when the world offers a thousand competing definitions of manhood?

In Notes From A Father: Being A Man of Faith, R.J. Simmons continues the conversation he began with his sons-this time going deeper into faith, character, responsibility, relationships, and what it means to follow Christ faithfully in everyday life.

Written from a father to his sons, this second volume isn't built around perfection. It is built around experience, mistakes, questions, Scripture, practical wisdom, and the conviction that a man's faith should shape far more than what he does on Sunday morning.

Across 120 short lessons, Simmons explores the challenges Christian men face as they grow into adulthood, marriage, leadership, fatherhood, work, and responsibility.

How do you stand for your beliefs without using faith as a weapon?

How do you lead without becoming controlling?

How do you love your wife sacrificially, choose godly friends, handle doubt, resist temptation, forgive people who hurt you, manage money wisely, remain humble in success, endure tragedy, and continue walking with God when your faith feels faint?

Being A Man of Faith approaches those questions as a father would-plainly, personally, and with the hope that the lessons will still be there when his sons need them most.

The book explores Christian masculinity through themes including faith, humility, integrity, spiritual discipline, prayer, Scripture, marriage, dating, friendship, accountability, fatherhood, leadership, forgiveness, generosity, purpose, work, money, health, grief, doubt, church life, self-control, temptation, service, and perseverance.

But just like the first Notes From A Father volume, faith is not separated from ordinary life.

Practical chapters teach useful skills involving cooking, home maintenance, camping, knots, vehicle care, sewing, weather preparedness, food preservation, budgeting, outdoor knowledge, and other everyday responsibilities. Yet even these lessons point toward something deeper: preparation, stewardship, patience, discipline, service, and caring well for what God has placed in your hands.

A lesson about maintaining a home becomes a lesson about noticing problems before they destroy a marriage or spiritual life. A lesson about cooking becomes a reflection on patience and grace. A lesson about repairing what is broken becomes a reminder that people, relationships, and faith are often worth the work of restoration.

This is not a book about becoming louder, tougher, richer, or more dominant. It is about becoming faithful.

It challenges men to understand strength as self-control, leadership as service, courage as obedience, and masculinity as a responsibility to protect, provide, love, forgive, listen, and lead with humility.

For fathers, it offers words for conversations they may struggle to begin.

For sons and young men, it offers encouragement for the moments when culture, relationships, work, temptation, failure, or doubt make the road difficult to see.

For mothers raising sons without a consistent father's voice, it offers another resource for passing on Christian principles of character and manhood-a purpose the book itself explicitly acknowledges.

Part Christian living guide, part men's devotional, part practical handbook, and part letter from a father to the next generation, Being A Man of Faith is about becoming the man God calls you to be-not flawlessly, but faithfully.

Because Christian manhood isn't proven by how much control you have over others.

It is revealed by how completely you are willing to surrender your own life to Christ.