Brave and Bold: 31 Devotions to Strengthen Men
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
What is the measure of a man? Is it athletic ability, strength, intelligence, or accomplishments? In Brave and Bold, Marty Machowski offers thirty-one daily devotions to encourage readers to become men whose strength comes from following Jesus and reflects him to a watching world. Each devotion calls men to grow deeper in compassion, kindness, courage, integrity, and service.
Machowski explores the truth that becoming a real man means trusting God in every area of life, including serving, taking responsibility, and confessing failure. Through personal vignettes and practical application, men will be challenged to “be doers of the word, and not hearers only” (James 1:22) and to be examples of faithfulness, selflessness, self-control, and humble dependence on the Lord.
Useful for personal reading, one-on-one discipleship, or small group discussion, Brave and Bold encourages young men to live on a mission to honor the Lord and to make him known in every part of life.
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- Includes thirty-one daily devotions.
- Encourages readers to become men whose strength comes from following Jesus.
- Calls men to grow deeper in compassion, kindness, courage, integrity, and service.
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Men Worship God
- Chapter 2: Men Trust God
- Chapter 3: Men Pray
- Chapter 4: Men Serve
- Chapter 5: Men Follow the Spirit
- Chapter 6: Men Are Responsible
- Chapter 7: Men Keep Their Word
- Chapter 8: Men Stay on Mission
- Chapter 9: Men Read
- Chapter 10: Men Slay Sloth
- Chapter 11: Men Know Their Enemy
- Chapter 12: Men Attack Their Problems
- Chapter 13: Men Honor Women
- Chapter 14: Men Guard Their Eyes
- Chapter 15: Men Demonstrate Fidelity
- Chapter 16: Men Tell the Truth
- Chapter 17: Men Memorize the Word
- Chapter 18: Men Conquer Fear
- Chapter 19: Men Take Initiative
- Chapter 20: Men Embrace Team
- Chapter 21: Men Express Gratitude
- Chapter 22: Men Deny Self
- Chapter 23: Men Welcome Adversity
- Chapter 24: Men Never Give Up
- Chapter 25: Men Sacrifice
- Chapter 26: Men Obey God’s Commands
- Chapter 27: Men Confess Their Failures
- Chapter 28: Men Hold Their Tongues
- Chapter 29: Men Are Easy to Lead
- Chapter 30: Men Encourage
- Chapter 31: Men Disciple
- A Final Word—Love and Forgiveness: The Greatest Measures of a Man
- Acknowledgments
- Endnotes
My sons can tell you about the Saturday mornings when I used to take them out for breakfast and for what I called ‘manhood training.’ I realized it was my job to help them grow from boyhood to the responsibilities of mature manhood. How I wish I’d had Marty’s book back then. I’m so glad today’s dads have this invaluable tool to use with their sons.
—Bob Lepine, Cohost, FamilyLife Today
Brave and Bold: 31 Devotions to Strengthen Men is a basic training manual for biblical manhood. Machowski offers thirty-one essential characteristics of biblical manhood in this compact, accessible devotional. Men who read this work and take on the challenges contained in it will be blessed and grow far beyond the thirty-one days it is designed to cover.
—Curtis Solomon, Executive Director of the Biblical Counseling Coalition; Cofounder of Solomon Soul Care
As the father of five now-grown sons, I was called to the man-raising business. Had this book been around when my sons were younger, it would have been part of our manhood curriculum. It expresses what men are meant to be and what I still want to be when I grow up. Brave and Bold is solid, practical, biblical, and accessible. Marty combines great illustrations with biblical insight, and then adds recommended next steps for application. Get it. Read it. Do it.
—Tim Shorey, Author of Respect the Image: Reflecting Human Worth in How We Listen and Talk, 30/30 Hindsight: 30 Reflections on a 30-Year Headache,and An ABC Prayer to Jesus: Praise for Hearts Both Young and Old
- Title: Brave and Bold: 31 Devotions to Strengthen Men
- Author: Marty Machowski
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Pages: 119
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subject: Men › Religious life--Meditations
- ISBNs: 9781645070696, 1645070697, 9781645070986, 1645070980
- Resource ID: LLS:BRAVEANDBOLD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-11-21T19:21:25Z
Marty Machowski is a Family Life Pastor at Covenant Fellowship Church in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, where he has served on the pastoral staff for over thirty years. He is the author of The Gospel Story Bible, Long Story Short, Old Story New, the Gospel Story Curriculum, the Prepare Him Room advent devotional and curriculum, Wise Up family devotional and curriculum, Listen Up family devotional and curriculum, Dragon Seed, and The Ology. He and his wife Lois have six children and two grandchildren, and they reside in West Chester, Pennsylvania.