We’ve walked the path. We know the struggle and the work. We know freedom.
After having radical encounters with God, we both found ourselves searching for answers: what happened, why did we end up where we did, and how do we ensure we never end up there again?
Ancient Path Biblical Coaching is not run by people with expensive degrees or licensed therapists. Literally, we are not professional counselors.
But that doesn’t mean we can’t counsel. We are men who have put in the work, made the mistakes, and been rewarded with the victories of pursuing the heart of God.
This is a business, and our business is allowing our experience, our hard learned lessons, to be of benefit to you. We offer you this knowledge and our time. The rest is up to you.
The men of Ancient Path's team are passionate about our Christ and providing men with everything they could possibly need to walk the path less taken.
For the past several years I have had the privilege of serving in a ministry at my local church called Conquer, which is a program designed to awaken men to the dangers of pornography and sexual sin, and ultimately lead them to a life of purity. I have sat with 100’s of men struggling, fighting, and striving to overcome the wounds in their heart that lead them to medicate using sexual medication.
I spent most of my life using pornography as medication. It was my drug, and eventually, like all addictions, I found myself near death, unable to no longer “get high”. My medicine was not medicating. Combine that with the knowledge that I had failed in every area of life that a man can. I was a failure as a husband, father, worker, provider. Abusive, distant, cold, dead, hiding. I wanted out of this life and was ready to take that final step into oblivion.
Freedom came like a bolt of lightning out of the sky. Jesus took the addiction so fast, that for a while I wasn’t sure what had happened. I dared to hope… Despite the healing from the addition, I still struggled with pain, anger, and fear. I knew that I was still not whole, that I was missing something, and if I failed to figure it out, I was doomed. I found myself one day looking at a picture of myself from when I was a toddler: blond curls, a little red wagon. A precious, beautiful boy. I was struck with horror by one question; what the hell happened to me? How did that boy grow up and turn into the monster that I became? Where did it go wrong? My survival depended on finding these answers.
For most of the last decade, this Ancient Path has been my journey. Finding out where it all went wrong, pulling the roots of that dead life and its wounds out of my heart, and letting Jesus cultivate new soil in my spirit and soul. It’s been painful, it has cost more than I ever expected, and it has at times been absolutely maddening. I honestly did not always think that I would survive it. Playing with your past is no joke, discipline is hard fought, the path meanders through dark territory. It is not for the light of heart. And while the porn and lust are gone, I still plug way at other areas of my heart, cause the journey never ends, and we are all continuous little works in progress.
My training and certifications are all from the school of life. I hope they are of value to you. If so, praise God. Because it is all Him.
The men of Ancient Path's team are passionate about our Christ and providing men with everything they could possibly need to walk the path less taken.
Where to start? I bet a lot of you ask that question. Do you want to read about my skills, career, qualifications, story, testimony, or just about how all this trekking can help you?
In 2015, at the crossroads of life and death, I chose life. The signposts were clear. Nothing the world had to offer was going to fix this hole in me. I tried everything. There was this moment where I recognized that I wasn’t who I said I was, wasn’t what I wanted to be, wasn’t what He had planned for me, and certainly not what anyone I loved desired. Lonely and lost, I asked for forgiveness, sought community, and began this new life with God. Think of the intersection between 1 John 1:9 and James 5:16. Yes, everything, and I mean everything, had to change. And it did and still is. From the type of work to the lifestyle, to the food, to the freedom from addictions and on and on and on. This is what dying to self looks like. And my mind is still renewing; old neuro pathways want their way and certainly, all the temptations the enemy presents require a hard ‘hell no’! Welcome to the path less traveled, the ‘heaven yes’!
Now I’m helping other men find their way on their path, leveraging tools I’ve accumulated, and I am more than willing to offer. My small yet effective toolbox includes lots of freedom training, a life transition certification (2022) from Liminal Space, story workshops and a certificate in narrative-focused trauma care level 1 (April 2024) and level 2 (April 2025) from the Allender Center. My plan is to continue to train in the story, to grow my ability to help others understand, communicate, and build on their life experiences and give their testimony in the community.
My calling? To better connect you with the Holy Spirit. To hear your story and hold it with honor, to help you recognize your gifts and share them with others as you transition in life from season to season. To share mine with respect, being as vulnerable with the difficulties as with the successes so you have someone at the trailhead with a lamp for your feet and a light for your path.
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