Being reared in a megachurch (First Baptist Church Jackson) with the pedigree of a Huckleberry Finn, I simply stood back in awe of the spectacle, masses and outstanding preaching. As a teen, I was there during the late '80s when Dr. Frank Pollard (Senior Pastor) was in his prime (during his second appointment there). We attended both Sunday mornings and evenings, giving nary a second thought to driving all the way from humble (back then) Madison to downtown Jackson twice (+/25 minute car ride) on The Lord's Day.
Some veteran Jackson Mississippi Samson guys' musings, recommended resources, and Samson Society news / updates (all written by 100% Grade A - Human Intelligence)
Weekly meetings available to you are as follows:
Tuesday at 6:30 PM, Truitt Baptist Church - Pearl. Call Matt Flint at (601) 260-8518 or email him at matthewflint.makes@gmail.com.
Wednesday at 6:00 PM, First Baptist Church Jackson - Summit Counseling Suite - 431 North State St. Jackson. Call Don Waller at 601-946-1290 or email him at don@wallerbros.com.
Monday at 6:30 PM , Vertical Church - 521 Gluckstadt Road Madison, MS 39110. Mr. Roane Hunter, facilitator, LifeWorks Counseling.
Wednesday at 7:00 PM, Crossgates Baptist Church. Brandon Reach out to Matthew Lehman at (601)-214-4077 for further info.
Sunday night at 6:00 PM, Grace Crossing Baptist Church - 598 Yandell Rd. Canton. Call Joe McCalman at 601-201-5608 or email him at cookandnoonie@gmail.com.
Sunday, July 31, 2022
For Tenured Samson Guys, Church Can Seem Awfully Saccharine
Thursday, July 14, 2022
"What Are You Doing?"
Angie walked in on me masturbating a few evenings ago. I was in my usual spot in our bathroom, seated in front of the full-length mirror which is affixed to the rear of our toilet room door. I'd gotten out of bed quietly before slipping into the bathroom, stripped down (I only wear skivvies to bed), lit a candle and gone to work.
Sunday, July 10, 2022
"Will You Be My BFF If I Suck Your Dick / Sodomize You?"
The Internet - URLs, apps for pocket computers - gives us exceptionally easy opportunity to splinter into tribes. And these tribes can be built around all manner of mutually agreed upon tropes, but in the end, their purpose is to provide men with relational respect and women with relational security. Those are the baseline needs being carried out therein.
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Recommended Reading - How The Internet Ate A Young Man Alive
Josh Duggar Sentenced to 12.5 Years in Prison for Child Pornography (insider.com)
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
How Best To Disrespect That Important Man In Your Life
At the outset of the church service on Easter Sunday morning, a concerned mom reflexively approached me about her adult son. In doing so, she asked me to reach out to him in spite of the fact that I'd already done so prior (this guy's about my age & visited our church - a few times - with his fiancé last spring). Per his mother, the son had remarried (wife #2) last summer, and as a result, his ex-wife was not / had not (quite understandably) responded well (as the mother of his only child). Therefore, her son was in an emotional pickle for such a time as this and had been for some time.
Friday, April 15, 2022
Tough As Snails
"It's like I'm married to a man! She's almost identical to her own father who was tough as nails."
Sunday, March 6, 2022
Start By Honoring His Wife. (You Have To Assume) She's Who He Sleeps With Every Night.
Married Samson guys often have wives that have been deeply hurt by their transgressions (prior to stepping foot into Samson Society). Some of these women are still married to their spouses only because there're children in the home. That combined with the hope that Samson Society can help to provide a steady road ahead for their marriage, often keeps them begrudgingly, bittersweetly committed.
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Your Wife Has Standards Too ("Fat Slobs" Rarely Get Laid - Shirtless)
The Director of the YMCA branch we frequent asked me specifically - a few weeks ago - if I was planning to take part in the 2022 "Polar Plunge", a charitable February (winter) swim event (in the Y pool). I replied by asking him if he would be participating in turn. He said yes. But when I asked if he would be swimming in the chilly pool waters shirtless, he replied by describing himself as a "fat slob", therefore no.
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Darlene, Jr.
As strange as it may sound, my mom is the closest person to me relative to serving as some semblance of a mentor. Yet, she's done so throughout my life via a hands-off approach. What I mean by that is she's modeled behavior versus attempting to teach it directly. Perhaps that doesn't necessarily qualify her as an actual mentor, but it's never been in her DNA to attempt to instruct me directly in the ways of manhood. And I realize that sounds weird, but just keep reading for further commentary on that.
Monday, November 15, 2021
Monday, September 20, 2021
Mother To Child: "You're Responsible For My Feelings. You're to Blame / To Be Celebrated For Me Feeling __________."
I referenced within an earlier post how important it can be that I keep a lid on my emotions here at the homestead (around my wife / daughters), and how that approach has, in the past (pre-Samson Society involvement), been detrimental to me successfully steering clear of lustful fantasies (supplemented by porn consumption or not) from the standpoint of using said fantasies as an emotional enema.
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
What Might Serve To (Figuratively) Prompt A Wife To Consider Divorcing Her Husband? Loss Of Her Personal Datum
An architect friend, whose first husband died a number of years ago, willingly endured the instability he brought to their marriage 'till his untimely death. Her husband was the opposite of a fixed point in her life. Instead, he was reliably unstable in most everything he did / committed himself to. And it wasn't that she was expecting perfection, material success, etc. Not this lady. Her love for him ran far more deep than that.