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Deep Water: When Strong Runs Out, Do Everything In Love
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ISBN13: 9798197026514
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 3 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 3 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
You've been strong for a long time. Strong for your family. Strong at work. Strong enough to keep the lid on everything you're actually carrying. But what happens when strong runs out? This is the book for that moment. Deep Water is a raw, honest, and deeply personal faith guide for men who are ready to stop performing strength and start living love - the real kind, the costly kind, the kind that 1 Corinthians 16:14 calls agapē. Michael Maio knows where you are. He spent his twenties on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange - the credit cards, the limos, the booze, the drugs, the performance of a life that looked like success from the outside and felt like nothing from the inside. He cursed God. He didn't think anyone could love what he was becoming. Then a stranger on a boardwalk told him about a church. What happened next - on a Long Beach boardwalk, in a Tuesday night Bible study over the book of Amos, in filthy ocean water on a grey day that turned out to be the best day of his life - is a story about the love that finds you before you're ready, holds you when you have nothing to offer, and transforms you from the inside out. This book is for the man who:
- Has been carrying things he doesn't talk about
- Has watched his faith go dry without knowing why
- Has loved people from behind a mask for so long he's forgotten who's underneath it
- Is staring down the second half of his life and wondering if this is all there is
- Has been lost and is looking for a way home What you'll find inside:
- The meaning of agapē - why the Greeks had four words for love and we need to understand all of them
- Why every problem in the Corinthian church (and yours) is really a love problem
- What a man's baptism in dirty ocean water teaches about how God actually shows up
- How forgiveness works when you don't have enough of it on your own
- What it means to trust God completely when the income is gone, the future is unclear, and the fear is loud
- The difference between the bottle that never fills and the living water that does
- Why you're not declining in the second half of your life - you're deepening This is not a 30-day fix-yourself program. It is not generic Christian self-help. It is twelve chapters written by a real man from a boardwalk in Long Beach, New York - a man with two tattoos, fifty guitars, a verse on his wrist, and a story that took fifty years to write. Each chapter ends with a Depth Charge reflection question and a one-sentence prayer - designed for the man who has five minutes and needs something that actually lands. My left hand squeezes my guitar and reminds me to love the world. My right hand shakes hands with the world but trusts only God. Love people fully. Trust God completely. Everything I need to know about life is written on my wrists. Whatever you did, it doesn't matter. You're a child of the King. God loves you. He's waiting for you. He's looking down the road. He's going to give you a fattened calf, a ring, sandals, and a squeeze. Go in. The water is fine. Perfect for men seeking: Christian devotional for men faith and purpose after 40 men's spiritual growth Christian self-help devotional for fathers midlife faith men's Bible study spiritual transformation 1 Corinthians 16:14 do everything in love
- Has watched his faith go dry without knowing why
- Has loved people from behind a mask for so long he's forgotten who's underneath it
- Is staring down the second half of his life and wondering if this is all there is
- Has been lost and is looking for a way home What you'll find inside:
- The meaning of agapē - why the Greeks had four words for love and we need to understand all of them
- Why every problem in the Corinthian church (and yours) is really a love problem
- What a man's baptism in dirty ocean water teaches about how God actually shows up
- How forgiveness works when you don't have enough of it on your own
- What it means to trust God completely when the income is gone, the future is unclear, and the fear is loud
- The difference between the bottle that never fills and the living water that does
- Why you're not declining in the second half of your life - you're deepening This is not a 30-day fix-yourself program. It is not generic Christian self-help. It is twelve chapters written by a real man from a boardwalk in Long Beach, New York - a man with two tattoos, fifty guitars, a verse on his wrist, and a story that took fifty years to write. Each chapter ends with a Depth Charge reflection question and a one-sentence prayer - designed for the man who has five minutes and needs something that actually lands. My left hand squeezes my guitar and reminds me to love the world. My right hand shakes hands with the world but trusts only God. Love people fully. Trust God completely. Everything I need to know about life is written on my wrists. Whatever you did, it doesn't matter. You're a child of the King. God loves you. He's waiting for you. He's looking down the road. He's going to give you a fattened calf, a ring, sandals, and a squeeze. Go in. The water is fine. Perfect for men seeking: Christian devotional for men faith and purpose after 40 men's spiritual growth Christian self-help devotional for fathers midlife faith men's Bible study spiritual transformation 1 Corinthians 16:14 do everything in love
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