Build The Man First begins with Center: putting God first. The Sixty-Six is a Scripture-based resource from O. B. Levy created to help you stay connected to God’s Word and apply biblical truth to everyday life.
Explore The Sixty-Six
Men’s Resources
Resources for Men Who Are Building
Tools to help you assess where you are, take action each week, gather other men, and put the six moves to work — whether or not you have the book yet.
Find Your Starting Point
Pathways
Choose the Tool That Fits Where You Are
Some men need to read. Some need to assess. Some need structure. Some need a group. Some need to lead a son, a family, or a room of men. Start with the tool that meets the moment.
Begin
Start Here
Find the move that speaks to where you are right now and take the next step.
Start Here → PathThe Builder Path
A simple seven-step path from conviction to structure.
Follow the Builder Path → ReflectQuestion of the Week
One direct question to put in front of yourself this week.
Answer the Question → GatherMen’s Group Leader Kit
A six-week structure for men’s groups, churches, and mentors.
Get the Men’s Group Kit → FamilyFather & Son Builder Guide
Six conversations to help a young man build before life tests him.
Use the Father & Son Guide →Assess
Build The Man First Self-Assessment
Before a man can build with structure, he has to tell the truth about where he is. Use this assessment to identify where you are centered, where you are resisting surrender, what is defining you, what is governing you, what you are actually building, and who your life is leading.
Center
Is God first or just present?
Surrender
What am I still trying to control?
Define
What is naming me right now?
Govern
What appetite or habit is running me?
Build
What have I started but not finished?
Lead
Who is affected by my discipline or drift?
Take Action This Week
This Week
Start the 7-Day Builder Challenge
Seven days. Seven disciplined actions. One week to stop drifting, recover structure, and prove to yourself that obedience can begin now.
- Day 1Pray before your phone.
- Day 2Name what is governing your attention.
- Day 3Remove one distraction.
- Day 4Finish one delayed responsibility.
- Day 5Have one honest conversation.
- Day 6Write one standard for your home or life.
- Day 7Choose the next move and commit to it.
Act
Weekly Builder Challenge
Each week, take one direct action that turns conviction into structure. No hype. No performance. Just one disciplined move.
- 01Pray before touching your phone for seven days.
- 02Finish one thing you keep delaying.
- 03Apologize without defending yourself.
- 04Remove one distraction for the week.
- 05Ask one older man for counsel.
- 06Write down what is currently governing your time.
- 07Have one honest conversation you have been avoiding.
- 08Set one standard for your home and live it for seven days.
Get a new challenge in your inbox each week through the Field Notes list below.
Reflect
Question of the Week
What is currently governing your attention?
The answer may be your phone, your appetite, your fear, your anger, your ambition, your calendar, or your comfort. A man cannot govern his life until he names what has been governing him.
Previous Questions
- What have I been calling discipline that is really just pressure?
- Where am I asking God to bless what I refuse to surrender?
- What unfinished responsibility keeps following me?
- What would change if I led my home with more consistency this week?
- What appetite has been louder than my convictions?
Build With Others
Gather
For Men’s Groups and Churches
Build The Man First can be used as a personal reset, men’s group framework, fatherhood conversation starter, sermon series companion, or leadership development tool for young men.
- Six-week discussion structure
- Sermon / Workshop Guide
- Group reflection questions
- Weekly action challenges
- Leader notes
- Father / son conversation prompts
Use the Tools
Build
Practical Tools for Men Who Are Building
Simple, gated tools to help you put the work into practice. Each is part of the free resource set.
Scripture Reading Plan for Men Who Are Building
A simple reading path through Scripture for men working through faith, discipline, responsibility, self-control, purpose, and leadership.
Get the Reading PlanFather / Son Discussion Guide
Conversation prompts to help fathers and sons talk about identity, discipline, responsibility, faith, and the kind of man a young man is becoming.
Get the GuideDiscipline Tracker
A simple tracker to help men build consistency in prayer, fitness, finances, work, time, and personal standards.
Get the TrackerPhone Distraction Reset
A practical reset for men whose attention has been trained by scrolling, distraction, comparison, and digital noise.
Start the ResetAccountability Partner Checklist
A tool for men who need honest accountability, not vague encouragement. Use it with a brother, mentor, group, or men’s ministry.
Get the ChecklistStay Connected
Ask
Ask a Question
Have a question about faith, discipline, responsibility, identity, fatherhood, leadership, or self-government? Send it in. Your question may become a future Field Note or podcast topic.
Listen While You Build
Audio Field Notes Coming Soon
Audio Field Notes are coming soon for men who want short, direct teaching they can listen to on the move.
Reader Bonus Kit
Get the Reader Bonus Kit
Bought the book or planning to read it? Get the free Reader Bonus Kit with the Companion Workbook, Drift Audit, Responsibility Checklist, Framework Sheet, 7-Day Builder Challenge, Letter to Future Self, and future audio updates.
Listen While You Build
Join the Audiobook Waitlist
The Build The Man First audiobook and Audio Field Notes are being prepared. Join the list for audiobook updates, sample audio releases, and launch announcements.
More Faith-Based Tools
Build Your Life on the Word
More from O. B. Levy
Books for Faith, Life, and Relationships
Build The Man First is part of a larger faith-centered body of work from O. B. Levy, including books on honest conversation with God and navigating dating with faith, standards, and discernment.
God, We Gotta Talk
Faith does not fall apart because of hard questions.
It often falls apart because we are afraid to ask them.
God, We Gotta Talk is an honest, reflective exploration of the questions many people carry but rarely say out loud. Questions about anxiety, exhaustion, injustice, waiting, doubt, and what it means to trust God in a complicated world.
Written for people who are navigating pressure, uncertainty, and the tension between belief and lived experience, this book creates space for conversation rather than offering quick answers or polished clichés. Each chapter centers on a real, lived question and responds with Scripture presented in a way that is thoughtful, accessible, and grounded in grace.
This is not a book for people who have everything figured out. It is for those who are still willing to talk to God honestly, even when the answers feel incomplete or unclear. Through reflection and biblical insight, O. B. Levy invites readers to see faith not as certainty, but as relationship—one that can hold questions without fear.
If you are searching, questioning, or trying to reconnect with God, this conversation is for you.
God, Dating Is Hard Out Here
God, Dating Is Hard Out Here is a raw, compassionate conversation with God about modern relationships, heartbreak, healing, and becoming whole. Through honest reflections, short prayers, hard truths, and guided journaling, this book meets you in the middle of unanswered texts, lonely nights, and starting over.
This isn’t a dating manual.
It’s a space to breathe.
A place to tell the truth.
A reminder that you don’t have to lose yourself to find love.
Inside these pages, you’ll explore:
- Why modern dating feels so disconnected
- How to recognize emotional unavailability and unhealthy patterns
- The impact of trauma, loneliness, and delayed adulthood
- Why standards are protection, not pride
- How to heal while you wait
- What it means to prepare for love instead of chasing it
Written in a prayer-forward, emotionally honest voice, this book is for anyone who feels tired of starting over, unsure about love, or ready to grow emotionally and spiritually.
Whether you’re single, healing from heartbreak, stuck in situationships, or learning how to set boundaries, this book invites you to slow down, reconnect with God, and become whole before your next relationship.
Do the Work
Every tool here is built to turn conviction into structure. Start with the free Companion Workbook.
The Podcast
More Coming September 1, 2026
The Build The Man First Podcast launches September 1, 2026 — conversations, challenges, and field notes for men who are building.
Learn About the Podcast