Michael Shook Jr. is an ordained minister, motivational speaker, mentor, and coach from Sturgis, Michigan. He spent more than ten years in meth addiction and has been sober for over five years. He has coached youth football to a championship. He is the author of Faithful Strength for The Relentless Man: A Christian Man's Path to Purpose, Grit, and Resilience.
Work(s):
Faithful Strength for The Relentless Man: A Christian Man's Path to Purpose, Grit, and Resilience (paperback and Kindle, independently published November 2026)
Purchase Links:
Kindle https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HQ68RG98
Paperback https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HQ61XCTT
Five parts and seventeen chapters, from Grounding Identity in Christ and Rewriting the Voice in Your Head to Guarding Your Mouth, Training Through Discomfort, Keeping Your Word, Guarding Your Focus, and Remember Your Creator: Legacy and the Finish Line
• A practical tool in every chapter, usually with morning, midday, and evening versions plus a stripped-down minimum version
• Stories that show each tool working in real life, many of them about tradesmen, small-business owners, and men who work with their hands
• Workbook pages at the end of every odd-numbered chapter: honest questions, a challenge for the week, and a declaration to say out loud
• “Before You Turn the Page” in every even-numbered chapter, with the week’s challenge and a declaration
• The 30-Day Faithful Strength Challenge to turn reading into daily action
• Three appendices: The Weekly Character Review, My Non-Negotiable Principles, and The Toolbox at a Glance
• All Scripture quoted from the New King James Version (NKJV)
Built to be read one chapter a week, it works alone at the kitchen table before sunrise or around a table with a group of men who are ready to be honest about what they wrote down.
Not a pep talk. A call to go to work.