Black Diamond Dads: Four-Volume Book Series with Workbooks
Ron Maxson, Jr.
Black Diamond Dads: Four-Volume Book Series with Workbooks
The Dads Prayer Coach
Posted On
Jul 2, 2026
Job Type
Fatherhood
Work Location
Description
Black Diamond Dads™
You look like you've got it together. Most days, you probably do.
But you're carrying more than anyone sees—praying less than you mean to, performing the role of a good father while wondering if anyone really knows the man behind it.
Here's what no one told you: the pressure didn't break you. It made you tough.
A carbonado is a black diamond—the toughest stone on earth—forged under crushing pressure, millions of fractured pieces fused into something stronger for it. You're like that.
But it comes out of the ground rough and dark; the brilliance only shows under the cut. That's what these stories are for.
Across four volumes, forty fathers stop pretending and let God bring out the strength the pressure already forged in them—Purpose, Brotherhood, Peace, and Joy.
No masks. No performing. Just rough stones brought into the light.
These are their stories. The next one could be yours.
Four Volumes. Forty Fathers. Free.
True-to-life stories of forty dads, refined through Christ-centered prayer.
Read one on your own with the companion workbook, or gather a group of men to study together.
Free to read. Free to share. Yours to keep.
Inside the Four Volumes
The forty stories are built into four volumes—one for each cut that refines a father.
Volume I: Refine the Raw Edge™ — Purpose
You look fine. You're not. Ten dads stop performing long enough to hear the truth: you were already His, already enough, before you did one impressive thing. This is where you put the mask down.
Volume II: Shape the Facet™ — Brotherhood
Everybody's fighting something they've never said out loud. These ten finally do—because one other man went first and refused to let them hide. You were never meant to carry it alone. This is where you stop.
Volume III: Harden the Forge™ — Peace
Then the weight comes down. Money, marriage, grief, pressure that won't quit. These dads don't push harder—they open their hands. The hard thing doesn't disappear. It just stops running the house.
Volume IV: Commission the Legacy™ — Joy
The last cut. A man who knows who he is and isn't ruled by the pressure anymore is finally free to give his kids what lasts. Not money. Not a name. A life they can see—and a joy that doesn't have to be faked.
Inside the Workbooks
The stories move you. The workbooks change you.
Each volume has a companion workbook that turns the reading into the doing. Every story gets a working unit built on five steps:
Recognition: Where do you see yourself in this man's story?
Honesty: What's the truth you've been avoiding?
Scripture: What does God's Word say into it?
Action: What's the one concrete move this week?
Prayer: Bring it to God, in writing, in your own words.
It's not homework. It's the difference between a book you read once and a book that reworks how you father.
Wait—why are the books free?
Because a book behind a paywall doesn't reach the man who needs it most.
No gate, no catch—just the same conviction behind everything here: get it into the hands of every father who needs it.
The Carbonado Collection drops in a few weeks—Releasing This Summer, 2026
Refining the Man. Forging the Legacy.™
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