How are you carrying the weight of your world?
Life has a way of placing burdens on our shoulders that we were never meant to carry. We learn to keep moving, hold it all together, and hide the places where we're weary, wounded, or quietly wondering if there's more.
Many people spend years striving to become enough, believing they have to try harder, perform better, or carry more.
But Jesus never asked us to carry the weight of the world.
He doesn't offer a quick fix or another self-help method.
He invites us into a journey.
At Revealed Image Ministries, we create spaces where people encounter Jesus, experience healing, discover their beloved identity, and walk in the freedom He offers.
Jesus is the Hero.
We help people walk with Him.
Stories of Encounters with Jesus
“This opened the eyes of my heart to truly knowing that I am a beloved son of the God of the universe...this book lit a spark in me that started a wildfire.”
Through The Outrider
“Even though I came into it with a mindset of there probably won’t be much we can get out of this, I asked Jesus for an open mind and heart... This weekend was more than healing, it was growing. Growing closer to each other and closer to God in our marriage... We were also able to see where God still needs to redeem us.”
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What we do: Discipleship
We create spaces resources for people to encounter Jesus.
We partner with Him for healing, and coach people to walk in their Beloved Identity.
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What if the man you became to survive is hurting the people you love?
You promised you would be different.
You would not repeat your father’s anger, absence, control, or emotional distance. You would work hard, provide, protect your family, and become the man others could depend on.
But determination alone will only get you so far.
As a husband, father, leader, provider, and protector, you know how to carry responsibility. You solve problems, push through exhaustion, and hold everything together. Yet the strength that helped you survive may now be creating distance from the people you most want to love.
Your family does not need you to try harder.
They need the man God created you to be.
The Outrider: Become the Man You Needed is a discipleship journey for the Christian man who loves his family but knows that good intentions, spiritual knowledge, and greater effort have not healed his anger, isolation, striving, or need for control.
Through raw stories of grief, failure, family wounds, healing, and redemption, Joseph D. Mize confronts a difficult truth: a man can awaken to his strength and spiritual purpose while continuing to operate from old training outside of love. He can even begin posing as the hero and unintentionally wound the people he is trying to protect.
Jesus never asked you to be the hero. He invites you to ride with Him.
Within the painting that inspired this book, My Bunkie by Charles Schreyvogel, the wounded soldier is the Downed Rider. Jesus is the Rescuer. The Outrider does not take His place. He stays close, protects the space around the rescue, and helps wounded hearts focus on Jesus.
In these pages, you will discover:
How childhood wounds continue shaping your adult relationships
Why responsibility without belovedness becomes a crushing burden
The difference between protecting your family and trying to control them
How spiritual knowledge can become another pose when healing has not reached your heart
Why healthy authority begins with receiving the Father’s love
How to live as a beloved son instead of striving for approval
A pathway toward becoming a safe, loving, and trustworthy presence at home
This is not a formula for becoming more powerful, impressive, or successful. It is an invitation to surrender your strength to Jesus and let Him father the places determination alone could never heal.
Guided reflections, honest prayers, and original songs from The Outrider’s Ballad create space to slow down, listen, and encounter Jesus along the trail.
Your first mission field is your heart and home.
You cannot change what happened to you. But through Jesus, you can change what flows through you to your children and your children’s children.
Become the man you needed.
Not by becoming the hero.
By riding with Him.
Meet Joseph & Lori
Lori and I are high school sweethearts who fell in love, married young, ran for the mountaintops, and slid down more than a few rocky slopes. We’ve stumbled in many ways, but through every failure and season of loss, we’ve found hope in the midst of suffering. Jesus has been faithfully restoring the wounds of our young hearts, allowing us to grow up in His Kingdom from those healed places—and that healing is changing our family for generations to come.
Eternity is now. Growing up in the Kingdom with a healed heart is available to all of us today. All we must do is submit to the process, just as the stone yielded to Michelangelo’s chisel, and allow the Master to reveal who we were created to be.