title: All the King's Men: Strength in Character through Friendships
author:  Stu Weber 
description: Stu Weber is senior pastor of Good Shepherd Community Church near Gresham, Oregon. He is a much-in-demand international speaker and the author of the popular Four Pillars of a Man's Heart, Tender Warrior, All the King's Men, and Along the Road to Manhood. He and his wife, Linda, have three children: Kent, Blake, and Ryan.
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  The Royal Wolves 3
  
  
  
  
  
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  When you are the oldest of five brothers there are certain standards that you
  are held to no matter what. Don't hit them (even if they really deserve it),
  set a good example, and keep them safe from all enemies. Lazlo Farkas has
  always lived by the rules his parents set out before them and tried to do his
  best by his family at all times. Thrust into a role of parent at too young an
  age, he had to keep them from all becoming the next victims of the Rebels and
  to ensure that all his brothers had the life their parents would have wanted.
  Never taking for himself, he has always given, but a man can only give so much
  before he wants something in return, and in her he finds it.
  
  
  
  
  
  Brash, loud, authoritative, and just plain crazy, Desmonda Franco is attitude
  personified and proud of it. She has never been one to just lie down and take
  it. Dishing it out was always mor