ABOUT · THE MEANING OF OUR MARK
Read the path.
Everything we believe about this work is already in the mark. Read it slowly.
The lantern
He doesn’t walk in his own light. The Word is a lamp to his feet.
Psalm 119:105The stone path
Narrow, and few find it — because few choose to walk it.
Matthew 7:14The wilderness
Mountains, forest, the long climb — the seasons that ask the most of a man.
Isaiah 43:19The night
He doesn’t wait for the dark to pass. The light meets him in it.
Isaiah 9:2The rising light
Dawn crests the peak. The path grows brighter the farther he walks.
Proverbs 4:18The man
He faces the climb ahead, already moving forward. The next step is yours to take, alongside men walking the same road.
Walked, not managed.
Ancient Path Biblical Coaching walks alongside men in the seasons that ask the most of them — integrity work, the healing of old wounds, the ministry wilderness, and the crossings between endings and beginnings. Our foundational lens is narrative-focused trauma care from the Allender Center: we begin with the story a man is actually living and stay until it can be spoken out loud.
The work is held in confessional community, where shame is dismantled by the plain experience of being known. We are two men who believe a path is best walked with someone who has been on it — and we have walked hundreds of men through the Breaking Free process over the past ten years.
John Sherrod
CO-FOUNDER
John Sherrod walks alongside men in the seasons that ask the most of them.
His work is grounded in narrative-focused trauma care from the Allender Center, where he is NFTC Certified (Levels I—III) and listed in its practitioner directory. The training follows a disciplined arc: a man’s fragmented story, refined through being known by God and by other men, becomes a redemptive testimony.
He carries that work into Confessional Community, the formation practice of Dr. Curt Thompson and New Story Behavioral Health, which weaves spiritual formation, interpersonal neurobiology, and group work into a single circle — where men are known and go deeper together.
He also guides men through Liminal Space — the threshold seasons when one chapter has closed and the next hasn’t begun. He helps them name the ending, wait through the unknown, rise into what’s next, invest in the new road, and celebrate what it cost and what was won.
Two deeper roots feed all of it: ten years of Freedom Ministry and a disciplined study of Scripture. Whether it’s one man across a table or a handful in a room, the same thing does the work — the story, told and witnessed. John has walked that wilderness himself, and he knows men don’t change by being lectured or rescued. They change by being witnessed.
Jason Posey
CO-FOUNDER
Jason Posey is co-founder of Ancient Path Biblical Coaching, with equal standing in the work. He carries much of the teaching and formation through video and the written word, writing for the men who walk these paths.
For several years, Jason has served in a ministry at his local church called Conquer — a program that awakens men to the dangers of pornography and sexual sin and walks them toward a life of purity. He has sat with hundreds of men as they’ve fought to overcome the wounds beneath the behavior. Today he leads cohorts and confessional communities alongside John, helping men do the slow, real work of being known and finding freedom.
A path is best walked with someone who has been on it.
Take the first step“Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.” — Jeremiah 6:16
