Christian Men at Work Podcast

Precision vs Accuracy-Selah73-CMAW170

Diff between precision and accuracy, precision is hitting the target every time and accuracy is hitting the right target.  Both important, but precision w'o accuracy is foolish and arguably legalism, diligently following a checklist or set of rules but following the wrong rules.   God made the world based on laws and His way of doing things.  If you don't know His way of doing things, i.e. accuracy, you can be as precise as you want but what's the point if you're not following His rules.  ...

Speak Less and Speak More-Selah72-CMAW169

S Speak less and speak more On phone saw ad for an app that gives you daily quotes and it said “how beautiful it is to be silent when you’re expected to be enraged “ Scriptures  Went On in my morning time to listen to Luke 23 where Jesus answered Pilate's question "Are you the King of the Jews?" with more of a statement than an answer.  Then when Jesus was sent to Herod He didn't respond to Herod's questions at all.  According to Martin B. Copenhaver, author of the book "Jesus is t...

What You Can Control-Selah71-CMAW168

S   Got an email from OnePathPublishing with clarification on an issue I raised last week which is that Jesus, or Yahusha, will return on on 1st of Tishri and when He said that we would not know the day or the hour He was referring to the fact that the Feast of Trumpets is on the 1st day of the month, which is defined by when the moon first appears, to be confirmed by 2 priests and so it's impossible to predict on which day that will be, let alone the hour.   Luke 7:37-38 "37 “Judge...

Time for Urgency-Selah70-CMAW167

S   S   Today I want to read 2 articles I received this past week.  In different ways, they hopefully give you reasons to pause and think even more about the fact that we are not living in a normal, business as usual world.  This is certainly intended to make you worry but rather to shock you a bit into a greater sense of urgency of where you are in your walk with God and with living out His plan for your life, both inside your job and outside your job. Surprisingly, these articles ...

Be Holy at Work-Selah69-CMAW166

S Israel Bible Center article “What is "holiness" in Hebrew?” by Nicholas Schaser, part of a series called Israel Bible Weekly.  You can find this article through my link as well as by going to IsraelBibleCenter.com and while you're there you can sign up for their emails and maybe sign up for their school they offer.  I've been getting emails from them for about 2 months and find them to be excellent.   In today’s terminology, “holiness” has become an ethical category. Those who act “hol...

Be a Creator-Selah68-CMAW165

S   I’d like to challenge and hopefully inspire you to be a creator in your work.   In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Genesis%201:1&version=ESV   Last week we talked about how God seemed to have something special in mind with the number 22, assigning the numbers of letters in His language, the # of chromosomes in our DNA and the number of His works of creation.   Then God said, “Let us make man...

Works of Creation-Selah67-CMAW164

Work   I want to share with you the significance of the #22, and how God considered work to be significant enough to be included in this interesting story of the #22. This was brought to my attention by Isaac from The Assembly of Called Out Believers, from a video called "The HIdden Beauty of Biblical Hebrew - Beginner Intro Class" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u480f0vEbaQ Hebrew is the language God used to give the Torah to Moses and it's believed Hebrew is the actual language o...

Your Service of Calling-Selah66-CMAW163

S See OnePath email on gifts    Subject: What is YOUR service of Calling? The Day You Met the Lord!      The Apostle Paul met the Lord while on the road to Damascus with a blinding light and a voice from heaven. Our Lord Called Paul to serve Him and gave him a Service of Calling. Paul knew his Service of Calling the day of his conversion as he was told directly by the Lord what he had to do. Paul accepted his service readily, knowing that he would have to suffer many horrible persecuti...

Finding Your Purpose-Selah65-CMAW162

S   The Road to Freedom.  I want to discuss a video I saw this past week called the Road to Freedom, which I hope will help you get free from what's been holding you back, and give you some insights into finding your calling and your purpose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8LJaVGe5JM   I believe God was speaking to me when I watched this because it seemed to make my last podcast episode make sense.  That episode was called visualizing priorities and talking about God being at the c...

Visualizing Priorities-Selah64-CMAW161

S I'd like to talk about priorities.  At the beginning of a calendar year we often think about goals and a big part of goals is priorities. I like visual aids. We all learn differently and some of us, many of us, are primarily visual learners, I guess that’s why the phrase a picture is worth a thousand words is so well known and why YouTube is the worlds largest search engine   I know this is an audio podcast and I'm going to talk about visualizing our life priorities, but stick with...

Lessons from the Amish-Selah63-CMAW160

The Power of a Name-Selah62-CMAW159

S   The power of a name God gives people names in the Bible very intentionally The first man was named Adam, which means from the earth one of the first tasks God gave to Adam was to name the animals God sometimes changes names intentionally Abram to Abraham In the original Hebrew language of the Torah, which is the first five books of our Old Testament, the name Abram literally means “exalted father.” The name Abraham, however, contains another unused root word, which roughly m...

Are You a Tough Guy with Paul Horrocks-CMAW158

Q&A: When did you become a Christian? What led you to write this book? In your book, you picked out four characteristics of tough guys, which we're going to talk about today, you gave examples of those traits from men in the Bible, lesser known men from present day, as well as from Jesus, and you give tips on how men can apply this trait to their lives.  I like this format since it's similar to what we do on this podcast. I love that you used examples from the Old Testament since tha...

Sandwich Prayer at Work-Selah61-CMAW157

S Sandwich work prayer Before work begins, at the moment of a need, after work is done  What to pray: Pray things go well, no matter what happens that you would be glorified both by how things go and how I respond (what and how like with performance evaluation) This past week-project-when problems occur: stay positive, take responsibility   E   Our work is generally a performance based culture, and everyone knows that at some level they are being evaluated for their performanc...

Long Term Vision-Selah60-CMAW156

S   I want to encourage you today to remember to look beyond the struggle, frustration, and sadness of a particular moment by praying and having a long term vision. In Selah episode 58, I shared about a difficult day I had at my job where I got some negative feedback.  Whether it's at work, at home, in our marriage, with our kids, at church, or another area of our lives, we all have these moments.  Some us have these moments more often than others.  Some of us experience more intense e...

Rob Skiba Tribute-Selah59-CMAW155

S Rob Skiba died on Oct. 15 The report is that he died from Covid-19.  I won't say much about that other than I'm suspicious of foul play because there was so much that he challenged, but I don't have any evidence of that so I'm not claiming that's the case just Made a big impact on me My wife has been searching for truth and challenging the traditions of men in our Christian practices before I did, and Rob opened her eyes first and then me to a number of things that are in the Bible ...

Ouch! The Sting of Correction-Selah58-CMAW154

S   I want to share something that happened to me at my job in the hope that you can learn from and benefit from it. I won't say exactly when this happened, but at some point during my career, I was asked by my boss for a meeting after a contractor I worked with had asked for a meeting with him.  For some context I had not had this boss for very long, less than year, and actually had not gone through my first year-end evaluation with him, and he was new to our facility so he didn't kno...

How to Really Know-Selah 57-CMAW153

S   From Sep 27   Emerging from Isolation [ 1 min read ★ ]   For where two or three are gathered in my name,  there am I among them—Matthew 18:20 Imagine, for a moment, a man ever isolated, living alone in the mountains, perhaps. Imagine him living a vigorous, adventurous, spiritual life, but lacking community. The knowledge this man would have of God, the knowledge he’d have of himself, would be modest compared to the knowledge he’d have of both, were he to have full ac...

Open Air Preaching-CMAW152

What You'll Hear: 1. Know Your Motivation - saw Rusty Thomas preach on the doctrine of blood guiltiness at Herald Society which was included in the video Babies are Murdered Here https://youtu.be/dxDyfSHEq5g, it revealed that many there didn't have the right motivations, are you there just to be seen or make Youtube videos? 2. Study and Be Ready - watch YouTube videos, know 3 verses from different locations (Old and New Testament) on each point, know the Gospel, start with sin and judgme...

Who's Watching You at Work-Selah56-CMAW151

Who's Watching You at work https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=4956 "Bondservants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ; 6 not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men, 8 knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, ...

Logical Fallacies-Selah55-CMAW150

Link to Article: https://fallacyinlogic.com/10-logical-fallacies/ L Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. Proverbs 24:11 - ESV

A Theology of Guerilla Warfare by Matt Trewhella-Selah54-Selah149

Sorry for being late in this episode release Lot I could talk about.  Let me provide a few updates since our last Selah episode. I gave my testimony at church.  It was not recorded otherwise I might upload it as an episode.  i'm praying I'll have an opportunity to present it again someday and have it recorded and hopefully more polished and with fewer tears. I continue to learn a lot from the Youtube Channels Parable of the Vineyard, TruthUnedited, and Nelson Walters, but I'm also tryi...

The Abolitionist Movement with Damon Hinkle-CMAW148

What You'll Hear: Damon got saved in 2009 which led to him evangelizing.  He met another evangelist in 2012 who invited him and his friend to an abortion clinic.  It was very dark. He continued visiting the clinic in 2013 more and more frequently. He met Rusty Thomas who was in the video "Babies are murdered here" He then went to the Herald Society and read the book "Abortion Violation" The Abolitionists in the 1800's were primarily Christians and were working to abolish slavery ...

The Fall Feasts-Selah53-CMAW147

S   Alone at Work? Whoever isolates himself . . .  breaks out against all sound judgment—Proverbs 18:1 Work is a place where we men are apt to live, not as our true selves, but rather as carefully crafted and false versions of ourselves. Work is a “compartment” where we try to be, not who God created us to be, but images we create all by ourselves. Why? What makes work different? Well, at work, the prevailing culture is too often (and too much) self-focused: outperform, get promot...

Evangelism Tips with Damon Hinkle-CMAW146

What You'll Hear: After getting saved, Damon prayed and wanted to evangelize the way the Bible says to Gifted evangelists naturally without any training go out and evangelize and develop over time their techniques Most people who say this is not their gift, it's an excuse not to go out and share the Gospel Tracts is one of the easier ways to evangelize because you're giving them the Gospel in a written form in a smaller form. A tract can get somewhere we cannot.   Whenever I rece...

Courage Over Passivity-Selah52-CMAW145

S Dave Brown: men struggled with this from the very beginning with the first Adam in Genesis, sat by as Eve ate the fruit a life of passivity is void of courageous decisions The life of Jesus was an engaged, active life, marked by obedience, obedience to His father We know how Jesus turned over the money changer tables in the Temple and challenged the pharisees by healing and other activities He did on the Sabaath. We also see in Matt 10:34-35 "34 “Do not think that I came to brin...

Freed from Horror Movies with Damon Hinkle-CMAW144

What You'll Hear: Damon became a believer in 2009 after being a false convert earlier As a young boy he felt like he wasn't able to do what he wanted and he had a problem with authority.  He had a false conversion including a confession in church and baptism.  Soon after that He saw his first horror movie and got hooked Looking back, he sees that this was something he loved that no-one that could take away from him and he wanted an identity from things in the world and he wanted to be a...

Fellowship Over Isolation-Selah51-CMAW143

S God and wife most important relationships, but God wants us to invest in other relationships as well, in particular other men.  Jesus demonstrated this in how he invested in his 12 disciples but was closest to 3, Peter James and John, and you might say the closest was John. The Bible is filled with wonderful stories of how people relate to each other and how we should do the same (Elijah/Elisha, David/Jonathan)-anyone think of others? I put out a podcast called Christian Men at Work, ...

Haiti Update with David Vanderpool-CMAW142

What You'll Hear:   From an early age, David and his wife wanted to do missions in a low tier country They worked in Africa, Central America and then after the 2010 Earthquake they went to Haiti to help and then went on to move to Haiti full-time They have a compound with a surgical clinic, a school, a church, a maternal health program, and a childhood Christian program. They meet physical needs of people first and then minister spiritually.  This is what Jesus did and something we...

Lay Hold-Selah50-CMAW141

S Before I get into Something that's on my heart today, I want to share something with you. I seriously considered these past 2 weeks changing this podcast to one that you need to pay for to listen to, through Patreon or Glow which partners with Libsyn the media host I use.  I've been praying for a while now that God would confirm with me that I should continue doing the podcast and that he would also show me a way I could continue to produce it in a way that it would pay for itself as...

Isolation, Passivity, and Political Idolatry with Dave Brown-CMAW140

What You'll Hear: Dave grew up in Ohio then began a career in the Federal Government in Wash DC In 1980 God pulled out the pins from under him.  He asked what his purpose was.  God granted Dave repentance and faith, and Dave was born again. The only Christian Dave knew was Chuck Colson.  Chuck told him that God would make it clear to him what his will was for him Later Dave went to Seminary and pastored some churches and started WACMM Not only does God save us, He continues to save...

Lessons from Rocky-Selah49-CMAW139

S   Lessons from Rocky (spoiler alert). I was 7 years old when both Rocky and Star Wars came out. We rarely went to the theater and this had some swearing so I didn’t see this in the theater but the VCR and ability to rent movies came out soon after that so I watched this movie along with all the sequels and actually Rocky 4 was the only movie for which I stood in line at midnight to see the premier. I would say that the Rocky, Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises where the most impact...

California Missionary with Lance Wallace-CMAW138

What You'll Hear: Lance grew up in Sonoma County, CA, a very liberal progressive area He was in a frat house at Oregon State, then a semester later Lance got saved after hearing the Gospel and asking a lot of questions He got a full scholarship to play baseball at The Masters College in Southern CA, a very conservative school The Masters is part of John McArthur's ministry He went to the Masters Seminary and start dating his future wife Jill after praying for that in a prayer class...

Are You Extreme Pt2-Selah48-CMAW137

S I felt like my last Selah episode 47 didn't fully address the issue of being extreme and wanted to share some additional thoughts. I'm not retracting anything I said, and hopefully I don't contradict what I said, but rather expand on the topic. Last week, I said that generally living in moderation is what we should strive for, with the only possible exception being living out our faith, and in that part or our lives we should be extreme. I'd like to start this episode by defining t...

Are You Extreme-Selah47-CMAW136

S There's been a lot of talk about extremism in our political and cultural landscape.  Basically, each side (whichever side of an issue or identity we're considering) is more and more calling those who disagree with them "extreme" as a pejorative term or as a way to criticise, minimalize or belittle someone. In many ways I've been learning that a moderated approach to life is best especially when being too committed and energized by something becomes an idol for us.  I believe there is o...

LifeGivers Apologetics with Tricia Scribner-CMAW135

What You'll Hear: Tricia got saved when she was 5 after a conversation with her Mom about everyone was not going to go to heaven. This occurred after her parents rededicated their lives. In her teen years, she wondered if that decision had been sincere, she told her parents and they nailed it down at that point. First professional job was as an RN as a director of home care. She got her Masters in Nursing and taught nursing part-time while raising children. She pursued apologeti...

Friendship A Must Not a Want-Selah46-CMAW134

S   I have a couple devotions I want to share with you on the topic of friendship but first I want to share you some of my thoughts. I was recently contacted by David Smith who I interviewed in episode 86 about his book “Who’s Got Your Back” about the importance of friendships for men. He was very concerned as I am about the negative this pandemic has had on men due to the fact that men aren’t meeting together in friendship and are very isolated. David and I are working on scheduling a...

Christ Before Career with Cam Arnett-CMAW133

What You'll Hear: Grew up in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere Family called themselves Christian, but they had voodoo practices and beliefs as well It is man's natural state to be supernatural His mother made it a practice to speak to him from the book of Proverbs In his late 20's, in New York, he found himself in a temptation and thought of Proverbs 5 and ran out He said to God he'd give Him 5 years to prove Himself and it didn't take 5 minutes, "it took, a ch...

Don't Give Up You Can Change-Selah45-CMAW132

S Don’t give up, You can Change! In past talked about Gods mercies regardless what sin we’ve committed. I've been thinking lately about God's mercies not just in terms of our sins of commission, but also of our sins of omission, the good, god-pleasing things we don't do.  I was going to simply title this talk "Don't give up!", I didn't record it last night and then this morning I received a First Light devotion from Brother Brian Biggers titled "You can Change" and believed God wanted me t...

Management Waste with Larry O'Donnell-CMAW-131

What You'll Hear: Larry was raised Catholic, but at age 13 was invited to a Protestant youth retreat where someone showed him the Gospel going through the Bible and Larry was saved Larry and his wife had their first child Linley, who as an infant had an incident while in doctoral care that resulted in her having challenges throughout her life.  Larry became very angry at God but then read John 9 where Jesus says that the blind man was blind so the God's glory could be shown.  Larry re...

Evangelizing-Selah44-CMAW130

S Damon Hinkle He’s a trained Evangelist, not a gifted evangelist 3 main ways to evangelize   tracts  1x1 Open air preaching  What is not the Gospel  not limited by time, rev 14:6 location Mark 16:15, situation Luke 4:-7-19 Appealing to the flesh (God loves you and has a great plan for your life-stony ground, Do you want to go to Heaven (dying soon, Stephen, Apostles, Matt 24:9, John 16:33, Luke 12:51-53 St Francis, preach the gospel if necessary use words (contradiction),a more ...

HR with Rhae Buckley-CMAW129

What You'll Hear: Rhae gave his life to Christ at age 11, learned a lot about the Old Testament in his church His first job was a paper route, he learned about the importance of customer service, he had learned about this from his grandfather who was a blacksmith He always wanted to work in HR, partly with the help of a counselor in high school He wrote a letter to Oral Roberts University when he was in 7th grade, they didn't have an HR major He played basketball and football an...

Be Gentle Not Harsh-Selah43-CMAW128

S             Ready for an Upgrade? [ 1 min read ★ ] Sign up at wireformen.com     . . . the wisdom from above is first pure,  then peaceable, gentle, open to reason,  full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere—James 3:17     A lot of men—not every man—but a lot of us struggle to hold back a harsh and judgmental attitude toward the world around us, sometimes even toward those we love the most. In the rush and charge of life, with the volatility of family, the ...

6 Ways to Deal with Stress-Selah 42-CMAW127

S - 6 Ways to Deal with Stress   1. Worldly Ideas (not all bad provided not in conflict with Bible).   Recently read this:   Stress can best be described as emotional, physical or mental tension. We feel it in our bodies and brains. Others may notice changes in how we act. Stress is a healthy part of the human experience but can get out of hand. Difficulties that overwhelm us at work, school, family life, finances, relationships, or our own health issues can trigger an unpleasant...

Honor, Duty, Respect with Brian Kennedy-CMAW126

What You'll Hear: Brian was raised Catholic in Boston, MA.  He met and married his wife who was raised Baptist.  He was separated in 1998 while working too much from home.  He was laid off from American Greetings because he didn't want to relocate.   He got into bad activities including drinking, clubbing, and pornography.   In June 1999 his divorce was final.  His wife invited him to a service in TX with Bruce Wilkerson talking about 3 chairs.  He got a cassette tape and didn't li...

Be Obedient and Move On-Selah41-CMAW125

S   “Essential: Finding Worth in Your Work During Uncertain Times” was released February 2 and is now available on Amazon and other sites as it gets distributed.   Here’s the announcement on ChristianPost.com Here’s the book landing page with a link to the YouVerion/Bible.com plan and some exclusive bonus material First Light Devotional by Pastor Brian Biggers, Lamb's Chapel, Burlington, NC   Having to Have Your Way is Highly Overrated!  If it is possible, as much as depends on...

Work as Worship with Brian Sooy-CMAW124

What You'll Hear: Brian gave his life to Christ at age 16 in church, after hearing an audible voice that said "Come" First job was delivering appliances for local appliance dealer, while still in high school, learned how to install washers and dryers, learned about how hard work, how to use his hands, and how to deal with people Went to college, part-time cutting lawns, then worked for a print shop doing deliveries, after college did graphic design and director positions, then start...

The Purpose of Freedom-Selah40-CMAW123

S   Recent election has me thinking about freedom.  I have a thing where I got through the list of countries in the world and share little factoids with my Mom each day as a way to share something new.  It's been really informative for me and has really made me appreciate even more how unique and special our country is and how blessed we are to have both the freedoms and the financial abundance and opportunities we have.  I thank God for that specifically nearly every day. Having sai...

Marine Sniper with Ken Lovell-CMAW122

What You'll Hear: Ken started out mowing lawns, pruning Christmas trees and working at McDonalds Ken grew up as a Chreaster, going to church on Christmas and Easter because his Grandma said they should   Ken's Dad decided to accept Christ after hearing a sermon, and everything changed for Ken and his family   Soon after that, at age 16, Ken accepted Christ as his Savior, but it took a while to figure out what that meant for him Once we're made aware of the penalty of sin, sadl...

Not in Control-Selah39-CMAW121

From Brian Biggers, Lambs Chapel, www.tlcalive.com First Light-1/13/21   The Miracle in the Pot     Jesus said to them, "fill the waterpots with water". And they filled them up to the brim. John 2:7     It was the first miracle that Jesus worked when He walked on earth. Truth is that it seems such an odd thing for Him to do. Totally out of character with the other miracles He performed, such as healing, feeding multitudes, or raising the dead. It’s easy to ...