EveryManComplete Podcast
198 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEveryManComplete Podcast is an invitation for every man who has been moved by the gospel of Jesus Christ to journey with us so that we might discover the abundant life that Jesus has called us to. Col. 1:28-29 is our invitation! "And we proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, that we may present every man complete in Christ. 29 And for this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me." This journey is not one of convenience! God is not looking for volunteers, He is looking for men who are willing to take up their cross and follow Him no matter the cost! He is looking for men who are willing to take up the yoke of Jesus Christ and learn from Him. You and I are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works that He has prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. You will get tired, and you will stumble and fall, but what He has started He will finish! Join us until we are all complete in Christ!
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TRANSFORMING POWER OF CHRIST
January 16, 2024 21:00 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MBIf we have been crucified with Christ and we are a new creation, what is that supposed to look like? If we are in the process of being transformed into the image of Christ, what is that supposed to look like? I'm not sure we are looking into that spiritual mirror of our lives, and asking the right questions. There is so much more that happened on that day of our salvation than our names being written in the Book of Life! God didn't save us so that He may create a better version of ourselves....
THIS IS GOD'S WILL FOR YOUR LIFE
December 20, 2023 18:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MB2023 Is coming to a close, and as we look back on where we have come from this past year, what have we experienced of God's purpose and activity in our lives? Have we been too busy just managing our everyday lives to have noticed what God had planned and prepared for us? One of the major questions Christians ask themselves over and over again, is what is God's will for my life? As the new year approaches, and we make our New Year's Resolution, is God's will for our lives even a consideration...
HOW TO REMAIN RELEVANT
October 17, 2023 17:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBrel·e·vant /ˈreləv(ə)nt/ closely connected or appropriate to what is being done or considered. appropriate to the current time, period, or circumstances; of contemporary interest. "critics may find themselves unable to stay relevant in a changing world" This is how the world defines "relevant". It gives the appearance of being very open-ended and up for interpretation. But for those who are followers of Jesus Christ, what is relevant? Is Jesus relevant? Is God's love relevant? Is the g...
GIVE ME JOY!
September 26, 2023 16:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBThere seems to be even among many Christians the idea that happiness and joy are the same or at least similar. Not! Happiness is a worldly pursuit that depends upon something happening to make us happy. It requires our circumstances and expectations to be met. How much could go wrong there?! Happiness requires us to be able to control our circumstances and the people around us. Again, not happening! (Pun intended) Happiness requires our feelings to be the determining factor. The heart is d...
STEP OUT OF THE DARKNESS
August 29, 2023 17:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBThe days we live in seem to be getting darker with each passing day. We attempt to ignore it in order that we might not be overwhelmed by it. In John 3:19 God's word tells us that this is the judgment, that light is come into the world and men loved the darkness rather than the light for their deeds were evil. Men fear exposure! But there is a darkness that we find that belongs to us, and we must not allow it to rule our lives. We don't have to fear exposure, for our God sees all and has pr...
GOT FAITH?
August 23, 2023 18:00 - 13 minutes - 9.44 MBHow would you define faith? Hebrews defines it as the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen. But Jesus described people's faith as little faith, no faith, and great faith. None of us can remain on the mountaintop of faith every day, so how would you rate your faith right at this moment? How would you rate it over the last 3 months or year? How is our faith impacting our lives, our family's lives, our neighborhoods, where we work and play, and the church we at...
WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING
August 15, 2023 16:00 - 12 minutes - 8.91 MBIn Ezekiel 22 God tells us that he was looking for a man to stand in the gap and build up a wall to stop the oppression and the wrong that was being done to the most vulnerable of their time, but Scripture tells us that He found no one! When good men do nothing evil prevails! When good men do nothing our children who are among the most vulnerable in our society are allowed to be swallowed up in the darkest of evils! We know these things are going on, but we choose not to think about it. We...
WHO DO YOU SAY THAT YOU ARE
August 01, 2023 22:00 - 17 minutes - 11.7 MBEven as believers and followers of Jesus Christ, we struggle with who we are as a new creation in Christ. We are constantly wrestling with who people think we are and what we attempt to tell ourselves that we are that the reality of who Christ says we are gets lost in the noise. Being in the world but not of the world can many times confuse how we see ourselves. For all believers, no matter how long you have been a believer, this battle is real. Our desire to fit in and be accepted messes w...
JUST SHARING MY HEART
July 17, 2023 23:00 - 13 minutes - 9.41 MBOver the past couple of years, I've had numerous casual conversations that ended up gravitating toward church and faith. I didn't guide them that way, that's just where they went to. In those conversations I've heard the same story told with differing circumstances, but the same end result. People leaving the church or giving up on God. The pain, disappointment, and frustrations are real. The wounds and scars are visible. I believe the church as a whole has chosen to focus on the low-lyi...
GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY OUR GOOD
June 27, 2023 18:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBWhere is our faith if we do not trust in the sovereignty of God? Romans 8:28 is shared with numerous people when they are going through difficult times as words of encouragement. But the verse begins with the words, "And we know". What do we know? We know that God causes all things to work together for good! Do they? Well, that depends on whether you believe God is in control and is working through your difficult circumstances for His glory and eventually for your good! Is God sovereign ...
YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUIT
June 13, 2023 17:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBThe Church is still trying to rediscover itself after the Covid-19 pandemic. I'm not really sure if we've learned all that God intended for us to learn through those difficult days. Many churches have made some adjustments when it comes to social media and adding online digital services to reach out to those who have found church online to be more necessary or convenient. But, where is the real fruit of the gospel being planted in the lives of those listening? Are we still counting the nu...
SO SHALL MY WORD BE!
April 30, 2023 16:00 - 13 minutes - 9.06 MBThe words that we speak and the promises that we make may be well-intended and spoken with the utmost sincerity, but in reality, they can fall short of expectations as well as our own. But when God speaks there is no wavering from His intended purpose. Because His ways and our ways are not the same, we can sometimes misinterpret the final outcome, because it didn't happen as we expected or in the time frame we thought to be appropriate. When E. F. Hutton speaks, the commercial says that p...
FACING LIFE CHANGING QUESTIONS
April 20, 2023 02:00 - 15 minutes - 10.5 MBWe have questions thrown at us every day. Some of those questions are insignificant, but there are a few that become life-changing in our lives. They set the course of direction and purpose. These life-changing questions usually have a high price tag attached to them. The Scriptures tell us that God's Word is living and active. But we should not think that we can casually read His word and maybe memorize a few key verses and think we have all the understanding we need. We need to look int...
DO YOU HAVE ENDURING FAITH
April 09, 2023 22:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBFaith! Is that which is hoped for the conviction of things not seen! We can make it so simple sometimes, but is it? Salvation is a free gift of God, but faith is not just simple trust, but a total surrender to the One who is the object of our faith. There is no such thing as "faith in faith." Saving faith comes to us from God! It's an extension of His amazing grace. Each one of us has been given a measure of faith. But is the faith you claim to have "enduring" faith! It's the endurance of o...
LIVING WITHIN GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY
March 09, 2023 19:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MBWe can easily find ourselves becoming so confident in what we do that we forget that Jesus said we can do nothing without Him. We live most of the majority of our days without the least acknowledgment of God's presence or purpose. Even when we are faced with circumstances that are beyond our ability to perform, we forge ahead and do the best of our ability to accomplish the task anyway. Though we are part of the Body of Christ we live and breathe our lives in prideful isolation. God's w...
DO I KNOW YOU!
February 01, 2023 20:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MBMany times we come across someone that looks very familiar and we ask, "do I know you?" They may look familiar, but sometimes people may have familiar features and mannerisms, and not be the person we know! We may know intellectually someone that we have read about in a biography or history book, but that does not mean we know them. We claim to have 500 friends on social media, but again that doesn't mean that we know them. So, the question arises, do you know God and does He know you? Le...
WHAT'S GOOD ABOUT IT?
December 07, 2022 23:00 - 12 minutes - 8.93 MBWHAT'S GOOD ABOUT IT? We do a lot of good things in the Name of Christ, but are they really God's good things or just good things that we have done in our flesh for our flesh? Seems like an easy question to answer doesn't it? Our flesh can easily justify "good" things and place them under the heading of God's things. I believe if we look at the Gospel we will discover that there are certain qualifiers that define what things are good and come from God and are for God! Only the brave sho...
WISDOM FROM ABOVE
November 10, 2022 19:00 - 15 minutes - 10.3 MBThe wisdom of the world is unstable and unreliable, but the majority of people today, including many within the church put their trust in it. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways and the man who attempts to follow after Jesus Christ and trust in the wisdom of the world will live an unstable life. The wisdom of God is Jesus Christ Himself! This wisdom is a mystery to the world we live in. This wisdom comes to us through the Holy Spirit as we walk in reverence with our Savior and...
TO LIVE IS CHRIST TO DIE IS GAIN
October 27, 2022 20:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBWhat does it really mean to live? And in what sense does it mean, to die is gain? Before God in His grace pursued us in His love, and saved us we were dead in our sins. We may have been breathing and our heart was beating, but we were dead spiritually. We may have by all practical purposes looked successful to the watching world, but without Christ, we were still dead in our sins. Many professing Christians believe in what Jesus did for them on the cross, but the reality of the life that...
WORDS OF LIFE OR DEATH
October 12, 2022 18:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MBSticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. Whoever came up with this quote couldn't be more wrong. Words hurt! Words have brought more divisions and wars than anything else we could talk about. Scripture tells us that words bring forth death or life. A child's life is formed by the words they hear growing up. Marriage is strengthened or destroyed by the words each spouse speaks into it. Businesses grow or collapse by the words spoken over a period of time. Churches t...
THE CHURCH WE ALL WANT
October 06, 2022 00:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBThere is a great deal of church hopping going on today, and now this issue has hit the fever pitch as podcasts and church online have given our consumeristic onlookers more options to choose from. They have their shopping lists of what they are looking for and expect from today's church. What is extremely sad is that most of what they are looking for is not biblically founded. It's about programs, methods, and styles of worship. It's about shorter messages that are non-confronting. But th...
THE REVELATION OF OUR SALVATION
September 28, 2022 15:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MBThe gospel is the power of God for salvation! But the power of the gospel doesn't come from our persuasive words or wisdom. The transformational power comes from the revelation of that gospel through the Holy Spirit. We are to be the voices crying out in the wilderness preparing the way of the Lord to reveal His salvation to those He draws to Himself. We are the instruments of reconciliation as the love of Christ controls us, freeing the Holy Spirit to work through us. The word of God is ...
ABIDING IN CHRIST
September 14, 2022 01:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MBOne of the Greatest Disconnects of God's calling upon men today is found in Gal. 2:20. "We have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who lives, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me. There was a dramatic shift in who we are and how we live life on the day that Jesus Christ came to take up residence in our lives. For many men, not much changed on that day, if that day in...
PREPARED FOR GREATER THINGS
September 07, 2022 20:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBDid you prepare for today? Did you prepare for this week? How about this month or year? We would like to think that we are prepared for at least the day we are living in, and maybe we are to some degree. We need to take responsibility for the things that are in our lane each day, but we can never be prepared for everything that the world confronts us with. Our greatest discouragement comes from the fact that we have convinced ourselves that we must be prepared for everything. In the mids...
WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE?
August 22, 2022 00:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBControl or the lack of it creates such anxiety and fear in our lives. Even when we have done all that we can to create a safe and secure situation, we know living in the world we live in, we are never in complete control. The more we feel the control slipping through our fingertips, the more we try to control the things and people in front of us. The level of control in our lives indicates the level of faith we have or do not have in the God who is truly in control of everything around ...
DISARMING FEAR
August 14, 2022 21:00 - 12 minutes - 8.27 MBFear is a part of every one of our lives. Fear was given birth in the Garden of Eden when man sinned against God, and attempted to run and hide from Him. Today, fear comes in many shapes and sizes. It reveals itself when we least expect it. We can all be caught off guard and startled by some unexpected event or circumstance. Its when we allow that fear to remain in light of Who Jesus is, and what He has promised. Fear erodes our faith to the point we find ourselves attempting to control ev...
THE HEART OF A CHILD
August 09, 2022 21:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBWe are all created in the image of God. But we are all born into this world with a sinful nature. We don't become sinners because we sin, we sin because we are sinners. The natural bent of our heart is toward the flesh and satisfying its desires. When God calls for us to train up a child in the way he should go, it requires us as parents and adults to cultivate his heart to hear the voice of God and discover what glory He has created him for. As we see the rise in numbers of kids who are l...
AVOIDING SHIPWRECKED FAITH
August 01, 2022 16:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBThe Titanic was one of the greatest shipwreck events of all time. It was said the architect and builder of the Titanic thought his ship was indestructible. Someone heard him say, that God Himself couldn't sink his ship. The portion of the iceberg the Titanic saw above the water line was not a threat, it was the iceberg that extended below the water line that sank the ship. So many lives, families, and communities were drastically changed because of that event. Over the years we have seen ...
HAVING BEEN JUSTIFIED
July 19, 2022 01:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MBHow much time, energy, and resources do we expend in our efforts to justify our existence? We can feel so inadequate in who we are, that we find ourselves constantly on the defense as we self-justify the image we have portrayed to others around us. Our lies and insecurities have us working overtime in the futile game of justification. In and of our flesh we are incapable of maintaining the justifications we make. News flash! If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you have been justified ...
FULL CONFESSION
July 09, 2022 14:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBMost of us who have been in church long enough have heard many sermons and teachings on confession and repentance. Sometimes repetition can numb us to the reality of both of those. I believe a great deal of our complacency and apathy in the church today is not so much the repetition of the messages we have heard, but the lack of understanding and application of God's call for a full confession. The word confess means to agree with God! We may agree with God that we have sinned, but we ar...
NO TRANSFORMATION WITHOUT CONFRONTATION
July 01, 2022 17:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBAs followers of Jesus Christ, God is in the process of transforming us into the image of Christ Himself from glory to glory. He didn't save us to make a better version of us. This transformation doesn't happen without the intervention of the Holy Spirit and the power of the gospel. From the very beginning of our new life in Christ, the word of God has brought confrontation into our lives. We were first convicted of our selfish, self-serving sinful lives, revealing our hopelessness and lo...
YOU WHO ARE SPIRITUAL
June 24, 2022 02:00 - 22 minutes - 15.5 MBMen's discipleship is suffering for a number of reasons. But one of the foundational issues is our lack of love for one another and our fear of confrontation. Many men are struggling and suffering in silence. They are drifting from the place God has called them to, and no one cares enough to go after them. Men have allowed some sin to remain in their life, and because of the guilt and shame associated with it, feel trapped and alone in their brokenness. In Galatians chapter six we are ...
LIVING IN THE MIDST OF EVIL
June 17, 2022 15:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBEvil is the darkness that pervades our whole society! There is no place to escape from it. From wars between nations to the hostility that resides in many of our homes. Parents try to protect their children from it, and communities attempt to use law enforcement to curtail it. Churches preach against it and politicians create more laws to legislate against it. Evil was given birth in the garden of Eden and continues to be handed down to every new generation. Evil is a heart issue. Evil is...
WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?
May 19, 2022 17:00 - 25 minutes - 17.2 MBI've been married long enough to know that when I get that look from my wife, without her saying a word, she is saying, "are you really going out looking like that?" I think I look just fine, but I know if I'm going to leave the house I'm going to have to at least change the shirt that I'm wearing, especially if I'm going somewhere with her! As Christians, we can become really comfortable with our casual Christian walk and lifestyle, but the Holy Spirit is saying, "are you really going to...
PERSECUTION AN UNAVOIDABLE REALITY
May 14, 2022 00:00 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MBOn our journey through the Beatitudes, we have come to the place where many people sitting in the pews will most likely get off the bus. When Jesus says that we are blessed when we are persecuted, many begin to squirm in their seats, and their minds begin to go off into never-never land as they attempt to block out the truths of our faith journey. When you and I walk in the life that has been described in Matthew chapter 5, it's not a matter if we will be persecuted, but when. Jesus sai...
PEACEMAKERS
May 10, 2022 13:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBAll I want is a little peace and quiet! Have you ever heard that said, or maybe you are thinking that right now! Our problem with peace is that the peace that Jesus speaks about and the peace that the majority of people are looking for are most likely not the same. We read in the Scriptures that there is the peace "with" God, and there is having the peace "of" God. We can have both of these at the same time, but not always. We have peace with God because we have been reconciled back to...
PURE HEART PURE VISION
May 04, 2022 20:00 - 13 minutes - 9.08 MBWe continue discovering how we can maintain a heart that doesn't drift into lukewarmness as we travel through the Beatitudes. Today we look at Matt. 5:8 where Jesus proclaims that blessed are those who are pure in heart for they shall see God. James tells us that this is pure and undefiled religion, that we remain unstained by the world. The world produces complacency when allowed to defile the gospel message and the faith we are called to walk in. Out of our hearts come the foundations ...
MARRIAGE COUNSELING 101
May 04, 2022 19:00 - 17 minutes - 11.7 MBWith all that has gone on and continues to go on, marriages have come under fire from all directions. Couples can barely find time to take a breath, much less find time for one another, and become one as God intended for us to be. Work, kids, appointments, the house, the yard, the neighbors, and the church all seem to be crying out for our attention. We can feel our relationship slipping away, but it gets pushed to the bottom of our priority list, because of the next emergency that arise...
MERCY ME
April 28, 2022 17:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MBNo, we are not going to talk about the Christian song group! We are going to look into the gospel and what it has to say about the mercy of God and the transforming power it should have on our lives. When we forget or take for granted the great mercy that has been extended to us from the Father of all mercies, we will definitely drift into lukewarm casual Christianity. We have been examining ourselves as we travel through the Beatitudes to see if we have possibly slipped into being luk...
DISCOVERING THE SATISFIED LIFE
April 14, 2022 15:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBOur bodies were created in such a way by God, that we have a natural response to satisfying our hunger and thirst needs. We can become unhealthy physically when we attempt to satisfy them with unhealthy food or drinks. But God has also created us with a desire for Him. He tells us that He has placed eternity within each one of us and that the eternal void can only be satisfied by His abiding presence. He tells us that we can find satisfaction if we hunger and thirst for righteousness. But...
A SPIRIT OF GENTLENESS
April 07, 2022 18:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBWe continue our journey through the Beatitudes. We are discovering how we can examine our lives to ensure we do not find ourselves living like the Laodicean church in the book of Revelation. LUKEWARM! We have discovered so far that we must walk in humility which is the foundation of everything else we will discuss. The next thing we discovered is that we must maintain sensitivity to our own personal sins. Not just say that we have sinned but to agree with God in the fullness of what they a...
FACE TO FACE WITH OUR SIN
March 31, 2022 18:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBOn our journey of examining ourselves to see if we fall into the definition that Jesus gives to the church in the last days; being lukewarm, we are using the Beatitudes as our examination tool. Not only to examine ourselves but also to use as our foundation to keep from drifting into that lukewarmness. In Matt. 5:3 we've already discussed the humility that needs to be considered and now we will look to Matt. 5:4 and our need individually and corporately to see and deal with the sin in our ...
HUMILITY; OVERCOMING CASUAL CHRISTIANITY
March 24, 2022 16:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MBAs we spoke last time concerning the lukewarmness of the church as we live in the last church age of Laodicea, we now will look to the Sermon on the Mount to discover how we can prevent ourselves and the church as a whole from becoming those casual Christians. Humility is the foundation of our relationship with Jesus Christ that keeps us from being conformed to this world and becoming lukewarm. There is no sanctification, no transformation, no fruitfulness, and no walking by the Spirit w...
CONFRONTING CASUAL CHRISTIANITY
March 22, 2022 14:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBWe are living in the last church age as we look to Revelation and its revealing of the Lukewarm Church. Many of us would try our best to separate ourselves from this defining statement given by Jesus, but the reality is, His word is not up to our own interpretation or justification. Are there people in the church today faithfully serving and proclaiming the gospel, as well as making disciples? There are! God has always provided for HImself a remnant to move His kingdom forward. But if we a...
EMANCIPATION TRANSFORMATION
March 03, 2022 19:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBWe are told in Scripture that we are not to be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of our minds. But that transformation is not into a better version of ourselves, but into the image of Jesus Christ! This transformation is what allows us to experience the freedom that comes from knowing Jesus Christ and walking in fellowship with Him every day. Transformation is impossible for us to accomplish in and of ourselves, it is the work of God in us and through us in every...
AMAZING GRACE
February 24, 2022 20:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBThe Apostle Paul said, that I am what I am by the grace of God. Grace is what defined him. He discovered that when he was weak it was then he was strong through the grace given to him through Christ. If God's grace is so amazing, shouldn't it be seen by the amazing life we are living to the glory of God? If it is in our weakness that the glory of God's grace is revealed in power, what is the watching world seeing concerning this amazing grace? Is God's grace truly sufficient for you, and ...
YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CANNOT HIDE
February 15, 2022 17:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBThere are so many men sitting in the pews today that are hiding in plain sight. They are religiously busy but their busyness is nothing more than their futile attempt to hide from God's calling on their life. They have chosen comfort and convenience over the cost of carrying their cross and following Jesus wherever He goes. There is a cost to hiding and there is a cost to us as men not taking up our cross daily and serving the One who has redeemed us and reconciled us back into a relatio...
EXPOSING THE DARKNESS
February 06, 2022 19:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBThis is not about exposing the darkness of this world, for that darkness has become brash and unashamed to live out in the open every day. We as followers of Jesus Christ need to expose the darkness that we have allowed to remain in our own hearts and lives. This is about the desires that are naturally ours by God's creation but those in which we attempt to satisfy outside of God's will and design. Our flesh and spirit are in opposition to one another, and if we allow our flesh to choo...
WHAT'S YOUR STORY?
January 25, 2022 19:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBEvery day we write another chapter into our life's story! Many times the chapter we are writing does not play out like we hoped it would have. A great deal of the anxiety we struggle with comes from our frustration and disappointments in our life's story being played out differently than we have written it. Did you realize that God has already written your story out to its final details? If we would just understand that our freedom and fulfillment are found in living out the story He has w...
WHEN THE WORD BECOMES FLESH
January 20, 2022 21:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBWhen Jesus Christ becomes real when His word is more than a set of principles for you to live by; life as you once knew it changes. Of His fullness, we all have received, and grace upon grace. When His word becomes flesh in our life we will begin to be transformed from glory to glory. When we realize that we are a temple of the Holy Spirit and that His glory abides within us, our desire will be to glorify Him in all that we do. Has HIs word become living and active in your life? Are y...