Mission Focused Men for Christ
239 episodes - English - Latest episode: 39 minutes ago - ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThis 20-minute weekly podcast is for Christian men who want to hear, “Well done,” from Jesus, after running the race marked out for them. Its goals are to: 1) EQUIP men to better understand from Scripture their mission, 2) ENCOURAGE men because we fail often, 3) ENERGIZE men because our spiritual tank is often on "empty," 4) EMPOWER men to stay focused on honoring Christ with their lives. The podcast presenter, Dr. Gary Yagel, is known for his practical biblical teaching and encouraging heart. A former church planter in the Presbyterian Church in America, Gary is the founder and Executive Director of Forging Bonds of Brotherhood. He is the author of Got Your Back, and Anchoring Your Child to God's Truth in a Gender-Confused Culture, (available on Amazon) and has taught Making Missional Disciples as a guest professor at Reformed Theological Seminary DC. For further information about Gary’s ministry, go to forgingbonds.org or gotyourback.info.
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Jesus' Promise of Escape From the Driven Lifestyle
April 28, 2024 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBThis episode is for those who find themselves feeling more driven than called as they walk through life. It examines the way Jesus addressed the relentless internal pressure many feel to have to perform, and the resulting internal exhaustion we experience when he said, Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden ...
Jesus' Unwavering Allegiance to the Father
April 21, 2024 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBIn a world that is becoming increasingly complex because of innumerable opportunities to which our cell phones connect us, it is refreshing to remind ourselves of what Jesus said was at the core of following him. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment (Mt 22:37-38.) The primacy of this first and greatest commandment resonates with me. If I could just love God more: My heart would have less r...
The Compelling Jesus
April 14, 2024 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBEpisode Summary. There seems to be widespread agreement that Jonathan Roumie’s portrayal of Jesus in Dallas Jenkins’, The Chosen, is remarkably well done. As someone has said, “If you’re aiming to make a TV show about the life of Jesus, you better cast the right person for the lead role.” There is something deep, personal, and even perhaps threatening to us in the way Jesus is portrayed by anyone. A wrong portrayal messes with our perception of the one we have devoted our lives to. That is w...
Gender Affirming Care UNMASKED
April 07, 2024 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBEpisode Summary. What some say is the biggest medical scandal of our times was exposed last month when whistle blowers released internal files from the self-appointed, “experts” on transgender health, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) proving that WPATH’s “transgender medicine guidelines” had no basis in actual science and violated the most basic medical guidelines for patient care. This episode explains what happened so that we can be better equipped to di...
The Power of a Resurrection Worldview
March 31, 2024 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBEpisode Summary. If you noticed the title of this week’s episode, you may be wondering, “What in the world is a resurrection worldview and why does it matter?” It turns out not only that a resurrection worldview is an essential biblical concept for Christians; it is the foundation for the three specific truths that Paul repeatedly asks for God to help the Ephesian Christians grasp. This episode examines these three life-changing PERSPECTIVES. For Further Prayerful Thought: Why do the bib...
Falsehood--Loving Immigrants Means Supporting Open Borders
March 24, 2024 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBEpisode Summary. When faced with the sight of millions of men, women, and children from war-torn lands seeking to escape tyranny to have better life, most Christians will voice their approval for open door policies of inclusion, hospitality, diversity and welcome. After all Jesus, did teach that true believers will hear from Jesus, “I was a STRANGER and you WELCOMED me.” Doesn’t this settle the issue—All Christians must be welcoming to immigrants who want to come into our country. Actually, ...
Falsehood--Abortion is a Woman's Reproductive Right
March 17, 2024 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBEpisode Summary. This is the third episode in our March series, Worldviews Leading Our Loved Ones Astray. It begins with the reminder that faithful Christians don’t isolate themselves from cultural issues but fervently seek to raise their light of truth in the spheres around them, that God has commanded them to influence. We examine the argument that abortion is a reproductive right of a woman, noting, at the outset, that no woman has an absolute right over her body. She cannot put her hands...
Falsehood--Biblical Patriarchy Breeds Toxic Masculinity
March 10, 2024 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBEpisode Summary. This is the second episode in our March series, Worldviews Leading Our Loved Ones Astray. It makes the argument that the accusation that biblical patriarchy breeds toxic masculinity is a complete fiction by refuting two of the foundational worldviews that underlie this accusation—egalitarianism and critical theory. It then further refutes the claim with old-fashioned evidence. For Further Prayerful Thought: What would you say to another Christian and told you that you nee...
Falsehood--Homosexual Orientation Is Normal for Some People
March 03, 2024 21:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBEpisode Summary. This is the first episode in our March series, Worldviews Leading Our Loved Ones Astray. We begin by noting that many of the rising generation are rejecting the Christianity they grew up with because what the Bible says about homosexuality seems so outdated and unfair to them. This episode seeks to recover the teaching that all Christians must treat those in the LGBTQ+ life with compassion and dignity, yet not allow ourselves to over-empathize with this group and abandon the...
Her Heart Needs Your Spiritual Leadership
February 25, 2024 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBEpisode Summary. This episode acknowledges that those whose loud voices proclaim that the Bible promotes oppressive patriarchy would be horrified to read its title: Her Heart Needs Your Spiritual Leadership. But wise Christians understand both the horrible abuse of women by men and the fact that the cause is not God’s design structure for the home, but men’s sinful nature. The truth is that every woman’s heart is designed to be fulfilled by her husband leading their home and family well. Thi...
The Vital Calling to Protect Your Wife’s Self-Esteem
February 18, 2024 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBEpisode Summary. Instead of hearing refreshing words of praise and appreciation from their husbands, countless wives endure each day with parched souls and sad hearts. Being starved for words of affirmation, they feel worthless, unattractive, and unappreciated. This episode examines a biblical role of husbands that you may have thought little about—our job to protect our wife’s self-esteem. Life and self-doubt will eventually crush her sense of worth if we don’t keep binding up the wounds to...
Romance That Awakens A Wife's Heart
February 11, 2024 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBEpisode Summary. God wants husbands and wives to drink deeply and frequently of the refreshing waters of their partner’s sexuality. But most of us whose marriages have lasted beyond the honeymoon stage have found that sustaining romantic and sexual passion has been a lot harder than we ever thought it would be, especially because our wives are NOT wired the way WE are. This episode looks for biblical clues to understanding how and why a woman’s view of romance and sex is so different than he...
Your Wife Craves Heart Intimacy With You
February 04, 2024 21:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBEpisode Summary. This episode examines five biblical texts that reveal the various facets of a wife’s need for heart intimacy with her husband. 84% of wives 9indicate that their husbands have no clue how to meet this need of their hearts. For Further Prayerful Thought: Why do you think 84% of wives say that their husbands are not meeting their need for heart intimacy with them? What do you most need to remember about listening well to your wife to help her open her heart to you? What is...
Equipping Our Followers to Be Champions
January 28, 2024 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBEpisode Summary. This episode challenges husbands and fathers to be as devoted to bringing out the potential of those under their care as Richard Williams was, the father of Venus and Serena Williams. We take the example of Jesus' leadership of the church as prophet, priest, and king, to identify practically what we should do to help those under our care reach their full potential in Christ. For Further Prayerful Thought: How might you become and remain as passionate about developing the p...
Maximizing Our Influence As Family Leaders
January 21, 2024 21:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBEpisode Summary. The opportunities to influence our kids’ lives go by in a flash and after they are launched are rarer still. So, dads and granddads need to know how to maximize the influence we do have. This episode examines God’s two-part design of the influence we wield as spiritual leaders of our home, positional influence and relational influence. In both cases, we must overcome false worldviews that deny the way God wants us to lead our homes. For Further Prayerful Thought: How woul...
Effective Family Leaders Know Their Destination
January 14, 2024 21:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBEpisode Summary. Family leadership isn’t for the half-hearted. And it is not always appreciated by our followers! What is worse is that our leadership attempts can fail, disheartening us. But as Wayne Gretzky has pointed out, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” This episode examines what leadership at home looks like, so we can give it our best shot. For Further Prayerful Thought: What do you learn about the leadership process that you want to remember? In your own words, what...
Rejecting Jesus' Call to Biblical Manhood
January 07, 2024 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBEpisode Summary. There are so many forces in today’s culture, our own hearts, our wife’s heart, and churches today that are pushing hard against men taking leadership in their homes and churches, that daring to lead our families is tough. It isn’t for sissies. It demands courage to overcome our uncertainty about what we are doing, a thick skin to resist peer pressure, and determination to defeat our passivity. But men, we can’t let our families bear the cost of our rejection of Jesus’ call t...
Discipleship When Your Master is the Prince of Peace
December 31, 2023 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBEpisode Summary. In my view as a men’s ministry leader, one of the great tragedies of the church today is that we have failed to capture the hearts of men with the greatness of our mission. This episode focusses on just one aspect of a decision that every Christian who is listening to this podcast has made—choosing to be a follower of King Jesus. Disciples follow their masters’ example. They apply his teaching. They embrace his cause. This episode looks at just one facet of Jesus’ identity t...
How Is Believing in Jesus Any Different From Believing in Santa?
December 24, 2023 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBEpisode Summary. As our children and grandchildren leave their homes, we can expect them to hear the argument that they should act like adults and stop viewing the Bible’s fairy tales as anything more than morally uplifting stories like The Little Mermaid, The Lord of the Rings, or Santa Clause. Against this backdrop, we must help our children and grandchildren, before leaving home, realize that believing in Jesus is far different than believing in Santa Clause. The faulty idea that the TRUT...
The Magi Bring Worship AND Horror
December 17, 2023 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBEpisode Summary. Our culture is shaped by the interaction of various worldviews that compete for the influence to shape thinking. Ten days ago in the halls of Congress many of us saw the moral bankruptcy of a worldview that is held by many of the cultural elites, when the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn would not say that the conduct code of their universities prevents students from calling for the extermination of the Jews. The worldview that has replaced the conscience of these elites...
Mary's Femininity Was Not a Social Construct
December 10, 2023 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBEpisode Summary. Is anything more beautiful, spectacular, and wonderful than God’s creation of WOMAN? I think not. She is the crowning achievement of God’s creation process. She is the one for whom a husband is to die. Yet, we live in a culture that has profoundly marred the portrait of fulfilled womanhood as God designed it to be—and it is our feminine loved ones who are suffering from it. This episode seeks to put a spotlight on 4 worldviews in our culture that MISSHAPE our loved ones’ vie...
Joseph of Nazareth—A Glimpse of True Manhood
December 03, 2023 21:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBSummary: At this cultural moment Christian men face the extreme risk of abandoning our calling to godly manhood, because of the cultural pressure we feel every day. This pressure not to make distinctions between men and woman or their designed roles is squeezing many Christian men and leaders into the world’s mold and resulting unfaithfulness. But in this episode we study the example of Joseph, Jesus’ earthly dad, which is a step towards enabling us to be transformed as Romans 12:2 says, by ...
Becoming Like Jesus Hurts
November 26, 2023 21:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBSummary: As irritations, frustrations and trials crowd into our lives bringing out our bad attitudes, we are hit in the face with James’ almost impossible command, “Count it all joy when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness” (James 1:3). “Be joyful,” says James, “because when it hurts, God is building in you the Christ-like quality of steadfastness.” This same, priceless, attribute of Christ-like character, steadfastness, is ide...
Actually Becoming Partakers of the Divine Nature
November 19, 2023 21:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBSummary: It is hard to image anything that would please Jesus more than hearing, “I want to be just like you.” Incredibly, the Apostle, Peter tells us in 2 Peter 1:3-8 that God has graciously given us a present—his divine power to partake of his divine, holy nature. He outlines 3 specific steps by which Christians access that divined power. The last 2 episodes examined steps 1-2. This episode examines step 3. For Further Prayerful Thought: In this episode’s review of last week we again ...
Peter’s Words When Evil Seems to Be Winning
November 12, 2023 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBSummary: Against a moral backdrop much like ours, in which evil seemed ready to envelop the whole empire. Peter gave specific advice to the Christ-followers of his day. This episode examines that advice and how we can follow it in today’s world. We will see that despite being disheartened by the way Evil was winning the cultural battle between Christ’s kingdom of righteousness and the kingdom of darkness, Peter urges Christ-followers to fight a different battle—one that Christ has given us t...
Untapped Spiritual Power
November 05, 2023 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBSummary: Great men in the eyes of Jesus are those who fight the sinful attitudes of their hearts, self-centeredness, pride, resentment, lust, selfishness, impurity, rivalry, idolatry, greed, envy, selfish anger. They surrender in humility to God’s reclamation project of re-making them into the toughness of character that Jesus showed. They channel their masculine aggression towards overpowering the dark attitudes of their fallen hearts. This episode explores what the Apostle, Peter, taught a...
Jesus' Command--Be WATCHFUL not ASLEEP
October 29, 2023 20:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBSummary: In the last ten years there has been an explosion of confusion among adolescent children about their gender. Girls doubting their femininity are suffering. Boys uncertain about masculinity are unsure of themselves. Alarming statistics reveal that the more confused children are about their gender, the greater is their risk of suicide. What should Christian men do about this crisis? This episode uses God’s command to us in 1 Corinthians 16:13 to answer that question. For Further Pr...
What Hamas' Atrocities Teach Us About Worldviews
October 22, 2023 20:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBSummary: Because of the Hamas attack on Israel two weeks ago, I’ve changed the topic of today’s episode to address a battle that all Christians are called to fight—the battle to shape our culture’s worldview to conform to biblical truth, instead of letting false worldviews blind our culture to reality, because we are silent. This episode examines how Hamas’ worldview is very different from that of the western world and why it led to the inhuman massacre that we have all witnessed. For Furt...
Overcoming SELFISHNESS to Love Others WELL
October 15, 2023 20:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBSummary: No man wants to fail his wife or kids. Despite loud cries to the contrary in our culture, we men are assigned the position of head of our marriage, which means if we love our wives well, they will flourish. As those assigned the role of father, our concrete love for our kids is designed to prepare them to see and welcome the parallel but invisible love of God the Father. This strategic position means we must win the battle to defeat our own selfishness, building a pattern of denyin...
Battling a Lie that Causes Rebellion
October 08, 2023 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBSummary: This episode continues our October series on the battles men fight by examining Satan’s efforts to destroy our trust in God’s character. Such confidence MATTERS to God so much that his Word says, “Without faith it is impossible to please him,” (Heb 11:6a). All meaningful love-relationships require trust. Because Satan wants to destroy our relationship with God, he constantly seeks to undermine our trust in him. This episode examines Satan’s tactics in this battle and how to resist h...
How Lust Defeated David
October 01, 2023 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBSummary: This episode begins our October series on the battles men fight and begins with the temptation that survey’s reveal is at the top of men’s temptations—overcoming lust and if married directing their sexual desires totally towards the wife of their youth. We study David’s fall and the lessons we can take away from this biblical example. For Further Prayerful Thought: How is the story of the weasel taking down the eagle similar to lust’s takedown of David? What are the outer condi...
Defeating the Kingdom of Darkness
September 24, 2023 20:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBSummary: This episode raises the question, “Could it be that Satan and sin are racking up wins against us NOT because we’re NOT trying hard enough, but because we are not fighting with the right weapon?” Christ’s agenda of righteousness will never prevail in our own hearts or over the earth through trying harder. We must defeat the kingdom of darkness for “rightness” to spread. But such victory only comes through something called, PREVAILING PRAYER. This episode examines how to fight with th...
Living Out of OUR CALLING Instead of DRIVENNESS
September 17, 2023 20:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBSummary: On the night before he died, Jesus made the astonishing claim that he had completed the work the Father gave him to do. We wonder how Jesus could have talked about a completed work. His three-year ministry seemed all too short. For every prostitute whose heart he touched, hundreds remained untouched. For every blind man enabled to see, hundreds were still blind. Yet on that last night, with many urgent human needs unmet and useful tasks undone, the Lord said he had completed the wor...
What Jesus Said We Are to Pursue
September 10, 2023 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBSummary: This episode provides a biblical definition of the term kingdom of God and when that becomes clear, we will see why Jesus said that PURSUING THE KINGDOM OF GOD is the most valuable objective anyone could ever build his life around! For further prayerful thought. Why is seeking the kingdom of God like a pearl merchant pursuing and finding a fabulous pearl? What Scripture comes to mind to support the idea that the kingdom where Jesus wants righteousness to prevail is Adam’s kingd...
Shaping Day-By-Day Life to Seek First the Kingdom
September 03, 2023 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBSummary: Hall of Fame NFL stars, besides excelling at unrelenting commitment to becoming the best they can be at their position, usually have developed a high football IQ, which helps them put playing their position in context. Jesus’ job description for his followers is to seek first the KINGDOM OF GOD and his righteousness. But it is impossible to go hard to succeed at this mission without a concrete understanding of what the kingdom of God is. What is the target on the wall? This episode ...
Understanding Progressive Christianity—An Impostor Capturing Our Kids
August 27, 2023 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBEpisode Summary: God assigns Christian fathers the responsibility of protecting their children—and one of the greatest dangers to them in this cultural moment is the false religion called progressive Christianity. This episode exposes this new movement that many in the rising generation are becoming convinced is superior to their old fashioned, closed minded bigoted Christian faith they grew up believing and what dads, granddads, and church leaders can do about it. Questions for Guiding the...
Two Requirements for Helping Teens Resist Gender Theory
August 20, 2023 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBSummary: Vibrant marriages and healthy families are the result of following God’s design of male and female to have different needs, responsibilities, and callings in the family. These words came from a veteran Christian counselor who had once been a beat cop on the streets of Miami. I think this counselor is right—which means that today’s Christian men need to be steering the rising generation towards wholeheartedly embracing God’s gender design. But there are two BIG OBSTACLES to getting t...
7 Steps to Protect Our Kids from Gender Confusion
August 13, 2023 20:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBEpisode Summary: A few years ago, while having lunch with a Marine Corps officer at Quantico, he said, “My 12- year-old daughter just told my wife and me that she is transgender. What do you think I should do?” This episode answers the question, “As Christian men, how do we protect the rising generation from the harm they experience through gender confusion while, at the same time, sharing Christ’s love with those seeking to promote this the transgender delusion.” For Further Prayerful Tho...
God’s TOXIC MASCULINITY Reclamation Project
August 06, 2023 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBThis is the fourth episode in our summer series, Meeting the Worldview Challenges in a Broken Culture, in which we repeat past episodes that are vital for men leading their families in 2023. This original episode was published on Easter Day of 2021. This summer we continue to experience an unprecedented assault upon God’s design of gender, with Christianity being blamed for adhering to so called “oppressive patriarchy” which, it is alleged leads to both toxic masculinity and the social const...
Why Fight for Truth in a World That Hates IT & US
July 30, 2023 20:00 - 25 minutes - 17.9 MBSummary: Many weary Christians are disheartened as they try to battle for truth in our culture. The thought crosses our minds, “Why battle for truth in a world that hates you? After all, Jesus was clear to his disciples, If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.Why bother trying to shape our culture’s thinking about gender by speaking up to combat Satan’s lies with the ...
Answering BIBLICAL TEACHING IS CULTURALLY DETERMINED
July 23, 2023 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBEpisode Summary: One of the arguments your family is hearing this summer is that the biblical teaching about gender and gender roles reflects the oppressive patriarchy of the OT culture as well as Paul’s patriarchal, abusive views of women. Paul and the OT, it is argued, also reflect unenlightened, culturally determined views of homosexuality as sinful and gender as binary. This argument is leading many of the rising generation down the path towards Progressive Christianity, which rejects so...
There Can’t Be Just One True Religion
July 16, 2023 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBSummary: Fighting words are words that arouse a visceral response in people, making their gut churn and their hands ball into fists. As we have all observed, in the past few years fighting words have been flying all over twitter and Facebook in the political clash over our nation’s future. This episode looks beneath this political fight to a deeper, even more significant war, the battle by which Christians are to destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, ...
How Could a Good God Allow Suffering?
July 09, 2023 20:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBSummary: Historians tell us, Ideas have consequences. One idea that has invaded the human heart is responsible for more human destruction than any other idea—the falsehood that God’s goodness can’t be trusted. When this wrong idea captured Eve’s heart, she rebelled, Adam rebelled with her, and humans have been rebelling against God and his law ever since. Satan’s chief strategy to inspire rebellion in Eve’s heart was to make her doubt God’s goodness. Our calling as men is to “Surround our lo...
Kids & the SCIENCE DISPROVES GOD Argument
July 02, 2023 20:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBEpisode Summary: This episode is the first in the July and August series, Meeting the Worldview Challenges in a Broken Culture. It equips the rising generation to confidently respond to the SCIENCE DISPROVES GOD argument. For Further Prayerful Thought: Which of the four arguments for the existence of God do you find most compelling? Which do you think has the power to be the most persuasive? What do you think of this idea: The reason for knowing the evidence for our faith is not give...
Building a Plan for Training Your Child
June 25, 2023 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBEpisode Summary. This episode gives four biblical foundations upon which a father needs to build his plan for training his child in the way he should go. For Further Prayerful Thought. How would you support the argument that the starting point for training a child is to help his heart learn to hate evil because he experiences painful consequences from bad choices and love righteousness because he experiences benefit from making good choices? In the portrait of eight character qualities ...
How to Fill Our Kids’ Tanks with Fatherly Love
June 18, 2023 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBEpisode Summary. This episode gives seven ways that fathers and grandfathers can pour love into their kids to regularly replenish them with the unconditional love thar kids need. Special Fathers’ Day Note: More and more organizations are declaring June National Fatherhood Month. What would happen around our nation and the world if every Christian business owner had a sign in his window celebrating National Fatherhood Month that said, “Every kid needs a great dad,” or worker had such a plaqu...
Step One in Our Parenting Plan
June 11, 2023 20:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBEpisode Summary. One of my favorite memories as a dad was the way my kids, if they were playing in the yard and saw me drive up, would run to greet me. That always made me think of Proverbs 17:6, the glory of children is their father. Fathers don’t deserve it, but God has designed into our children a natural tendency to admire and want time with us—despite our many imperfections. That is reassuring as we continue our series, “How God Uses Imperfect Men to Impact Their Kid’s Lives.” I can’...
Stop Fatherhood from BEING CANCELED
June 04, 2023 20:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBEpisode Summary. This episode examines why our words promoting fatherhood need to be heard by our children, grandchildren, neighbors, and work associates. It further suggests winsome ways to present the biblical worldview that fatherhood is vital for human flourishing. For Further Prayerful Thought. Why do you believe more Christian men do not take a stand for God’s design of Adam and Eve differently to complete each other? What did you find most motivational in persuading you that thos...
Money Management and Our Hearts
May 28, 2023 20:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBEpisode Summary. This episode seeks to put a biblical lens over the inter-relationship between our money, our giving, and our hearts. For Further Prayerful Thought. Why do you think Jesus’ view of money was so stark—that it wants to enslave us? Why do you think that happens? Someone has said that maturity of character is measured by your ability to delay gratification—in other words make an investment now that doesn’t pay off until later. How have you learned to invest in kingdom ministr...
Thinking Biblically About the Poor
May 21, 2023 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBEpisode Summary. This episode seeks to look at poverty through a biblical lens, understanding it’s causes, misguided attempts to solve it, and especially what fulfilling our responsibility to care for the poor looks like. Resources Used for Today’s Podcast When Helping Hurts, Steve Corbett, and Brian Fikkert For Further Prayerful Thought. How would you summarize God’s plan for those on planet earth to flourish economically? How does understanding that poverty is caused by the breakdown ...