Mission Focused Men for Christ
241 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day 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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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 ...
Should Christians Pursue Economic Equality?
May 14, 2023 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBEpisode Summary. We continue our May series Thinking Biblically About Money Greed and Economic Justice by looking carefully at the claim made by many social justice advocates that Christians are hypocrites for not standing up for the poor and embracing ECONOMIC EQUALITY for everyone as Jesus would have. Is this claim true? How do we respond to our kids returning from college who are deconverting from Christianity because of the failure of today’s church to embrace such equality? Resources ...
Recovering the Lost Biblical Doctrine of Work
May 07, 2023 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBEpisode Summary. Today we begin our May series Thinking Biblically About Money Greed and Economic Justice. There is a great abundance of Biblical teaching about money, work, and how to manage our financial resources. As always, we will start with a biblical worldview. Today it is God’s view work, sadly, which has been mostly lost among believers. For Further Prayerful Thought. What most stood out to you about the way the biblical doctrine of work has been repeatedly lost, found, then lost ...
God’s Wisdom: Nothing You Desire Compares with Her
April 30, 2023 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBEpisode Summary. As we complete this series on developing the tough-minded attitudes that Jesus exhibited throughout his life, we realize that the key to godly attitudes is having the right perspective. The biblical term for this right perspective is wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from Gods point of view. It is seeing how God designed life to best function. In this episode we look at the astonishing promises God makes about gaining his wisdom, and see how Jesus teaching of biblical wisdo...
The Last of the Human Freedoms
April 23, 2023 20:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBEpisode Summary. Holocaust survivor, Victor Frankl’s observation that the last of the human freedoms to be taken away from another man is his freedom to choose his attitude is biblical. It takes enormous spiritual power to choose the godly attitudes of Jesus, but that is precisely why the Holy Spirit was given to us! This episode examines the last two fruits of the Spirit, meekness and self-control. For Further Prayerful Thought. In what ways is the 8th fruit of the Spirit, translated me...
Needed: A Few GOOD MEN
April 16, 2023 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBEpisode Summary. How do we become the kind of men who leave behind a good or even great legacy that matters? How can we stay focused on a destiny that will make the world a better place, bring great honor to Jesus, and great defeat to the Evil One? Scripture teaches that reaping a great destiny is the result of a process that, day-by- day builds character. This episode examines the character of true GOODNESS and FAITHFULNESS. For Further Prayerful Thought. In the chain of sowing and reapi...
Spirit-Produced Joy in a Culture That Produced Nashville
April 09, 2023 20:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBEpisode Summary. This episode examines how we can cooperate with the work of the Holy Spirit to produce true spiritual joy and a radical commitment all through our life to restoring broken relationships fractured by sin—ones relationship to God, himself, other humans, and creation. For Further Prayerful Thought. Why would you say it is important to delight yourself in the Lord? What obstacles get in the way of having a grateful heart? Why do you think Paul might have deliberately link...
Men Wanted for Tough Assignment
April 02, 2023 20:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBEpisode Summary. Today, we begin a series entitled, Building the Mental Toughness of Jesus—a challenge more significant and tougher than traveling to the south pole. For, our opponent is not the outer elements of the physical world, but the inner Goliath of the SELF, whose many faces--self-centeredness, self-preoccupation, self-absorption, self-indulgence, self-exaltation--resist every effort to develop the mental toughness of Christ’s inner commitment to self-giving love. We closely examine...
Overcoming Discouragement
March 26, 2023 20:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBEpisode Summary. YESTERDAY’S spiritual passion cannot be TODAY’S spiritual energy. This episode addresses the question, “How should Christ-followers deal with those days when we are unmotivated, down, discouraged, and our spiritual energy gone?” For Further Prayerful Thought. What life lessons do you see from the example of Elijah’s spiritual high being followed by an emotional low that plunged to the point of asking God to take his life? How can the truth that nearly any objective that...
Battling Destructive Anger
March 19, 2023 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBEpisode Summary. This episode explores what Jesus taught about anger. What it is. The wrong places our anger can take us. And how to overcome it. For Further Prayerful Thought. What was the most helpful truth you discovered about anger? In your experience which experience provokes the hottest anger, something that frustrates reaching your goals, injustice, or being disrespected? Are there other sources of pain you can think of that generate anger? How can the thought that God never waste...
Leading Our Homes Well
March 12, 2023 21:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBEpisode Summary. This episode is the second that examines the three functions of spiritual leadership at home, staying focused ourselves on our spiritual growth as Christ’s disciple, building a caring relationship with our followers, and equipping and assisting them to reach the goal of spiritual maturity as Christ-followers. For Further Prayerful Thought. In your own life, how have you seen the principle lived out that a leader’s influence with you is based on his care for you. Which as...
What Is Spiritual Leadership at Home?
March 05, 2023 21:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBEpisode Summary. In the next two episodes, our goal is for you to come away with a concrete picture of the three components of spiritual leadership in the home and how they work together to maximize our leadership impact in our families. For Further Prayerful Thought. How would you answer the question, What does it mean to be the spiritual leader of a Christian home? Why are all three arrows or lines of the spiritual leadership diagram necessary for good leadership? What did you learn...
Promoting the Truth that Gender is Binary
February 26, 2023 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBEpisode Summary. Today we complete our short 4-week series, Reconstructing Manhood and Womanhood In a Culture Where They Are Broken This episode seeks to answer the question, “How do we let the light of God’s truth about gender shine in the darkened culture around us?” For Further Prayerful Thought. In refuting the premise that gender identity is NOT determined by your biological sex, which arguments seemed most cogent to you. What thoughts do you have about winsomely persuading others th...
Kids Who Are Confident In Their Created Gender Identity
February 19, 2023 21:00 - 26 minutes - 18.6 MBEpisode Summary. Christ-followers are chosen to be a blessing to the rest of the world. God’s special revelation, the Word of God reveals to us wisdom that is more valuable than gold, truth that is more precious than diamonds. God has gone to great length in Genesis 1 and 2 to show us how he created man and woman to have very different identities, callings, and roles in the family and church family. He has made us stewards of this great treasure—how male and female are designed to relate to...
Overcoming a Breakdown in Marriage Intimacy
February 12, 2023 21:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBEpisode Summary. No Christian couple walks down the wedding aisle planning for their love relationship to fracture. But nearly 50% of Christian marriages do. A careful examination of what divorcees say was missing in their marriages reveals time and again that what was lost was the closeness that we call “intimacy.” This episode examines how our sinful natures fracture the intimacy in marriage, and what to do about it. For Further Prayerful Thought. How does God’s creation design of male...
The Origin of Gender Theory Which Fractures Personhood
February 06, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBEpisode Summary. This episode seeks to give a clear a description of gender theory so that we can better recognize it, refute it with science, logic, and common sense—and teach our children and grandchildren to do the same. For Further Prayerful Thought. Why is it important for Christians to always begin interaction with those who are sexually broken with humility and compassion? Analyze the statement, “compassion without truth can be dangerous.” How did Jesus seem to combine empathy w...
A Time to Work and a Time to Rest
January 30, 2023 00:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBEpisode Summary. In this final episode of our series, Don’t Waste Your Life. Rule It for God, we will examine a very common feeling among Christian men—that their secular work, itself, is a necessary evil, but only of secondary importance in our mission to spread Christ’s kingdom of righteousness over earth. Is that true? This episode seeks to apply a biblical worldview of work and rest to our understanding of our mission. For Further Prayerful Thought. In your own words, how would you ...
Prayer That Accomplishes Your Mission
January 23, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBEpisode Summary. God wants your prayer life to be filled with petitions and intercession for others and for the advance of His kingdom. He wants answers to such prayer to become your frequent and thrilling experience. Scripture says, If we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him (1 Jn 5:13-14).John tells us that prayer is essentially a blank check, with one important caveat...
Is Your View of Christ’s Mission for You Fuzzy?
January 16, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBEpisode Summary. George Barna’s Millennials in America report observes, “One of the most attention-grabbing attributes revealed in this research regarding the Millennial way of life is their widespread desire to identify a purpose for living. Three out of four Millennials are still searching for their purpose in life.” This evidence that Millennials want a life of purpose reminds me of the popularity of Rick Warren’s book, The Purpose Driven Life, which has been translated into 137 languages...
Better Connecting Our Everyday Lives to Our Mission
January 09, 2023 00:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBEpisode Summary. No Christian man I know wants to waste his life. He doesn’t want his life to simply be a shooting star that burns out in a few moments of eternity; he wants his life to matter. He wants to get to the end of the race marked out for him and hear, “Well done” from the lips of Jesus. But we also know that in order to hear Jesus’ commendation for our mission, “Well done” we need to “well do.” We need to stay focused on it. As we saw last week rudderless life is a wasted life. The...
Overcoming a Disordered Life to Stay Focused on Honoring Jesus
January 02, 2023 00:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBEpisode Summary. Not only does God have a specific mission for you in 2023, which Paul summarizes in Ephesians 2:10 as good works, but that mission is so important that God specifically designed you for it—to have your specific place and responsibilities in your family, your natural gifts and vocational calling, your specific spiritual gifts with which to contribute to the Body of Christ, and your specific relationships with the lost. God has designed both ME—and THE SPECIFIC OPPORTUNITIES I...
The Incarnation and Our Mission in 2023
December 26, 2022 00:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBEpisode Summary. As our 2022 race comes to an end over the next few days, it is a great time to reflect upon the upcoming race marked out for us by our Commander in Chief, Jesus, in 2023. Since the incarnation is at the heart of Christ’s mission to redeem his people and renew creation, how does the incarnation impact our mission as Christ-following men? That is the question we seek to answer in this episode. For Further Prayerful Thought Comment on the principle that when you love someone ...
Why It Matters that Jesus is the PRINCE OF PEACE
December 19, 2022 00:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBEpisode Summary. Joe Namath once said, "When you win, nothing hurts." The pleasure of victory can be so great that it overcomes the aching muscles and bruised body that result from battle. If you are disheartened, battered, discouraged or weary from fighting the good fight--your heart aching and soul bruised--my hope is that this episode will give such a clear picture of the colossal TRIUMPH of Messiah Jesus—and our part in that victory, that in some small way the pain is lessened, because w...
Why It Matters that Jesus is the Everlasting Father
December 12, 2022 00:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBEpisode Summary. Sometimes a single word can be loaded with meaning: Mom, Dad, Darling, Champion, Failure. Single words can be so important that Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.” As we continue our series on the titles of Messiah Jesus in Isaiah 9:6, both of words that make up this title are loaded with a wealth of meaning, encouragement, and hope. The title is EVERLASTING FATHER. For Further Prayerful Thought What are the...
Why We Need a Messiah Who is the MIGHTY GOD
December 05, 2022 00:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBEpisode Summary. Why did the long-awaited Messiah of Israel have to be the MIGHTY GOD—and what does that title mean for our everyday walk with Jesus today? That is the topic of today’s episode. For Further Prayerful Thought How would you support the idea that the overall teaching of the OT is that the real oppression of Israel was done by foreign military powers but by SIN? Why might this point to the fact that the deliverer would have to be God, himself? Paul commanded Christ-followers t...
Why It Matters that Jesus is the Wonderful Counselor
November 28, 2022 00:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBEpisode Summary. For the next four weeks, our focus is on the first and most foundational part of our mission—deepening our love relationship with Christ. We will do this by zooming the camera in on four titles of Jesus given in the Isaiah 9 prophecy of the coming Messiah Jesus—Wonderful Counselor, Almighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. What do these titles tell us about Jesus and what difference these descriptions of our Commander in Chief make in our everyday lives? This episod...
Caring for the Poor and Marginalized of Our Cities
November 21, 2022 00:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBEpisode Summary. This episode seeks to examine what the church’s commitment to the poor of our cities should look like. We then examine three serious flaws in the progressive view of social justice, an ideology which is captivating many young adults leading them to abandon Christianity. Finally, we examine how only the church can bring about the restoration require to solve the problems of our urban poor but raise the question, “Will middle class Christians care enough to do it?” Questio...
Progressive Christianity is Capturing Our Kids’ Hearts
November 06, 2022 23:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 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 the 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 ...
Christians Should Support Economic Equality
October 30, 2022 23:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBEpisode Summary. In a recent book published by the Gospel Coalition, Thaddeus Williams of Biola University argues that the church’s lack of concern for economic and social justice as a primary reason that many of those raised in Christian homes are deconstructing their faith. He writes, “The conclusion that Christianity is hardly the beacon of social justice that it should be is a common theme in many deconstruction stories.” “Instead of advocating for the poor by embracing economic justice,...
Abortion is a Woman’s Health Care Right
October 23, 2022 23:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBEpisode Summary: In view of the recent Dobbs Supreme Court decision, NOW is the time for all Christians to sharpen their awareness of the abortion plague and especially sharpen their ability to promote life by reasoning well in conversations taking place around us. That is the goal of this episode. Questions for Guiding the Rising Generation to think about this material. What did you find most exciting about the Christian history of valuing the life and dignity of every human being becau...
Modern Views of Sexuality Are More Enlightened Than the Bible
October 16, 2022 23:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBEpisode Summary: In today’s episode we will discover that the modern “enlightened” view of sexuality actually undervalues sexuality and that it is, in fact, the Biblical view that upholds sex as a precious treasure. We examine four common messages about sexuality articulated and assumed by today’s social media and how the biblical view is richer and corresponds much more to reality. Questions for Guiding the Rising Generation to Think About this Material (I know that talking about sex is ...
The Modern Exaltation of the SELF
October 09, 2022 23:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBEpisode Summary: This episode examines the cultural drift that has been called, the rise and triumph of the modern SELF—the ideology that locates true human identity, meaning, purpose, fulfillment, freedom and authenticity in the autonomy of the human SELF. We examine how this destructive worldview harms those who embrace it, and how to help the rising generation see how much more sense the biblical worldview of identity, purpose, fulfillment, and authenticity makes. Questions for Guiding ...
Evidence Proves the Bible is NOT God’s Word
September 25, 2022 23:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBEpisode Summary: Suppose someone says to you, “The Bible is scientifically not believable, historically unreliable, and culturally regressive. I can’t believe it is God’s voice speaking to humans.” What would you say? This episode gives you some ideas. For Further Prayerful Thought: How would you argue that belief in the miracles of the Bible is not being unscientific? What to you are the most compelling arguments that we have historically accurate gospels of the story of Jesus’ life? In...
Science Has Disproved Christianity
September 18, 2022 23:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBEpisode Summary: Suppose someone says to you, “My scientific training makes it difficult if not impossible to accept the teachings of Christianity. As a believer in evolution, I can’t accept the Bible’s prescientific accounts of the origin of life.” This episode seeks to prepare you to know what to say in response that might cause him or her to doubt the assertion that science makes belief in God obsolete. For Further Prayerful Thought: Why would you say the view that science has made bel...
Preventing the Social Media from Catechizing Our Kids
September 11, 2022 23:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBEpisode Summary: God designed men to be the protectors of their homes. Genesis 2:15 reveals to us this God-designed role. The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. KEEP IT is the Hebrew word, SHAMAR, which means to protect the garden and those in it. In the NT, Paul builds on this idea, calling the men of the church at Corinth to, Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. We must NOT BE BLIND to the destructive ideas that come in...
Re-Energized to Pray as Jesus Did
September 04, 2022 23:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBEpisode Summary: One of the habits of Jesus that is often overlooked, but extremely powerful is his habit of regularly withdrawing to a secluded place to intercede for his loved ones. This episode investigates the biblical evidence for believing Satan cannot stand against prayer made in Jesus name for the growth of kingdom righteousness in our own hearts and over the earth. For Further Prayerful Thought: What are the obstacles you need to overcome in order to more consistently interced...
A Habit of Jesus We Often Miss
August 28, 2022 23:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBEpisode Summary: One of the habits of Jesus that is often overlooked, but extremely powerful is his habit of regularly withdrawing to a secluded place to review his mission with his heavenly Father. This episode considers why following Jesus’ example is so life-changing and gives practical suggestions for how to do it in our own lives. For Further Prayerful Thought: What insights have you gained from the example of Jesus coping with his Saturday night busyness by getting up Sunday morning ...
A Habit of Jesus We Often Miss
August 28, 2022 23:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBEpisode Summary: One of the habits of Jesus that is often overlooked, but extremely powerful is his habit of regularly withdrawing to a secluded place to review his mission with his heavenly Father. This episode considers why following Jesus’ example is so life-changing and gives practical suggestions for how to do it in our own lives. For Further Prayerful Thought: What insights have you gained from the example of Jesus coping with his Saturday night busyness by getting up Sunday morning ...
A Third Powerful Habit That Shapes Godly Men
August 21, 2022 23:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBEpisode Summary: This podcast looks to the end of the race Jesus has marked out for us and the longing to hear from the lips of our master, “Well Done. You have greatly honored me with your life.” This episode presents a powerful way to regularly strengthen our heart loyalty to our King. For Further Prayerful Thought: What would you say to a Christian who says tithing is legalistic? How would you summarize the biblical teaching about tithing? Which benefits of tithing stand out most t...
Two Habits that Shape a Godly Life
August 14, 2022 23:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBEpisode Summary: Jonathan Edwards, the brilliant American theologian and student of human behavior once said, “Every decision you make is determined by the strongest desire reigning in your heart at the time of the decision.” In other words, your heart shapes every decision you make. So, living a godly life is the result of our hearts wanting the right things. But those heart desires are shaped by the lens through which we see life. This episode examines first how to build the habit of hear...
Your Fathering Legacy
August 07, 2022 23:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBEpisode Summary: “How much thought have you given to your fathering legacy?” No matter what stage of life we are in, we are probably too busy doing what we need to get done this week to think much about something as nebulous and far away as my fathering legacy. Yet, whether you are on the front end of adulthood or adding great grandchildren to your tribe, it is worth considering how we can make the most strategic investment of ourselves to build a godly heritage because, God, himself, unders...
Failure: The Cost of Fighting Spiritual Battles Alone
July 31, 2022 23:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBEpisode Summary: All Christian men fight inner battles with their sinful nature. Lust, anger, selfishness, resentment, impatience, discontent, idolatry are just some of the forces that seek to overpower us as men. Many times we lose these battles for a simple reason—we are trying to fight them alone. But how do you find a few close friends to help you in your spiritual battles? You may not be able to find them; you may need to forge them. This episode shows how. Resource used in this episo...
A Sexual Partner to Love Well
July 24, 2022 23:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBEpisode Summary: No man walks down his wedding aisle expecting his marriage to fail. But many do, and most divorces are instigated by unhappy wives. This episode looks at what we can learn from God’s design of marriage that can help our current or future marriage thrive. For Further Prayerful Thought: What insight from this Genesis 2:18-25 stood out most to you? Why? Which part of the design for romance explained in this text do you think is the most understood? Which part of the design...
Reenergized for Today’s Spiritual Battles
July 17, 2022 23:00 - 26 minutes - 18.6 MBEpisode Summary: Christian author Rick Phillips writes, “To be a man is to stand up and be counted when there is danger or other evil. God does not desire for men to stand by idly and allow harm or permit wickedness to exert itself” (The Masculine Mandate). This episode examines the masculine calling to be fierce protectors and warriors and identifies two reasons men often fail to fight the battles God has designed them to fight. For Further Prayerful Thought What do you think is the bigg...
Don’t Waste Your Life
July 10, 2022 23:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBEpisode Summary: God created Adam with a heart that wants to accomplish a mission that matters. This episode takes a careful look at what this mission is and how it relates to our everyday motivation for living. We then consider some concrete questions you can use to better focus on the mission Christ has assigned you to accomplish in your everyday life. For Further Prayerful Thought How would you support the idea that men are made to impact the world around them through the Biblical tex...
A Man’s Powerful Need for Approval
July 03, 2022 23:00 - 24 minutes - 16.5 MBEpisode Summary: Today we begin a 6-week series entitled Understanding the Masculine Passions that Drive Us. In this series, we want to look at the good desires God created into the masculine heart, the way these desires have been corrupted, steering us in wrong ways to satisfy them, and how Christ can recover, renew, and restore those fallen desires into the godly man he wants you to be. This episode examines the power of a man’s need for approval. For Further Prayerful Thought What are...
Fatherly Love Knows How to Motivate Kids
June 26, 2022 23:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBEpisode Summary: God is a heavenly father who knows his children’s continual need for encouragement. This episode examines his example, why our kids need our fatherly encouragement, and some concrete ways to give that encouragement to them. For Further Prayerful Thought How would you support an argument to a friend that children need fathers who are master motivators? What stood out about how the two words Paul uses encourage—PARAMUTHIA and exhort—PARAKALEO differ? Why are both important...
Fatherly Love Teaches a Child the Way She Should Go
June 19, 2022 23:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBEpisode Summary: This June 19th episode, being both Juneteenth and Father’s Day gives us an opportunity first to consider the pain in the hearts of so many African Americans who live in our cities because of the increasing violence there and perhaps ponder what we can do to help decrease the fatherlessness that is at the root of the problems in our cities. It is also an opportunity to continue our June series, Loving Our Kids with the Fatherly Love of God, but examining the way God models te...
Fatherly Love Protects a Child from HIMSELF
June 12, 2022 23:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBEpisode Summary: Both Solomon, and later the author of the book of Hebrews appeal to the obvious creation principle that they assume everyone knew in their era, loving fathers don’t allow their children to persist in selfish, wrong behavior; they discipline their children out of love for them. In our own day, a weird time in history when cultural voices are denying what every other culture in history has affirmed—that there are differences between fathers and mothers—it seems necessary exami...