Every Man Ministries

Ever heard the expression "fair weather fan"?   It describes someone who will passionately follow a sports team but only when they are winning.  One minute they are all in, high-fiving, jersey wearing, evangelists for their team.  Then the season's "weather changes."  Winning ways are replaced by the "struggle bus" and everyone connected to the team is on it.   Discontentment and dissatisfaction s...

A police officer typically starts their shift with a briefing or roll call.  It is designed to take roll, pass along critical information, and provide relevant training. Motivated officers hurry out of briefing and quickly advise dispatch they are "10-8", which is the radio code for "in service".  The lazier officers hang around the station, trying to delay the time before going 10-8.  You see, on...

We live in a world where we are surrounded by people in need.  Just about everyone you come in contact with today needs something.  Some of those needs are obvious, but others we are AFRAID to ask.  We are AFRAID to ask, "how can I help."  I am sure I don't have what they need, and if I do, I don't want to give it away. So, I carefully manage my interactions.  I protect myself from entering that s...

FACT:  Sacrifice cements friendships.  Risk nothing in your relationships, receive nothing from them.  It’s easier to play it safe versus go deep.  It’s easier to do activities together than to practice transparency.  It’s easier to be a fan of someone else than a true friend.  It’s easier to laugh off mistakes than to address them.    LOVING STRONG involves risking strong in any relationship.  Co...

The famous mathematician/philosopher Pascal once said, "There are two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."  His point?  The two different kinds of thinking lead to two different lives and sets of relationships with others.  One man can connect with everybody.  The other selectively connects with people like him.  One man avoids certa...

It's called a "game changer."  It is an event, idea, or experience that rocks your world in a positive (or negative) way to the point where you permanently shift the way you go about doing or thinking about something.  Think about it.  You discover a new power tool that transforms a potential five hour project into a one hour breeze.  There is no way you are going back to the old way of doing it....

Every man knows that if he is not doing relationships right, he is not doing life right.   Think about it.  If marriage, family, or close relationships that MATTER to you are not good ...you are not good!  In fact, we get frustrated with ourselves, mad at ourselves, and then sad over repeated relationship mistakes.  Been there?  To boot, piling on and tempting us in these moments is the Devil who...

Human beings are a complex ball of unfulfilled needs, wants, desires, longings and hopes.  Magnifying our dilemmas is the fact that life, others, bosses, spouses, friends, or unplanned circumstances get in the way (how dare they) of us seeing all those needs, wants, desires, longings and hopes being met or realized.   What to do - what to do!  Do the ends justify the means?  Do  we want things bad...

Men love the idea of "iron sharpens iron so one man sharpens another" but when the sharpening stone is pressed against their personal behavior the real battle begins. Men love competition but they do not like confrontation. No man likes to be told that the way they are believing and behaving is wrong and yet every man, the Bible says, requires loving confrontation. A buddy who is married is clearl...

Darkness and light surround our daily lives.  Light pierces darkness.  Light illuminates the mysterious.  Light provides safety.  Light is hope.  Darkness and light also surround and shape our spiritual well-being.  God's man is called to avoid one and engage the other.  Sin is darkness.  Righteousness is light.  The Bible says that God is light and advises God's man to "walk in the light."  Jesus...

Certain people in our lives change the environment the second they appear. Maybe it is a a brother or sister, an aunt or uncle, or a close who friend who you say that they “light up a room” or they are the “life of the party.” Things get better when they are in the mix. The Bible says that God’s man is strategically placed by God and “in the mix” of relationships or situations to make them better...