Mission Focused Men for Christ

This episode continues to consider very real spiritual battles that we men have to fight every day. When I look at the words Paul used to describe our opponents, cosmic powers over this present darkness, the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms, this stark reality brings fear to my heart. This sobering truth helps explain why Christians aren’t more sanctified and having more influence i...

Have you ever considered that in only the third chapter of the whole Bible, human beings are taught that we have a spiritual enemy who hates us and constantly seeks to lead us down a path to destruction—i.e. rebellion against God. In fact, we don’t have just one spiritual enemy but a whole host of them! Paul writes, For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the...

Episode Summary : The resurrection reminds us that the gospel is not just about our personal, private salvation and growth in holiness (which is called the two-chapter gospel.) Such a gospel leads to separating from the lost, forgetting their inherent value as those created in God’s image, and devaluing the contributions they make to our culture. In contrast, the resurrection of Christ’s physical...

This episode begins a series, entitled, “Stable Leadership In Uncertain Times.”  Effective leaders understand the big-picture perspective of their mission, so that they can prevent their followers from being overwhelmed by discouraging setbacks or temporary road blocks, but, instead, stay motivated to pursue their mission. To be the best spiritual leaders we can, this episode’s goal is to help us...

In times of trial like our current coronavirus pandemic, one of the truths that most strengthens me is not just God’s sovereignty but God’s compassion towards those who suffer. Though my mind may not be able to grasp the reason for God allowing this pandemic, my brain can grasp the overwhelming proof of God’s compassionate nature in Scripture . This episode zooms in to view that evidence and in so...

This episode helps men take steps to accomplish the top priority of their mission—loving God well. By strengthening our love relationship with Christ, we become the man of spiritual strength that those around us can lean on. Our love for God grows the more we get to know him—and so we look today at one of God’s attributes called, God’s MAJESTY . This perfection of God reminds us that he is the Hig...

In this episode, we consider ways to lead our homes well during this Corona virus crisis. It begins with caring for the emotional needs of our wives by helping them process their feelings, strongly partnering with them to address our children’s fears, the extra pressures of having the kids home all day, and the opportunity to love our others well during the crisis, especially the elderly. Leadersh...

This episode continues the series, entitled, Making a Difference for Christ In the Workplace. It seeks to destroy the myth that sharing our faith means violating our relationships with non-Christians. To the contrary, it is being as winsome as possible in order to win the right to be heard. We do that first by changing our FOCUS--praying for a Christ-like heart for the lost and being intentional a...

This episode continues the series, entitled, Making a Difference for Christ In the Workplace. Since our podcast focus is on our mission as Christ-followers, and men spend the vast majority of their awake time at work and commuting to and from work , we must clearly understand how Christ wants us to see our mission in the workplace. This episode examines three ways that our race’s fall into sin has...

This episode begins a new series, entitled, Making a Difference for Christ In the Workplace. Since our podcast focus is on our mission as Christ-followers, and men spend the vast majority of their awake time at work and commuting to and from work , we must clearly understand how Christ wants us to see our mission in the workplace. This episode, examines four ways that understanding Christ’s Call t...

Summary: This is the final episode in a four-part series, “Ruling Over Our Sexuality for God’s Glory,” in which we view male sexual desire through the biblical lens of creation , fall , redemption/restoration . This episode is rooted in the profound wisdom of Proverbs 4: 23 Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life. We examine five ways we need to protect our h...

This episode is the third in a four-part series, “Ruling Over Our Sexuality for God’s Glory,” in which we view male sexual desire through the biblical lens of creation , fall , redemption/restoration . In this episode we begin to look at how Christ sets us free from slavery to lust. A good starting point is preemptively directing our heart into three particular channels that will strengthen us aga...

This episode is the second in a four-part series, “Ruling Over Our Sexuality for God’s Glory,” in which we view male sexual desire through the biblical lens of creation , fall , redemption/restoration . This episode takes a close look at the way that sin has corrupted God’s glorious design of sex not only so we can recognize that corruption in our own hearts but also to know how God wants to fix o...

This message is the first in a four-part series, “Ruling Over Our Sexuality for God’s Glory,” in which we view male sexual desire through the biblical lens of creation , fall , redemption/restoration . This episode explores the nature of God’s gift to us of a strong sex drive, so that we can celebrate it and fight to rule it for Christ. Better understanding our sex drive helps us battle lust more...

Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount is a picture of humanity the way God designed it to be. Jesus begins this message with a portrait of eight inner attitudes that portray the attitudes that reign in our hearts when he sets us free from slavery to sin. This message explains the meaning of the fourth beatitude, Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied . The ambit...

Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount is a picture of humanity the way God designed it to be. Jesus begins this message with a portrait of eight inner attitudes that portray the attitudes that reign in our hearts when he sets us free from slavery to sin. The third attitude, covered in this episode, is perhaps the most misunderstood of the Christ-like attitudes, meekness . The true meaning is “power under con...

Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount is a picture of humanity the way God designed it to be. Jesus begins this message with a portrait of eight inner attitudes that portray the attitudes that reign in our hearts when he sets us free from slavery to sin. The second attitude is mourning . But is Jesus saying that suffering is a good thing? Not at all. But there is a kind of mourning that leads to well being a...

Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount is a picture of humanity the way God designed it to be. Jesus begins this message with a portrait of eight inner attitudes that portray the attitudes that reign in our hearts when he sets us free from slavery to sin. The first is being poor in spirit. It is the key to receiving kingdom blessing throughout all of life, not just the requirement for salvation. The great par...

Christmas celebrates the coming of Jesus to establish his Messianic Kingdom. The nature of that kingdom was not understood in his day, and it is often not understood by Christians in our day.  Yet, Jesus told us that the top priority of our lives is to be seeking his kingdom. This episode explains the nature of that kingdom, so we can seek it!

When we ponder who our mission is FOR , it energizes us. Christ is the one who personally calls our name with a mission for us as our creator , designer , master , king , and redeemer . We further saw that our mission is FOR Christ, in that HE is the one who is loved , pleased , honored , and glorified when we are faithful to the mission he gave us. Click here for a link to Gary's most popula...

This is episode #4 in a 6-part series explaining why the podcast can be so beneficial to Christian men. After the podcast launch of episode #1, Who Is This Podcast For? , we began to look at each word in the podcast title. We saw that men are made for MISSION . Then last week we looked at the importance of Staying FOCUSED on that mission. This episode calls Christian men to consider two important...

Busyness can mask the erosion of your soul, devour your time on unimportant things, and lead to wasting the opportunity you have to honor Christ with your life.  This episode looks at Jesus and what we can learn from him about escaping the destruction of busyness and staying focused on the mission the Father had given him.

Jesus' mission for you is worth every ounce of devotion you can offer to him. But often men's passion to follow Christ remains cold, especially when we haven't really understood what that mission is. This podcast explains that mission.

This episode explains that Mission Focused Men for Christ is for Christian men who don’t want to fail at the mission assigned to them by their Lord and realize that it is hard to succeed in a mission when you have only a vague, fuzzy picture of what that mission is, and aren’t really thinking much about that mission during the week.  This episode observes that when you summarize the biblical teach...