Mission Focused Men for Christ

Episode 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 b...

Summary : 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...

Episode 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 Chris...

This 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 “...

Summary : 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 t...

Episode 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 lead...

Summary : 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...

Summary : 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 rebe...

Episode 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?  W...

Episode 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...

Episode 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 celebratin...

  Episode 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 reas...

Episode 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 d...

Episode 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 inv...

Episode 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 e...

Episode 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...

Episode 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 o...

Episode 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 ast...

Episode 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-cont...

Episode 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 t...

Episode 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...

Episode 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...

Episode 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 plunge...

Episode 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...

Episode 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 th...