Mission Focused Men for Christ

Episode 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...

Episode 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 arg...

Episode 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 fami...

Episode 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, a...

Episode 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 s...

Episode 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...

Episode 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...

Episode 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 popul...

Episode 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 “w...

Episode 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 y...

Episode 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 t...

Episode 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 T...

Episode 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, encour...

Episode 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 t...

Episode 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 a...

Episode 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 ur...

Episode Summary . The rising generation of Christians is rightly concerned about the link between Christianity and the oppression of racism. The problem is that many ideologies claiming to overthrow oppression are based upon destructive, anti-biblical worldviews. As the leaders of our homes and churches, how can we guide those under our care to oppose racism passionately , but be discerning enough...

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 the old-fashioned, closed-minded, bigoted Christian faith they grew up be...

Episode 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 i...

Episode 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 mos...

Episode 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 fo...

Episode 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 bib...

Episode Summary : Suppose someone says to you, “There Can’t Be Just One True Religion.” What would you say to prepare your children or grandchildren, when they leave home, to be able to respond to this critique? This episode gives you some ideas. For Further Prayerful Thought : How would you refute each of the four assertions that comprise the argument that there can’t be just one religion? Why mi...

Episode 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 c...

Episode 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...