Mission Focused Men for Christ

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 plunged to the point of asking God to take his life? How can the truth that nearly any objective that matters goes through the 3 steps of 1) beginning, 2) being resisted but persevered through, and then  3) success restore motivation when we are tired of the battle? What have you learn about how to prevent failure from demotivating you and failing forward instead?What would you say to a Christian who said, “the kingdom of darkness just keeps winning. It feels like there is just no point to trying to stop the inevitable slide of our country into evil?” Resource Used In the PodcastYou Don’t Have to Quit, Ray and Anne OrtlandRestoring Your Spiritual Passion, Gordon MacDonaldThe Success Journey, John MaxwellFor the printed version of this message click here.For a summary of topics addressed by podcast series, click here.For FREE downloadable studies on men’s issues click here.To make an online contribution to enable others to hear about the podcast: (Click link and scroll down to bottom left)

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 sources of pain you can think of that generate anger?How can the thought that God never wastes pain hep you overcome anger?Men's Bible Study on AngerFor the printed version of this message click here.For a summary of topics addressed by podcast series, click here.For FREE downloadable studies on men’s issues click here.To make an online contribution to enable others to hear about the podcast: (Click link and scroll down to bottom left)

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 the principle lived out that a leader’s influence with you is based on his care for you.Which aspects of building a caring relationship with a leader’s followers seems the hardest for you. What aspects of equipping or assisting your followers towards spiritual maturity stood out most to you? Why? Resource Used In the PodcastFocus Notebook: A Tool to Empower Christian Men to Accomplish Their Mission by Gary YagelFor the printed version of this message click here.For a summary of topics addressed by podcast series, click here.For FREE downloadable studies on men’s issues click here.To make an online contribution to enable others to hear about the podcast: (Click link and scroll down to bottom left)

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 or lines of the spiritual leadership diagram necessary for good leadership?What did you learn about the importance of staying focused on the objective of spiritual grow in your own life?Resource Used In the PodcastFocus Notebook: A Tool to Empower Christian Men to Accomplish Their Mission by Gary Yagel For the printed version of this message click here.For a summary of topics addressed by podcast series, click here.For FREE downloadable studies on men’s issues click here.To make an online contribution to enable others to hear about the podcast: (Click link and scroll down to bottom left)

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 arguments seemed most cogent to you. What thoughts do you have about winsomely persuading others that gender is binary?In refuting the premise that it is wrong to fail to AFFIRM one’s chosen gender identity BECAUSE IT VIOLATES THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS if you don’t, which arguments seemed most cogent to you? What do you think is the best way to persuade a coworker that transgender rights can’t violate women’s rights?In refuting the premise that it is wrong to fail to AFFIRM one’s chosen gender identity BECAUSE THEY WILL COMMIT SUICIDE IF YOU DON’T, which arguments seemed the most cogent to you? What is the most persuasive way to convince others that affirming care is harmful to children? Resources Used In the PodcastWhat Is Woman: One Man’s Journey to Ask the Question of a Generation, Matt Walsh.Anchoring Your Child to God’s Truth in a Gender-Confused Culture, Gary Yagel.Our Daughters and the Transgender Craze: Responding with Grace and Truth, Gary Yagel.Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, Abigail Shrier.What Would You Say, Colson Center Short Video series.  For the printed version of this message click here.For a summary of topics addressed by podcast series, click here.For FREE downloadable studies on men’s issues click here.To make an online contribution to enable others to hear about the podcast: (Click link and scroll down to bottom left)

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 family.  He has made us stewards of this great treasure—how male and female are designed to relate to one another. This episode examines this great treasure so that we can better share it with those whose view of gender is fractured.For Further Prayerful Thought. Egalitarians believe that since man and women are equal it is unfair for God to say that men only are to lead their homes and church homes. How does God’s description in Genesis 1 and 2 of his creation design of male and female to refute egalitarianism, (let alone the teaching of the New Testament)? What stood out to you about God’s design of masculinity? Are there some ways you can use your influence with boys or other men to steer them towards godly manhood?What stood out to you about God’s design of femininity? How do you see false worldviews undermining God’s glorious design?How can you affirm the godly femininity of the girls and women around you? Resources Used In the PodcastAnchoring Your Child to God’s Truth in a Gender-Confused Culture by Gary YagelThe Grand Design: Male and Female He Made Them by Owen Strachan amd Gavin Peacock.For the printed version of this message click here.For a summary of topics addressed by podcast series, click here.For FREE downloadable studies on men’s issues click here.To make an online contribution to enable others to hear about the podcast: (Click link and scroll down to bottom left)

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, and what to do about it.For Further Prayerful Thought.  How does God’s creation design of male and female differently seem to explain why husbands and wives have such different intimacy needs? When you think about a woman’s nurturing role, why does it make sense for God to make the male body so that the buildup of semen drives him into his wife’s arms where emotional needs he doesn’t even know he has are met? If you are married, what is the hardest part of meeting your wife’s need for emotional intimacy?Why does it make sense that listening well enough to my wife so that she wants to share her heart with me, makes her feel cherished?Resources Used In the PodcastIntimacy: God’s Design for Marriage--Three Conversational Dates to Rediscover Intimacy in Your Marriage, by Gary and Sandy Yagel (see the second page of our resources in our bookstore www.forgingbonds.org.)For the printed version of this message click here.For a summary of topics addressed by podcast series, click here.For FREE downloadable studies on men’s issues click here.To make an online contribution to enable others to hear about the podcast: (Click link and scroll down to bottom left)

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 statement, “compassion without truth can be dangerous.” How did Jesus seem to combine empathy with speaking truth? What stood out to you about the nature and origin of gender theory? Do you think Paul’s words in Ephesians 4:18-19 are a fair or unfair description of the founders of gender theory? These are: They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.How can we help our loved ones see that gender theory arose out of sexual brokenness, yet teach them not to employ the ad Hominem argument when promoting the biblical worldview of gender?Resources Used In the PodcastOur Daughters and the Transgender Craze: Responding with Grace and Truth, by Gary Yagel.What is a Woman: One Man’s Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation, by Matt Walsh.For the printed version of this message click here.For a summary of topics addressed by podcast series, click here.For FREE downloadable studies on men’s issues click here.To make an online contribution to enable others to hear about the podcast: (Click link and scroll down to bottom left)

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 understanding of our mission.  For Further Prayerful Thought. In your own words, how would you summarize the biblical view of secular work? How is a high view of creation connected to a high view of work?How would you answer the objection that the 4th commandment isn’t relevant for Christians?How would you explain to another that instead of a legalistic prohibition, the fourth commandment is an invitation to weekly renewal? How is the way that God rested a pattern for us to follow?How can Gordon MacDonald’s three principles of genuine rest, 1) looking backward, 2) sharpen our present truth perspective, and 3) looking forward to the upcoming mission for the week be a helpful pattern to you? Resources Used In the PodcastEvery Good Endeavor, Tim KellerHow Then Should We Work, Hugh WhelchelFor the printed version of this message click here.For a summary of topics addressed by podcast series, click here.For FREE downloadable studies on men’s issues click here.To make an online contribution to enable others to hear about the podcast: (Click link and scroll down to bottom left 

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 (1 Jn 5:13-14).John tells us that prayer is essentially a blank check, with one important caveat: We must prayer according to the will of God. This episode explores what it means to pray according to God’s will so that our prayers move the kingdom of righteousness forward and we know the joy of seeing God work.For Further Prayerful Thought. How does our mission to spread the righteous kingdom of Christ over the earth, discipling the nations relate to Jesus statement in Matt 8:26, “All authority on heaven and on earth has been given to me?”What do you think is the significance of Jesus telling us that our very first request in prayer is that God’s name be hallowed?In your own words what does it mean to pray, “May your kingdom come. May your will be done on earth as it is in heave”? How should Jesus’ promise, “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you” shape your prayer life?For the printed version of this message click here.For a summary of topics addressed by podcast series, click here.For FREE downloadable studies on men’s issues click here.To make an online contribution to enable others to hear about the podcast: (Click link and scroll down to bottom left)