Mission Focused Men for Christ
Gary Yagel
This 20-minute weekly podcast is for Christian men who want to hear, “Well done,” from Jesus, after running the race marked out for them. Its goals are to: 1) EQUIP men to better understand from Scripture their mission, 2) ENCOURAGE men because we fail often, 3) ENERGIZE men because our spiritual tank is often on "empty," 4) EMPOWER men to stay focused on honoring Christ with their lives. The podcast presenter, Dr. Gary Yagel, is known for his practical biblical teaching and encouraging heart. A former church planter in the Presbyterian Church in America, Gary is the founder and Executive Director of Forging Bonds of Brotherhood. He is the author of Got Your Back, and Anchoring Your Child to God's Truth in a Gender-Confused Culture, (available on Amazon) and has taught Making Missional Disciples as a guest professor at Reformed Theological Seminary DC. For further information about Gary’s ministry, go to forgingbonds.org or gotyourback.info.
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Mar 8, 2020 • 20min
Maximizing Your Influence for Christ With Your Coworkers
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 about staying focused on those Christ puts on our hearts. It is then being interested listeners, being winsome, expressing care for others, and being real about our struggles with our faith.
Mar 1, 2020 • 21min
Overcoming the Impact of the Fall On Our Work
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 impacted our work and what to do about it, so that we stay motivated at our everyday jobs.
Feb 23, 2020 • 21min
How Understanding Christ's Call to the Workplace Adds Meaning to Work
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 to the Workplace Adds Motivation to Our Work.
Feb 16, 2020 • 21min
Protect Your Heart From the Enticement of Sexual Sin
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 hearts from the enticement of sexual sin, if we want to avoid falling into it.
Feb 9, 2020 • 20min
Directing Our Heart Passions to Defeat Lust
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 against the attacks of lust.
Feb 2, 2020 • 19min
Sharpening Our Understanding of Sin’s Corruption of Sex
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 our broken sexual desires through the power of Christ in us
Jan 26, 2020 • 20min
Understanding Our Sex Drive Helps Us Fight for Purity
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 effectively.
Jan 19, 2020 • 20min
The Right Kind of Ambition
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 ambition that is to preoccupy Christ-followers is conforming our lives in every way to God’s moral law, not to get God to love us more but because he already loves us unconditionally. That hunger and thirst for rightness is to spill over to the world around us, where we must devote ourselves to opposing wrong treatment towards all human beings since they are made in the image of God
Jan 12, 2020 • 20min
Meekness: A Widely Misunderstood Requirement of Christ-followers
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 control.” It is the key to overcoming anger and worry. It is also the heart attitude that God honors by pouring out blessings upon us in this life—for they shall inherit the earth.
Jan 6, 2020 • 22min
Cultivating a Heart Like Jesus Had
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 and life. This episode explains this kind of mourning and gives the perspective required to forge this attitude.
