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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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.
Dec 29, 2019 • 21min
The Foundational Requirement for Kingdom Living
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 paradox is that those who recognize their spiritual poverty are those who become spiritually rich. How does this work in the everyday life of believers? That is what this episode examines.
Dec 23, 2019 • 21min
Without Understanding Christ's Kingdom, You Can't Understand Your Mission
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!
Dec 16, 2019 • 20min
Better Understanding Our Mission Because We Better Understand Our Master
Dec 8, 2019 • 20min
Our Mission Matters Because of Who Is Sending Us
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 popular book, Got Your Back: Helping Men Forge the Brotherhood Connections They Need and here for the link to Gary's Website.
Dec 2, 2019 • 20min
Called to Godly Manhood In a Gender-Confused Culture
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 reasons we need to show the world, how Christ can empower us to be Christ-like MEN, and then lays out 4 characteristics of manhood as God designed it to be. In a culture in which the #MeToo movement has identified the prevalence of toxic masculinity (self-centered and abusive) we have an unprecedented opportunity to take the message to our culture that Christ is the only one who can fix broken, selfish manhood.
Nov 25, 2019 • 18min
How Jesus Coped With a Crazy Busy Life
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.
