SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Our job as fathers is to build strong resiliant kids through our presence, process and prayer. We all want our kids to succeed, to avoid our mistakes and the consequences. How do we walk with our kids through struggles that will form their character, rather than save them from every little [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Godly discipline is: Heart-focused, Grace-based, and Future-minded. If you're going to be a great dad, you're going to have to provide structure, correction, guidance -- in other words, discipline. Your own experiences as a child shape your attitudes towards discipline as an adult. How do we provide discipline to our children [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Encouragement is the food of the heart, and every heart is a hungry heart. Every Christian dad wants to be a great dad. In this lesson we'll see how those good intentions sometimes go astray, but also how easy it is to be that great dad we all want to be. [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Communication will not resolve every conflict. But no conflict can be resolved without it. Life struggles can bring out the worst in marriage and dating relationships. Communication breaks down, feelings get hurt, and you just want to escape a painful situation. But in the worst of times, even when you don’t [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: I let you be you, and you let me be me. If you knew then what you know now, would you still get married? Some might say, no. But for the vast majority of us the answer is, yes. But we’d also like some help figuring out what to do about [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: If you don’t step up, she can’t come alongside. If you knew then what you know now, would you still get married? Some might say, no. But for the vast majority of us the answer is, yes. But we’d also like some help figuring out what to do about those “irreconcilable [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: If your priorities don’t determine your spending habits, your spending habits will determine your priorities. Money causes stress. When you don’t have a handle on your finances, it makes the rest of life more difficult. Most men have had trouble at some point falling asleep with thoughts of bills, debts, saving [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Few things reveal my true heart as much as money. It’s a challenge to discuss making money God’s way—not because the Bible says so little about it, but because it says so much. So where do we start? How does God Himself advise us to make money? And how do we [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Few things reveal my true heart as much as money. When I started out my life philosophy was, “Money will solve my problems, and success will make me happy.” But the opposite happened. Money created as many (maybe more) problems as it solved. And success made me miserable. Like all of [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Out: having “the talk.” In: an ongoing conversation about sex. For many of us, sex was taboo in the homes where we grew up. Not many of us had a parent give us “the talk.” For those who did, it was usually awkward. It may even have gone like this: “Son, [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: A husband needs to be loved physically so he can love emotionally, and a wife needs to be loved emotionally so she can love physically. As a man, is there anything you daydream about more than sex? Probably not. So why did God make us this way? Why do we even [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Sex is too dangerous to be played with and to sacred to be exploited. How do we treat sex the way God wants us to when we live in a sex-saturated and sex-perverted culture? Actually, the culture of the New Testament was not really all that different from ours. So how [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: I am free! I can quit the spiritual rat race and trust the Holy Spirit to make me more like Christ. “If I hear one more sermon about how there’s nothing I can do to earn my salvation…” Have you heard this before? Maybe thought it yourself? While we can all [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Even if I give up on God, God will never give up on me. You really do need a newer car, to restore your marriage, to get your children to understand what's at stake by their behavior, to make more money. You've prayed and prayed. You've tried to keep the faith. [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Am I where I’m supposed to be? Am I doing what needs to be done? Is this where I can do the most good? What did a lifelong criminal dying on a cross next to Jesus see that was so powerful he felt compelled to plead, "Jesus, remember me when You [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Suffering unjustly reminds us of Jesus’ pain & purpose. You might be feeling hopeless or desperate right now. Maybe your family is suffering, you've lost your job or a relationship you value is damaged inadvertently. Maybe there are things going on in the culture that are making you feel marginalized...or just [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: The hallmarks of a gospel shaped life are love and truth. In Paul’s letter to his protégé Timothy, he starts off the letter exhorting Timothy to have a talk with “certain people.” Who were those people? They were people who were adding something to the Gospel. The Gospel plus anything else [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Discipleship (food, water, friends) = Changed Life What is something you really want to change about your life, but haven't been able to? You already know this, but if you could have made that change on your own, it would have happened by now. On the other hand, we've all watched [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Accountability: To be regularly answerable to qualified people for each of the key areas of our lives. None of us ever planned to fail. So how do we get off track? What makes us stumble? And why do some of us even fall away? One of the biggest reasons is that [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: I will make it my ambition to live “one life, one way.” Most of us would be embarrassed if our families, friends, or colleagues knew what went on inside our heads. Here's the good news: You're not crazy. A secret thought life is normal. However, you can live your "invisible" life [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: I have far too much at stake to risk it by cutting any little corner anywhere, no matter how small, insignificant, or inconsequential it may at first appear. I want to be known for “scrupulous” integrity. What made men like Peter, Paul, David, Moses, Gideon, Samson, Jonah, and Job so different [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Suffering compels us to seek the God success makes us think we don’t need. What is making you suffer? Do you think God knows what you're going through? If He knows, does He care? If He knows and cares, can He do anything about it? And if He can, why doesn't [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Don’t “make” it happen, “let” it happen. Men want to be in charge--to call their own shots. And God has given us a lot of freedom. But freedom is not the same thing as autonomy. Yet we're all tempted to think we can be in control of our lives. It might [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: I pledge not to sin when I get angry, but openly confess I can't do it on my own. Studies show that 75 - 90% of all doctor's office visits are stress-related, and the most destructive form of stress is anger. Anger is not a sin--Jesus got angry, but anger can [...]
