SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: You only have two choices: live in the Word, or die in the world. If you’re like most men, there are areas of your life where you wish you were doing better. And yet we can go weeks, months, or even years without seeing any real improvement. The temptations and distractions [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: A life of integrity is built on: Hope in God, Holiness like God, Reverence for God In a world that’s getting weirder, it can be hard to find solid ground to stand on. How does a Christian build a life of integrity when the values and truth seem to be disintegrating? [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Be a thermostat, not a thermometer. While we probably have many different opinions about how we got into the current situation, we can probably all agree that the world is getting a little crazy. It’s a weird time to be a Christian. Yet as we’ll see in 1st Peter, it has [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: God literally pours His love into our hearts by His Spirit—do you feel it? You’ve adopted the six habits of spiritually happy men—the regular study of God’s Word, a small group, serving someone, praying with and for your wife, tithing, and part of a church. Then here comes your next “situation.” [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Good men rely on their goodness; Godly men rely on Jesus Most men are basically trying to live a decent life. They want to be good husbands, want to have a good career, want their kids to turn out well. But sometimes trying to be good feels like it sucks the [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Don’t be estranged from your Father because a few siblings let you down. Most of us have heard someone say, and many of us have said ourselves, “I know I should be more committed, but I just don’t feel challenged and inspired by church. Besides, I’m getting everything I need in [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Have you ever known a spiritually unhappy man who tithes? Every “on fire” Christian would love to be tithing. We all know men who are, and we’d love to be more like them—if for no other reason than to be as spiritually happy as they are. But how? Is generosity something [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Praying with my wife brings the Greatest Power in the universe into my most important earthly relationship. Prayer is powerful. It puts us in a conversation with the perfect Father who loves you more than anyone ever could, and has more power than anyone you could ever know. So it makes [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: You need to have a deep, intentional, spiritual impact in one person’s life. (You’ll love it and God gets the glory.) We live in a culture that relentlessly pushes us to think about ourselves. Look out for #1. What do you need to be happy? How about this new car, new [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: The Rat Race is the conflict between who I am created to be and who I am tempted to be. The proverbial questions of the rat race--"What's it all about?" and "Is this all there is?"--have tortured us all at one time or another. So let's kick off this new series [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: Your life will never change in any significant way apart from the regular study of God’s Word. What differentiates joyful men from the rest of the pack? In this new series, we’re going to explore six foolproof habits that set genuinely happy men apart from men who feel like lasting happiness [...]
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: I will feel fully alive when I truly believe God gave me this work for a reason. We are made for tasks—to work, to serve, to contribute, to add to the greater good. But if you’re not happy in your work, you’re probably not happy anywhere. So, what if you don’t [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: We glorify God in work when, in spite of brokenness and sin, we reflect His image to the world. Work can bring some of the highest highs and also the lowest lows. Closing the deal, finishing the project, meeting the sales goal -- the feeling is amazing. Having a project go [...]
SynopsisTranscriptDownloadsSynopsis The Big Idea: My work is not just a platform for ministry, it is ministry. Half of your waking hours revolve around work. Yet most of us have not been trained on how to live out our faith in the workplace. In this first of three lessons on the subject, we’re going to focus [...]
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, [...]
