Sat // Build :: Encouragement
Title: Be deliberate Encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today” – Hebrews 3:13a Today is all we have with those that we love. And the frequency of it can facilitate a mundane response. Do your wife, kids, and co-workers see you as someone who encourages them? Can they point to a moment […]
Fri // Steel :: Example
Title: Seek Him and seek others Set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. – 1 Timothy 4:12b Being a REAL man is not easy. Men of God are held to a high standard. We are responsible for making sure we seek God ourselves and THEN setting an […]
Thu // Warrior :: Battle
Title: Multiple battles For the battle is not yours, but God’s – 2 Chronicles 20:15c I was speaking with a friend this week, and we were catching up, and soon, the conversations went to a real level. We started talking about what was beating us up, and we soon realized it was many of the same […]
Wed // Grit :: Perseverance
Title: Sturdy Perseverance Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us… – Hebrews 12:1c Sometimes we don’t understand our trials or struggles at the moment, and sometimes we feel like failures. But as time goes by, we can reflect on those trials and see God’s work in them. It’s during times when we […]
Tue // Fuel :: Spirit
Title: Fuel Up So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. – Galatians 5:16 We all have our own personal Spiritual fuel tanks, and we pick and choose what goes in the fuel tank. We all know what happens if fuel (petrol) gets contaminated. It affects the entire performance […]
Mon // Surrender :: Pride
Title: Good Pride/Bad Pride “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall – Proverbs 16:18 We all have pride. Be sure not to label all pride as bad. There is good pride in good things (being proud of your kids, for example). The warning of pride here is the empty kind. A haughty spirit is a heart that is overinflated and infatuated with oneself. […]
Sun // Sacrifice :: Worship
Title: Just an Act Offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual act of worship. – Romans 12:1b Men act in all sorts of ways. We can act tough, strong, dependable, profitable…even spiritual. As men, it is easy to “act” spiritually. We might define it differently, but […]
Sat // Build :: Kingdom
Title: Mind Focus But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. – Matthew 6:33 Do you have seasons when the Lord feels like he is not present, and you give him no thought and do not put trust in him? I have had those […]
Fri // Steel :: Truth
Title: Truth is Reality Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. – John 8:32 What are the types of truth the Bible speaks of? Religious truth. This truth is about relationships with God and God’s relationship with us—moral truth, Concerned with right and wrong. Symbolic truth, much of the truth […]
Thu // Warrior :: Engage
Title: Prep Work Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Eph 6:10 When I get ready to go hunting, there is a great deal of prep work to plan ahead of the hunt. I need to gather my weapons, make sure they work right, and I need to have all the […]