Fri // Steel :: Passion
Title: Give it All Love the LORD with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. – Deut. 6:5 Even though the verse seems like a straightforward commandment, it tells me a couple of things. I see the word “all” before heart, soul, and strength, and it jumps off the […]
Thu // Warrior :: Defend
Title: Represent God’s Character “Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.” – Psalm 82:3 The saying, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” comes to mind upon studying the above verse, especially in its context. God is […]
Wed // Grit:: Resolve
Title: When We Serve As for me and my household, we will serve the LORD. – Joshua 24:15 When I was a little boy, I loved to work on cars with my dad. My contributions at first were no more than fetching tools and cold drinks for him. As I grew into my teenage years, […]
Tue // Fuel :: Wisdom
Title: What Wisdom Provides Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse. – Proverbs 2:12 Wisdom, as Christian men in our faith walk and everyday life to be true to the word, we must understand the Wisdom of God’s word. Remembering the Bible verses is good, but […]
Mon // Surrender :: Idols
Title: Real Relationship Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them. – Jonah 2:8 Idols get in the way of our relationship with God. Idols often times are often used to try and fill a void in our lives. God is jealous, but for a good reason. God does not want to share our hearts with any idol, not because he […]
Sun // Sacrifice :: Exalt
Title: Valuable lesson For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted. – Matthew 23:12 This verse reminds me of a Little League all-star game I saw back in the ’80s. A good friend of mine was having a pretty good at-bat against a tough pitcher. The count was in […]
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 […]