Mike | January 29, 2008
At the age of 28, God transformed my life. And at that time I didn’t really have a day-to-day picture of what a godly man looked like. I was fortunate to have two very godly men who provided examples when I was younger – too bad I didn’t listen to them back then. Both Grandpa [...]
Mike | February 1, 2007
In our current culture I don’t think we necessarily have what may be referred to as a rite of passage for our young men. Do we have a process. . .a set of actions. . .an event that declares to our sons that they will now be expected to take on the responsibilities as [...]
Mike | January 6, 2007
I’ve been reading through a book I have come to find both intriguing and challenging. It’s Paul Coughlin’s No More Christian Nice Guy. In it Coughlin posits the idea that our culture and our churches are creating “Christian Nice Guys” and in doing so are damaging our families, our boys, our men, and [...]
Mike | December 19, 2006
Ever wondered what it must have been like for Joseph, Mary’s husband? Here’s a guy who is betrothed to a young girl. Now the concept of betrothal does not exist in our 21st Century American culture. For Joseph, Mary, their families, and the Jewish leaders (remember the church and civic leaders were [...]
Mike | November 29, 2006
Had an interesting conversation with my friend Alex Monday night at Starbucks. We were talking about fears – Alex gave me a great book by pastor and author Bill Perkins called Six Battles Every Man Must Win. In it Perkins addresses the issue of fear (I will write more about this later). [...]
Mike | November 24, 2006
One of the things that keeps us from being the men that God designed and desires us to be is FEAR. Fear of failure, fear of loosing control, fear of what others will think of us, fear of the unknown, fear of . .you name it.
Fear in and of itself is not bad. [...]
Mike | November 11, 2006
To help men become the men God designed and desires them to be I will, on occasion, invite others to provide some input. This post comes from my pastor, Ed Litton. He wrote this on his blog on Monday, October 23. He has given me permission to re-post it here.
Manliness
In his book, [...]
Mike | November 10, 2006
If you’ve been following the progression of things you know that to become the man that God designed and desires us to be we must begin with RELATIONSHIP, move to LORDSHIP (this is where God’s in charge of everything in my life. . .and yours), progress to WORSHIP (where we have an undying passion for [...]
Mike | November 9, 2006
Ok men. We know the process to becoming the men God designed and desires us to be begins with a RELATIONSHIP then moves to LORDSHIP. So where do we go from here? Glad you asked. We now move to WORSHIP. That’s right, worship. It’s about having a passion [...]
Mike | November 9, 2006
Now that we’ve established that the first step in the process of becoming the men God designed and desires us to be is RELATIONSHIP – a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Let’s move to the second step in the process – LORDSHIP.
Now, Lordship doesn’t mean evil, tyrannical dictator striking down all who [...]