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Nurture Your Children

Nurture Your Children

(Audio transcription below) Today we’re going to talk about our connection to our children. If you don’t have any children, or even if you do, I think there are a lot of parallels here just as leaders leading other people. If there’s anybody in your down line at your business, there’s a lot of overlay here, how you as a boss work with employees or how you as a dad are with your sons and daughters. I’m going to use…

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Sharks in the Water

Sharks in the Water

Leadership takes real courage. So often you are ready to jump into your next leadership challenge and immediately encounter resistance! You certainly need to use wisdom on when to jump into your next challenge, but there will always be threats. Err on the side of courage, not fear!  Randy Alcorn offers a good reminder about our work Roger Whitney hosts an excellent podcast on all things retirement. If you are over 55, this will help you. If you are younger,…

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Marriage

Marriage

This week our focus will be on marriage. As the video above reminds us, it can be quite a challenge for most men, because we are wired to fix things. Below is some helpful information that you can read or watch. Growing in your marriage is one of the most important investments you can make. Look forward to talking more about this Friday!  Paul Tripp: Your Biggest Problem in Marriage The Secret to a Good Marriage John Piper sermon for…

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Priority and Focus

Priority and Focus

For some of you, this is the most important information I could share with you. It has to do with your priorities, the ability to make your priorities your focus and leave everything else to someone else. This is an area of struggle for me. I can talk myself into having too many priorities and cave into the urgent rather than staying focused on what is important.  Here are three resources I have found helpful. You may benefit from them…

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3/22/24: Friendship in the Book of Proverbs

3/22/24: Friendship in the Book of Proverbs

Only 4 months to train for the July 2024 Summer Olympics. You are all going to watch some part: track and field, basketball, rowing, swimming. Right now, the athletes who plan to compete in those games are on a training schedule which will land them in the best shape of their lives so they can compete for a gold medal. Perhaps one area you need to really work on is today’s topic…friendship. In my opinion, the best movie about friendship…

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Legacy

Legacy

Legacy is defined as the long lasting impact of a person’s life. In our last meeting together, we discussed the importance of our impact on the lives around us and the kind of long lasting legacy we are leaving behind. Several of you responded with how helpful the discussion was, so I thought I would send a few more resources to stir your thinking and efforts.  Two interviews with Gordon MacDonald.  Gordon has a pastor’s perspective and offers eight decades…

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3/8/24: Consider Your Legacy

3/8/24: Consider Your Legacy

(audio transcription below) Only 4 months to train for the July 2024 Summer Olympics. You are all going to watch some part: track and field, basketball, rowing, swimming. Right now, the athletes who plan to compete in those games are on a training schedule which will land them in the best shape of their lives so they can compete for a gold medal. Most of us have a picture like this either hanging on a wall in our house or…

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Sailing, Drifting or Sinking

Sailing, Drifting or Sinking

How would you describe your spiritual life right now? Are you sailing? Are you drifting? Are you sinking? I am in a sermon series on the book of Hebrews, where one of the writer’s purposes was to encourage those following Jesus to “run with endurance the race that is set before us.” In order to do so, we must “fix our eyes on Jesus.” (Hebrews 12: 1-2) The author knows that if we don’t fix our eyes on Jesus, it…

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2/23/24: Control Your Sexuality

2/23/24: Control Your Sexuality

Only 5 months to train for the July 2024 Summer Olympics. You are all going to watch some part: track and field, basketball, rowing, swimming. Right now, the athletes who plan to compete in those games are on a training schedule which will land them in the best shape of their lives so they can compete for a gold medal. Perhaps one area you need to really work on is to control your sexuality, because it has the capacity to…

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Porn

Porn

If I could change one thing about our culture that would produce significant change within our culture, it would be to supply every family with a Jesus-loving and Jesus-following father.  If I could eliminate one thing that has crippled men from becoming Jesus-loving and Jesus-following fathers, it would be sexual immorality, specifically pornography. Tim Challies tackles this topic in his book Run to Win, because he knows what we all know: a lack of control over sexual appetites is soul…

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