Often, men work hard to expand their exterior life, but not their interior life. They grow like a pyramid and then things happen to them that they can’t withstand and they topple over. Eugene Peterson wrote a forward to the book Water My Soul, which is about expanding your interior life. The Lie: There is nothing worth giving yourself for. The Truth: You were born to live a life of consequence. The Question: What kind of life are you choosing…
(Discussion Notes Below) The Shadow of Futility The Lie: My work doesn’t matter. The Truth: You have a kingdom assignment. If you were a room full of pilots, you would fall into two distinct groups. Those who are launching their planes and those who are on final approach or landing. In both cases, you already have flight plans. It is not our intent here at Iron Leadership to make you feel guilty over the flight plans you have already submitted….
(Discussion Notes Below) The topic today is the Shadow of Futility. The lie: my work doesn’t matter. The truth: you have a calling to serve and heal the world. 1. The Sacredness of Work: Rule and Reign Work is not a 4-letter word! What’s the first thing the Bible talks about? “In the beginning God.” What’s the second thing the Bible talked about? “In the beginning God created.” God is a worker, so if we are made in his image…
(Discussion Notes Below) The Lie: Ambition is the fuel for personal success The Truth: Ambition is a gift for Kingdom impact Ambition: a working definition, “A strong desire which leads to a willingness to overcome and fight through obstacles, to achieve a desired outcome.” Review: 1. Ambition is a good thing. God gives us ambitious assignments. Genesis 3 – we are called to rule and reign. Matthew 28 – we are called to go to the whole world and make…
(Discussion Notes Below) Today’s topic is ambition. The lie is that ambition is the fuel for personal success. The truth is that ambition is a gift for Kingdom impact. Ambition: a working definition – “A strong desire which leads to a willingness to overcome and fight through obstacles – to achieve a desired outcome.” Ambition is a good thing. God’s mandates are very ambitious! Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them…
(Discussion notes below) Good morning – if you’re visiting or you go to another church – my name is Matt McFarling – assistant pastor here at CCC. Paul asked me to pick up this meeting where we left off last meeting – the topic of Lust – pt. 2. Our discussions are based on Fighting Shadows, and the chapter on Lust is chapter 5. I don’t know if Paul knew this about me when he asked me, but this discussion…
The lie is that I am a slave to my sexual desire. The truth is that faithfulness is a key to my formation. Lack of sexual control is not a new problem. Proverbs 7:21-27 and Proverbs 6:32 tell us this. We see this self-destruction in the Bible. David, the man after God’s own heart, self-destructs. In 1 Samuel 11, David was alone with no accountability. Then he saw Bathsheba, he inquired about her, he sent for her, he took her….
(Audio transcription below) Last time I mentioned that the very first thing in the Bible that is said to be “not good” is loneliness. Genesis 2:18 says “it’s not good that man should be alone.” The lie is that loneliness is part of being a man. The truth is that friendship is a superpower. When you’re in a war, you go through a lot of intense things in a short period of time and create friendships that you wouldn’t create…
(Audio transcription below) Because we are separated from God, what was right now seems wrong. The deceptive thing about sin is that you can’t see it clearly. We see a problem and so often misdiagnose the solution. We lie to ourselves more than we lie to anybody else. We deceive ourselves. Our topic this week and next week is loneliness. The lie we believe is that loneliness is part of being a man. It’s almost like a badge. I can…
(Audio Transcript Below) I don’t know why this is, but dogs can feel shame. We’ll talk about five signals of shame and this dog has picked up on one, blame shifting! One signal that shame is operational in your life is if you’re blame shifting. The book talks about shame this way: the lie that we buy into is, “I need to do everything possible to prevent people from seeing my failures and weakness.” So we walk in here this…