Hockey goaltenders will put so much time, energy, effort, discipline and hard work into the one purpose of guarding the hockey net from a little black puck from entering it, and yet we as men can sometimes put no effort into guarding our hearts. We allow anything, anyone and everything from this world into our hearts, without even considering the consequences and destruction this will bring into our lives. We are called by God to guard our hearts above all else! 🎤 INTERESTED in having me...

Most men in our world seek after fame, money, strength, sexual pleasure, career, material things, and whatever pleases their flesh. As men of God, our pursuit above all else should be to seek after God. Our hearts desire should be to know Him more, to honor Him more, to hear His voice and to follow His direction. He promises us that if we seek Him with all of our hearts, we will find Him. 🎤 INTERESTED in having me come speak at your church, men's meeting, conference or event? I would be...

There are times when every man will need a NEW beginning. Situations we are dealing with that seem to go on forever, circumstances that seem to never change, seasons that are so old and you feel SO done with it. We need a NEW beginning, a NEW start, a clean slate! God loves NEW beginnings! He loves to take the old, dying, unsatisfying and negative things in our lives, and make them NEW. If you are at the end of something, keep moving forward in faith, into all of the NEW things God has in...

Sometimes life can get so hard, that we feel like giving up. We don't see anything changing for the better. We don't see any results from our hard work. We don't sense God's presence with us. We are tired, discouraged, and completely exhausted from the fight. But gentlemen, giving up is NOT an option! We must keep going! We must keep fighting in faith. We must hold on! Jesus will provide for you ALL that you need right now. You will reap a harvest for all that you have sown, if you do...

Fear, embarrassment, and shame will cause even the strongest man to feel like getting alone and hiding away from everyone and everything. Sometimes having some alone time is good and needed, but we need to understand that we can only hide from people, responsibilities, shame and fear temporarily. Eventually we need to face these things, or it will simply expose us in time. But when it comes to God, we can NEVER hide anything from Him. He sees all, knows all and understand all. If you are a...

God is made up of three Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. There is only one God, but three persons who work together in the hearts and lives of people. As followers of Jesus, we have been given the Holy Spirit to us and He lives inside of us faithfully leading us, teaching us, speaking to us, comforting us, convicting us, helping us and showing us things to come in our futures. In a world, so perverted and selfish, where most men rely on themselves, we must be men who fully...

Most people in our world will only believe something if they can see it with their eyes. As Christians, we live our life by faith in God, who we do not see with our eyes. We trust Him with our hearts. We trust Him at His word and in His promises. Often times in our lives, we will face different situations that will really test us in our faith. We will struggle to believe God because we don't see anything around us that makes us "feel" like God is with us and working things out for us. This...

Some say that "real men" don't cry. I say that "real men" can cry and be confident that God understands their cry. We all face times where our emotions will bring tears to our eyes. There are tears of joy, and there are tears of sorrow and pain, and we will all experience both of these cries. We can find encouragement from the Bible, which shows us that Jesus hears and responds to the tears of sorrow that we cry. I hope you are encouraged by today's episode. 🎤 INTERESTED in having me come...

When a man is all in for Jesus, he will suffer for it. Following Jesus is a war zone, it is absolutely not a walk in the park. Jesus told us that if we want to follow Him, we must deny ourselves every day, pick up our cross and follow Him. Every day we must be focused and determined to be all in for following Jesus and not ourselves. When suffering comes, you will be tempted to quit and no longer follow Jesus. You must be strong, every moment of every day. For us to do this, we need the...

As Christian men, we have an assurance of our eternal future after we die. We know, according to the Bible, that when we die we are immediately with Jesus in heaven. Christian's never have to fear death because of our hope in Jesus. But while we live on this earth, in our human bodies, we will all face fears of our futures. We will question what is coming down the pipeline of our lives. When will I die? How will I die? Will I get sick? Will somebody I love get sick or die? What job am...

I am currently in a season of massive transition. God is shifting many things in my life for my wife and I, along with our teenage kids. Because of this transition, I have been feeling worn out in every way, as well as completely out of sorts. But despite feeling this way, I continue to move forward through this uncomfortable transition, knowing that it is God who is certainly leading the way. It is in times of uncertainty and change, that we will have strong feelings that tell us that "we...

As men we have goals we want to reach. We have dreams that we desire to see fulfilled. Every man wants to win in every area of our lives, and when things don't turn out the way we were hoping for, we can quickly feel unsatisfied with our lives. We will all experience loss and will see others get the wins that we were aiming for, and this can really affect a man in some dark and negative ways. We can begin to compare our manhood, our financial and social status, our physique, our careers,...

Every man has a past, and every one of our pasts are made up of beautiful memories and moments that we love to remember. But they are also made up of horrible, dark moments and situations that we never want to think about again. We have all made choices that were shameful, selfish and sinful in our pasts, and the devil will bring these past memories to our attention, in order to bring fear shame, guilt and condemnation. He wants us to believe that the sins that we have confessed to Jesus,...

Life is made up of many decisions. Most decisions are quite simple and are easy to make, but other times we will face some extremely difficult decisions that we as men have to make. We can't rely on others to make these for us, we know that we need to make the decisions of what to do. What makes these so difficult, is the uncertainty that often comes with decision making. We don't know exactly how our choice will all unfold and what will come from it, but a choice has to be made either way....

As we navigate through our Christian lives, we will face many difficult seasons of hardship. The bible calls these times "Fiery Trials". When we go through these trials, we can feel like God has left us and is against us, but in fact it is during these times, that God is close by and is growing us in our faith. We are called to endure forward through these trials with simple faith knowing that the Lord is purifying us in the fire. God has promised in His word, that when we go through the...

Life gets tiring for all of us, and we can easily find ourselves running on fumes.  All of our responsibilities within our families, our jobs, places to go and people to see, will truly spend our energy and will cause us to be exhausted.  Then factor in the spiritual battle that Christian men are fighting every day, and we can clearly see how important it is for us to find proper rest and sleep in order to recover physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually every day.  We don't consider...

Today's podcast was recorded with no plan, no notes and truthfully no desire to record.  It's been a tough week and today my motivation to record my weekly episode was no where to be found.  I thought that I would share some "real talk" with you from my heart and my own life, with hopes that it will be a source of encouragement and strength for you.  Sometimes God will allow us to walk through some difficult and very uncomfortable circumstances, and its only our faith that keeps us moving...

Sometimes in life, it seems like God has forgotten all about us.  It can feel like He is far away, nowhere to be found.  It can feel like He doesn't listen to our prayers or even care about what we are going through.  It's during these times, that God is actually growing us in our faith in Him and in His truth.  Our flesh will feel very uncomfortable during these times, but our spirits will be gaining strength and faith in God.  If you are feeling like God has forgotten you, I want to...

Every man will face temptation in their life.  We can't avoid temptation.  Our fallen and sinful flesh and the world that we live in, have many things that will tempt us to sin against God.  Temptations purpose is to lead us astray from doing God's will and to focus on doing our own will.  Temptation is not a sin, but giving in to it is.  God promised that He will not give us more temptation then we can handle, and He also promised a way of escape when we are tempted.  Most people give in to...

At times in life, we come face to face with situations that are completely impossible for us to handle.  We have tried to break addictions over and over, with no victory.  We have tried to figure out our financial pressures and struggles over and over, with no change.  We have tried to overcome depression and anxiety over and over, with no relief.  We find ourselves in "red sea" moments.  These are times where we have no where to go, the enemy is coming at us, we don't know what to do, and...

Anger is a totally normal emotion that we all deal with from time to time.  Sometimes anger can be good as a motivation to cause us to change things that need to be changed.  But uncontrolled anger does no good, and will only bring harm, hurt people and make things much worse.  Anger is a real battle of our flesh, and we will be tempted to allow it to determine what we say, how we say it, what we do and where we go.  We must rely fully upon the Holy Spirit to help us use self control in our...

As Christian men, our entire life is lived out by faith in God and in His truth.  We don't see God with our eyes, we can't touch God with our hands, but we have faith in God that He is real and alive and faithfully with us each day, through every circumstance.  For us who have experienced the presence of God, we absolutely know, by faith, that He is good and real.  We are saved by God's grace through our faith.  We walk by faith and not by sight. We even die in faith, knowing we are at the...

Every day we make many decisions.  Things we say, things we do, places we go, and people we hang with, are all decisions that we make.  Every one of these decisions have a motive behind them.  We have reasons for what we do, and it is important that we are honestly checking our motives behind everything.  We must question... Why do we do what we do?  Why do we post what we post?  Why do we go places that we go? Why do we say what we say?  God is the one who will ultimately examine our...

We are never called by God to live this life as a "lone wolf" Christian.  We will not succeed at life alone.  We need Christian brothers who will stand by our side and hold us up when we are worn out and discouraged from the battle.  We need brothers who will love us enough to hold us accountable in our life and to make sure we are pressing forward into the things of God, and not slacking off in the fight.  If you are in need of brotherhood, ask the Lord for this, and seek out brothers who...

Every man will fail at times.  We all have different areas in life that will trip us up from time to time.  When we do fail, and we will, we must own our failure, confess to God and sometimes people our failure, and get up from our failure and move forward into following the Lord.  Your failure does not define who you are, Jesus defines who you are in the scriptures.  Don't allow the enemy to put shame and condemnation on you when you fail, rise up in faith and move on in the grace of God.  I...