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Money and Lifestyle – You Spent How Much On a What?
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Money and Lifestyle – You Spent How Much On a What? is part of the Husband in the Mirror series from Man Alive Bible Study with Patrick Morley.
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Growing Old Together
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Growing Old Together is part of the Husband in the Mirror series from Man Alive Bible Study with Patrick Morley.
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Dark Days
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Dark Days is part of the Husband in the Mirror series from Man Alive Bible Study with Patrick Morley.
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Communicate With Confidence
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Communicate With Confidence is part of the Husband in the Mirror series from Man Alive Bible Study with Patrick Morley.
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Better Days -Restoring A Broken Marriage
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Better Days -Restoring A Broken Marriage is part of the Husband in the Mirror series from Man Alive Bible Study with Patrick Morley.
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What Is God’s Will For This Marriage?
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Father, I said til death do us part, I want to meant it. Matthew 19:4-6, Matthew 18:21-22, 1 Corinthians 7:10-13
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Handling Conflict and Kindling Romance
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Help me love You more than her, and her more than anyone or anything else. Ephesians 5:28-33
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Marriage the Way God Intended
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Make us one, like you are three in one. Genesis 2:22-25, Ephesians 5:25-28, Matthew 7:12
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Finishing Strong
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SO she would love You more and we can bring You glory. Mark 10:6-9, Malachi 2:14-16
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Chapter 7 | Broken Relationships
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What if, in the pursuit of success, you’re unknowingly neglecting the people who matter most? What if, instead, you prioritized everything on the basis of who will be crying at your funeral? Join Pat Morley this week as we unpack three powerful shifts to realign your life before it’s too late: how to schedule priorities instead of just…
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Chapter 9 | Wives: How to Be Happily Married
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Sigmund Freud famously admitted, “Despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer that great question… What does a woman want?” If only he had turned to Scripture! Join Pat Morley as we unpack exactly what your wife or future wife truly wants and needs—and how you can give…
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Chapter 10 | Friends: Risks & Rewards
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Brothers, we all know that friendships are a gift—but why are they so hard to start and even harder to keep? Most men live with a friendship deficit, leaving them isolated and vulnerable. Join Pat Morley, and we’ll unpack what a true friend really looks like and how to build the kind of friendships that stand…
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What Was It Like To Grow Up In Your Home?
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There are millions of us. We carry around leftover pain from childhood wounds. As a result of this unprocessed pain, we act out in ways that damage our relationships. We’re easily offended. Fragile. We lash out. We withdraw. We’re baffled by our behavior. Frankly, we’re not even sure what normal behavior looks like. We all…
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How Our Parents Wounded Us
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If your parents were never properly parented themselves, that put them at great risk to repeat the cycle with you. And that puts you at risk of repeating the vicious cycle all over again. If you or someone you love is caught in a cycle, can put a stop to your family’s intergenerational dysfunction. But…
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How Childhood Wounds Affect Adults
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The following questions might apply to you or a loved one: – Do you struggle to believe that people really care about you? – Do others accuse you of being oversensitive or taking things too personally? – Is there something that routinely triggers your anger? – Is there a particular area of your life where…
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How Childhood Wounds Affect Adults part 2
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Do you regularly find yourself feeling insecure and looking for reassurance? Do you experience big mood swings, but don’t know why? Are you especially responsible or immature for your age? Do you have a negative experience, word, thought, or voice in your head from your childhood that stills torments you? Are you estranged from any…
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An Overview of How You Can Heal
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What’s it going to take for you, your loved one, or a friend to start healing from childhood wounds? Healing is all about pain—acknowledging it’s there, identifying where it’s coming from, and then knowing how to face it, grieve, accept it, take control, and heal. Tune in for an overview of the stages of healing.…
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How to Overcome Denial and Face the Truth
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Denial can be tenacious. Facing difficult, painful, or humiliating facts from your or your loved one’s childhood can be hard. Most worthwhile things are. I commend your bravery to tackle the truth. But it can also to be so liberating and soothing that you’re going to feel like you’re seeing things as they really are—perhaps…
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How to Grieve What Should Have Been
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Something was taken from you, your loved one, or friend. You didn’t have the childhood you wanted, deserved, and should have experienced. You have been afflicted. You feel the loss deeply. Now that you’ve faced this truth, you need to grieve what went wrong. In this practical lesson, Pat Morley will help you understand grief, the…
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How to Find Rest for Your Soul
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Did you know that all successful recovery programs address spiritual needs? There’s a reason for that: A relationship with Jesus can give us the rest for our souls that no amount of human effort will ever be able to provide. If you’re on your way to being mended, you have faced the truth of what…
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How to Forgive Your Parents
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If your parents wounded you, they are responsible for that, whether they knew what they were doing or not. But without forgiveness, the future will look no different than the past. Forgiving your parents is not dismissing what they did, or pretending that your wounds never happened. After all, there would be no need for…
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Rethinking Your Parents’ Stories
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To be sure, our parents are responsible for how they wounded us, whether they knew it or not. Maybe they were good people who made serious mistakes, or maybe they were uncaring, toxic, or even evil. Nothing can minimize, justify, excuse, or change that. What happened to you or your loved one happened. But what…
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How to Rebuild Your Relationships (Or Set Boundaries)
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Healing and rebuilding relationships takes time and mutual commitment. What’s the current state of your relationship with your parents and siblings? What’s the level of ongoing dysfunction? How receptive are you to restoring a relationship with them? How receptive are they? Do they and you both have the communication skills to pull it off, or…
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How To Rebuild Your Relationships (Or Set Boundaries)—Part 2
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Two weeks ago we talked about how to honestly assess our family relationships and approach them with the mind of Christ. Now it’s time to explore how we can actually communicate with our parents. Join Pat Morley and learn a tension-reducing way to start an awkward but crucial conversation. Whether your family’s level of dysfunction is…
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The Joy of Walking with a Limp
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All of us who have ever been broken boys will have flare-ups because, to some degree, we all live with the residual pain of what happened to us. We all have an emotional limp. Join Patrick Morley and learn how to evaluate how much pain you’re still in, some examples of what residual pain…
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Owning the Ways You’ve Weaponized Your Wounds
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When men try to put into words what’s holding them back, many say something like, “No matter how hard I try, I just can’t overcome the destructive behaviors that keep dragging me down.” Christian men are not exempt—and no matter how much a man loves God, it’s especially hard to move forward if he’s stuck…
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Changing the Trajectory of Your Marriage
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When the world gets to be too much, who do you take it out on? If you’re like most men, it’s your wife. In fact, the number one place where the residual symptoms of your childhood wounds flare up is your marriage (or it will be if and when you get married). Do any of…
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Parenting Your Own Children
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Pat Morley writes, “When Patsy and I brought, Jen, our daughter and firstborn child home from the hospital, all three of us were exhausted. I lay down and cradled our precious Jen on my chest. The warmth of that tiny body—a living person I helped create—and the thump, thump, thump of her acorn-sized heart will always…
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Love: The Glue and the Grease
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The Fruit of the Spirit, Episode 1: Galatians 5:22-23 – “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” You’ve probably heard this passage read or taught before. It’s often presented as a list of attributes that Christians are supposed to…
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Kindness: Much More than Just Being Nice
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The Fruit of the Spirit, Episode 5: Obviously, it’s kind if you help an elderly woman put groceries in her car. But is it kind to: As you can see, kindness is so much more than just being nice. Join Patrick Morley and let’s recalibrate how we think about what kindness is and isn’t, take…
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A Man and a Small Group
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A Man and a Small Group, Episode 6: Whether it’s a platoon, project team, or running club, you can see the power of small groups all around you. We were not meant to do life alone. But while we may fight, work, and exercise in groups, too many of us do our walk with Christ…
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Why You Shouldn’t Judge Your Brother
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The Wisdom of James, Episode 17: Is there such a thing as “Christian cancel culture”? We see it in the world, but we would never expect to see it in the church, right? But some in the church can be just as critical of brothers they disagree with or who have strayed from righteous living,…
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The Law of Love
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The Wisdom of James, Episode 12: We all agree with the concept of fairness. If someone suffers for doing wrong, they are getting what they deserve. But that’s not how the gospel works. And because of the gospel, that’s not how Christians are to live either. Join Brett Clemmer as we look at James’ continuing…
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Brothers Who Live by the Word
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The Wisdom of James, Episode 7: Have you ever struggled living as a Christian? Your anger or your words ever gotten you into trouble? Ever been burned by others in the church? Do you wonder what your salvation has to do with your actions? James is a very practical book that speaks to many issues…
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May I Have Permission to Speak Freely?
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Paul was near the end of his life. He lived in a shame-based culture. From the outside, it looked like he had plenty of reason to have lost face. He was suffering in prison, likely to be executed. His messages were being mocked and torn to shreds. The churches he had started looked like they…
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The Faithful Friend
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Have you ever been let down by an unfaithful friend? Few things hit men harder than realizing that guy you counted on is untrustworthy. But a faithful friend…that is a true gift. A faithful friend is one who sits with you in your grief, celebrates with you in your triumphs, and takes care of you…
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Let’s Get In Trouble Together
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How would you describe the Apostle Paul? You might say leader, visionary, mission-focused, intentional, results-oriented, single-minded, driven, tireless, fearless, courageous, brilliant, theologian, field general. There’s no doubt Paul ranks among the most successful strategists in human history. But he didn’t do it alone! Join Patrick Morley and meet the original team responsible for the world…
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DATING, MARRIAGE & FAMILY: On Being a Baby Daddy
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The world often encourages younger men to pursue their own happiness. When it comes to having a family—dating, marriage and fatherhood—there is a general sense of “do what’s best for you.” But what if I told you that the key to happiness in these important areas of a man’s life is not self-care, but sacrifice?…
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Pursuing Life-Preserving Friendships
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One of God’s greatest and most tangible gifts to us is “foxhole friendship” in the battle of life! Friends who are willing to commit to each other, sacrifice their lives for another, and champion God’s calling on one’s life are invaluable. This kind of friendship takes risk and work but is a worthy investment! Join…
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Submit To God’s Role in Your Family
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In this series, we have touched on a number of aspects to manhood and marriage and today we would like to double click on what God says about the role of a man in a family. Whether you are married or hope to be married one day, God has given us a challenging yet compelling…
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Reconstruct How You Treat People
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People are angry. We all get that. But why has the world become so mean? And especially among so many who follow Christ? Today, it’s routine to hear disparaging labels and stereotypes spewed out with such vitriol that some of us are afraid to just be ourselves. The whole world (or so it seems) wants…
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The Relationship Is More Important Than the Task
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Do you have a hard time carving out time to spend with God? Maybe you have an all-consuming job. Maybe you’re ambitious and don’t feel like you can afford to take the time. Perhaps you have a lot of people depending on you. You might not be convinced it will make that much difference in…
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How You Can Love Someone Who Doesn’t Deserve It
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We all know we’re supposed to love one another. But how do you love someone when they don’t love you back, repeatedly manipulate or abuse you, consistently underperform, constantly put pressure on you, don’t respect boundaries, take advantage of your kindness, are negative and cranky, or repeatedly let you down? We all have people like…
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How to Forgive Anyone for Anything
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When we feel like we’ve been wronged we all tend to lash out, withdraw, or both. And then we hurt the ones we care about the most. If unresolved, our psychological and spiritual wounds deepen. Emotional calluses and grudges develop. We become bitter, suspicious, distrusting, and it slowly begins to infect other relationships too—especially with…
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What’s Love Got To Do With It?
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Love is a word that gets used so casually. Many of us have waited for Cupid to come with an arrow and strike us with love. Others have their guard up, not able to experience what it could offer. And there are some who feel disgusted at the very word “love.” What if we told…
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Accepting People Who Are “Different”
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What kind of people do you find it difficult to accept? Is it a personality type? Those with weak faith? People from different cultures and traditions? Or, maybe you’re the one from the different culture or the one with weak faith, and you feel like people judge you and look down on you. In this…
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Is There Hope for Your Loved Ones?
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It’s fascinating how we can walk around so joyful, while at the same time carry a deep sorrow in our hearts for loved ones not walking with God. Maybe they’ve never trusted Christ. Or maybe they’ve walked away. You might be inclined to think that because God is sovereign, there’s no use trying. The die…
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Learning About Sin the Hard Way
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Can you name even one area of your life that has escaped the effects of sin? Even our best relationships have periodic misunderstandings. The healthiest habits can’t prevent all disease or injury. People who always seem patient still get angry sometimes. Why is that? Understanding the nature of sin will help you understand the power…
Healthy Relationships
Dive into the essentials of cultivating healthy relationships through the lens of faith. This series explores the depth of kindness beyond mere politeness, the binding power of love, and the importance of small groups for spiritual growth. Gain insights from the wisdom of James on avoiding judgment, understanding the law of love, and living by the Word. Strengthen your connections with others and build a community rooted in spiritual principles and mutual support.