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Marriage for the Rest of Us
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This series can be used alongside The Christian Man book and Coaching Guide as you go through The Christian Man Mentoring Experience. Click here for more mentoring tools. Genesis 2:18,24; Proverbs 31:10-31; Ephesians 5:25-32; 1 Peter 3:7 For many men, when they see the topic of marriage come up, they think: “That’s not for me.…
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Finding and Keeping Godly Friends
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Proverbs 18:24, John 11:1-44 We are made for relationships. A godly friendship can change everything. There is a peculiar math to friendship: shared joys are doubled, and shared sorrows are halved. Do you have a close godly friend or two? A brother who will come running if you call for help? Who will look you…
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Having Authentic Spiritual Conversations with My Friends
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Matthew 28:18-20, Acts 1:8, 2 Corinthians 5:11-21, Romans 1:16 Every man knows he should share his faith with others who do not know Christ. So what’s the problem? It’s intimidating. As one man said, “Sharing my faith scares me.” But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t weigh on him. That’s why he and other men want…
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Most Marriage Problems Would Disappear If We Did This
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James 3:2-12, Matthew 15:11, 17-20, Psalm 127:1, Galatians 5:15-26, 2 Timothy 1:7, 2:22 You just got home from work. All day long you’ve been interacting with coworkers, customers, and vendors. Knowing how tough your day can be, your wife greets, comforts, and consoles you. But like your coworkers, she too has unmet needs, problems to…
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Session 4: Marriage – Finding A New Best Friend In Your Wife
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Genesis 2:18, 24-25, 3:16, Ephesians 5:25, 1 Corinthians 7, 13:1-8 Who do you know who would love to learn more about staying married for a long, long time? Maybe he’s already married, or maybe he would like to be. Bring him with you for this lesson as Patrick Morley features the premier lessons from his…
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Session 6: Friendships – Finding and Keeping Godly Friends
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Do you have a friend who would do anything for you—the kind you can call at 2:00 AM and they will come running? We all know we need some friends and brothers with whom we can do life together and talk honestly about the struggles unique to men. But adult male friendships are difficult to…
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Lazarus Lessons
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John 11 Have you ever had a friend who would risk everything for you? Someone who would jeopardize their own safety to help you? Someone who would do everything in their power to save you if necessary? That is a true friend, “one who is closer than a brother.” The Bible tells us about such…
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Becoming a Band of Brothers With a BHAG
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John 4:31-37, Luke 10:2-3, Matthew 9:35-38 Do you have strong bonds with other men? They could be built around children’s activities, hunting, fishing, football, motorcycles, golf, work, politics, photography, stamps, a men’s Bible study group, or one of many other options. Patrick Morley explains that he has only ever been able to find one bond…
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68 Words That Guarantee Marriage Success [Pat Morley]
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The Big Idea: Father, I said till death do us part, I want to mean it. Help me to love you more than her and her more than anyone or anything else. Help me bring her into your presence today. Make us one like you are three in one. I want to hear her, cherish…
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Living a Hi-Fi Life
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The Big Idea: Trust, integrity, love, and sacrifice are the hallmarks of a hi-fi relationship. High fidelity” is a reference to the lack of distortion and noise in an audio recording. In other words, the sound has integrity — it’s true to the original. Many relationships are undermined by a lack of fidelity. The noise…
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Some Wounds Are So Deep That Only a Friend Can Heal
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The Big Idea: We are made for relationships. You’ve fought a good fight. But you’re tired. The fatigue is messing with your mind. It has made you fragile, touchy, maybe irritable. As a result you’ve been withdrawing from your friends. Then, isolated from a community of brothers who genuinely care about you, your mind begins…
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Finding a New Best Friend in Your Wife
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The Big Idea: After God, but before all others, make your wife your top priority. What is your wife’s greatest need? What does it look like to be your wife’s best friend? These are questions we’ll be answering in this message. PLUS you’ll walk out with some very practical “deposits” you can immediately start making…
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Finding Respect and Honor at Home
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The Big Idea: The turning point of our lives is when we stop seeking the God we want, and start seeking the God who is. Imagine the doctor just told you, “I’m sorry, but you only have five weeks to live.” What would be important to you? What would you want to do, and with…
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Resilient Marriage
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Do men really lead their wives and families any more or do wives do most of the family leadership? In a world that’s growing progressively against Christian themes, how can our marriages last and make a difference? Dr. Pete Alwinson continues 1st Peter and talks about how Gospel-produced resilient marriages are more powerful and impactful…
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Habit #2: Spiritually Happy Men Are in a Small Group
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The Big Idea: The Rat Race is the conflict between who I am created to be and who I am tempted to be. The proverbial questions of the rat race–“What’s it all about?” and “Is this all there is?”–have tortured us all at one time or another. So let’s kick off this new series by…
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Habit #4: Spiritually Happy Men Pray With & For Their Wives
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The Big Idea: Praying with my wife brings the Greatest Power in the universe into my most important earthly relationship. Prayer is powerful. It puts us in a conversation with the perfect Father who loves you more than anyone ever could, and has more power than anyone you could ever know. So it makes sense…
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I Married a Woman I Couldn’t Change
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The Big Idea: I let you be you, and you let me be me. If you knew then what you know now, would you still get married? Some might say, no. But for the vast majority of us the answer is, yes. But we’d also like some help figuring out what to do about those…
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Phony Sex
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The Big Idea: Sex is too dangerous to be played with and to sacred to be exploited. How do we treat sex the way God wants us to when we live in a sex-saturated and sex-perverted culture? Actually, the culture of the New Testament was not really all that different from ours. So how did…
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Holy Sex
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The Big Idea: A husband needs to be loved physically so he can love emotionally, and a wife needs to be loved emotionally so she can love physically. As a man, is there anything you daydream about more than sex? Probably not. So why did God make us this way? Why do we even want…
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The Ministry of Giving a Nudge
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The Big Idea: Just help a man go as far as he wants to go toward Jesus at that moment. We’ve been learning that reaching men is pretty much doing what we do every day, but with a view to building intentional spiritual friendships. So let’s say you’ve had that cup of coffee, helped a…
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First Things First: Restoring Confidence
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The Big Idea: Even if I die, God is still in control. We’ve all lost confidence in leaders because we think they let us down—whether a boss, pastor, or elected official. That’s to be expected. You may have even been the leader who went through, or is going through, such a crisis. But what if…
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Jesus’ Faithfulness to His Friends
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The Big Idea: Jesus will keep on showing up. That’s what he does. Even after he died, Jesus just keeps on showing up. If the disciples thought they were sharing a hallucination, Jesus repeated appearances should convince them that he is really alive! Jesus always shows up – if you’re super emotional like Peter, a…
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Broken Relationships
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The Big Idea: If you don’t have enough time for your family, you can be 100% certain that you are not following God’s will for your life. Let’s be honest. Work can be intoxicating. It can also be a place to escape unpredictable emotions and whiny kids. Yet no amount of success at work can…
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Wives: How To Be Happily Married
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The Big Idea: After God, but before all others, make your wife your top priority. Sigmund Freud said, “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?” Too bad Freud didn’t believe in Christianity, because for Christians the answer…
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Friends: Risks and Rewards
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The Big Idea: Three 2:00 AM friends can make up for a multitude of disappointments. Sooner or later we all realize that friendships are a beautiful thing. We realize that we need some other men who walk in our same shoes–who share similar problems and life experiences. But adult male friendships are difficult to start…
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Accountability: The Missing Link
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The Big Idea: Accountability: To be regularly answerable to qualified people for each of the key areas of our lives. None of us ever planned to fail. So how do we get off track? What makes us stumble? And why do some of us even fall away? One of the biggest reasons is that we…
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Rock Solid Men – Do Everything In Love
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The Big Idea: Grace means we are loved even when we don’t deserve it. Grace means we can love even when others don’t deserve it. When Paul wrote to the Corinthian church, he was frustrated with them. He had spent a long time building the church, but in his absence they were acting like they…
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Exactly How Much Does Jesus Love You, And So What?
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The Big Idea: Jesus wants a relationship with you that mirrors His relationship with the Father. We all know that Jesus loves the world. Awesome. But how does that love get split up? How much of it is set aside for you personally? You may find the answer surprising! Come see and experience for yourself…
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Honoring Your Wife’s Emotions [David Delk]
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The Big Idea: Your wife’s heart is a treasure, and God has entrusted it to you. If you are like most men, dealing with emotions is not your strong suit. We know we are supposed to love others, but what does that look like when they are emotional? Especially if it doesn’t make sense to…
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Legacy and Blessing
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The Big Idea: Live Like you’re dying: Remember what God has done for youTell of God’s blessing & work in your lifeSpeak blessing – good or bad – into your children’s lives What would you say to your family if you knew your death was imminent? In Genesis, as we see Jacob approaching the end…
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Jesus: The Principle of Building Relationships
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The Big Idea: The most powerful force in the world is a relationship. Men will do for love what they will do for no other reason. Jesus understood that the most powerful force in the world is a relationship. He made building unbreakable bonds with a few men the core of His strategy. It was…
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What Can We Do To Help Men Act Like Men?
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The Big Idea: The best way to help men act like men is to help the church act like the church. No doubt you’ve been on the receiving end of men behaving badly. In the world, it’s to be expected. But as we all know, many Christian men behave badly too. Why is that, and…
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The Extravagant Generosity of God
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The Big Idea: Jesus wants you to make sure everyone knows they’re invited. Jesus wants to make sure you know something: Everyone is invited to the party, and he’s counting on you to deliver the invitation. But what if someone is unwilling to respond? They’re still invited. Disinterested? They’re still invited. Hostile toward Christianity? They’re…
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Intentional Spiritual Intimacy in Marriage
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Guest Speaker: Sam Ingrassia Most Christian husbands struggle to find a consistent way to connect spiritually with their wife. We know we need to have spiritual influence in marriage, but the path is often elusive; haphazard at best. If you are a Christian husband, ask God to prepare your heart for what could be His…
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How To Love The Way God Wants Us To Love
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The Big Idea: God will never ask you to do something that He will not also give you the power to do. We all know what God wants most is for us to love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. We are to love Him with no reserves–the totality of our being,…
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.