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Chapter 1 | Why Am I Still So Restless?
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Some men are restless because life hasn’t worked out like they hoped—dreams delayed, plans derailed, purpose unclear. Others are restless because it did work out—but it didn’t satisfy. Either way, they’re asking the same quiet question: Why do I still feel this way? If you’re mentoring, discipling, or leading men, you’ve already met both types. One man is…
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Chapter 2 | What Do You Believe
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Join Pat Morley as we examine four belief systems—secular, moral, religious, and Christian—and explore why so many of them fail us. We’ll also look at how Solomon—who had everything—ended up saying, “I hated life.” This message will not only help you evaluate your own system, but also equip you to walk with someone you care about…
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Chapter 3 | Secular, Moral, and Religious Belief Systems
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This week we’ll explore the three major belief systems most men follow—secular, moral, and religious—and why all of them, ultimately, break down. Join Pat Morley as we examine the quiet assumptions that shape men’s lives, and how Christianity offers not performance, but peace. Discover how to help the men you lead recognize the signs of restlessness,…
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Chapter 4 | Understanding the Christian Belief System
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This week, we’ll look at how many people—perhaps even people you love—have rejected Christianity not because they understand it, but because they’ve only been exposed to shallow soundbites and distortions of the real thing. Join Pat Morley as we uncover the heart of Christianity—not rules or performance, but a person: Jesus. You’ll be strengthened in your…
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The Tale of Two Men with Ronn Read
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Join us for a tale of two men with guest speaker Ronn Read, National Chaplain for Man in the Mirror. We’ll explore the story of Abraham and Lot and the differentiating factors that forever altered their individual journeys—and the influences and decisions that still have the power to alter our journeys today. Raw, unedited transcript…
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Chapter 2 | Leading an Unexamined Life
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We all want the same things—something to give our lives to that will make a difference, someone to share our lives with, and a belief system that makes sense of why life is so hard. Christianity and secularism both offer solutions to these problems but with dramatically different results. This week, join Pat Morley to explore…
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Chapter 3 | Are you a Biblical Christian or a Cultural Christian?
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Would your family and friends say you lead a vibrant life in Christ? Or do you find yourself vacillating between the values of this world and the values of Jesus? A lot of men you know—maybe you—feel stuck in spiritual mediocrity. They have become cultural Christians rather than biblical Christians. And they hate it! Obviously,…
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Chapter 5 | Purpose: Why Do I Exist?
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Do you have a clear sense of purpose? Are you moving in the right direction? Or does life sometimes feel random—or even pointless? Nothing fuels a man’s soul like knowing his purpose, and nothing drains him more than not knowing. Raw, unedited transcript from video Well, we are in the series The Man in the Mirror book…
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Chapter 11 | Money: A Biblical Point of View
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We all need money—but is it really delivering what it promises? Jesus had a lot to say about money, and not all of it was comfortable. Tomorrow, join Pat as we look at three competing perspectives on money—and discover why only one truly leads to peace and purpose. If you’ve ever wondered how to balance…
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Chapter 16 | Pride
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Has pride taken a toll on your career, reputation, and relationships? If so, you’re in good company. In fact, pride is the mother of all troubles for most men. Pride will hold back (or wreck) your career, damage (or destroy) your reputation, and tear down (or ruin) your most important relationships. In fact, pride will…
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Chapter 17 | Fear
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Everyone struggles with fear: What if this deal falls through? Will she ever feel safe with me again? Will I be able to make payroll? Is it cancer? How am I going to pay my mortgage? What kind of world are my children going to grow up in? Fear is a normal human emotion. But…
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Chapter 18 | Anger
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The Big Idea: I pledge not to sin when I get angry, but openly confess I can’t do it on my own. Studies show that 75 – 90% of all doctor’s office visits are stress-related, and the most destructive form of stress is anger. Anger is not a sin–Jesus got angry, but anger can easily…
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Chapter 19 | The Desire To Be Independent
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Men want to be in charge—to call the shots. And in many ways, God has given us the freedom to lead, build, and take responsibility. But freedom isn’t the same thing as autonomy. Still, we chase it.We try to control our circumstances.We “strive” for financial independence.We just want to be left alone to do our…
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Chapter 20 | Avoiding Suffering
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What is making you suffer? Do you think God knows what you’re going through? If He knows, does He care? If He knows and cares, can He do anything about it? And if He can, why doesn’t He? Join Pat Morley as we wrestle with these hard questions. Explore what we gain from suffering that we…
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Chapter 23 | Accountability: The Missing Link
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None of us ever plans 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 don’t have to answer to anyone for our lives. And let’s be honest, don’t we naturally kind of like it…
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Chapter 24 | How Can a Man Change?
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You already know this: if you could have made that change on your own, it would have happened by now. On the other hand, we’ve all watched men’s lives radically transformed. We’ve seen it with our own eyes. Not much will change for the better apart from Jesus—but we also have a part to play.…
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How God Speaks to Men through Creation
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We have all felt the agony of wanting to hear from God. Yet, in our hearts, don’t we intuitively know the problem isn’t that God has a speech impediment, but that we have a hearing impediment? In this first message of our new series, How God Speaks to Men, Pat Morley will show you how…
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How God Speaks to Men through Scripture
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In your vehicle you have a dashboard with gauges—some big, some small—that communicate various things to you. These gauges are vital to ensuring you can get to where you want and need to go. But what if you had a spiritual dashboard that could speak to you as clearly as the one in your…
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How God Speaks to Men through Jesus
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What do we learn from Jesus that we would otherwise not know? In the equivalent of a mere seven sermons, Jesus gave us the defining guidance we all seek for essentially every aspect of our life—identity, family, relationships, work, money, health, justice, mercy, compassion, forgiveness, suffering, service, true happiness, abundant life, building His kingdom, and…
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How God Speaks to Men through Discipline
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Raw, unedited transcript from video We may feel like we’re a lost cause. Guess what? God delights in lost causes. Well, good morning! Good to be with you men. Somebody asked, “Where’s Pat?” Who knows? I have no idea where Pat is this week. He just gives me a date and says, “You’re on this…
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How God Speaks to Men through the Spirit
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If you’ve been through a hurricane or tornado and lost power, then you know one thing for sure: It’s better to have power than to not have power. Whatever question, problem, struggle, challenge, or opportunity you’re facing, did you know God promised to provide the power you need for it through His Holy Spirit? The…
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How God Speaks to Men through Men
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It takes a man to teach a man how to be a man. Jesus knew this. That’s why He gave us such a highly reproducible model of the way He taught men, and the Apostle Paul totally got the message—we need equippers. Join us as we explore Paul’s explanation of the crucial role equippers play in God’s…
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How God Speaks to Men through our Circumstances
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If you are a father, you know how much you pray, hope, and even ache for the wellbeing of your children in every area—their faith, relationships, emotions, career, finances, health, sense of identity and purpose, ability to overcome destructive behaviors or conquer loneliness, and so much more. That’s what our heavenly Father wants for His…
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How God Speaks to Men Through Sovereignty
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There’s a certain reassurance in watching the steady rise and fall of the ocean’s tides, isn’t there? The rhythm reminds us that, no matter how unpredictable life feels, something greater is holding it all together. In the same way, the sovereignty of God—His supreme authority and control over all things—offers us a profound comfort. Although…
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How God Speaks to Men Through Ambassadors
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This week, we’re wrapping up our series on how God speaks to men by exploring how He wants to speak through us. We’ll consider how we can apply everything we’ve learned so far in order to become His messengers, and why that matters for millions of men—men like Pat Morley, who became a follower of Jesus because…
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When Life Overwhelms | An Exploration of Trust and Faith
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At times, life seems to strike like arrows aimed at our every emotion, or it can hit like an earthquake shaking our very foundation—even, sometimes, the most critical foundation: our faith. And it certainly doesn’t help when everyone is yelling, “Run!” What should we do—what can we do, what must we do—in such times?…
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Leading an Unexamined Life
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The Big Idea: It is for a lack of discipleship that men lead unexamined lives. We all want the same things–something we can give our lives to that will make a difference, someone to share our lives with, and a belief system that makes sense of why life is so hard. Christianity and secularism both…
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Significance: The Search for Meaning and Purpose
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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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Purpose: Why Do I Exist?
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The Big Idea: I will feel most alive, most useful, and most significant when I am doing what God created me to do. It’s just a fact of life. Most men don’t know their purpose in life, or their purpose is too small. Sincerely ask a man, “What is the purpose of your life?” and…
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Decisions: How To Make The Right Choice
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The Big Idea: The goal is always to bring my will into alignment with God’s will. Most of us will only make a handful of truly major decisions in the course of a year. “Do I change jobs, move, get married, have children, take on a personal ministry, buy a car, lower my lifestyle,” and…
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Pride
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The Big Idea: Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner. The Bible says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” But what about feeling proud of our son’s grades or getting a promotion? Is that wrong? Actually, that’s a different kind of pride–let’s call it Pride Type I. Pride Type II, on…
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The Desire to be Independent
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The Big Idea: Don’t “make” it happen, “let” it happen. Men want to be in charge–to call their own shots. And God has given us a lot of freedom. But freedom is not the same thing as autonomy. Yet we’re all tempted to think we can be in control of our lives. It might be…
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How Can a Man Change?
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The Big Idea: Discipleship (food, water, friends) = Changed Life What is something you really want to change about your life, but haven’t been able to? You already know this, but if you could have made that change on your own, it would have happened by now. On the other hand, we’ve all watched men’s…
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Faithfulness: The Quality that Earns Peoples’ Trust
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The Fruit of the Spirit, Episode 7: Is there anything more refreshing than someone you can always count on to keep their word—or get back to you if they can’t? Easily the most frustrating part of my 40-year career has been people who repeatedly make promises they don’t keep. When they tell me what they’re…
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Patience: The Key to Wisdom & Contentment
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The Fruit of the Spirit, Episode 4: Patience is a difficult virtue. It may require us to delay gratification or even to forgo resolution for the foreseeable future. Do you find yourself paying the price for hasty decisions? Or frustrated by unmet expectations: the promotion that hasn’t come, or the house that hasn’t sold? Patience…
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Decluttering with the Spiritual Disciplines
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A Man’s Guide to the Spiritual Disciplines, Episode 13: You ache for a more vibrant walk with God. You long for Jesus to take you deeper into the compassion of his own heart. That’s why you’re part of this Bible study. And you’ve made good progress! But you want more. “More” is why God has…
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A Man and Stewardship
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A Man’s Guide to the Spiritual Disciplines, Episode 10: Many of us are preconditioned to think “money” when we hear the word stewardship. Such a pity! The biblical concept of stewardship is so much more all-encompassing, optimistic, and personally fulfilling. Join Patrick Morley for 7 practical, biblical insights that can help you manage money and…
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A Man and Counsel
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A Man’s Guide to the Spiritual Disciplines, Episode 7: Have you ever made a bad decision with the best of intentions? Maybe the right way seemed obvious, or you felt some pressure to make a quick choice, or you just received some bad advice. But in retrospect you realize it wasn’t a wise call. Cultivating…
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A Man and the Sabbath
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A Man’s Guide to the Spiritual Disciplines, Episode 5: Are you tired? Do you have a lingering feeling something isn’t quite right? If so, you are not alone. Many men suffer from a malady we might call “rest interval dysfunction.” Join Patrick Morley and learn how the spiritual discipline of Sabbath might be just the…
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A Man of Integrity Who Keeps His Word
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The Wisdom of James, Episode 21: What do you think when you hear news from Harvard, Mayo, or the Cleveland Clinic? What would you think if the same news came from Putin, China, or North Korea? Truth-telling and promise-keeping create a powerful brand, do they not? Whether we’re signing a contract, exchanging wedding vows, setting…
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Hope for Men Who Need More Patience
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The Wisdom of James, Episode 20: Losing your patience is like pulling the pin on a hand grenade. To appreciate the value of patience, we need look no further than the damage and loss impatience has inflicted on our marriages, children, other family, friends, or co-workers. What’s driving you crazy? Join Patrick Morley as we dig…
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Getting Control of Your Tongue
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The Wisdom of James, Episode 14: No one really wants to be a jerk. But what comes out of our mouths can just as easily burn the house down as build it up. Whether we say things we shouldn’t out of pain, pride, selfish ambition, lack of empathy, or for whatever other reason, we’re not…
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How to Make a Wise Decision
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The Wisdom of James, Episode 15: A group of teenagers was asked, “What’s the most important issue you face?” One said, “When you boil everything down, it’s really about how to make good decisions.” The other fourteen boys approvingly nodded their heads in agreement. James explains the difference between God’s wisdom and worldly wisdom. Join…
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Can Your Tongue Be Tamed?
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The Wisdom of James, Episode 9: We all put our foot in our mouth all the time. But sometimes we lose control and say things we regret. Some of those things can’t be undone. Unsurprisingly, the Bible explains the problem and gives the pathway to success. Join Patrick Morley and learn God’s way to tame…
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The REAL Man in the Mirror
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The Wisdom of James, Episode 8: Let’s put this to rest right now. Patrick Morley didn’t name his book or ministry after a Michael Jackson song. In the book of James, there are two types of men who look in the mirror: one who deceives himself into thinking he’s living a godly life, and one…
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Why Do I Sin?
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The Wisdom of James, Episode 5: Temptation. We’ve all faced it. You’ve been tempted to lie avoid getting in trouble. You’ve been tempted to cheat to get ahead or pay lower taxes. You’ve been tempted to gossip, hold a grudge, or to think you’re better than someone. Why do we sin? Is it a test?…
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The Strong and Happy Man
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The Wisdom of James, Episode 4: “Happiness is a serious problem!” Talk show host Dennis Praeger makes that point abundantly clear in his book by that name. Many Christian men are not happy and do not know how the Gospel can make them happy. In our text for today, James teaches us what the strong…
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A Kingdom Perspective: Pride and Humility
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The Wisdom of James, Episode 3: We all deal with pride—for some, it’s a minor conflict, for others, it’s a major battle. Pride is an issue facing every man. You and I can overcome it with the right mindset and perspective. That’s where James helps us. He gives us a Kingdom perspective. Join Jim Angelakos and…
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The Surprising Link Between Wisdom and Faith
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The Wisdom of James, Episode 2: Have you ever had a time in your life when you just weren’t sure what you should do? That lack of clarity can be terrifying as you bounce between options, worried that you will make the wrong decision and pay the consequences. Planting our feet firmly in faith, we…
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Put on Your Own Oxygen Mask First
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God’s plan has always been for the spiritually mature to pass on their wisdom and experience to the next generations. Who better to show us how than Paul, and what better advice than his last letter to Timothy? Join Patrick Morley as we dive into Paul’s first piece of advice to Timothy, why it’s so…
Personal Growth & Transformation
Explore the journey of personal growth and transformation through spiritual disciplines and biblical insights. This series focuses on developing qualities such as faithfulness, patience, stewardship, and wise counsel. Learn practical steps to declutter your spiritual life, embrace the Sabbath, and cultivate a deeper relationship with God. Each lesson is designed to help you grow in wisdom, contentment, and trust, providing a strong foundation for lasting change and spiritual renewal.