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Nehemiah: The Principle of a Passionate Calling
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The Big Idea: God makes men by turning what breaks our hearts into a passionate calling to help redeem some broken part of the world. What is your burden—the thing that is breaking your heart? It could be your family. Maybe you feel stuck in a job you hate. Maybe you ache for your church…
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A Fresh Movement Among the Men of Our City
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The Big Idea: A city of disciples must first be a city of disciple-makers. When God looks at our city, what do you think He sees? What is His agenda for this place? And, where do you and I fit in? We are certainly not the first ones to dream big dreams for our community…
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The Next Ten Years
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The Big Idea: Making disciples is God’s designated way to release the power of the Gospel on every problem facing our city. Ten years from now, what do you want to look back on and say, “I was part of that?” Michael Harrington who runs Salem Radio News which airs on 2000 radio stations recently…
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Guaranteed Ideas to Reach the Men Around You
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The Big Idea: The bar for evangelism is quite low. Evangelism is simply taking someone as far as they want to go toward Jesus. Over the next three messages I’m going to teach you how to make disciples. Making disciples includes calling people to live “in” Christ, equipping people to live “like” Christ, and sending…
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Guaranteed Ways to Build the Men Around You
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The Big Idea: Equipping is simply bringing men together around Christ and watching Him change the way they think and what they do. What Christian man hasn’t wondered, “Could I disciple other men?” Many men in our Bible study are already doing just that. Many more are eager to get started and just need a…
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The Staggering Simplicity of Living for Christ
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The Big Idea: A man will feel most happy, most alive, & most useful once he learns how to do what disciples do: abide, love, & serve. A disciple is not only called to live “in” Christ, equipped to live “like” Christ, but also sent to live “for” Christ. Once a man fills up in…
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No Man Left Behind!
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The Big Idea: Your system is perfectly designed to produce the results you are getting. We’ve made a strong case for why disciple-making is God’s designated way to release the power of His Gospel on every problem facing our men, marriages, families, churches, workplaces, and communities. We’ve explored, “What is a disciple, and how do…
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The Dual Citizenship of a Christian
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The Big Idea: Precisely because we are Christians, we must become great citizens. Jesus said, “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and unto God what is God’s.” That’s poetic, but what does it mean as a practical matter? By what principle can we make secular decisions that also honor God? As Christians, we have a…
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Helping People Who Are Mistaken About God
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The Big Idea: What’s your best way to help someone who is mistaken? All around us are co-workers, neighbors, family members, and friends who have mistaken ideas about God. Those ideas may be based on their feelings, something they read or heard, or bad teaching. For example, some Christians are not sure of their salvation.…
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What Are The Questions For Which Christ Is The Answer?
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The core issues men face are not that different than they have ever been—finding significance and love, resolving loneliness and guilt, contemplating one’s own mortality, coping with the emptiness of material success or lack thereof, broken relationships, pride, fear, anger, lust, and sin—to mention some of the most obvious ones.. God inserted Jesus into human…
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Becoming a Servant Leader
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The Big Idea: The purpose of servant leadership is to help others while expecting nothing in return. The world is full of people willing to tell you what needs to be done, but not willing to lift a finger to help. Those were the kind of people in leadership who Jesus critiqued in today’s passage.…
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The Extremes To Which Jesus Will Go To Bring Us To Our Senses
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The Big Idea: Right now Jesus is grieving and interceding over every person who doesn’t get it. Has Jesus lost his cool? In today’s passage he delivers such a scathing critique directed at religious leaders that we picture the veins in His neck sticking out. It’s the climax of a conflict that has been brewing…
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Why SHOULD I Go To Church?
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The Big Idea: Church was made for you, and you were made for the church. Have you ever woken up on a Sunday and thought, “I really don’t feel like going to church today.”? We all have. And when we talk to guys about why they don’t attend church, many say it’s boring or irrelevant.…
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What is Leadership and Why Does it Matter?
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The Big Idea: Leadership is lovingly influencing people to pursue God’s vision. Every man has a leadership influence on someone. And every man is affected by the leadership of others. So today, just starting a new year, all of us are feeling the impact of the leadership crisis that we see in America. Too many…
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How to Lead While Following Jesus
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The Big Idea: Being a good leader is not primarily dependent on your ability to lead but on your ability to follow Jesus. What kind of leader will you be in 2013? You are influencing others – your family, your work place, your friends, your neighbors, or in your church. What kind of difference will…
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Scandal & Corruption: How the Gospel Cleans Us Up
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The Big Idea: The Bible perfectly explains exactly how the world works and why. From scandal to corruption, wickedness to despair, and then…hope and redemption. Guest speaker Brett Clemmer, VP of Man in the Mirror, takes us back to the beginning to look at how God meant us to be wired, how sin messed it…
Spiritual Leadership
Explore the core tenets of spiritual leadership, where faith meets action. This series covers how Jesus describes the end times, addresses the challenges of faith used for personal gain, and delves into the nature of God’s goodness. Join speaker series with influential leaders like Connor Jones and Brooks Cluxton, and dive into spiritual disciplines such as witnessing. Enhance your leadership by understanding spiritual truths and applying them to your life and community.