Best Gary Yagel Podcasts (2024)

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Jesus' Unwavering Allegiance to the Father 28:57

2h ago28:57

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In a world that is becoming increasingly complex because of innumerable opportunities to which our cell phones connect us, it is refreshing to remind ourselves of what Jesus said was at the core of following him. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandme…

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The Compelling Jesus 26:23

4d ago26:23

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Episode Summary. There seems to be widespread agreement that Jonathan Roumie’s portrayal of Jesus in Dallas Jenkins’, The Chosen, is remarkably well done. As someone has said, “If you’re aiming to make a TV show about the life of Jesus, you better cast the right person for the lead role.” There is something deep, personal, and even perhaps threaten…

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Gender Affirming Care UNMASKED 28:23

11d ago28:23

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Episode Summary. What some say is the biggest medical scandal of our times was exposed last month when whistle blowers released internal files from the self-appointed, “experts” on transgender health, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) proving that WPATH’s “transgender medicine guidelines” had no basis in actual scien…

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The Power of a Resurrection Worldview 28:46

18d ago28:46

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Episode Summary. If you noticed the title of this week’s episode, you may be wondering, “What in the world is a resurrection worldview and why does it matter?” It turns out not only that a resurrection worldview is an essential biblical concept for Christians; it is the foundation for the three specific truths that Paul repeatedly asks for God to h…

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Falsehood--Loving Immigrants Means Supporting Open Borders 28:47

25d ago28:47

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Episode Summary. When faced with the sight of millions of men, women, and children from war-torn lands seeking to escape tyranny to have better life, most Christians will voice their approval for open door policies of inclusion, hospitality, diversity and welcome. After all Jesus, did teach that true believers will hear from Jesus, “I was a STRANGE…

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Falsehood--Abortion is a Woman's Reproductive Right 26:57

1M ago26:57

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Episode Summary. This is the third episode in our March series, Worldviews Leading Our Loved Ones Astray. It begins with the reminder that faithful Christians don’t isolate themselves from cultural issues but fervently seek to raise their light of truth in the spheres around them, that God has commanded them to influence. We examine the argument th…

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Falsehood--Biblical Patriarchy Breeds Toxic Masculinity 28:09

1M ago28:09

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Episode Summary. This is the second episode in our March series, Worldviews Leading Our Loved Ones Astray. It makes the argument that the accusation that biblical patriarchy breeds toxic masculinity is a complete fiction by refuting two of the foundational worldviews that underlie this accusation—egalitarianism and critical theory. It then further …

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Falsehood--Homosexual Orientation Is Normal for Some People 29:16

2M ago29:16

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Episode Summary. This is the first episode in our March series, Worldviews Leading Our Loved Ones Astray. We begin by noting that many of the rising generation are rejecting the Christianity they grew up with because what the Bible says about homosexuality seems so outdated and unfair to them. This episode seeks to recover the teaching that all Chr…

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Her Heart Needs Your Spiritual Leadership 28:42

2M ago28:42

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Episode Summary. This episode acknowledges that those whose loud voices proclaim that the Bible promotes oppressive patriarchy would be horrified to read its title: Her Heart Needs Your Spiritual Leadership. But wise Christians understand both the horrible abuse of women by men and the fact that the cause is not God’s design structure for the home,…

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The Vital Calling to Protect Your Wife’s Self-Esteem 28:41

2M ago28:41

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Episode Summary. Instead of hearing refreshing words of praise and appreciation from their husbands, countless wives endure each day with parched souls and sad hearts. Being starved for words of affirmation, they feel worthless, unattractive, and unappreciated. This episode examines a biblical role of husbands that you may have thought little about…

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Romance That Awakens A Wife's Heart 28:50

2M ago28:50

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Episode Summary. God wants husbands and wives to drink deeply and frequently of the refreshing waters of their partner’s sexuality. But most of us whose marriages have lasted beyond the honeymoon stage have found that sustaining romantic and sexual passion has been a lot harder than we ever thought it would be, especially because our wives are NOT …

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Your Wife Craves Heart Intimacy With You 27:44

3M ago27:44

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Episode Summary. This episode examines five biblical texts that reveal the various facets of a wife’s need for heart intimacy with her husband. 84% of wives 9indicate that their husbands have no clue how to meet this need of their hearts. For Further Prayerful Thought: Why do you think 84% of wives say that their husbands are not meeting their need…

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Equipping Our Followers to Be Champions 28:32

3M ago28:32

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Episode Summary. This episode challenges husbands and fathers to be as devoted to bringing out the potential of those under their care as Richard Williams was, the father of Venus and Serena Williams. We take the example of Jesus' leadership of the church as prophet, priest, and king, to identify practically what we should do to help those under ou…

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Maximizing Our Influence As Family Leaders 27:53

3M ago27:53

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Episode Summary. The opportunities to influence our kids’ lives go by in a flash and after they are launched are rarer still. So, dads and granddads need to know how to maximize the influence we do have. This episode examines God’s two-part design of the influence we wield as spiritual leaders of our home, positional influence and relational influe…

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Effective Family Leaders Know Their Destination 26:56

3M ago26:56

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Episode Summary. Family leadership isn’t for the half-hearted. And it is not always appreciated by our followers! What is worse is that our leadership attempts can fail, disheartening us. But as Wayne Gretzky has pointed out, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” This episode examines what leadership at home looks like, so we can give it our…

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Rejecting Jesus' Call to Biblical Manhood 28:51

3M ago28:51

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Episode Summary. There are so many forces in today’s culture, our own hearts, our wife’s heart, and churches today that are pushing hard against men taking leadership in their homes and churches, that daring to lead our families is tough. It isn’t for sissies. It demands courage to overcome our uncertainty about what we are doing, a thick skin to r…

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Discipleship When Your Master is the Prince of Peace 28:09

4M ago28:09

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Episode Summary. In my view as a men’s ministry leader, one of the great tragedies of the church today is that we have failed to capture the hearts of men with the greatness of our mission. This episode focusses on just one aspect of a decision that every Christian who is listening to this podcast has made—choosing to be a follower of King Jesus. D…

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How Is Believing in Jesus Any Different From Believing in Santa? 28:26

4M ago28:26

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Episode Summary. As our children and grandchildren leave their homes, we can expect them to hear the argument that they should act like adults and stop viewing the Bible’s fairy tales as anything more than morally uplifting stories like The Little Mermaid, The Lord of the Rings, or Santa Clause. Against this backdrop, we must help our children and …

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The Magi Bring Worship AND Horror 28:57

4M ago28:57

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Episode Summary. Our culture is shaped by the interaction of various worldviews that compete for the influence to shape thinking. Ten days ago in the halls of Congress many of us saw the moral bankruptcy of a worldview that is held by many of the cultural elites, when the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn would not say that the conduct code of t…

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Mary's Femininity Was Not a Social Construct 28:26

5M ago28:26

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Episode Summary. Is anything more beautiful, spectacular, and wonderful than God’s creation of WOMAN? I think not. She is the crowning achievement of God’s creation process. She is the one for whom a husband is to die. Yet, we live in a culture that has profoundly marred the portrait of fulfilled womanhood as God designed it to be—and it is our fem…

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Joseph of Nazareth—A Glimpse of True Manhood 26:50

5M ago26:50

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Summary: At this cultural moment Christian men face the extreme risk of abandoning our calling to godly manhood, because of the cultural pressure we feel every day. This pressure not to make distinctions between men and woman or their designed roles is squeezing many Christian men and leaders into the world’s mold and resulting unfaithfulness. But …

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Becoming Like Jesus Hurts 27:26

5M ago27:26

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Summary: As irritations, frustrations and trials crowd into our lives bringing out our bad attitudes, we are hit in the face with James’ almost impossible command, “Count it all joy when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness” (James 1:3). “Be joyful,” says James, “because when it hurts,…

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Actually Becoming Partakers of the Divine Nature 27:53

5M ago27:53

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Summary: It is hard to image anything that would please Jesus more than hearing, “I want to be just like you.” Incredibly, the Apostle, Peter tells us in 2 Peter 1:3-8 that God has graciously given us a present—his divine power to partake of his divine, holy nature. He outlines 3 specific steps by which Christians access that divined power. The las…

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Peter’s Words When Evil Seems to Be Winning 28:06

5M ago28:06

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Summary: Against a moral backdrop much like ours, in which evil seemed ready to envelop the whole empire. Peter gave specific advice to the Christ-followers of his day. This episode examines that advice and how we can follow it in today’s world. We will see that despite being disheartened by the way Evil was winning the cultural battle between Chri…

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Untapped Spiritual Power 26:51

6M ago26:51

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Summary: Great men in the eyes of Jesus are those who fight the sinful attitudes of their hearts, self-centeredness, pride, resentment, lust, selfishness, impurity, rivalry, idolatry, greed, envy, selfish anger. They surrender in humility to God’s reclamation project of re-making them into the toughness of character that Jesus showed. They channel …

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Jesus' Command--Be WATCHFUL not ASLEEP 27:25

6M ago27:25

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Summary: In the last ten years there has been an explosion of confusion among adolescent children about their gender. Girls doubting their femininity are suffering. Boys uncertain about masculinity are unsure of themselves. Alarming statistics reveal that the more confused children are about their gender, the greater is their risk of suicide. What …

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What Hamas' Atrocities Teach Us About Worldviews 27:38

6M ago27:38

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Summary: Because of the Hamas attack on Israel two weeks ago, I’ve changed the topic of today’s episode to address a battle that all Christians are called to fight—the battle to shape our culture’s worldview to conform to biblical truth, instead of letting false worldviews blind our culture to reality, because we are silent. This episode examines h…

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Overcoming SELFISHNESS to Love Others WELL 27:10

6M ago27:10

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Summary: No man wants to fail his wife or kids. Despite loud cries to the contrary in our culture, we men are assigned the position of head of our marriage, which means if we love our wives well, they will flourish. As those assigned the role of father, our concrete love for our kids is designed to prepare them to see and welcome the parallel but i…

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Battling a Lie that Causes Rebellion 26:06

7M ago26:06

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Summary: This episode continues our October series on the battles men fight by examining Satan’s efforts to destroy our trust in God’s character. Such confidence MATTERS to God so much that his Word says, “Without faith it is impossible to please him,” (Heb 11:6a). All meaningful love-relationships require trust. Because Satan wants to destroy our …

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How Lust Defeated David 28:20

7M ago28:20

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Summary: This episode begins our October series on the battles men fight and begins with the temptation that survey’s reveal is at the top of men’s temptations—overcoming lust and if married directing their sexual desires totally towards the wife of their youth. We study David’s fall and the lessons we can take away from this biblical example. For …

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Defeating the Kingdom of Darkness 27:45

7M ago27:45

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Summary: This episode raises the question, “Could it be that Satan and sin are racking up wins against us NOT because we’re NOT trying hard enough, but because we are not fighting with the right weapon?” Christ’s agenda of righteousness will never prevail in our own hearts or over the earth through trying harder. We must defeat the kingdom of darkn…

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Living Out of OUR CALLING Instead of DRIVENNESS 27:49

7M ago27:49

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Summary: On the night before he died, Jesus made the astonishing claim that he had completed the work the Father gave him to do. We wonder how Jesus could have talked about a completed work. His three-year ministry seemed all too short. For every prostitute whose heart he touched, hundreds remained untouched. For every blind man enabled to see, hun…

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What Jesus Said We Are to Pursue 28:07

8M ago28:07

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Summary: This episode provides a biblical definition of the term kingdom of God and when that becomes clear, we will see why Jesus said that PURSUING THE KINGDOM OF GOD is the most valuable objective anyone could ever build his life around! For further prayerful thought. Why is seeking the kingdom of God like a pearl merchant pursuing and finding a…

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Shaping Day-By-Day Life to Seek First the Kingdom 28:13

8M ago28:13

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Summary: Hall of Fame NFL stars, besides excelling at unrelenting commitment to becoming the best they can be at their position, usually have developed a high football IQ, which helps them put playing their position in context. Jesus’ job description for his followers is to seek first the KINGDOM OF GOD and his righteousness. But it is impossible t…

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Understanding Progressive Christianity—An Impostor Capturing Our Kids 28:10

8M ago28:10

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Episode Summary: God assigns Christian fathers the responsibility of protecting their children—and one of the greatest dangers to them in this cultural moment is the false religion called progressive Christianity. This episode exposes this new movement that many in the rising generation are becoming convinced is superior to their old fashioned, clo…

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Two Requirements for Helping Teens Resist Gender Theory 26:34

8M ago26:34

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Summary: Vibrant marriages and healthy families are the result of following God’s design of male and female to have different needs, responsibilities, and callings in the family. These words came from a veteran Christian counselor who had once been a beat cop on the streets of Miami. I think this counselor is right—which means that today’s Christia…

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7 Steps to Protect Our Kids from Gender Confusion 25:39

8M ago25:39

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Episode Summary: A few years ago, while having lunch with a Marine Corps officer at Quantico, he said, “My 12- year-old daughter just told my wife and me that she is transgender. What do you think I should do?” This episode answers the question, “As Christian men, how do we protect the rising generation from the harm they experience through gender …

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God’s TOXIC MASCULINITY Reclamation Project 26:27

9M ago26:27

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This is the fourth episode in our summer series, Meeting the Worldview Challenges in a Broken Culture, in which we repeat past episodes that are vital for men leading their families in 2023. This original episode was published on Easter Day of 2021. This summer we continue to experience an unprecedented assault upon God’s design of gender, with Chr…

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Why Fight for Truth in a World That Hates IT & US 25:58

9M ago25:58

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Summary: Many weary Christians are disheartened as they try to battle for truth in our culture. The thought crosses our minds, “Why battle for truth in a world that hates you? After all, Jesus was clear to his disciples, If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the w…

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Answering BIBLICAL TEACHING IS CULTURALLY DETERMINED 26:09

9M ago26:09

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Episode Summary: One of the arguments your family is hearing this summer is that the biblical teaching about gender and gender roles reflects the oppressive patriarchy of the OT culture as well as Paul’s patriarchal, abusive views of women. Paul and the OT, it is argued, also reflect unenlightened, culturally determined views of homosexuality as si…

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There Can’t Be Just One True Religion 26:14

9M ago26:14

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Summary: Fighting words are words that arouse a visceral response in people, making their gut churn and their hands ball into fists. As we have all observed, in the past few years fighting words have been flying all over twitter and Facebook in the political clash over our nation’s future. This episode looks beneath this political fight to a deeper…

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How Could a Good God Allow Suffering? 25:41

10M ago25:41

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Summary: Historians tell us, Ideas have consequences. One idea that has invaded the human heart is responsible for more human destruction than any other idea—the falsehood that God’s goodness can’t be trusted. When this wrong idea captured Eve’s heart, she rebelled, Adam rebelled with her, and humans have been rebelling against God and his law ever…

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Kids & the SCIENCE DISPROVES GOD Argument 24:28

10M ago24:28

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Episode Summary: This episode is the first in the July and August series, Meeting the Worldview Challenges in a Broken Culture. It equips the rising generation to confidently respond to the SCIENCE DISPROVES GOD argument. For Further Prayerful Thought: Which of the four arguments for the existence of God do you find most compelling? Which do you th…

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Building a Plan for Training Your Child 28:08

10M ago28:08

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Episode Summary. This episode gives four biblical foundations upon which a father needs to build his plan for training his child in the way he should go. For Further Prayerful Thought. How would you support the argument that the starting point for training a child is to help his heart learn to hate evil because he experiences painful consequences f…

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How to Fill Our Kids’ Tanks with Fatherly Love 26:36

10M ago26:36

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Episode Summary. This episode gives seven ways that fathers and grandfathers can pour love into their kids to regularly replenish them with the unconditional love thar kids need. Special Fathers’ Day Note: More and more organizations are declaring June National Fatherhood Month. What would happen around our nation and the world if every Christian b…

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Step One in Our Parenting Plan 27:57

11M ago27:57

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Episode Summary. One of my favorite memories as a dad was the way my kids, if they were playing in the yard and saw me drive up, would run to greet me. That always made me think of Proverbs 17:6, the glory of children is their father. Fathers don’t deserve it, but God has designed into our children a natural tendency to admire and want time with us…

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Stop Fatherhood from BEING CANCELED 27:47

11M ago27:47

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Episode Summary. This episode examines why our words promoting fatherhood need to be heard by our children, grandchildren, neighbors, and work associates. It further suggests winsome ways to present the biblical worldview that fatherhood is vital for human flourishing. For Further Prayerful Thought. Why do you believe more Christian men do not take…

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Money Management and Our Hearts 27:51

11M ago27:51

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Episode Summary. This episode seeks to put a biblical lens over the inter-relationship between our money, our giving, and our hearts. For Further Prayerful Thought. Why do you think Jesus’ view of money was so stark—that it wants to enslave us? Why do you think that happens? Someone has said that maturity of character is measured by your ability to…

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Thinking Biblically About the Poor 26:41

11M ago26:41

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Episode Summary. This episode seeks to look at poverty through a biblical lens, understanding it’s causes, misguided attempts to solve it, and especially what fulfilling our responsibility to care for the poor looks like. Resources Used for Today’s Podcast When Helping Hurts, Steve Corbett, and Brian Fikkert For Further Prayerful Thought. How would…

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Should Christians Pursue Economic Equality? 28:14

12M ago28:14

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Episode Summary. We continue our May series Thinking Biblically About Money Greed and Economic Justice by looking carefully at the claim made by many social justice advocates that Christians are hypocrites for not standing up for the poor and embracing ECONOMIC EQUALITY for everyone as Jesus would have. Is this claim true? How do we respond to our …

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