Ten Powerful Principles for Progress in Life (Part 2 of 2)

Training4Manhood

Guest: Cory Butler, Lead Students Minister, Citizens Church

Numbers 1-5 are on last week’s episode with Cory, this week we are looking at numbers 6-10.

6. Long obedience in the same direction

• Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society by Eugene Peterson
• Hebrews 12:10-11 - For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

7. Awareness of how culture disciples (trains/teaches/shapes) us

• Reminder to connect yourself first to Christ, then children to your parents - not their peers - if children are connected primarily to their peers, their growth and development will be limited and lack creativity

8. Feelings are good servants and terrible kings (so many boys don’t know how to feel)

• One of the good things that has been brought forth from the COVID crisis was the increase in people seeking professional licensed counseling - remember that as Christians, we should be seeking BIBLICAL counseling!
• The Place We Find Ourselves, a podcast from Adam Young, LCSW, MDiv.
• Proverbs 12:15 - The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

9. Hard things aren’t necessarily bad things (some of the best things require the most work)

• Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations by Alex and Brett Harris
• Serious Times: Making Your Life Matter in an Urgent Day by James Emery White
• The only thing that grows without work is weeds. If you want to cultivate a garden, it will take effort.
• Catching Foxes: A Gospel-Guided Journey to Marriage by John Henderson

10. You can be humble and strong (Biblical paradox, concept of “meekness”)

• Humility: The Journey Towards Holiness by Andrew Murray
• From Humility: No tree can grow except on the root from which it sprang - if your root is humility, then humility will be the fruit of your life. The chief mark of counterfeit holiness is its lack of humility.
• Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers by Dane Ortlund

10(a) - put Biblical definitions on things - don’t look with the world’s eyes, but through the Word of God - this is the development of a “Biblical worldview.”

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