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October 25 - November 15, 2018
Children need to be guided into the value system we want for them.
Four hours a day of television against thirty-seven seconds of conversation with Dad is a statistic we need to reflect on.
once they become teenagers, their friends (peers) exert more influence on them than any other single factor.
If we can learn to control our selfish desires, not lose our tempers so often, and encourage our kids, they will inherit a great legacy from us.
In a Denver crusade, Dr. Billy Graham spoke about this verse of Scripture, indicating they had learned that in homes in which a child came to Christ first, 25 percent of the time the entire family became Christians. When the wife came first, 40 to 50 percent of the time the entire family accepted Christ. But in families where the father came to faith in Christ first, the entire family came to faith in 60 percent of the cases.
No man would be unwilling to die for his children. How much more important it is to live for them.
Most men are not unhappy with their marriages, but they’ve never learned how to really enjoy their wives. They
The worst possible marriage is the one in which both partners are unhappy, and both aim for their own selfish way.
In the Hate and Resist marriage, the wife nags her man, idles the day away, and contends with her husband’s authority.
Men live with a paradox. We sincerely want to have close friends, yet we fear letting someone get too close. We worry that if someone really got to know us, they wouldn’t like us. As someone starts to get too close, we find ourselves withdrawing — we change the subject, or figure out how to say good-bye.
As we become closer to someone, we really do want to share our secrets with them. We want to be known, to have someone care about us and help when we are hurting. But we also find another force at work within us, urging us to keep our distance so we won’t get burned.
Debt enables men to pretend to be somebody else.
Debt is a symptom of a consumptive lifestyle — not always, but usually.
We all do exactly what we decide to do; we are the sum of our decisions.
The power to make correct moral decisions results from a man’s desire to have integrity and the enabling power of God.
I learned in my PhD studies that a full two-thirds of all organizational change initiatives fail outright, whether public or private, profit or not for profit. Here’s the bottom line: most decisions fail.
Our first step in making good decisions by not making wrong decisions is to live by the Word of God.
We, too, must decide whether or not to put God in a position in which He must save us from our own foolish decisions.
The second principle of effective decision making is to not put God to a test.
The third principle of effective decision making is to always worship God and serve Him only in your decisions.
1. Make decisions according to the Word of God; if your decision contradicts Scripture, it’s a bad decision. 2. Avoid foolish decisions that test God; don’t put yourself in a position that requires a miracle to bail you out. 3. Avoid decisions that reduce your worship and service to God; don’t get caught up in the rat race and chase phony gods.
Every decision is at least a spiritual decision.
However, a huge difference exists between receiving forgiveness and receiving a pardon.
He is not so much interested in your position as He is in your attitude, not so much in where you are as in where you are going.
Most men have not settled the issue of what their priorities should be. Among those who do know, too few live according to those priorities.
Saturday is like the discretionary income in our paycheck. Most of our paycheck goes to essentials, but the amount left over can be spent as we want. How do you spend your Saturdays? Does the way you spend this discretionary time reflect the priorities
you would like to be remembered for?
1. Who and what does God want me to be and to do? 2. How does God want me to use my time and my money? 3. What character and conduct traits does God desire in me? 4. What relationships and tasks does God want me to emphasize?
Simply stated, God wants us to live by biblical priorities, to be biblical Christians.
To know God is to love Him. A man who understands how deeply God longs for a personal relationship with him will be overwhelmed by how God took the initiative in his life.
The most practical way is to obey Him.
One practical way to demonstrate our love is to obey His instruction to study the Word, and to do so daily.
The Bible tells us to “pray continually”
I don’t think a man can say he loves God very much if he doesn’t attend church regularly.
The man in the mirror can do nothing better than look intently into the Word of God that gives freedom and discover the principles, precepts, and guidelines offered.
Honor your father and mother.
The purpose of work is to glorify God with the abilities He has given us.
He has given us.
To have a faith without any good works is no faith at all.
To summarize, five overarching areas of importance to God form the foundation on which we are to prioritize our lives: 1. To love God 2. To love others 3. To rest 4. To work 5. To do good works
try to prioritize everything I do in light of the Great Commission.”
The time management problem is less a tips and techniques problem than it is a strategic problem.
When we don’t have a sense of where we are going, where we are now isn’t that important. Only when we know our purpose
where we are going — can we make heads or tails out of how to use our time.
Our purpose helps us prioritize. Our priorities form solid ground to stand on when we make plans and set goals. Time management is no more and no less than strategically “engineering” a progre...
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God always provides enough time to accomplish His plans. We each have...
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Nothing wastes more time for the Christian than pursuing his own independent will.
Efficiency is doing the job right. Effectiveness is doing the right job right. It’s not enough to do the job right if it’s the wrong job.
While it is certainly true that no success will come to a lazy man, it is not conversely true that hard work assures a man success.
What are you afraid of? What makes you worry?
What am I afraid of? It’s a question that I often just blow off and say, “nothing”. Oh, maybe a little fear of heights or standing on a higher rung of a ladder. Ok, maybe I am a little fearful that I might contract cancer or something before I have a chance to see all my kids married or grandkids grow up. Well, maybe I’m a little scared that something will happen to my wife and I would have to live my life and would be so lost without her. Maybe there is a bit of fear that I can’t find work to provide for my family. Or that we won’t be able to move closer to our kids...or, or, or. The truth is, there are a lot of things that I’m afraid of. Until I face them, I can’t defeat them. I think the first step in moving beyond our fears is identifying what they are. And, until I spent a few minutes identifying them right now, I didn’t realize how many there are in my life.
