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January 10 - August 11, 2019
9. The Discipleship Covenant
The will of God isn’t an insurance plan. The will of God is a dangerous plan. It takes tons of testosterone, and it produces high levels of holy adrenaline.
Don’t let an arrow of criticism pierce your heart unless it first passes through the filter of Scripture.
So if the criticism is valid, repent.
When you take offense, you become defensive. And the second you become defensive, the kingdom of God stops advancing through you.
True knowledge results in profound humility, which fuels childlike wonder.
“Live as if you’ll die tomorrow,” said Mahatma Gandhi. “Learn as if you’ll live forever.”
Most Interesting Man in the World, Jonathan Goldsmith!
Dos Equis beer commercials from 2010s
It’s my way of reminding myself of the gift God has given me and the importance of cherishing her.
God has hidden clues about His character in macroscopic galaxies and microscopic atoms. It’s our job—our joy—to discover them.
his dad believed that a new experience was more important for a small boy than an unbroken night of sleep.
There is no situation under the sun in which your ability to respond can be taken away from you. You may not control your circumstances, but you control your reactions to them. And that is what sets the men apart from the boys!
What decision against yourself do you need to make? If you have the courage to make it, it’ll be the best thing you’ve ever done for yourself.
For most guys, we get into trouble when we’re tired, lonely, or bored.
idle hands are the devil’s workshop.
You need a God-sized dream that is bigger and better than whatever sinful temptation you face. You need a vision for your marriage that is better than internet pornography.
Do you have a need that’s not getting met? That’s the target the enemy aims at.
But this is not an excuse to pressure, make demands, or ultimatums
You are defined by what no one sees, save the All-Seeing Eye.
Most people live as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death,
We defeat this dragon by not listening to his lies. How do we tune him out? By making sure that the Holy Spirit is the loudest voice in our lives!
what the enemy tries to do is make obedience seem harder than it really is. He tries to make it seem impossible, unreasonable.
The problem is that most of us feel defeated before the battle even begins. Why? Because we can’t imagine winning every battle, every day.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil,” noted Edmund Burke, “is for good men to do nothing.”
The opposite of apathy is sweat equity. You have to work on your marriage, work on your dream, and work on your faith.
The Dragon of Lust is never satisfied. The more you feed it, the hungrier it gets.
Most of our shortcomings as husbands and fathers can be boiled down to good old-fashioned selfishness.
we become the composite of the people we surround ourselves with. So choose your friends wisely!
Playing the man means not playing the comparison game. Everyone loses at that game. Focus on strengthening yourself little by little. You be the best you that you can be.
daily prayer: “May you grow in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and with man.”
Boredom spells trouble.
It’s impossible to lead your family if you don’t know where you want to take them.
God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loves us!
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues,”
“but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
We cannot—we must not—turn a blind eye to injustice. We have to step up and step in. And we can’t simply point out the problem either. We must be part of the solution.
it might help you identify the specific thoughts, behaviors, and attitudes you’re trying to change.
confess your sin to a trusted confidant.
But the reality is this: revival always starts in the heart, in the home. Then, and only then, does it spread to cities and nations.
you cannot fully appreciate what you have not personally experienced.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst,
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As for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.
the heavenly Father doesn’t love us based on who we are;
He loves us based on who He is. His love is not based on our performance; it’s based on His character.
As an earthly father, I want to be the best reflection of the heavenly Father possible. But I’m just a man trying to make a man.
