Episodes
Tuesday Jun 25, 2013
Raised to Life
Tuesday Jun 25, 2013
Tuesday Jun 25, 2013
Series: The Making of a Man 6/24/13 THE MAKING OF A MAN: RAISED TO LIFE Jesus goes to the city of Bethany, to the grave of a dead man, and when he raises Lazarus back to life it impacts that city. Many people came to believe in him (Jn 11:45). That is what he wants to do in our city, and this entire region today. Now notice, He came because of the women. Mary and Martha called for Him. He came because of the women, but he is on the way to a man. There’s a lot of praying women in churches, and Jesus will come because of the women, and He wants to impart life to the men. There is a pattern in this passage for the resurrection of manhood - a resurrection to a new level of manhood, a new level of spiritual life, a new level of influence, a new level of destiny in this city. This is the future that could be, and should be, and will be if we can get some men who will let God bring them back to life and set them on fire again.
Thursday Jun 20, 2013
Feel Like a Man
Thursday Jun 20, 2013
Thursday Jun 20, 2013
Series: The Making of a Man 6/16/13 God created men and women in His image, and God feels. The Bible tells that God experiences a full range of emotional experience, including grief, joy, compassion and anger (Gen. 6:6, 19:6, Isa 62:5). Emotions are God’s gift to us to help us experience life more meaningfully. The problem is that most men live their lives suppressing their emotions, and the root cause can be traced all they way back to Eden. God originally created men and women to be naked and unashamed (Gen 2:25), which speaks of more than just being physically unclothed. When you’re naked you’re open for discovery and everything about you is exposed. It speaks of openness, honesty, and vulnerability. But after Adam and Eve sinned, Gen. 3:7 says, “Right away they saw what they had done, and they realized they were naked. Then they sewed fig leaves together to make something to cover themselves.” They became closed, covered, protective because they were ashamed. The emotion of shamed is negative, destructive and unhealthy for men and for women...so ladies don’t tune out, this message applies to you to.
Tuesday Jun 04, 2013
Wounded Warriors
Tuesday Jun 04, 2013
Tuesday Jun 04, 2013
Series: The Making of Man 6/2/2013 One Christian leader states that the greatest opportunity and challenge facing the church in the 21st Century is the development of godly husbands and fathers–godly men. Counselor Alexander Mitserlisch asserts “society has torn the soul of the male, and into this tear the demons have fled – the demons of insecurity, selfishness, and despair. Consequently, men do not know who they are as men.” One of the greatest contributing factors to this tear in the male soul, is wounds that they have incurred in their own relationship with their father. Today, I want us to consider the common wounds of the male soul in our culture, because these pains must be addressed in order for men to re-engage the battle to become the men of God they have been called to be.