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Travesia Del Corazon Salvaje – (Spanish)
$16.99Add to cartBook Description
En La travesia del corazon salvaje, John Eldredge, autor de exitos de libreria, ensena a los hombres que Dios quiere completar su crecimiento a traves de seis etapas de masculinidad y equipar a los padres para que puedan ensenar esto mismo a sus hijos varones. -
When Your Father Dies
$18.99Add to cartFor men, the death of a father is uniquely and deeply traumatic. Veerman and Barton share their own experiences with the deaths of their fathers and also those of more than sixty men, including Max Lucado, Chuck Colson, Hank Hannegraaff, and Bill Hybels. They also include insight and practical advice from professional counselors to prepare readers for the emotional struggles that accompany the death of a father.
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Stories For A Mans Heart
$16.99Add to cartThis rerelease of the popular Stories for a Man’s Heart is an enjoyable collection of quotes, humorous stories, and short stories selected just for a man’s heart, repackaged in an attractive new cover. These uplifting, feel-good, and motivational stories will inspire men to be “all they can be.” The book features contributions from many of today’s most respected and loved communicators and is divided into sections on virtue, love, motivation, encouragement, fatherhood, sports, legacy, and faith. Each inspiring story touches on the values and virtues that mean the most to men.
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12 Ordinary Men
$19.99Add to cartContrary to popular belief, we do not have to be perfect to do God’s work. Look no further than the twelve disciples whose many weaknesses are forever preserved throughout the pages of the New Testament. Jesus chose ordinary men – fisherman, tax collectors, political zealots – and turned their weakness into strength, producing greatness from utter uselessness. MacArthur draws principles from Christ’s careful, hands-on training of the original twelve disciples for today’s modern disciple – you.
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Tender Warrior : Every Mans Purpose Every Womans Dream Every Childs Hope
$18.00Add to cartBecome the man you were created to be! Now revised and updated with chapters on “finishing the course” God has set before you, Weber’s book lays out the divine blueprint for manhood. Discover how to balance tenderness with strength, speak your wife’s language, foster friendships, and be an obedient and blessed servant of the Lord! 288 pages, softcover from Multnomah.
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Unleash Your God Given Potential
$14.99Add to cartToday, God wants to reveal His blueprint for your life to you and help you achieve true success. In this book, you will find the necessary tools to fulfill your God-ordained purpose. You will learn how to apply valuable lessons about courage, ambition, decisions, integrity, failure, encouragement, and significance, amongst others.
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Every Single Mans Battle (Workbook)
$17.00Add to cartAs a single man, you’re in a war against sexual temptation.
But God has given you powerful ammunition.
A comprehensive workbook for personal or group study!You’re bombarded by sexual images. You’re constantly battling inner urges. You want to do right-in fact, you want to meet God’s standard of avoiding any hint of sexual immorality. But accomplishing that goal is a challenge.
If you are a single man struggling to remain sexually pure, you are not alone. Now there’s practical, hard-hitting help from the authors of the blockbuster Every Man series. Every Single Man’s Battle Workbook guides you-or your men’s group-through an honest and clear exploration of God’s Word. You’ll undertake a personal journey into key Scriptures, wrestle with questions for reflection and examination, and discover the practical tools and Biblical strategies you need to live the pure life God is calling you to– even while living in a sexually soaked culture.
Make a frontal assault on the temptation every single man faces. This workbook provides all the resources you need.
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Game Plan : The Mens 30 Day Strategy For Attaining Sexual Integrity
$18.99Add to cartMen everywhere are under attack-your neighbor, your coworker, your pastor, even your husband. And, even in Christian homes, 40% of men have fallen to this foe that can destroy marriages and ruin lives.
Who is this devastating adversary? Pornography. It floods our airwaves and PCs, assaulting the senses, and luring its prey to return again and again.
Drawing from seventeen years of counseling practice, and using material that he’s taught for more than ten years, Joe Dallas is helping readers face this enemy. Equipping those who have been caught up in pornography or other forms of sexual sin with the ability to abandon that behavior and never return.
Using the acronym ROUTE-Repentance, Order, Understanding, Training, and Endurance-Dallas walks readers through the steps necessary to attain-and maintain-sexual integrity.
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Good Husbands Guide To Balancing Hobbies And Marriage
$13.99Add to cartHarvest House Print On Demand Title
Avid hunter Steve Chapman (A Look at Life from a Deer Stand-200,000 copies sold) enthusiastically pursues a lifelong hobby while remaining passionate about his wife and home. Knowing the perils of spending too much time in the woods, he prayed, studied God’s Word, and sought advice. The result? Nine life-changing principles to balancing hobbies and marriage, including-
*investing equal finances in his spouse’s interests
*spending more time with his wife than with his hobby
*communicating desire to be with his family
*sharing the child-rearing load
*making sure hobby doesn’t cause a messWhether their passion is hunting, golf, or team sports, this guide will help men participate in hobbies and keep their families happy.
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I Love You More Workbook For Men (Workbook)
$12.99Add to cartRelationship experts and award-winning authors Les and Leslie Parrott believe the same forces that can tear down a marriage can become the catalyst for new relational depth and richness–provided you learn the secrets to using everyday problems to strengthen your marriage. In this workbook companion for the book, they help men explore how a marriage survives and thrives when a couple learns to use problems to boost their love life, to literally lover each other more.
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Being Gods Man By Standing Firm Under Pressure (Student/Study Guide)
$10.00Add to cartHow to maintain your godly boundaries even under pressure.
When you’re faced with an imminent threat, your body releases adrenaline. Your heart beats faster. Your muscles tense, and all your senses switch to Go. But what happens when your spiritual well-being is under attack? Do you stand strong in your desire to do God’s will or run for the hills?
The path of faith is tough traveling. Fighting to hold on to God’s purposes under adverse conditions is inconvenient, impractical, and thoroughly unpredictable. Standing firm under pressure reveals our true convictions about God, about everything.
In Being God’s Man by Standing Firm Under Pressure you’ll examine one man named Daniel and his band of brothers who demonstrated how not to compromise under pressure. They didn’t let misfortune, temptation, manipulation, intimidation, or even death shake their faith into compromise. Instead, they faced each new challenging circumstance with courage and trust. As God’s man, you can, too.
Special Features:
*Practical studies facilitate personal encounters with God and other men
*Questions encourage genuine reflection and help build godly convictions
*Real Life case studies show how the truths you discover have worked out in other men’s lives
*Standing Strong section gives you the opportunity to form and express your action steps with God and your group -
Being Gods Man By Resisting The World (Student/Study Guide)
$7.99Add to cartIf you think God’s values and the world’s values can co-exist, think again.
You have to live in this world. But if you want to be God’s man, there’s a catch: You can’t be absorbed or influenced by the world. You have to stand strong as a man of God and resist the world.
Men like you who are getting serious about their walk with God feel a deep, intuitive conflict of the soul where unholy alliances with the world, which were once acceptable, must now be broken. That’s not easy. But here’s solid, trustworthy guidance for you from men who have been there, too.
In Being God’s Man by Resisting the World, you’ll take a look at Christ’s template of values as revealed in the Sermon on the Mount. Every man who seeks to understand and train in these values will experience a greater connection with God. So forget what you know, focus on these truths, and start living large spiritually.
Special Features:
*Practical studies facilitate personal encounters with God and other men
*Questions encourage genuine reflection and help build godly convictions
*Real Life case studies show how the truths you discover have worked out in other men’s lives
*Standing Strong section gives you the opportunity to form and express your action steps with God and your group -
Being Gods Man By Claiming Your Freedom (Student/Study Guide)
$11.99Add to cartYou’ve already been set free by Christ.
When are you going to start experiencing that freedom?What does it look like when a man lives out a truly authentic, loving walk with Jesus Christ? It looks like freedom.
The Apostle Paul, a man made new by the gospel of Jesus Christ, presents one of the clearest images of the godly man in action. He’s committed to a life of faith, focused on the Spirit instead of the flesh, set free to love others. No longer focused on himself, he demonstrates his faith by serving others. You can be that kind of man by claiming your freedom in Christ. Being God’s man means being set free to exemplify Christ’s love.
Being God’s Man by Claiming Your Freedom will stimulate personal reflection and honest dialogue with God and other men. The goal is that you will strive to be God’s man in every way feeling his heart for others, and doing his will obediently and joyfully.
Special Features:
*Practical studies for individual use or group settings facilitate personal encounters with God and other men
*Questions encourage genuine reflection and help build godly convictions
*Real Life case studies show how the truths you discover have worked out in other men’s lives
*Standing Strong section gives you the opportunity to identify action steps for lasting change. -
Being Gods Man By Walking A New Path (Student/Study Guide)
$10.00Add to cartTake up a new calling. Walk a new path. And experience life’s greatest adventure.
Will you discover your true reason for living, enter the battle, and become a new man in Christ? Or will you settle for less? To live more purposefully, to experience a full life, to become more, you will have to become someone else and walk a new path.
This kind of attitude is what the Navy Seals look for in a man: Rogue warriors. Unconventional. Committed. Guys who will do anything to win the battle and stay true to their new identities. Walking this new path requires men who won’t shrink from the battle.
In spirit, the Apostle Paul was this kind of a rogue warrior for God’s kingdom. He was tough and uncompromising and he held to a code that marked his life. He lived on purpose, not by accident. He surrendered his life and became a support for others. If you choose to become this kind of man made new, unwilling to compromise, then let this great apostle lead the way.
Special Features:
*Practical studies facilitate personal encounters with God and other men
*Questions encourage genuine reflection and help build godly convictions
*Real Life case studies show how the truths you discover have worked out in other men’s lives
*Standing Strong section gives you the opportunity to form and express your action steps with God and your group -
Being Gods Man By Finding Contentment
$10.00Add to cartHow satisfied are you with your life?
Men like you are finding it tougher than ever to be content with what they have. They compare themselves with others and continually come up short. The soul-gnawing result is discouragement and disappointment.
Lasting contentment comes only from a transformation of your mind, emotions, and will. It also takes a personal encounter with the God who can make you content.
In Being God’s Man by Finding Contentment, you will track this struggle for a new identity through various biblical passages. Like Jacob, you will not be fully settled and content until you lay to rest your past and take up a new identity in Christ. Jacob became a new creature, a man on a mission for the Lord. His struggle was over. He knew why he was here and what he had to do. His life took on purpose and meaning that transcended the striving. Yours can, too.
Special Features:
*Practical studies facilitate personal encounters with God and other men
*Questions encourage genuine reflection and help build godly convictions
*Real Life case studies show how the truths you discover have worked out in other men’s lives
*Standing Strong section gives you the opportunity to form and express your action steps with God and your group -
Company You Keep
$19.00Add to cartDavid Bentall explores the experience of three men who have supported each other in friendship for more that twelve years. He chronicles how friendships can inspire, challenge and have the potential to transform lives. He provides suggestions for initiating long-term nurturing friendships. Most importantly, Bentall describes the tremendous benefits such frienships have on all the person’s life, including family relationships, physical fitness, self-esteem, and spirituality.
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Back To The Garden The Man The Purpose
$12.49Add to cartBack to the Garden, the Man, the Purpose is encouraging, equipping, and empowering men of God to walk in the life-changing power and victory of Jesus Christ. Anointed Teaching Message! Author and teacher Hope D. Blackwell will take you “back to the garden” of Eden to experience a breaking, healing, and powerful release of the Spirit of God in your life. Discover answers to some of life’s most difficult questions. You will be transformed and renewed as you uncover the deeply rooted issues that can hinder you from walking in the full potential of your purpose as a man of God. Powerful Revelation of the Scriptures! Let’s go “back to the garden” where you will be strengthened and encouraged as you go from the shadow of Adam to the type of Christ. Look for Back to the Garden, the Woman, the Purpose and other books in the Back to the Garden purpose series.
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Accountable Man : Pursuing Integrity Through Trust And Friendship
$18.99Add to cartPerfect for use by men’s groups, small groups or one-on-one accountability relationships, this handy guide includes lists of straight-to-the-point questions that will help you keep one another walking with integrity.
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12 Hombres Comunes – (Spanish)
$15.99Add to cartContrariamente a la creencia popular, no tenemos que ser perfectos para hacer la obra de Dios. Sin ir mas lejos, las debilidades de los doce discipulos estan preservadas para siempre a traves de las paginas del Nuevo Testamento. Jesus eligio gente comun, como pescadores, recolectores de impuestos, politicos fanaticos; y cambio sus debilidades en puntos fuertes, produciendo grandeza de la total inutilidad. MacArthur delinea principios del cuidadoso entrenamiento de los primeros doce discipulos, para los discipulos modernos como tu.
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Life Of Integrity
$17.00Add to cartThis unique compilation features the messages that helped launch the Promise Keepers movement and raise the standard for men across our nation. Contributing authors are Chuck Colson, Gary Smalley, Jack Hayford, Bill Bright, Luis Palau, Ron Blue, Joe Stowell, Dennis Rainey, Bruce Wilkinson, Ravi Zacharias, John Maxwell, and Howard Hendricks. These are the messages that caused men to cheer and applaud…then fall to their knees and weep. These are the messages that inspired countless numbers of men to dedicate their lives to God and to serve Him with all their hearts.
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Prayers That Avail Much For Men
$4.99Add to cartThese books were made to travel! Whether on the plane, to the office, or just on your nightstand, these books were designed to keep up with your busy lifestyle. With more than 3 million copies in print, Germaine Copeland’s bestselling volumes of Prayers That Avail Much(R) have proven themselves as essential staples in the book market nationwide. Also available in new and abridged mass market editions, the nationally renowned Prayers That Avail Much(R) series now conveniently places the power of prayer right in your pocket.
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Mens Relational Toolbox
$16.99Add to cartUsing the right tool for the job makes sense when it comes to building or fixing things around the house. But when it comes to significant relationships, men often grab the tools that make them successful in the workplace–and then wonder why they didn’t work. Through humorous anecdotes and practical advice, this engaging book will help men discover and repair the relationships that are most important to them.
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Gods Gift To Women
$16.99Add to cartIn a culture that exalts the caveman like qualities of masculinity, most women have stopped expecting anything more. Young men are often taught to view women as slaves to their self-centered desires. More than ever, men need to know that they can rise above this sad mediocrity. They desperately need someone to recognize their potential for blending courage and kindness, strength and spiritual sensitivity. With its riveting vision of Christ-centered manhood, God’s Gift To Women shows young men how to become the heroic, selfless knight that every woman dreams about.
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Healing The Masculine Soul
$18.99Add to cartIn his groundbreaking book fifteen years ago, Gordon Dalbey identified the fact that men’s souls have been torn between strength and sensitivity. Today, the situation is even worse. The politically correct crowd cries out for men to be more sensitive, to tame their masculine nature. On the opposing side, the media bombards men with “macho” images of violence and lust. Is it any wonder men are left bewildered about who they should be? In this newly revised and updated edition of Healing the Masculine Soul, Dalbey claims that there’s hope for restoration, hope for healing_because Christ has come to heal us. God is calling men out to a relationship with Himself and calling them out to authentic manhood. “Our task is not to curse our manhood, but to redeem it,” he writes. Gordon Dalbey’s refreshing, comprehensive picture of God’s design for the masculine soul dares men to be as God created them to be_not as society demands. Dalbey tackles the tough issues, including work, sexuality, marriage, and fatherhood. Book includes Study Guide.
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Being Gods Man As A Satisfied Single (Student/Study Guide)
$11.99Add to cartYou may be single by choice or circumstance. You may plan to marry and have a family, or you may sense a call to lifelong singleness. Even so, your situation is God’s will for you now. What will you do with it? What will you learn from it? And how will you survive the temptations confronting singles in this world?
You know firsthand that single men face unique spiritual and moral struggles. Character is the cornerstone of being God’s man as a single in today’s culture. To live successfully out of a commitment to Christ, you as a single man must master the issues of sexual integrity, isolation, contentment, spiritual battle, and identity in Christ. Being God’s Man as a Satisfied Single is designed to help you do just that.
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Samson Syndrome : What You Can Learn From The Baddest Boy In The Bible
$18.99Add to cartThe story of Samson is the perfect vehicle to reveal the twelve tendencies that can bring down strong men: disregarding their boundaries, struggling with lust, ignoring good advice, overestimating their own cleverness, and others.
Written in a compassionate, funny, and practical style, The Samson Syndrome offers readers powerful ideas for making sure they use their greatest strengths to honor God in every situation.
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12 Ordinary Men Workbook (Workbook)
$21.99Add to cartPointing to the lives of the disciples – twelve ordinary men through whom God worked extraordinary things – John MacArthur presents a pattern that modern disciples can pattern. In spite of – and sometimes because of – weakness and imperfection – God can and will use his believers to accomplish His work. This hands-on, practical workbook is divided into 12 chapters based on the 12 unique disciples offers the tools needed to train as a true disciple of God. This workbook will help Christians uncover and unleash the power of His word and will in their own lives and the lives of others.
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Corporate America : Refreshing The Christian Business Man
$13.49Add to cartI am hoping that this book will help encourage those of us who are especially involved in corporate America. I will be the first one to tell you that this book isn’t a really deep one, but it’s a nice easy read. I have found that it is very easy to get caught up in the busyness of life, in the politics of corporate America, so that we lose our focus on Christ. Hopefully by digging into the Word of God we will be encouraged and will change our lives, especially to be an example while we are at work. Once again, this is a simple reminder and refresher, so we can focus more of our energies on actually doing God’s will, not just reading about what we are supposed to be doing. Let’s remember that Christ makes us who we are, not our jobs and busy schedules.
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Living In Victory
$15.99Add to cartWithout a doubt, the quest to attain sexual purity is the #1 battle Christian men face in the 21st Century. The message of this timely book is that you need not settle for a fear-driven form of freedom when an abundant life of victory in Christ is yours for the taking. The secret to victorious living is to tap into God’s great storehouse of mercy for one’s own needs, and then act as a conduit for that power, directing it toward the lives of others. Overcoming habitual sin is important, but real victory occurs when a person becomes a weapon in the hands of a powerful God against the legions of hell. That is living in victory! Win the battle for sexual purity. Lay down your weapons and become one!
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Checklist For Life For Men
$16.99Add to cartChecklist for Life is the ultimate handbook for living a successful, joy-filled life. This follow-up title, Checklist for Life for Men, offers insight into topics and issues that are specific to men9s interests. In addition to a brief narrative, each interactive chapter of the handbook contains: An “I Will” checklist of heart and attitude reinforcements. A “Things to Do” checklist of action points. A “Things to Remember” section of Scripture verses and applicable quotes from famous and not-so-famous people. Topics addressed include work, integrity, and marriage. In all, the book addresses 66 topics men care about. And the handsome, sturdy package and two-color text design make Checklist for Life for Men an ideal gift.
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Exemplary Husband Teachers Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$9.95Add to cartHere is a biblical blueprint for the mandate God has given to husbands in the covenant of marriage to love their wives, even as Christ loved the Church. Dr. Stuart Scott has responded chapter by chapter to the biblical teachings put forth in Martha’s popular book. Where Martha writes about a wife’s submission, Stuart responds with a chapter on the husband’s leadership.
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Devotions For The Man In The Mirror
$16.99Add to cartPatrick Morley, a leader in the Christian men’s movement, offers motivation and inspiration to help men put Christ first in their lives. The 75 short two-or-three-page readings depict practical daily life challenges of men in their jobs, their finances, and their relationships. These thought-provoking devotions will help men
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10 Secrets For The Man In The Mirror
$18.99Add to cartIf You Do What You’ve Always Done, You Will Be What You’ve Always Been.
Gut-level and frank–short enough to read on a single plane trip!
Best-selling author Patrick Morley shakes up the existing messages about how men find happiness. In this paradigm-busting book, Morley challenges your comfort zone with neglected biblical insights about happiness that many have been afraid to utter in this me-first generation.
You already know that money and stuff won’t make you happy, don’t you? Are you ready for some reality? Ten Secrets for the Man in the Mirror offers life-changing insights about the nature of true happiness and how to attain it. It helps you discover the “blockage points” that can keep you from joy, and it guides you toward success that matters.
Concise and engaging, this book is perfect for the on-the-go man in search of a guiding purpose the rat race can’t begin to offer.
True happiness has everything to do with the kind of man you are and whose man you are.
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2d Half For The Man In The Mirror
$18.99Add to cart“Like a good coach at ‘halftime,’ Morley helps men evaluate their past mistakes and provides the kind of practical insights, encouragement, and inspiration that will help them ‘run to win’ the rest of the way–and reach their full potential in Christ.”–Bill McCartney, founder & CEO, Promise Keepers
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7 Seasons Of The Man In The Mirror
$19.99Add to cartIn his phenomenally successful The Man in the Mirror, award-winning author Patrick Morley took men for a close-up on crucial aspects of their manhood and challenged them to establish wise priorities in life. In Seven Seasons of the Man in the Mirror, Morley shifts the focus to wide-angle. Looking at the broad sweep of life itself, he helps men determine where they are, where they’re headed, and how to get there.
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Tempered Steel : How God Shapes A Mans Heart Through Adversity
$16.99Add to cartMen’s issues expert and bestselling author Steve Farrar exposes the most painful tragedies of a man’s life and shows how they also happened to the biblical King David! Men facing troubles on the trail of life will relate to chapters on Depression, Betrayal, When Your Family Is Falling Apart, Living With a Bad Decision, Living With Your Critics, and When Your Career Is Interrupted. Farrar encouragingly illustrates how David depended on God to get through the same sins and trials-still remaining “a man after God’s own heart.” Farrar’s second book drawn from the Psalms honestly accepts the hard times that every man must encounter on his journey and offers sound biblical counsel to get through them.
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Spirituality Of Men
$26.00Add to cartMoving beyond old stereotypes of manliness and Christian identity, sixteen men of faith here chart new identities, roles, and attitudes for Christian men. The writers include men who are deeply in the Christian church and men barely in the church, straight and gay men, white men and African Americans, Protestant and Catholic, younger and older. As pastoral theologians, they offer keen observations of and prophetic witnesses to the core issues, deepest wounds, and greatest potentials for men today.
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Men Mentoring Men Again
$21.95Add to cart“And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, ‘… Go therefore and make disciples….’ “
The need for mentoring has never been greater in our society. Men Mentoring Men Again helps meet that need by effectively challenging and equipping men to take their roles as spiritual “fathers” and “brothers” in Christ seriously.
Bill McCartney
Founder and President, Promise KeepersThis guide goes beyond Men Mentoring Men to consider pressing issues men face. How does a man overcome habitual sins? How do men cope with the busyness of life? What’s a godly man’s role in the workplace? Men using this resource will develop a spiritual growth plan, as well as learning to wage spiritual warfare, to fast and pray, and to walk in obedience. Best of all, Dr. Donovan’s teachings are presented in terms that any man can understand and apply.
Men Mentoring Men Again is a resource designed to assist Christian men in fulfilling Christ’s commission. It is not merely information — it is an action-oriented guide which requires relationship and mutual accountability. Each session will challenge men to share their victories and their struggles … to maintain a daily journal as well as being committed to regular Bible reading.
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Future Men
$15.00Add to cartIntroduction
Understanding Future Men
Molding Future Men
Future Men Against Themselves
Future Men With Others
Conclusion: Fighting Idols
Appendix A: Liberty And Marijuana
Appendix B: Proverbs Was Written For Boys
Acknowledgments
Index Of ScriptureAdditional Info
As much as it may distress us, our boys are future men. When Theodore Roosevelt taught Sunday school for a time, a boy showed up one Sunday with a black eye. He admitted he had been fighting and on a Sunday too. He told the future president that a bigger boy had been pinching his sister, and so he fought him. TR told him that he had done perfectly right and gave him a dollar. The stodgy vestrymen thought this was a bit much, and so they let their exuberant Sunday school teacher go. What a loss.Unbelief cannot look past surfaces. Unbelief squashes; faith teaches. Faith takes a boy aside and tells him that this part of what he did was good, while that other part of what he did got in the way. “And this is how to do it better next time.”
As we look to Scripture for patterns of masculinity for our sons, we find them manifested perfectly in the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the one who set the ultimate pattern for friendship, for courage, for faithfulness, and integrity.
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Maximized Manhood : A Guide To Family Survival (Revised)
$15.99Add to cartThis is a book that is unabashedly, uncompromisingly written to men. There are many books about us, but precious few written to us. It is a throw back to the days of “man-to-man talks,” male virtues, chivalry, and a respect for women and children that grew out of understanding the responsibility of being a “grown man.” It is a book that enables us to discover the maximum potential of our lives–to live as maximized men. It is long overdue.
Pungent and direct, this is a book that challenges today’s man. Some may be so angry at the ascertions that they will want to slam the book down and quit. Others will be tempted to fire off a hot letter to “get Ed Cole straightened out.”