Do you feel like you're drifting apart in your marriage?
You're not alone. Over 50% of marriages end in divorce and many more are in survival mode.
It doesn't have to be that way. In fact, that's not how God designed marriage. He created marriage to be a picture of unity and love. He made us to be one flesh.
The problem is that the enemy seeks to divide and conquer us so we will less effective together than we are apart. In God's economy, one plus one equals 3 or more, but Satan seeks to change that math and make it one plus one equals less than one.
What's the state of your marital math?
In this episode, Dr. Harold Arnold of the Leading You Home podcast talks about several ways we can work to stop drifting apart in our marriages. This is an important message for men and for women.
When everything around you is falling, what do you know for sure? How do you exercise faith when everything feels uncertain?
God’s word never fails. God fleshes out his truth in our lives through Jesus’ work on the cross and applies it to our everyday circumstances. He has promised that he will never back down from a promise.
"God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?" (Numbers 23:19)
We do well when we remember his faithfulness to us, especially in those seasons when we know we didn’t deserve it.
Dave Curlee is an ordinary guy. He's a college dropout who’s been laid off more than once. Yet, his story is made extraordinary as he rehearses the profound ways God has moved throughout his life.
Dave is a model for us all to follow. He remembers the dates and times when God showed up. He tells those stories to his kids, his friends and now he shares them with us.
By listening to Dave, perhaps you can see your life through a lens of faith and realize that you also have an extraordinary God story (or two or three) to tell.
Having a vision statement doesn't mean you have vision. What you may be missing is a vision story; a story so clear and compelling everyone knows what to do.
Scott Beebe, founder of Business on Purpose, shows you how to create a vision story in this episode.
Are great leaders born or bred?
Leadership author Hans Finzel says, “If you do what comes naturally, you will be a poor leader.”
You may be born with natural leadership skills, but that doesn’t make you a great leader. Hitler had charisma and leadership ability, but he was an awful leader.
In this episode, we will explore some of the common mistakes leaders make and some specific ways to become a great leader.
Do you want success or significance? Warren Peterson had success, but when he lost his stuff he despaired to the point of planning his suicide. Thankfully, God stopped him and now he helps men pursue living a life of significance.
This episode reveals Warren's journey from despair to finding a life worth living and how he can help you discover ways to become more significant in the eyes of God, your family and the world.
Have you forgotten how to dream? Do you wonder what might happen if you actually pursued your dreams? God called us to have a holy imagination where we can dream and imagine a future that is better than today.
Cliff Ravenscraft, commonly known as the Podcast Answerman, shares his story of letting go of a successful career as an insurance seller to becoming a content creator. Now he wants to help thousands of men learn to dream again and pursue those dreams.
Do you struggle to balance your ambition to excel at work with your desire to be a family man?
As men, we were made to penetrate our world and make a mark.
Too often we fail to bring this same energy into our family lives.
Alejandro Reyes, founder of Church Marketing Labs, experienced this as a child when his father left him and he also wrestled with this as a father and entrepreneur.
Through the wise counsel of a mentor, Alejandro discovered the ability to focus on just three things. This enabled him to revolutionize his productivity, profitability and more importantly, his relational impact.
In this episode, we'll explore those three areas of focus and how you can discover yours.
Do you feel more comfortable wearing cheeseburger socks or a three piece suit? How do you face your fears?
Jeremy Vest is a video strategist by day, skateboards at night and loves to wear cheeseburger socks. He hasn't always felt so comfortable in his own skin. In this episode he shares how he became convinced that the world needs him to be authentic to who he is.
Have you ever felt like giving up? Do you wonder what it takes to persevere when life seems stacked against you?
Sean Cannell, co-founder of Video Influencers, knows how it feels to want to throw in the towel when things seem too hard. He and his wife endured the perfect storm of a health crisis, the Great Recession, and losing a church job in the same year. Learn how they endured these storms and what you can do to be ready for the coming storms in your life.
Do you wonder what happened to the puppy love you and your wife shared while you were dating? Do you long to be close to her but don't know how to rekindle that intimacy?
Tony DiLorenzo of One Extraordinary Marriage believes there are at least seven intimacy killers, but we can conquer them all. Learn how in this episode.
How do we share our faith without becoming pushy, salesy, or irrelevant? Jesus commanded us to let our lights shine, but how do we reveal God's love practically?
Author and speaker, Ramon Ray, shares 7 practical tips that can inspire all of us to reveal God's love in all parts of our lives.
Does your marriage feel stale and uninspiring? What if you could create a love story worth telling for all ages? What if you could strengthen your marriage every day?
Matt Mundt, host of the Engaging Story marriage podcast, reveals 4 ways to help men breathe new life into their marriages. These are practical things we can begin doing today.
Do you wish you had more energy to get everything done that matters to you? What if you could get more done in less time?
Dustin Stout, co-founder of Warfare Plugins, a blogger, and entrepreneur, struggles with these very issues and shares 5 tips to increase your focus, producitivity and energy.
Does competition play a helpful role in the life of believers? What if believers were to compete every day for the things that really matter?
Jake Thompson, founder of Compete Every Day, believes it can transform our marriages, our work, our friendships, and ultimately our faith.
Do you wonder how to overcome frustrations in your work? Does your work make a difference?
Author Kent Porter helps business leaders and employees alike find solutions for the common problems we all face in our work. Through workplace parables, Kent shows the path to overcoming our frustration is often discovered through asking better questions.
Is obesity the silent enemy of the church? According to many doctors, we are fighting an epidemic and it's slowly killing us. The problem is we don't recognize that the enemy is on our plates.
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While you may not be overweight or fear this for yourself, obesity is crippling the church. I have personally felt its increasing effects over the last decade. What woke me up and caused me to take notice is a book by Dr. Michael Brown called Breaking the Stronghold of Food. In there he explores how we become addicted to food, how that steals our joy and life, and can ultimately kill us.
In this episode of Man in the Pew, Mark Mason, an engineer by day and founder of Late Night Internet Marketing by night, shares his own personal journey with food and how his doctor provided him just the wake-up call he needed.
Can you imagine telling yourself that $22.5 million isn't enough? What about $2.5 million?
Paul Adams of Sound Financial Group joins the show to discuss ways that many Christian families are burning money and putting themselves in debt. He shows how you can stop burning your money start living our lives on purpose.
What distinguishes a man of significance from the rest of us?
Over the last six months, I’ve interviewed 25 men about how their faith informs all aspects of their lives. These are men with warts and warbles, but men who follow Jesus and want to be more like him.
Looking back over these episodes, I see ten themes that I find distinguish men who make a significant impact on their worlds--at work, at home, at church, and at play. These are principles that are tested in the lives of other men and all men can learn from these. These aren't necessarily the most important for you, but they are universally important that we all study them.
Did you know that nearly 100% of teenage boys and 70% of men are addicted to pornography?
Most Christian men try to escape this by redefining addiction.
Perhaps the numbers aren’t as severe as this statistic, but the consequences of porn addiction are ravaging marriages, families, churches, and businesses across the world. We need a way of escape.
Nate Larkin, founder of the SamsonSociety, reveals a way of escape in this episode of the Man in the Pew. Through sharing his story, he emphasizes the importance of confession, community, and commitment in recovery.
You've heard the Great Commission where Jesus said to make disciples of all nations (Mt. 28:18-20). But what does that have to do with you as a businessman? How could you use your skills and experiences to build gospel bridges to places where there are few churches? In other words, how do you run your business as mission?
Mike Gingerich, president of Digital Hill Multimedia, shares some ways he's discovered to utilize his business skills to help business and mission agencies around the world. He's even started his own mission agency called iGiveGlobal.org to help men like us discover ways we might leverage our own experiences for the sake of the Gospel.
You're guaranteed to discover some fresh ideas for how you can impact the world by doing what you're gifted to do. Start seeing your business as mission.
What’s your dream job? What if God asked you to leave you dream job? How would you feel? What would your family say?
Jason Romano, former senior producer for ESPN, felt like God was asking him to leave the security of his dream job at ESPN to pursue vocational ministry.
In this episode, Jason shares his story and encourages us all to be willing to say “yes” to God when he asks us to step outside of our comfort zones.
Have you wondered if joining a mastermind is for you? Consider this...
Have you ever faced a major life decision or encountered personal tragedy and wished you had a trusted group of advisors you could turn to? Would it be great to have a personal board of directors made of men who support and believe in you, but also wouldn't be afraid to tell you the truth?
That's exactly what you get when you join a mastermind and Aaron Walker, author of View from the Top, shares in this episode exactly what that looks like and why you should consider joining.
Did anyone ever tell you that you wouldn't amount to anything?
Have you ever been spared from death's door and wondered why God keeps giving you second chances?
In this episode with George B. Thomas, former youth pastor and bouncer, we explore three stories where God clearly spared his life and what he has learned from each of those incidents. Get ready to laugh, cry, and be challenged.
Most Christian families are active in competitive youth sports. In fact 70% of American families enroll their children in organized sports during grade school and middle school.
How do Christian men take advantage of the opportunities to mentor children? How should we behave while we’re sitting in the stands and see the refs make a bad call or the coach doesn’t play our kids?
In this episode with psychologist Dr. John Mckenzie, we explore the opportunities and challenges of participating in competitive youth athletics.
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Has your wife ever asked you to put down your phone while you’re talking to her? Do you wonder what’s happening inside your brain while you’re “multi-tasking”?
This week’s episode features Leslie Samuel, from BecomeaBlogger.com, as we discuss neuroscience and ways we can be more focused in our relationships with God and our family, as well as hacks for being more productive in our work.