C&MA Men Living the Adventure

Focus
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. (De 6:4-9)

Impact
A young man made a covenant with God a number of years ago that if God would save his elderly grandmother he would go into full-time service. Over the past several years the man felt God moving him toward full-time service. Then four years ago the Lord reconciled his grandmother and grandfather after 30 years of separation. Six weeks later his grandmother surrendered her life to the Lord. The young man is in his third year of seminary and is planning on serving as a tent-maker in China.

News
Pat Morley Hits the Airwaves. "The Man in the Mirror Minute" at a station near you.

We're excited to announce a new radio program: The Man in the Mirror Minute. These 60 second shows feature a quick thought from Pat for men who want to follow Christ more closely, and direct people to the Man in the Mirror website for more information. You can hear some sample programs at www.maninthemirror.org. Just click on the radio microphone at the top.

Call your local Christian radio station today and ask them to carry “The Man in the Mirror Minute” with Patrick Morley!

Continuing Education Units (CEU) are available for Alliance pastors who attend No Man Left Behind Conferences. Take your men’s leadership team to a conference. Check with your district office on getting credit. Check the calendar for an event near you.

Life
Marked Men for Christ - Building Stronger Men for Christ.

What makes you weak? What lessens your walk with Jesus? Is it anger? Fear? Sadness or shame? What about deceit in your life? If there was less of you and more of Jesus in your heart and mind would that be good for your Christian way of life? Marked Men For Christ (MMFC) ministry recognizes and embraces all

Christian men who are in need of strengthening their faith walk as disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ. MMFC's ministry provides a four step process including a weekend retreat, 10 weeks of follow up, ongoing small groups and service opportunities.

Check MMFC out at: www.markedmenforchrist.org or call toll free at: 888-828-MMFC. Steve "Spice" Spicer servant leader/president/co-founder Marked Men For Christ ministry 1-888-828-MMFC. (Ministry of the Month)

Male Friendship - "Saying nothing sometimes says the most." - Dickinson

"Men often know one another's deepest feelings through the efficient expression of a look or a nod -- not by talking," reports William Speed Weed (yes, that's really his name) in an article all about the "rules" of male friendship. Friendship is built on trust. Disclosure, reciprocity, and intention form solid relationships between men. Friendship in the past has been gauged in a very feminine way - keeping in close contact on a daily basis and sharing the detailed minutiae of their lives. According to the article, "Male friends do more together but talk less than female friends. Yet that doesn't make male friendship any less remarkable or important." (Article of the Month). Read the rest of the article here.

Leadership

Brothers! describes the process men go through in developing accountable relationships. "This is the best book out there for men's small group leaders," says Brett Clemmer, VP of Leadership Development at Man in the Mirror.

Reboot (with Joshua) Moving into Place (Joshua 3:1-4)

The main players in chapter one were the Lord, Joshua and the leaders of the Reubenites, Gadites and half tribe of Manassah. The Lord gave the initial instructions. In the second chapter, Rahab is the focus. She was a woman who transferred her faith from the Canaanite gods to the Lord Jehovah. In chapter three the Lord is front and center in directing the Hebrews in crossing the Jordan River.

Put the Lord in Front. (v4) Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before.” First, the leaders instructed the people to follow the Ark of the Covenant across the river. The Ark, representing the presence of the Lord and carried by Levites, was to show the way. The Lord calls us to take ways we have never traveled before. Do we put Him in front of everything we do? When the Lord asks us the impossible, He does not leave us to our own devices.

Secondly, (v4) “But keep a distance of about a thousand yards between you and the ark; do not go near it.” That put the ark in a vulnerable position. Protection for the ark was 1000 yards back. Fast forward to 2 Sam 6:6-7. Uzzah died because he tried to steady the Ark. The message is this: God and God alone would protect His presence. Do we try to help God out by using secular solutions in our life and ministry, or do we trust the Lord to work through the power of the Holy Spirit?

I will love the poor because they are alone.
I will love the rich because they are afraid.

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