During times of war, soldiers receive briefings concerning their current situation and preparing them for what's ahead. Today a war rages on for the souls of men. Man in the Mirror is dedicated to fighting along side and supporting those in this battle. The Weekly Briefing is an email from Pat Morley specifically designed to equip, encourage, and challenge you as a leader in The Battle for Men’s Souls.

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279

Leading a Balanced Life

278

Are Your Men Trained or Untrained?

277

Teach Your Men to Engage the World

276

Teach Your Men the Four Stance Toward the World

275

Teach Your Men a Theology of Work

274

Small Groups

273

The Only Measure of Success in Ministry to Men

272

Think Process, Not Program

271

Does Jesus Really Want You to Cut Off Your Hand?

270

Father Wound

269

We Must Manage Against the Fall

268

Don't Blow Up Your Ministry by Solving the Wrong Problem: A Case Study from The Man in the Mirror Men's Bible Study

267

"Pursued," Not Just "Followed," by His Goodness and Unfailing Love

266

Mother Wound

265

Jesus: The First 30 Years

264

Anger

263

Can You Answer the Question, “What Is a Disciple?”

262

Resolved: “I Will Disciple Men in 2008 Because It’s the Right Thing To Do”

261

“Lord, I Can’t Wait To See What You Are Going To Do Today”

260

A Tribute to My Friend Ken

259

Gaining Control Over Secret Thoughts

258

The Necessity of “Multiple” Personal Invitations

257

A Different Way to Think About Integrity

256

Why I Love Suffering

255

The “Crawl, Walk, Run” Mindset

254

Are We Making Cabinets or Managing a Cabinet Shop?

253

How Christian Men Get Caught Up In Idols

252

How Christian Men Get Caught Up In Lies

251

The Instructional and the Relational Approaches to Reaching Men

250

Insights about Christian Books for Men

249

Thoughts from the Grand Canyon

248

The Importance of Christian Books for Men

247

A Powerful Message on Motivation from Bill Hybels

246

Four Reasons You Need a Team (and Four Reasons Why a Team Needs You)

245

The Value of a Team

244

When the Bills Are Piling Up

243

A Reform Movement to Call the Church Back to Making Disciples

242

Waiting on the Lord: “Active” versus “Passive” Waiting

241

The Power of Your Testimony

240

When We Don’t Know Which Path to Take

239

More on Bathsheba....

238

What to Do Once You’ve Seen Bathsheba

237

When I Was an Orphan

236

Staying Fresh Against the Weariness of Life

235

A Man Winning His Spiritual Struggle

234

This Is My Real Life-Right Here, Right Now

233

The Discipline of Marriage

232

Chapter 12: A Man and Evangelism

231

Chapter 11: A Man and Service

230

Chapter 10: A Man and Stewardship

229

Chapter 9: A Man and Spiritual Warfare

228

Chapter 8: A Man and Fasting

227

Chapter 7: A Man and Counsel

226

Chapter 6: A Man and Fellowship

225

Chapter 5: A Man and the Sabbath

224

Chapter 4: A Man and Worship

223

Chapter 3: A Man and Prayer - Second Excerpt

222

Chapter 3: A Man and Prayer

221

Chapter 2: A Man and the Bible

220

Chapter 1: A Man and Creation

219

An Introduction to the Spiritual Disciplines

218

Do You Feel Inadequate to Lead?

217

Have You Prayed About That?

216

12 Questions to Diagnose the Health (And Viability) of Your Men's Bible Study

215

You’re a Leader!

214

Determination Is Not a Strategy

213

Men Don't "Need" Christ

212

Six Happy New Year Thoughts

211

Who Will Take the Son?

210

Ideas That Have Guided My Life

209

Questions to Grow Your Church in 2007

208

Can Any Organization Survive With 16% Effectiveness?

207

Has the Christian Men's Movement Made Any Difference?

206

A Report on the Christian Men’s Movement

205

How Do We Disciple Those Who Don’t Want It?

204

Disciple Men to Disciple Their Families

203

What Difference Does Church Size Make in Discipling Men? Part 3

202

What Difference Does Church Size Make in Discipling Men? Part 2

201

What Difference Does Church Size Make in Discipling Men? Part 1

200

Amendment to the All-Inclusive Men’s Ministry Concept

199

Excerpt #12: Implementing the Model in Your Church

198

Excerpt #11: Sustainable Men’s Ministry

197

Excerpt #10: The “Next Step Mindset”

196

Excerpt #9: The Personal Invitation

195

Excerpt #8: Your Elevator Speech

194

Excerpt #7. An All-Inclusive Ministry to Men

193

Excerpt #6. The Senior Pastor’s Enthusiastic Involvement

192

Excerpt #5. Discipleship as The "Portal" Priority

191

Excerpt #4. How Do Men Change?

190

Excerpt #3. What is a Disciple?

189

Excerpt #2. Our Marching Orders

188

Excerpt #1. No Man Fails on Purpose

187

How to Build a Sustainable Bible Study

186

All-Pervasive Men's Ministry

185

Two Kinds of People: Those Who Build Up and Those Who Tear Down

184

An Honorable Way to Leave

183

A Plan to Disciple Every Man in Your Church

182

Why Doesn't My Teaching Connect With My Men?

181

The Da Vinci Code: Should You See It? Should Your Men?

180

You and Your Men Are Under God's Protection

179

Give Your Men Tasks

178

The New Christian Men's Movement

177

The "Before, During, and After" of Leading an Effective Meeting - Part 3: After

176

The "Before, During, and After" of Leading an Effective Meeting - Part 2: Before

175

The "Before, During, and After" of Leading an Effective Meeting - Part 1: During

174

But Do You Like Me? Not Making Acceptance Conditional

173

Half the People Are Not Going to Like You Anyway

172

Your Leadership Style Doesn't Matter

171

Recruiting, Training, and Resourcing Leaders

170

What We Have to Offer Men

169

The Dog Story

168

The 2006 Leader's Pledge

167

What Do Men Want? (Part 3)

166

What Do Men Want? (Part 2)

165

What Do Men Want? (Part 1)

164

A Leadership Lesson from Weight Watchers

163

Four Types of Christians: (or Why Christians Become Lukewarm)

162

Seven Tasks to Disciple Men

161

My Favorite Christmas Story

160

How To Write in a Way That Connects?

159

Do Children "Pay" for Their Parents' sin?

158

What is the Realtionship Between Faith and Works?

157

What is the Gospel? (Part 5)

156

What is the Gospel? (Part 4)

155

What is the Gospel? (Part 3)

154

What is the Gospel? (Part 2)

153

What is the Gospel? (Part 1)

152

All Work and No Play Will Make You a Dull Boy!

151

What's the Difference Between a Manager and a Leader? (Part 2)

150

What's the Difference Between a Manager and a Leader? (Part 1)

149

Leaders Require Their People To Lead Balanced Lives

148

Why Did Our Leadership Team Fail?

147

Visionaries: What Are Great Leaders Like And How To Be One

146

Nehemiah: A Case Study on Leadership and Implementing Change

145

The Theme of Resistance

144

The Theme of Sustainability

143

The Theme of Communication

142

The Theme of Execution

141

The Theme of Resources

140

The Theme of Planning

139

The Theme of The Right Idea

138

The Theme of People

137

The Theme of Leadership

136

Implementing A Men's Discipleship Program: Nine Themes

135

What's The Best Thing You Can Do To Help Your Men?

134

Facts and Figures for Father's Day

133

Encourage Your Men on Father's Day: A Great Illustration

132

10 Ways We Can Lose Momentum

131

How Much Should You Tell Men About The Cost To Become A Disciple?

130

10 Reasons God Allows Suffering

129

24 Leadership Ideas

128

Seven Deposits For Mother's Day This Sunday

127

Good News For Men About Their Teens

126

25 Ways To Connect With Your Pastor

125

Why Is This Ministry Taking So Long To Get Going?

124

Strategies for Daily Bible Readers

123

How Should We See The Lost - Especially When They're Ignorant?

122

Jesus and a Box of Cuban Cigars

121

Are All Who Call Themselves Christian, Christian?

120

Approaches to Build a Successful Small Group

119

How To Build a Men’s Ministry Where There Is No Support

118

Why Your Pastor Won't Support Men's Ministry
(And What Might Change His or Her Mind)?

117

Lessons from Oxford's Holy Club

116

What Can We Tell Men About Leading a Balanced Life?

115

What (Else) Can We Tell Men About True Success?

114

Don’t Inoculate Your Church Against Men’s Ministry

113

What Can We Tell Men About True Success?

112

What Can We Tell Our Friends About Suffering?

111

Engage Men By Answering Questions

110

Suggestion for One Year Bible Readers

109

Six Habits of Spiritually Happy Men

108

Research Findings on Program Failure and Success (Part 3)

107

Research Findings on Program Failure and Success (Part 2)

106

Research Findings on Program Failure and Success (Part 1)

105

Why Spiritual and Numeric Growth Are Both Good

104

Who Are Your Friends... Really?

103

Why Do Men Come to Church?

102

Why Is There Such Little Power In The Church?

101

Men Are Extremely Sensitive

100

How to Stay Married (Even When You Don't Want To)

99

70% of Discipleship Programs Will Fail

98

Why Is The Men's Ministry Leader Quit Rate So High?

97

96

Hurricanes in Perspective: The Inconveniences of Affluence

95

How to be Heard

94

All-Inclusive Ministry to men (Part 2)

93

All-Inclusive Ministry to men (Part 1)

92

Discipleship Defined

91

The Power of Ideas: Choose Your Ministry Carefully

90

Can any organization survive with 16% effectiveness?

89

From Presumption to Faith

88

The Danger of Presumption (Part 2)

87

The Danger of Presumption (Part 1)

86

Count your disciples: The "Are you a disciple?" survey

85

How Do You Measure Your Ministry Effectiveness?

84

Two Errors: Continuing to Refine Our Definition of Discipleship

83

3 Marks of a Disciple: Continuing to Refine Our Definition

82

Sustaining the Leader

81

How God Has Guided Me
(PLUS Building a Backup Message)

80

The Core Men's Ministry Questions

79

Effective Communication: "Show, Don't Tell." 

78

"Sustainability" Wrap Up

77

"Sustainability" (Part 5)

76

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73

"Sustainability"-The Number 1 Problem in Men's Ministry 

72

3 Ways God Deals With Men Who Make Idols

71

Making Our Messages More Concrete

70

69

68

Meditating on the Attributes of God

67

The Irrefutable Mission of Your Church

66

For Every 10 Men In Your Church...

65

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63

62

61

60

59

58

57

56

Men’s Ministry: Should You Quit?

55

Are You a 4th Seed Leader?

54

A Discipleship Reformation

53

Discipleship: The “Portal” Priority

52

A New Name - Weekly Briefing

The below volumes were titled as "Just A Thought"

51

A New Concept for "Specific" Mentoring

50

Why Your Men's Ministry is Marginal

49

Why We Don't Need Any More Christians

48

The Distinction Between Disciples and Workers

47

How Should Christians Feel Toward Britney Spears?

46

All-Inclusive Men's Ministry

45

44

Excellence

43

When the Walls Are Closing In

42

Animals in Heaven? See You Later, Katie

41

A Leadership Lesson from the Daytona 500

40

Are We Overlooking 30 Year Olds?

39

A Reminder from Two Fallen Astronauts

38

What have you Accomplished?

37

Do We Really Need the Fall?

36

If These Commercials Are True, What is a Man?

35

My Favorite Christmas Story

34

"You Can't Legislate Morality" - True or False?

33

What is the Gospel?

32

Are You a "Bold" Leader?

31

The Temptation to Make a Rule Where God Did Not

30

What is the Highest Expression of Christian Faith?

29

Maybe You Missed God's Will

28

Do You Have A Daughter?

27

Seriously, That's Amusing

26

My Father, a Man on a Mission, Died September 2, 2002

25

Why Are Some People Prayer Maniacs?

24

What Did You Think Of My Book?

23

Three Reasons to Disciple Men

22

Caution about Coming to the Wrong Conclusions

21

How to Lead a Man to Christ

20

How to Give Your Testimony

19

An Apologetic Approach to Witnessing

18

A More Potent Faith

17

Surrender and Commitment

16

The "Sicky" Feeling in My Stomach

15

My Greatest Comfort

14

Three Things All Men Want

13

Merry Christmas Everyone!

12

I Just Don't Feel Like Praying

11

Peace "In" Recession

10

Odd Things #1: Avoiding Persecution

9

A Thanksgiving Idea

8

Where is Your God Now?

7

Our Second Language

6

Redefining Normal

5

Is Our Battle with Islam?

4

A Tribute to our President

3

Optimist or Pessimist?

2

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