Mission Focused Men for Christ
This 20-minute weekly podcast is for Christian men who want to hear, “Well done,” from Jesus, after running the race marked out for them. Its goals are to: 1) EQUIP men to better understand from Scripture their mission, 2) ENCOURAGE men because we fail often, 3) ENERGIZE men because our spiritual tank is often on "empty," 4) EMPOWER men to stay focused on honoring Christ with their lives. The podcast presenter, Dr. Gary Yagel, is known for his practical biblical teaching and encouraging heart. A former church planter in the Presbyterian Church in America, Gary is the founder and Executive Director of Forging Bonds of Brotherhood. He is the author of Got Your Back, and Anchoring Your Child to God's Truth in a Gender-Confused Culture, (available on Amazon) and has taught Making Missional Disciples as a guest professor at Reformed Theological Seminary DC. For further information about Gary’s ministry, go to forgingbonds.org or gotyourback.info.
Episodes
257 episodes
Ideas Have Consequences Cultural Marxism Has Victims
Summary: The spiritual battle in which Christian men are called to engage is largely a battle of ideas. After Paul devotes eleven chapters of Romans to the glory of the gospel, and challenges Christians that the only proper resp...
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Season 5
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Episode 38
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29:57
Christian Men’s Mission in the 2024 Election
Summary: The purpose of this podcast has always been to help Christian men define and stay focused upon their mission as followers of Christ. So, what is our mission over the next 50 days in view of the upcoming American electio...
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Season 5
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Episode 37
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29:49
Prayer Releases Spiritual Power
Summary: Behind the world and the flesh is an even deadlier enemy, one we rarely speak of and are much less ready to resist, the kingdom of darkness, which is to blame for most of the casualties around us and assaults against us. Paul sa...
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Season 5
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Episode 36
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25:12
Using the Sword of the Spirit In Christ's Power
Summary: The biblical context for viewing all of life’s events is called spiritual warfare—the age-old conflict between the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light…. Biblically and practically speaking, we are in a spiritual war...
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Season 5
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Episode 35
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24:37
How Can the Helmet of Salvation Protect Us?
Summary: This episode continues the series, Winning Spiritual Battles Because We Use Our Spiritual Weapons. As we seek to run well the race marked out for us, this calling means advancing the righteous reign of King Jesus...
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Season 5
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Episode 34
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24:40
How to Protect Ourselves from Satan’s Fiery Darts
Episode Summary: Christ has called you and me to follow him in his cause of defeating evil and establishing his righteous kingdom over every square inch of human hearts and lives. There is no other man who can replace you in your life...
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Season 5
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Episode 33
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25:19
Being Contagious Christians
Episode SummaryThis episode continues our study of the armor of God and finishes looking at Eph 6:15, where we’re told to put on, as our shoes, the readiness of the gospel of peace. Most Christian men want to be co...
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Season 5
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Episode 32
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24:18
How Misunderstanding Evangelism Makes Us Fear It
Episode Summary. Often Christians think of evangelism like this: It is having the courage to overcome every piece of emotional intelligence we’ve learned about relationships, and intruding into the life of a co-worker, neighb...
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Season 5
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Episode 31
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24:19
Put On the Breastplate of Righteousness
Summary: Do you ever feel like our side is losing in the spiritual battle—that the powers of darkness and evil are winning? Perhaps more specific to our own lives, do you ever wonder why the Christian life is so hard, why sin so easily e...
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Season 5
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Episode 30
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25:09
How NOT To Promoted Biblical Truth
Episode Summary: Is our mission today, as Christians living in America, to recover America as a Christian nation? As we process what happened last weekend and go back to the last election and the storming of the Capitol, ...
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Season 5
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Episode 29
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28:27
Prayer That Defeats Evil
Summary: This episode continues the series, Winning Spiritual Battles Because We Use Our Spiritual Weapons. Every guy who reads this blog would stand at the door of his house with a shotgun to protect his family physic...
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Season 5
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Episode 28
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27:03
Using the Spiritual Weapon Satan Fears Most
Summary: This episode begins the series, Winning Spiritual Battles Because We Use Our Spiritual Weapons. As we seek to run well the race marked out for us in 2021, i.e. advance the righteous reign of King Jesus in our own...
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Season 5
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Episode 27
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27:20
Teaching Kids the Glory of God’s Work/Rest Rhythm
Episode Summary. One of the words used to describe the worldview of the culture in which we all swim is secularism, which describes a lifestyle of preoccupation with the visible, material world to the neglect of the world of...
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Season 5
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Episode 26
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27:51
Teaching Kids Why Respecting God's Name Matters
Episode Summary. Fatherhood champion Anthony Bradley’s research proves what Scripture teaches us about the role God has assigned to fathers in creation: fathers are the most important men in any community, anywhere, everywhere, ever. The...
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Season 5
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Episode 25
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27:52
Teaching Kids Why Some Worship False Gods
On October 7, 2023, more than 3000 members of the radical Muslin extremist group Hamas surged across the Israeli border crying “Allahu Akbar” “God is good” raping women, beheading children, torturing, mutilating and murdering more than a thousa...
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Season 5
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Episode 24
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28:03
Teaching Kids Why God Has to Be First
Episode Summary. Unlike adherents to multi-culturalism, Christians realize that God chose to reveal his moral law to one nation, Israel, in a rather spectacular manner. God himself wrote his summary of his moral law on two stone tablets ...
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Season 5
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Episode 23
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28:28
Is Social Media Catechizing Your Children and Grandchildren?
Episode Summary. With the average teen spending over 50 hours a week on his or her phone, it is undeniable that social media is catechizing our children, not the church. This episode seeks to recapture the urgency of the fathers role to ...
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Season 5
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Episode 22
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29:20
Paul's Countercultural View of AUTHORITY
Episode Summary. This episode shows how the biblical worldview of authority laid out for us in I Timothy chapters 2 and 3 is on a collision course with the worldviews of critical theory, egalitarianism, and multiculturalism at almost eve...
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Season 5
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Episode 21
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29:57
Paul's Leadership Command--FIGHT
Episode Summary. There is strong evidence that Christians today are oblivious to much of the spiritual battle that Scripture repeatedly urges us to fight. In fact, in Paul spiritual leadership charge to Timothy, he commands, “fight the g...
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Season 5
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Episode 20
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28:02
Biblical Male Leadership's Aim is Love
Episode Summary. When I hear accusations today of the bible teaching oppressive patriarchy, it reminds me of Mark Twain’s comment, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what <...
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Season 5
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Episode 19
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28:38
Captured by the Bible's Countercultural View of Manhood
Episode Summary. This episode considers the impact that a worldview called critical theory is having in our culture, supplanting a biblical worldview at many, many points. The goal is that by the end of the episode all of us wil...
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Season 5
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Episode 18
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28:56
Jesus' Promise of Escape From the Driven Lifestyle
This episode is for those who find themselves feeling more driven than called as they walk through life. It examines the way Jesus addressed the relentless internal pressure many feel to have to perform, and the resulting interna...
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Season 5
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Episode 17
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28:59
Jesus' Unwavering Allegiance to the Father
In a world that is becoming increasingly complex because of innumerable opportunities to which our cell phones connect us, it is refreshing to remind ourselves of what Jesus said was at the core of following him. You shall love the Lord ...
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Season 5
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Episode 16
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28:57