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Your church or men's ministry may be planninig its men's events calendar. Whether its breakfasts, dinners, retreats, seminars or conferences, you'll be looking for top notch speakers to make your event a success. Well, check out WACMM's Speaker Bureau where you'll find exceptional speakers who have a heart to minister to men and who speak around the Region and across the country.
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WACMM has developed and assembled some of the best resources available to help you grow in biblical manhood and to disciple your family and other men. In the WACMM Toolbox are dozens of helpful and encouraging articles and videos about what it means to be a man of God from great authors and writers, such as John Piper, Al Mohler, Pat Morley & Steve Farrar. CLICK HERE
New Man Magazine recently featured an article about what's wrong
with most men's discipleship efforts:
"We know that as go the men, so go the marriages, families, churches, communities and culture. Today these institutions are in crisis because men are in crisis...Men are largely disengaged, unchallenged,under-led, discouraged, and disconnected.
Host Church - South Potomac Church - White Plains MD
Next ISI Conference Saturday October 20
"One of the greatest uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time."
John Piper, pastor/theologian
Don't Waste Your Life (PDF book)
by John Piper
by Chris Van Brocklin, WACMM Training Director
by Wayne Grudem and John Piper
various topics for individual and group study
Check our Dr. Pat Morley's new book MAN ALIVE
by Tim Keller (from C. S. Lewis Institute Winter Quarterly)
(tied for first in the category of Christian Living)
by Russ Moore (audio file)
at 10//22/11 WACMM ISI - Audio File
by Kevin DeYoung
by Dennis Rainey
by Dave Brown
by Pastor Darrin Patrick
FREE Resources for Your Manhood Journey
Tom Joyce
Keynoter
former Top Gun Aviator, 9/11 Pentagon survivor, US Naval Academy grad and Pastor Immanuel Bible Church in Springfield VA
As Go Men, So Go Marriages, Kids, Churches, Culture
Founding Pastor of the Journey Church in St. Louis and author of the book Church Planter, Darrin Patrick gives us a sobering account in this video of what happens when men go missing in the church and older men fail to reach out and connect with the younger generation of men.
Patrick says"...we have a couple of generations of males who were not raised by men and the result is a prolonged male adolescence. In a culture where the influence of godly men is desperately needed, this void results in a legitimate cultural crisis".
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with WACMM's Monthly E-Newsletter20 Ways Satan May Try to Destroy You this Week
He is the serpent, the Great Dragon, Beelzebul, the ruler of this world, the prince of the power of the air, the evil one, and the adversary. He is Satan. And—if you are a follower of Jesus Christ—he hates your guts with a passion. Like a roaring lion he is prowling about seeking to destroy you. How can you stand firm and resist the devil so that he will flee from you? First, do not be naive; you must consider his ways..READ MORE
Rod Hairston Keynoter
Chaplain and Life Coach, Baltimore Ravens; Senior Pastor of Messiah Community Church, Owings Mills MD
Northern Virginia pastors, ministry leaders, and faith-based community organizations are invited to a kick-off meeting of The Northern Virginia Strengthening Families Faith Based Consortium.
This new consortium in conjunction with the Virginia Department of Social Services is seeking to connect and reconnect fathers with their children, encourage the formation and development of safe, stable, intact two-parent families, to create a resource and support network for men, and to help reduce non-marital births. The meeting will be:
Thursday, May 24, 2013 - 11:30am - 2pm
Emmanuel Baptist Church, 3801 Buckman Road, Alexandria VA
(Lunch will be provided)
For more information and registration, contact:
Rev. Anthony J. Mingo, Sr..
Steering Committee Chair
(703) 402-0685 or amingo@fishersofmenforjesus.org
Major Northen Virginia
Fatherhood Initiative
Kick-off Meeting Set for May 24
Man in the Mirror Is looking for as many as 330 Area Directors around the country who will work full-time to help churches in their area disciple men. Each will have a territory of about 1,000 churches and will be trained in raising funds to support the ministry in their area as well as every aspect of what Man in the Mirror has learned in 25 years of fine-tuning men's discipleship.
If you're interested in learning more about this opportunity or know someone else whom God may be calling to this initiative, go to www.mimareadirectors.org to learn more. Now more than ever we need to move forward to reach our country for Christ, one man at a time.
"We must choose sides, clearly and openly, as David did. There is nothing more tragic than a Christian man who is hard to read. David had the guts to stand up for Christ, because he valued the Lord’s approval more than human approval".
So says Dr. Ray Ortlund, Lead Pastor of Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee. There is nothing more important for men than to know, embrace, proclaim and fight for the unvarnished Gospel. Getting the Gospel right is one of the biggest challenges in ministry to men today. For several excellent resources.about the Gospel from an emerging corps of young warriors in the church click HERE.
Gospel Militancy
Of his faith, he has said this, "I am a Christian, no matter what else I do. I could change my name to something else, but I would not become someone else. My Christian identity doesn't depend on my earning the title; the start of my journey as a Christian is my certainty that I don't merit the love of God and I have it anyway-just as I am, without one plea.. I believe that the death of Jesus of Nazareth opened a door to love and life that are, quite literally, a union with God. I don't understand it, but Jesus didn't ask for my understanding. He just said "Follow me," gave up his life, and rose from the dead. So I try to follow."
Who is this Brother in Christ?
Correct Answer: RANDALL WALLACE
You might be interested in two of Randall’s recent talks.
The first is his powerful presentation at the 2011 National Prayer Breakfast on the power and importance of prayer. HERE
The second clip is a fascinating radio Interview with Hugh Hewitt HERE
Spring Trivia Challenge - Answer
He grew up in the Baptist church, attended seminary, and holds a black belt in karate. His first job after college was in a theme park managing a show with live animals playing musical instruments. He became the creative force behind several academy award winning and critically acclaimed movies. Recently he was the commencement speaker at Liberty University and the keynote speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast.
Stop Pretending: A Note from Pastor Joe Thorn
Pastor Joe Thorn recently wrote Note to Self, a highly recommended introduction to daily discipline. He offers fifty brief, devotional chapters that model how to preach the gospel to yourself and its practical benefits and implications. Here's one particular discipline every man must deal with..."Stop Pretending"
Dear Self,
Like everyone else, you are pretty good at pretending. It is not malicious,
but you can put on a good face when in reality things are not that good.
You want to appear strong even when you are weak, or you at least do
not want to appear weak. This superficial persona is the front of pride that
only encourages the sin to continue in yourself, and it ultimately robs you
of gospel influence-the kind of influence Paul had with the church in Rome,
and they had with him. READ MORE
