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
307 episodes
Protection 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 6
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Episode 35
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26:08
Steering Conversations to Share the Gospel
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 contagious...
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Season 6
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Episode 35
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25:25
Myths That Make Us Fear Sharing Christ
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 6
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Episode 34
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24:57
How Do We 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 6
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Episode 33
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25:47
Loving and Promoting God's Truth
Episode Summary: Is our mission today, as Christians living in America, to recover America as a Christian nation? As we process what happened in the last election and the storming of the Capitol since, Christians are divid...
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Season 6
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Episode 32
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25:57
Praying to Defeat 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 6
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Episode 31
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26:41
The Weapon Satan Fears Most
Summary: As we seek to run well the race marked out for us, i.e. advance the righteous reign of King Jesus in our own lives, God has ordained one, primary offensive weapon that overthrows the kingdom of darkness: PRAYER. Jes...
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Season 6
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Episode 30
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26:08
Two Nutrients Daughters' Hearts Need from Dad
Summary: In the last episode we observed that no one can nurture a child as well as his own or her own mother can. Similarly, no one can be the father to your children that you can be. Our job as fathers is to help our daughters flourish...
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Season 6
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Episode 29
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21:46
The Harm of Overvaluing or Undervaluing Motherhood
Summary: In today’s world, many of our female loved ones are engaged in a very personal spiritual battle about their identity and calling as women, and how motherhood fits into that calling. This episode shows how the mistake of overv...
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Season 6
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Episode 28
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23:06
Required for Becoming Godly Confident Daughters
Episode Summary: Our calling as men, to help others flourish, means helping our daughters and granddaughters build confidence in the way God created them to be female. Gender differences are profoundly related to our sense of id...
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Season 6
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Episode 27
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22:08
Countering the Culture's Devaluing of Marriage
Episode Summary: As we close out this Fatherhood Month series, we return to the Andrew Tate phenomenon that is impacting teen guys in our churches, with which we began this series. Tate says, “There is zero advantage to marriage for a ma...
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29:27
Supporting Sisters by Celebrating Biblical Womanhood
Episode Summary: This past week, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s law, which blocks all transgender medical treatments on those under 18, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries. This ruling is an encouraging si...
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Season 6
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Episode 25
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30:18
Showing the World God's Glorious Design of Masculinity
Episode Summary: To aim low, when it comes to our efforts to guide our sons into godly manhood is to fail them and to fail the Lord. Toxic, self-centered, masculinity is real in this world; it has harmed countless women. It...
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Season 6
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Episode 24
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30:04
Why Recovering God's Manhood Script Matters
Episode Summary: Jesus closed his most famous message, the Sermon on the Mount, with the warning that those who ignore his words build their lives on the worst possible foundation—sand. Our sons, daughters, and grandchild...
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Season 6
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Episode 23
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29:52
Why is Andrew Tate Popular with Young Christian Men?
Episode Summary: Andrew Tate is a former is a kickboxing-champion-turned-social-media-influencer who has become popular among young men for his views on modern masculinity. He has over ten million followers on X. Regarding his influence ...
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Season 6
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Episode 22
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30:33
You Can’t Ignore the Holiness of God and Experience His Presence
Episode Summary: The great theologian Augustine prayed famously, “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.” King David would have been the first to affirm Augustine’s observation about hu...
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Season 6
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Episode 21
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30:26
Restoring Spiritual Passion When We've Failed
Episode Summary: YESTERDAY’S spiritual passion doesn’t supply TODAY’S spiritual energy. Fired up hearts through Scripture inspiring us or by seeing God’s hand answering our prayers ignite our passion for the moment or day. But all...
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Season 6
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Episode 20
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30:05
Chemotherapy for Sin
Episode Summary: In the beatitudes, Jesus paints a portrait of spiritual vitality and health into which Christ’s kingdom members are being transformed. But at the root of that transformation process is cutting out the cancer of sin
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Season 6
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Episode 19
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29:43
The Second Most Christ-like Attitude
Summary: Early in Jesus’ ministry, on a small mountainside outside of Capernaum, Jesus picked up his verbal pen and painted a portrait of human life when it is restored to the way it is intended to be, by his power to overthrow sin. This...
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Season 6
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Episode 18
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29:50
How David Was Defeated by Lust
Summary: This episode continues our series on the life of David by examining his battle to fight the temptation that survey’s reveal is at the top of men’s temptations—overcoming lust and, if married, directing their sexual desires total...
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Season 6
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Episode 17
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30:56
The Resurrection of Jesus' BODY Not Just His SOUL Matters
Episode Summary: The resurrection reminds us that the gospel is not just about our personal, private salvation and growth in holiness (which is called the two-chapter gospel.) Such a gospel leads to separating from the lost, forgetting t...
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Season 6
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Episode 16
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29:11
Palm Sunday Reveals Our Mission as Christ's Disciples
Episode Summary: Though we associate Jesus’ arrival on a donkey with children and palm branches, those actually with Jesus who shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord” saw his arrival as the...
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28:10
David Models Three Marks of Spiritual Maturity
Episode Summary: Since it is the nature of men to want to win in everything they do, Christian Christ-followers want to win as disciples. Paul defines this success as reaching spiritual maturity, but such a target on the wall can be nebu...
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Season 6
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Episode 14
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29:40
Helping Loved Ones Weather Their Fears
Episode Summary. Many of us haven’t thought much about protecting our families, not just physically but emotionally. Feelings of depression, worry, bitterness, worthlessness, and fear can devastate our loved ones. One of the most eye-ope...
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Season 6
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Episode 13
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30:28
David--Big Successes Bigger Failures
Episode Summary. Christians find universal comfort in knowing that the Bible never flatters its heroes but exposes their numerous flaws. Such honesty inspires us with hope because we know that we ourselves are deeply flawed. Such a hero ...
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Season 6
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Episode 12
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28:36