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
322 episodes
Why Jesus’ Messianic Title Everlasting Father Matters Corrected
Episode Summary. In producing this episode we inadvertently uploaded a Dec 14th episode from a past December 14th, not 2025. This is the corrected version recorded two days ago. Sometimes a single word can be loaded with meaning: M...
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Season 6
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Episode 51
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27:27
Why Jesus' Messianic Title EVERLASTING FATHER Matters
Episode Summary. Sometimes a single word can be loaded with meaning: Mom, Dad, Darling, Champion, Failure. Single words can be so important that Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the...
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Season 6
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Episode 50
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24:07
Why It Matters That Our Messiah Is the Mighty God
Episode Summary. Why did the long-awaited Messiah of Israel have to be the MIGHTY GOD—and what does that title mean for our everyday walk with Jesus today? That is the topic of today’s episode.For Further Prayerful Thought<...
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Season 6
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Episode 49
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28:23
Delighting in Jesus The Wonderful Counselor
Episode Summary. For the next four weeks, our focus is on the first and most foundational part of our mission—deepening our love relationship with Christ. We will do this by zooming the camera in on four titles of Jesus given in t...
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Season 6
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Episode 48
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27:11
Is Critical Theory Corrupting Our View of I.C.E. and Gender
Episode Summary: Ideas have consequences. Bad ideas have victims. This episode examines the impact of critical theory aka cultural Marxism, upon some Christians' thinking today in their view of ICE, law-enforcement, and gender roles.&nbs...
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Season 6
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Episode 47
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30:13
Answering the Call to Fight
Episode Summary: As the Apostle Paul issues a direct charge to his young protégé, Timothy, the charge is not, “preach the Word,” “preach grace and not the law,” “care for those under your care,” or even “be faithful to your call.” His ch...
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Season 6
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Episode 46
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30:16
Is Devotion to God's Law Legalism?
Episode Summary: In Psalm 119:97, David cries out, “Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.” But Paul wrote to the Romans, “You are not under law but under grace,” (6:14) and to the Gala...
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Season 6
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Episode 45
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29:56
Hearing "Well Done" From the Master
Episode Summary: Paul taught Timothy that genuine Christian leaders are focused not on philosophical speculation or useless theological debate but upon being faithful stewards of what God has entrusted to us. He instructed Timot...
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Season 6
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Episode 44
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30:20
Authority—the Biblical vs Cultural Views
SummaryThe strains of egalitarianism and cultural Marxism which identify biblical authority structures as themselves, “evil,” are infecting our loved ones, causing them to resist the rule of law. They need a biblical underst...
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Season 6
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Episode 43
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28:35
Overcoming The Crazy Busy Lifestyle
Episode Summary. Not only does God have a specific mission for you in 2023, which Paul summarizes in Ephesians 2:10 as good works, but that mission is so important that God specifically designed you for it—to have your...
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Season 6
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Episode 42
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28:33
How David Lost His Battle with Lust for Bathsheba
Episode Summary: Men hate to lose at anything. But these days, many Christian men, including married guys, are losing the battle with lust, looking at porn on their phone and masturbating. Strong, urgent, forceful, and impatient, the sex...
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Season 6
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Episode 41
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25:44
Biblical Insight About How Spiritual Battles Are Won
Science confirms the truth we are given in Genesis 2:15—that Adam is designed to shape and protect the garden. Since Adam and Eve’s sin brought Satan, sin, and destruction into the garden, all our efforts to shape our lives and culture in ri...
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Season 6
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Episode 40
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26:20
Using the Sword of the Spirit in Everyday Life
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. T...
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Season 6
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Episode 39
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26:52
Thinking Biblically About Charlie Kirk's Impact and Murder
Episode Summary: This episode departs from our current series, Winning Spiritual Battles Because We Use Our Spiritual Weapons to seek to put a biblical lens over the event that has captivated our national thinking over th...
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Season 6
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Episode 38
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32:17
How the Helmet of Salvation Protects 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 6
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Episode 37
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27:24
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