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What it Means to Reach and Utilize All of the Men in Your Church

This post is part of a series of posts that have been incorporated into Part 1 of my online article, “A Comprehensive Church-Based Ministry to Men.” My pastoral role for twenty years naturally led to tunnel vision: my focus was constantly on my individual congregation. But transitioning to a national […]

Scientists Identify Specific Brain Circuit for Spirituality in Both Men and Women

The discovery of a dedicated brain circuit for spirituality in every human being has broad implications for all of society A recent neurological discovery relating to our ability to think about spiritual things that has been widely reported in the media has wide-ranging implications for ministry and for our culture in […]

On Treating Church Members as Actual Family Members

I am writing you these instructions so that… you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household. 1 Timothy 3:14, 15 A crisis of loneliness plagues America. Consider the following recent headlines: “3 out of 5 Americans are Lonely” (National Public Radio), “COVID-19 is Making America’s Loneliness Epidemic […]

One Christian’s Review of “The Man in the Mirror,” by Patrick Morley

Patrick Morley, author of The Man in the Mirror: Solving the 24 problems men face, is the founder and Executive Chairman of Man in the Mirror. After building his commercial real estate business into one of Florida’s 100 largest privately owned companies, Morley started a Bible study in a bar with a […]

Men's ministry is effective when it pleases God.

Why Jesus? The Question Every Men’s Ministry Must Answer

Several years ago I was sharing my faith with a social worker in my community when he responded by saying, “I don’t want to be a Christian because I don’t want to spend the rest of my life, not to mention eternity, in meetings.” He had a point. In his […]