Men of Encounter

Few have been taught “How to Win”. 

Because I get to work with men as my vocation, I’ve been watching this battle play out and intensify at an alarming rate. Every week at our church, I meet men who have professed faith in Christ but who, for the last five, ten, fifteen, or more years, have been living by their own wisdom.

I’ve got some really great news for you. It’s all wrapped up in the one sentence that best describes my own life:

Because God is good, your life will not turn out like you planned. That’s because God has a better plan. A much better plan.

So what is this plan, and how can you make it your own?

God’s plan is made up of strikingly relevant, time-tested lessons written down and preserved for us in the Bible.

It pulsates with stories about men who released and sustained the passion of their faith.

They became the men God created them to be. And you can too. However, it’s shocking how many of these life-changing principles are gathering dust.

So in How God Makes Men, I want to share with you the most powerful principles of manhood from ten of the most well-known men in the Bible.

In each of their epic stories, we can see the hand of God at work—shaping them, leading them, making them into the men He  always planned for them to become. That “always planned for them to become” is for you too. And it’s one of the main features we’ll be exploring together.

God literally mentored them and taught them How To Win.  

When added together, they’re not just ten amazing stories but one big story—yours!

Here’s the promise of How God Makes Men. And it’s a huge one.

If you will absorb and embrace the timeless principles offered by these ten men, You Will Win!

You can get past the shallow cultural Christianity that wants to gut your manhood and get to—or back to—a more biblical Christianity.

If you will let these ten men mentor you, then, like them, you will become the man God created you to be. You will release the power of God in every direction and detail of your life. You will know how to sustain the passion of your faith. And you will be well on the way to writing your own epic story. Why? Because God is way too good to let our lives merely turn out like we planned!

You always knew that one day you would be called upon to take your place on the battlefront, right? This is that call.

Together, we can turn this around. This is a battle we can win. We cannot, we must not, and by God’s grace we will not fail. If this is what you want, join us for Men of Encounter. I have some guys I want you to meet.

ABRAHAM The Principle of Believing God Anyway

• How God Makes a Man’s Faith Stronger

JOSEPH The Principle of a Greater Good

• How God Shapes Men for a Higher Purpose

MOSES The Principle of Personal Transformation

• How God Changes a Man’s Character

GIDEON The Principle of the Unexpected Leader

• How God Turns a Man’s Fear and Weakness into Strength

DAVID The Principle of Winning

• Someone who was underestimated from day one

SOLOMON The Principle of Success That Matters

• How God Shows Men the True Path to Happiness

NEHEMIAH The Principle of a Passionate Calling

• How God Calls Men to Action

JOB The Principle of Suffering for No Apparent Reason

• How God Molds Men Through Suffering

PETER The Principle of Making Disciples

• How God Equips Men to Reach Other Men

PAUL The Principle of a Surrendered Life

• How God Empowers Men to Fully Follow Christ