Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Next Steps

Man Code entries are designed for parents or adults seeking to mold young boys into strong Christian men. Previous entries can be found here. “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” James 4:6 Have you ever played a sports game against someone who was undeniably better than you in every way? How frustrating was that? What if…

Sometimes the Christian life can seem like an uphill grind, like the world is out to get you. Wasn’t life supposed to get easier once you became a Christian? Sometimes, if you stopped long enough to really think about things, it might even seem like God Himself is putting up roadblocks at every turn, trying…

Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them: “Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall. Luke 11:17 Unity in the church is essential, but it is rarely achieved. We can easily get caught up in denominations, styles of music, theological intricacies or personal preferences rather than uniting around…

Man Code entries are designed for parents or adults seeking to mold young boys into strong Christian men. Previous entries can be found here. “Walk with the wise and become wise,  for a companion of fools suffers harm.” Proverbs 13:20 Son, we’ve already talked once about the importance of your friendships, but friendships are so vital we’ll talk about times numerous times in the…

Andy Stanley recently preached a brilliant sermon where he talked about the absolute vitality of self-leadership. Leadership rightfully gets a ton of attention, but when we think of leadership we mostly think about leading others. Self-leadership (or the discipline of leading yourself) is vital because you are a part of every bad decision you’ve ever made.…

Man Code entries are designed for parents or adults seeking to mold young boys into strong Christian men. Previous entries can be found here. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. Matthew 16:25 Son, there’s a lie out there, a big fat lie that that is so accepted by so many people that it seems like…

We tend to carry around the hurt in our lives. We have lists of grievances against all those who hurt us, from the minor slights to the heart-breaking betrayals. If we fed into our worst selves, we could be engulfed in a tsunami of pain and misery just remembering all the hurt done to us…

Man Code entries are designed for parents or adults seeking to mold young boys into strong Christian men. Previous entries can be found here. Flee from sexual immorality. 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 2 Timothy 2:22 Son,…

For many Christians, it was how we were raised in church: evangelism training. Learn a well thought out, precise (yet canned) presentation of the gospel. Learn not just the arguments but the counter arguments. Anticipate their negative reasonings and have a ready response. And then when you’re ready (and have a training certificate to prove…

Man Code entries are designed for parents or adults seeking to mold young boys into strong Christian men. Previous entries can be found here. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. 1 Timothy 4:8 Every guy wants to be ripped, to be so…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners