What is a menace to society? Am I one? and how can I actively combat them? That is the topic of today's episode.

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What is one thing I can do to guaruntee I stay poor? We answer that on today's podcast.

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On this episode I sit down with Mark Paulson, a leadership expert and entrepreneur about leading in the marketplace and more importantly, in the home. Mark teaches me how to create a culture of faith, hope, and love in my home that my children can live out for the rest of their lives.

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"Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established." Proverbs 16:3

How does God establish my plans? I answer that in todays podcast.

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“I bet you dread praying. Dread  is probably a strong word but if you’re like me a few years ago, you know you should pray but you don’t do it. Or you try it, get about 1 minute into praying, and are done. You have probably heard your pastor or priest talk about prayer, you may have even purchased a few books on prayer. Or you’ve listened to several sermons on prayer that had you hyped up to pray and to see God move in your life but then after about 4 minutes, or two days, it all fell flat.

Guidelines for Prayer

1. Short prayers are good prayers. 
2. 1. The Our Father is literally 16 seconds if you are taking your time.
   2. Psalm 23 is about 32 seconds
3. Don’t try to use your own words.
4. 1. Pray the Psalms
   2. Pray the Our Father from Jesus
   3. Pray the confession of faith in the Apostles creed
   4. Pray the prayers of the saints - I have two favorites from the Saints - Holy Spirit and I arise today by Saint Patrick. 
5. Pray more often, not for longer periods of time.
6. 1. Hop in your car, pray for safety
   2. Say “god bless you” often
   3. Say “Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me”
   4. What if you had a single prayer memorize that you said at the top of each hour?
   5. You don’t need to spend one hour in utterances in the morning - that might be what Jesus means by vain repetition, not repeating the same prayer over and over.

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Wisdom Wednesday

The Big Idea: If you get wisdom, you get everything else.

If you want to improve your life, have better relationships, more financial success, more career success, and make better decisions overall, you need wisdom. Wisdom is the greatest skill you can acquire and is more valuable than anything you can buy. If you get wisdom, you get everything else you desire.

On Wisdom Wednesday, we look at one proverbs from the book of proverbs and apply it to our lives. Simple, accessible, and practical.

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The goal of this platform is to build, strengthen, and form all Christian men who then build God’s church, strengthen their marriages and form their children in God’s way. This is not just for married men though this is for all Christian men.

Tip 1: Listen to the New Testament passively.

Tip 2: Start with the Gospels then work your way through the New Testament

Tip 3: Read it out loud

Tip 4: Once a year, read it in 30 days or in 90 days. 

Tip 5: get a study bible.

Tip 6: subscribe to TheosU or Formed or the Augustine Institute

Tip 7: Just read it. Just read it.

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I am bored in my faith

I hear all the time: there has got to be more than just this.

There has got to be more than attending Church or my local parish and serving. 

Here are Some Questions for you to ponder:

What do you think the Christian faith is?

If you were to describe the faith, as best as you could, what would you say? And if you said it, would you believe it was worth centering your life around? The depth of the mystery of the Christian faith, when explored, is the best thing to center your life around.

Do you understand the faith?

Do you understand the story? The doctrine, the differences in doctrine, the symbols (I know that modern protestant churches have gotten rid of the symbols and artwork of the Church. Some don’t even have a cross anywhere!) Do you understand the anticipation of the church in the old testament and its fulfillment in the new? DO you know the covenants?

Do you know the heritage of the faith? The history?

There is a gold mine of history about the church. Is your faith too individual? Listen to what it says about the Church? 

The pillar and buttress of the truth.

A body

A visible society with Jesus as the head

A family

A temple

The Bride of Christ - which means the Church is one with Christ (think about that) the same is true with a body.

Why are you here? And what is the purpose of this life?

Maybe you don’t have an appreciation of the mystery of life because you haven’t pondered the deep questions. You did not choose to be alive but here you are, alive, with dreams and ambitions, questions and problems. Then your life will be over before you know it. 

1. I think each of us should spend time in personal prayer with God, becoming acquainted with him (which means you should learn how to pray!) Read the scripture and let it be confusing. Ask lots of questions, read again, learn to pray! I have a book on prayer that gives an overview of 21 different types of prayer - I think I understand 2 of them.

2. And I think you should become obsessed with the Christian faith. I myself am obsessed with he faith, the theology, the history, the scripture, the the saints and heroes - 

It is true in every possible meaning: seek and you will find. I you want to find, you have to seek.

Come to believe that the Kingdom of God is like a treasure hidden in a field worth selling all you have to buy that field.