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Five Lessons I’ve Learned from Playing Golf and Spending Time with My Dad

Posted by Dave Jenkins | Jun 18, 2016 | Featured, Godly legacy | 0 |

Father’s Day is a special day to many people. Over the past several years, I’ve been fortunate to spend Father’s Day with my dad in the Greater Seattle area. While this year, I wasn’t able to go visit him, I always look forward to our weekly time talking about life, sports, and ministry on the phone. Ever since my early teens, I’ve had a passion for golf. There’s just something as it’s been said about this game. In high school, I played varsity golf. At this time in my life, much of my identity, value, and worth revolved around...

Biblical Manhood and Strength

Posted by Dave Jenkins | Apr 27, 2015 | Featured, Godly legacy | 0 |

One of my many concerns about manhood in our day stems from modern notions of strength. When we think of strength as men we think of that massive offense lineman whose bulked up through a good diet and lifting weights. We’ve been taught as men from a young age to seek after being men of strength. We were taught to hold back those tears and to be macho. Almost everything we’ve been taught about manhood is completely wrong and not biblical. Biblical manhood begins with Jesus who is not only the example of what a man should be but...

Loving God and Your Spouse: Six Ways Christ Instructed Husbands to Love Their Wives

Posted by Dave Jenkins | Mar 4, 2015 | Featured, Godly legacy, Love | 0 |

Have you ever felt like you don’t know how to show your wife love? More than one study has shown that men have a hard time loving their wives, despite the fact that the Scriptures require it. Five times in typical English translations of the Bible (and six times in the Greek) in Ephesians 5:21-33 Paul exhorts the Christians to love their wives. As Paul often does, he builds upon the teaching of the rest of the Bible to support his case. After all, Jesus teaches that Christians are to love Him and love their neighbors (Matthew 22:37-40). Early...

Five Ways Parents Can Speak to Their Children About the Evils of Pornography

Posted by Mike Boling | Feb 26, 2015 | Featured, Godly legacy | 0 |

For all you parents out there, please pay attention to this post as I am going to share something that is quite frightening, something, which you might be turning a blind eye to or are completely unaware could be taking place in your home. What is this horrible issue you might ask? Your child is almost assuredly being exposed to porn. I hope that caught your attention. Now an understandable response is “That is impossible. We do not watch porn in our home and we ensure that no inappropriate programming is allowed.” I get that; however, your child is...

Gospel Men are Gentle Men

Posted by Jeff Medders | Sep 9, 2014 | Godly legacy | 0 |

Gentleness may not be the coolest of qualities among young men — and this is a travesty. Gentleness is a mark of a gospel soaked man. A man that is gentle, is one that has been smashed by the gospel. A prickly dude appreciates the gospel, but hasn’t been devastated by it. Especially among young pastors, we need to be reminded that gentleness is a fruit of the Spirit, not hardcore-ness (Galatians 5:23). Brashness, flexing, my-way-or-the-highway-ism, and a kind of bulldozer-ocity are not marks of a godly man but a fool. A bully, not a pastor. Sure, there may be tons of passion in that man, but that kind of man needs to be saddled. A wild colt is of no benefit. Though — they do make for great glue. Lately, I’ve been troubled by the attitudes of many church planters. They parade themselves as steamrollers, but not shepherds. I’m all for telling a wolf “the way it is” but even that is to be done in gentleness (2 Timothy 2:25). And sadly, I’ve been there too. WHAT IS GENTLENESS? The Tyndale Bible Dictionary provides some great words to describe gentleness: humility, courteous, unpretentious, tender, unharsh, mildness, kindness, and an unassuming attitude. How many men fit that bill? JESUS DOES. HE IS OUR MODEL AND MEANS Jesus does. And in the gospel, Jesus invites us to learn from Him...