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July 4, 2015 Prayer
A Prayer for America Crafted From the Prayers of Our Presidents
Perhaps there's never been a greater time for prayer for our country than today. This video clip (2:54) presents a unique prayer for America carefully crafted from the public prayers of several of our Presidents.
Click HereAlso, check out this clip (1:09) from Billy Graham's sermon about what America needs from his 1963 Crusade in Los Angeles Click Here |
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Jim Gaffigan Visits
Conan O'Brien
Comedian Jim Gaffigan is Back!
In this video clip Jim tells us about his love of ice cream and other "fatty" foods and his hatred of health food fads, especially kale.
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Old Fashioned Barnstorming
British pilots Paul Bonhomme and Steve Jones carry out one of the most exhilarating aviation feats you'll ever see. Formation flying at it's absolute finest! Watch them fly together through a hangar Click Here |
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Super Plane Like a Rocket
From Barnstorming to Taking Off
Like a Rocket
Boeing shows off a 787-9 Dreamliner displaying its technical capabilities by ascending like a rocket into the air.
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Wide World of Golf
Who Says Golf Isn't a Contact Sport? Here's a compilation of funny, painful, cringe-worthy, and idiotic golf-related mishaps -- falls, errant shots, and plenty of golf cart wrecks. Click Here |
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Fatherhood Crisis
"How Come You Don't Want Me?"For many men Father's Day brings on the painful reality and raw memories of an absent dad. We've seen no better depiction of this woundedness than this clip from The Fresh Prince of Bel-air with Will Smith. Click Here |
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Featured Article
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Explains Why Men Should Not Be Isolated
"Sin demands to have a man by himself. It withdraws him from the community. The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation."
The Cost of Discipleship
"To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men." A.W. Tozer
What Every Man Needs
"What I need first of all is not exhortation,but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me." J. Gresham Machen
When Men Are Passive and Isolated...
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
Making Yourself Vulnerable
""Temptation usually comes in through a door that has deliberately been left open."
Garrett Kell
By the Numbers
2.3% of U.S. adults say they are
homosexual, lesbian or bisexual.
Nationwide Survey, U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)July 2014
By the Numbers (part 2)
U.S. adults, on average, estimate that 25% of Americans are homosexual or lesbian.
George Gallup Surveys
Transgender Alert!
"Up to 94% of school-age kids who identify as transgender will grow out of their desire to change genders as adults." Nancy Pearcey
Not Even Trying
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried." G. K. Chesterton
Sez Who?
"Of this, be sure: No declaration by a government can change a definition from God. (Gen. 2:24)" David Platt
It's Not the Doing Brothers
"Our struggle in living the Christian life is not in doing but in believing." John Owen
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Court Edict Escalates War on God into the Surreal
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The war against God began in Genesis 3 when the enemy threw down the gauntlet, "Hath God said?" When our first parents responded "NO!", the rebellion was underway and the consequences of disobedience befell the human race. But the grace of God has overcome the darkness, the lies and deception (1 Cor 6:9-11 - Check out Pastor Garrett Kell on this passage Here)
As believers we are the beneficiaries of the Good News in Christ and we know how the war ends and about the judgment to come. So given the trajectory of the post-Christian culture we live in, the high court's ruling is not altogether surprising, But its rationale and its practical implications ( e.g. read Judge Alito's dissent) are nevertheless surreal. Chutzpah, hubris and chronological snobbery have been taken to a new level! The marriage is among many other words and institutions being redefined at an alarming clip: family, gender, tolerance, life, death and the U.S. Constitution itself. As we read through redemptive history as well as secular history, when God is defied or removed, there is no ultimate reference point for truth, right and wrong, good and evil or meaning and purpose. When everything therefore is relative, everyone does what was right in his own eyes ( Judges 17:6). The uniquely American maxim of "everybody's entitled to their own opinion" has been jettisoned for "everybody's entitled to their own truth" (unless you claim truth comes from God). In the final analysis however, God will not be mocked ( Gal. 6:7) When I read the Supreme Court's edict last week and then saw the photos of the White House lit up in rainbow colors, I recalled the sobering scene near the end of the movie Saving Private Ryan where Captain Miller turns to Sergeant Horvath and says, "Mike, we have crossed some strange boundary here. The world has taken a turn for the surreal." ENGAGE THE BATTLE WITH US: Below are several helpful articles about the Court's ruling and its implications that we hope you will read, pray about, act upon and share with others. Also, you can lock arms with WACMM in supporting and signing onto Here We Stand: An Evangelical Declaration on Marriage - HERE. Team WACMM lives, works and ministers within the shadows of the Supreme Court, the White House and Congress. We're acutely aware of the spiritual battle raging inside the Beltway that directly or indirectly impacts religious liberty and freedom of conscience. We welcome your standing with us and other brothers across America. If there ever was a time for God's men to run to the battle (1 Sam 17:48), that time is now! RESOURCES:
Why the Church Should Neither Cave nor Panic About the Decision on Gay Marriage
by Russell Moore
The Supreme Court Has Ruled: What Should Christians Do? by Owen Strachan
SCOTUS Marriage Decision by Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW)
Mohler Responds to Supreme Court's Same-Sex Marriage Decision by Dr. Albert Mohler
What Your Church Needs to Know - and Do - About the Court's Marriage Ruling
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Ten Reasons Racism is Offensive to God
 "How could one not be moved by the events in Charleston last week? Indeed "moved" is hardly a sufficient verb. We need words like heartbroken, appalled, grieved, outraged, and disgusted. Nine brothers and sisters murdered, and after being so kind to the killer that he almost didn't go through with his wicked machinations. How can this happen? In America? In 2015? In a church? And inspired by the kind of racist beliefs we'd like to think don't exist anymore?" READ MORE |
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WACMM Presents the "Tony's" - Mark Your Calendar!
 Tony Evans and Tony Perkins will headline WACMM's Fall Mid-Atlantic Men's Conference on Saturday November 7, 2015 at McLean Bible Church.They will be joined by a hard hitting line-up of seven other superb breakout speakers. Kingdom Warrior Tony Evans, one of America's most respected evangelical pastors, is also renown as a champion for biblical manhood. In addition, no Christian has been more prominent in the national news media defending marriage, the family and religious liberty than Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council. Men and churches across the country have been registering for the men's event of the year. Make plans now to join the Brothers Saturday November 7 from 8:30 am - 3:00 pm.
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Do You Have a True Friend?
"Men are notorious for nurturing superficial friendships that center around the safer subjects of sports, business, sex and almost anything other than what's most important. We men protect our reputation and ego by surrounding ourselves with other men who want the same thing, and don't want to expose any true vulnerabilities or be held accountable for behaviors. "How's work going?" "Did you see the game last night?" is easier than "How's the marriage?" READ MORE |
A Story of Fatherhood: A Journey of Brotherhood
 Faith of Our Fathers opens in theaters this Friday July 1. It's a good choice for a holiday weekend outing.
With the Vietnam War raging in 1969, two young fathers report for duty - one a man of great faith, the other a doubtful cynic.
A quarter-century later, their sons, Wayne and John Paul, meet as strangers. Guided by their fathers' handwritten letters from the battlefield, they embark on an unforgettable journey of grace to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Along the way, they discover the devastation of war cannot break the love of a father for his son. Check out the trailer and where you can see it Click Here Also, visit the amazing Vietnam Veterans Memorial Virtual Wall of Honor - Click Here |
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Locking Arms Together for the Sake of the Gospel,
Dave Brown
Director and Pastor-at-Large
Washington Area Coalition of Men's Ministries (WACMM)
Chairman, Foundation for Manhood
10309 Freeman Place
Kensington MD 20895
240.447.1363
dave@wacmm.org
www.wacmm.org
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