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The Guy's Anthem
"Oh Thank God, I'm Still a Guy"
With so many men confused, conflicted and compromised about what it means to be a man today, country music superstar Brad Paisley is not. He captures some small measure of the traditional masculine mystique in this music video (it may take second for the click to kick in)
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Super Bowl #50 Warm-Up
Check out this compilation of bone crushing, jaw dropping blocks, tackles, throw downs and take downs.
Click HERE
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What Happens Over 40?
Good Ole Boy Yuks
Aaron Wilburn is a good ole boy who's a funny fella. Watch this routine about what happens to us over 40 and also a story about a taxi driver. Click HERE
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As Seen on TV
Kimmel Spoofs Infomercials
Every year countless products are advertised on TV and it can be overwhelming to keep track of all the new items out there. Tune in Jimmy Kimmel's 4th Annual "As Seen On TV" Gift Guide . Click HERE
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Have Your Cake and Eat It
Jim Gaffigan on the Power of Cake
Stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan is a favorite and his routines on hot pockets, bacon and camping are classics. Here Jim pays a comedic ode to cake, all kinds of cakes, and he throws in some pie jokes. Click HERE |
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Quotables
Put This in Your Pipe and Smoke It
"The most important daily habit we can possess is to remind ourselves of the Gospel." - C.H. Spurgeon
"Moral relativism and the rejection of absolute truth now shape the modern post-Christian mind. Indeed, relativism is virtually taken for granted, at least as an excuse for overthrowing theistic truth claims and any restrictive morality."
- Al Mohler
A common teaching in men's ministries is the wrong assumption that sin is something out there that we need to watch out for. But Scripture is clear that sin is not primarily something we need to be sheltered from, but delivered from.
- Eric Geiger
"The hard sayings of Jesus are not hard to understand, just hard to swallow."
- Steven Lawson
"The godly man is a gospeled man. He has seen who he is in Christ, he is moved by what God has done for him in Christ."
- Jared C. Wilson
"There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow."
- C.H. Spurgeon
"Christ supplemented is a Christ supplanted." - William Hendriksen;
The truth of the gospel looks like this: Christ + nothing = everything"People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated." - D.A. Carson |
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Amazing People!
Some Pretty Cool Stuff
In the past from time to time we featured the amazing athlete feats and trick shots of Dude Perfect. Now take a look at this compilation of antics from the folks at People Are Amazing - Click HERE |
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WACMM's 2015 Men's Book of the Year
 Christianity is at a pivotal moment. For generations, our society has agreed with, or at least was not hostile to, its convictions. That consensus position is fast eroding, hostility is rampant and secularism is in rapid ascent. What's needed now neither a doubling-down on the status quo nor retreat into isolation. We need men to speak to social and political issues with a bigger vision in mind: that of the gospel of Jesus Christ!
Dr. Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), is not angry, despairing, or panicked about the current state of affairs in the culture and the church. His response to what is happening is a supreme confidence in the gospel and its power. Moore is calling you and me and our churches to embrace the distinctiveness of our faith and to be a "prophetic minority" that champions human dignity, religious liberty, biblical manhood and womanhood, and strong, stable families.
Moore's new book Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel is WACMM's 2015 Book of the Year for Men. Buy It! Read It! Share It! Then move to engage the culture in the power of the gospel wherever God has planted you! For the rest of WACMM's Top Ten Books for 2015, click HERE.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Hear and meet Dr. Moore at WACMM's Mid-Atlantic Men's Conference Saturday November 12 at Christian Fellowship Church in Ashburn VA. Joining Moore as keynoters will be Dr. Eric Mason,
co-founder and Lead Pastor of Epiphany Fellowship, a multi-ethnic church in Philadelphia PA and author of the must-read Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole If you're thinking about doing one men's conference this year, this is definitely the one you'll want to make! Registration Info HERE
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Movies for Men: 2016 Watch List
 Christian movie-making came into its own in 2015 with many box office successes. Yet there are still many excellent films being made today that are not necessarily "Christian-based" but they attract and resonate with audiences by telling compelling, noble stories that borrow their story power from Scripture's grand themes of fall, rescue, redemption, freedom and hope. 2016 brings us several remarkable and encouraging films that depict how God has wired men and then calls us to do important things. Mark your calendar and check out these upcoming movies with their strong masculine themes and portrayals: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (opens January 15)
Based on the true story of the team of six American security operators who in 2012 fought to repel the Libyan terrorist attack on the Benghazi compound and to protect the Americans stationed there, performing extraordinary acts of courage, heroism and sacrifice. Trailer
The Finest Hours (opens January 29)
This film tells the true story of the Coast Guard's most daring rescue mission. In February 1952 four Coast Guarders set out to rescue more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard a rapidly-sinking vessel in the midst of one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast. Trailer
Risen (opens February 19)
Risen is a fictional tale of what happens in Jerusalem during the 40 days following Christ's resurrection. In order to quell an imminent uprising in Jerusalem, Pontius Pilate charges a powerful Roman Centurion to investigate the rumors of a risen Messiah and locate the missing body. Trailer Race (opens February 19) Race is the incredible true story of Jesse Owens, the legendary athletic superstar. whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler and his vision of Aryan supremacy. Trailer
Young Messiah (opens March 11)
This is a fictional story of Jesus at age seven as he and his family depart Egypt to return home to Nazareth. Told from Jesus' childhood perspective, it follows his parents as they wrestle with his identity and as he "grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man." (Luke 2:52) Trailer
Ben Hur (opens August 12)
This remake of 1959 Academy Award winning epic follows a falsely accused nobleman Judah Ben-Hur who survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his boyhood best friend Massala who betrayed him. Both must come to choose between retribution or forgiveness. No Trailer Out Yet |
What Are We To Make of the New Star Wars Movie
 The appearance of a new episode of the Star Wars film series is an important moment for Christian witness. To be sure, we can shrug our shoulders, since Star Wars is old news. Or we can enthusiastically introduce our children and grandchildren to what we might think is a beloved, harmless yarn. Or we can-and should-discover in the series an occasion to sharpen our presentation of the gospel message and help our children and grandchildren, and anyone else who might be interested, to understand the secular, pagan culture in which they live. Read More |
Why Your Identity Is Not the Same as Your Role
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Don't Let Your Calling Become an Idol
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Pastors, missionaries, and other Christian workers are often liable to a unique pitfall in that the thing that tempts them most is a really good gift. It is the temptation to find your identity in your role.
But the truth is that all of our roles are temporary. They are callings that we have for a season. You won't have that calling forever. If you build your essential sense of who you are into that role, you will create a monstrosity out of it - at some level, it will become idolatrous.
The opposite to creating a distortion in your role is anchoring your identity in things that actually relate more intrinsically to who you are as a person, as a man, as a human being. Read More
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Ten Diagnostic Questions for Your Marriage
 I was recently talking to a friend of mine who suggested that laughter is often a very good indicator of how well the marriage is going. When the silliness slows down, it may be because you are in a season of suffering, but it may also mean you've exited a season of peace and trust. The couple that laughs together lasts together. This insight got me thinking: what are some other questions that can help diagnose the health of our marital life? Here are ten that may prove useful. Read More
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Whatever Happened to the "Duke's" Comeback?
 Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attack on America, former feminist Peggy Noonan, one of this country's most gifted writers, penned the following tribute to men. Fourteen years later its still a powerful, poignant reminder of how the men of 9/11 rose up against evil and unselfishly, heroically rescued people. They did what authentic men do. Re-read her comments below and let us know what you think.
Reminder: While we must not get our manhood models from cultural icons, some of them can give us glimpses of and pointers to our only true model, the One who redeemed our fallen masculinity - the Lord Jesus Christ!
Peggy Noon: "A few weeks ago I wrote a column called "God Is Back," about how, within a day of the events of Sept. 11, my city was awash in religious imagery--prayer cards, statues of saints. It all culminated, in a way, in the discovery of the steel-girder cross that emerged last week from the wreckage--unbent, unbroken, unmelted, perfectly proportioned and duly blessed by a Catholic friar on the request of the rescue workers, who seemed to see meaning in the cross's existence..." Read More
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When Things Go Bad, It's About Spineless Men
Theologian and Professor of Church History Carl Trueman, never one to mince words, offers up these sobering and challenging thoughts...
"In my experience, churches, institutions and organizations do not go bad because of coups by liberals. They go bad because otherwise orthodox people sit on their hands - hands of whose cleanness they are always so very proud, yet hands which are clean only because others have dirtied theirs by taking the tough decisions and putting their careers and reputations on the line. The spineless orthodox sleep safe at night only because the very people they so often despise have first made the ecclesiastical and institutional streets safe for women and children." - Carl Trueman, "Discipline, Dirty Hands, and the Silent Abolition of Christianity"
I'm so grateful for those brothers with titanium-steeled spines who won't be silent, like Russ Moore, Al Mohler and Owen Strachan in particular. They and other brave-hearted men lay it on the line every time and run to the battle risking everything for the sake of gospel-ing men. They do not play it safe, nor should we. They will not be silent, nor should we.
BTW, let us also remember the powerful words of Edmund Burke, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
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8,000 Men Read WACMM's Monthly E-Newsletter
Men from the mid-Atlantic, across the country and around the world are joining you in reading this January edition of WACMM's popular monthly e-newsletter. This is the 90th monthly issue of our unique newsletter that gives you the latest men's news and resources plus a lot of laughs. If you are receiving this as a forward from someone else or if you're reading it off our website, you can subscribe by clicking HERE. You can also follow us on Twitter HERE and on Face Book HEREThanks for reading us. Thanks following us. We always welcome your feedback! Happy New Year! 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 |
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