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A ministry that seeks to help men develop a strong biblical character, cultivate positive habits, build and rebuild relationships, and make commitments that will move men closer to God’s good purpose and design – men who will Stand Courageous!
“God is zeroing in on men. In this hour we need men who are strong... when we have weak men, our children are left unprotected.”
Tony Perkins
“Man is the spiritual head of the family. You take out the man, you take out the family.”
General Jerry Boykin
“When men get it right, everyone wins.”
Stu Weber
“The women in your churches don’t know how to tell you, but they really want you to
be a man.”
be a man.”
Bishop Larry Jackson
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WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL
- Numbers 21:4-9 ESV
I don’t like snakes, especially the kind with fangs that inject deadly venom. One time, we were on a joint military operation in Thailand, and I had my men out on small patrols. We received a call from one of those patrols that one of my men was suffering from heat exhaustion and needed to be medevacked to base for help. No sooner than that call came in and the chopper took off, another call came in from another patrol that one of the men had been bitten on the hand by a pit viper, which was far more serious. So, while the men on the ground tended to my soldier with heat exhaustion, keeping him hydrated and cooled down, the medevac chopper was redirected to get my snake bite victim first and bring him back to base. One of my men even captured the viper in a bag and brought it for proper ID. But the Thai medical personnel took one look at my snake-bitten soldier and said they couldn’t do anything for him and to send him on to Bangkok. We did, but the doctors who treated him there with anti-venom told us that he wasn’t going to make it. The pit viper is a deadly snake. However, they were used to treating 125-pound Thai men for snake bites, not a 210-pound American soldier. By the grace of God, four days later, we took him home on a C5.
The events in Numbers 21 happened near the end of Israel’s 40 years in the wilderness. God had been faithful to guide and provide for His people. Yet the Israelites had grown sick and tired of wandering through the wilderness, and they resorted to grumbling and complaining against God, His chosen leader Moses, and against God’s provision of manna. When God disciplined the people of Israel by sending fiery snakes to bite them, their venom was terminal, and many died.
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I don’t like snakes, especially the kind with fangs that inject deadly venom. One time, we were on a joint military operation in Thailand, and I had my men out on small patrols. We received a call from one of those patrols that one of my men was suffering from heat exhaustion and needed to be medevacked to base for help. No sooner than that call came in and the chopper took off, another call came in from another patrol that one of the men had been bitten on the hand by a pit viper, which was far more serious. So, while the men on the ground tended to my soldier with heat exhaustion, keeping him hydrated and cooled down, the medevac chopper was redirected to get my snake bite victim first and bring him back to base. One of my men even captured the viper in a bag and brought it for proper ID. But the Thai medical personnel took one look at my snake-bitten soldier and said they couldn’t do anything for him and to send him on to Bangkok. We did, but the doctors who treated him there with anti-venom told us that he wasn’t going to make it. The pit viper is a deadly snake. However, they were used to treating 125-pound Thai men for snake bites, not a 210-pound American soldier. By the grace of God, four days later, we took him home on a C5.
The events in Numbers 21 happened near the end of Israel’s 40 years in the wilderness. God had been faithful to guide and provide for His people. Yet the Israelites had grown sick and tired of wandering through the wilderness, and they resorted to grumbling and complaining against God, His chosen leader Moses, and against God’s provision of manna. When God disciplined the people of Israel by sending fiery snakes to bite them, their venom was terminal, and many died.
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1 Corinthians 16:13