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-Brother Dave working today

-Pastor taught class

-Good discussion as we read a lot of Chapter 11 as many of us were not prepared

-Pastor:  Men, be better prepared next time by reading your assignment

Brief notes:

-As men, our attitudes, actions, and reactions (Even if not known by others) affect our wives and children

-Every thing we do or think affects our families

-When you are tempted, think about the effect of you actions on others

-You have to determine in your heart:  I will do what is right....

-No class next week because of Thankgining traveling

-Read Chapter 12 for next time

Assignment Information

For next week, 11/20/11, read Chapter 11 in Every Man's Marriage.

Also, begin reading a Chapter a week in Bond of Brothers / Chapter 5 might be good to read first as it might show the correlation between the 2 books.

See Brother Blagg's Blog for more information.

Mens’ notes and quotes for October 30, 2011 and November 6, 2011

-Can’t allow our mistakes to shut us down

-Every Man’s Marriage to be put on hold for a couple of weeks

-Instead, we will be covering content from Bond of Brothers

Late Posts

Please forgive me for the late posts.

Mens’ Chapter 10 notes and quotes for October 23, 2011

-Allow for your wife’s gifts to be expressed

-What do spouses do to help their spouses express their ministry gifts?

-What should spouses do to help their spouses express their ministry gifts?

-God makes the union between husband and wife like that candy cane in which the colors cannot be separated, only broken

-Marriage is like the hard candy not like the swislers

-Marriage is a unique creation by God

-Making room for your wife to do her ministry is making room for God to do His ministry

-How do we make room?, by diminishing ourselves

Sermon Notes 10/23/11 Brother Tony

-God wants only one thing from us:  total commitment to His plans and purposes in our lives

-Philippians 2:1-30 NLT

-We need to honor (Spend time with one another) one another and be committed and loyal to one another

-Time can never be bought back

-Philippians 2: 12 is especially good

Mens’ Chapter 10 notes and quotes for October 16, 2011

-Chapter 8 - We have no rights as husbands

                  - Not I but we

-Chapter 9 – We have no time as our own as our husbands

-Chapter 10 – Making room for your wife’s gifts; trust

-Man and wife are like the candy cane:  Spiritually bonded together

-We had unique identities of our own, but God made us one

-If you are looking to someone besides God to fulfill your needs, then you are outside of plan for your life

-Submission to each other is not spiritually blind

-Submission will make room for each other

-Is there a rusty door in your life that you have not opened up to others, the Lord, or even yourself?

-If you make room for each other, both will expand into each other’s lives

-True submission in your relationship does not hold back a rusty door (You are not going to hurt me in this area)

-Ephesians 2: 10

-How much room do you allow your wife to grow?

-Let me help you be everything you need to be in the Lord

-Man is the head; Woman is the heart of the relationship

-Man has the authority but the Woman has the influence

-The head is full of knowledge, but the heart is full of wisdom

-In the book of Proverbs, wisdom is referred to as a female characteristic

Mens’ notes and quotes for October 09, 2011

-Materials on game sites has suggestive material that can lead to porn sites

-Free apps can lead to all types of computer problems

-We need to be fathers who know what is going on

-Ephesians 5: 15,16,17

-Do not assume that your wife and children are ok without you

-The time they need is your interest in their lives

-Time is the one thing

-One of the most important things to a woman is the time with her husband

-Women feel alone

-What we gave our wives before we were married is our attention

-Are we really engaged with our wives and children?

-Issue of time is priorities

-No condemnation, but do a time evaluation with your wives

- Read Chapter 10 for next week

Mens’ Chapter 8 and 9 notes and quotes for October 2, 2011

-1 Corinthians 7:1-6 – read in several versions

-Benevolence (KJV) – Give something of value from one person to another

-I should not withhold anything good from my wife

-VS. 4 in the Message

-Mark 10:1-12

-Matthew 19:1-12

-You do not have a right; it is God’s rights

Mens’ Chapter 8 and 9 notes and quotes for September 25, 2011

-After Chapter 6, everything is how to live it out

-Men are visually driven, women are emotionally driven

-Ephesians 5:16, Read in context and in several translations

-You are not your own, we are bought with a price; Who buys us?

-Colossians 4:5

-God assigns each man his wife; they are God’s gift to us

-We are to be servant-leaders;  How can you lead and be a leader at the same time?

-Chapter 8 key word:  rights

-Chapter 9 key word:  time

-We do not have rights but privileges

-Wives do not have rights either

-If we trample on each others essences, we step out of our privileges

-To redeem the time is to live our lives righteously

Assignment for next week, October 2, 2011:

  -List 10 things (time related) that are most important to you

  -Ask you wife for 5 things that would show her that you care about her

Sermon Notes: (Brother Tony)

-Psalm 51:1-12   Vs. 10 Create in me a clean heart oh God

-Proverbs 3:1-8

-If our hearts are in the right place, a lot of things we face daily would not be a problem

-Proverbs 4:20-27

-God pays attention to what we are saying

-We need to protect our hearts as life’s consequences come through our hearts

-God tests our hearts and wants our hearts to be pure

-Jeremiah 24:1-10

-vs. 7 – God wants us to find Him with all our hearts

-What kind of fig do you want to be?