Kenny Luck - Every Day for Every Man
Kenny LuckInspiring, supporting and encouraging men to be healthy in their spiritual life and in their relationships with others, offering them the tools they need to face today’s challenges and be all they can be for God, for their families, and for themselves.
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- 217Force Of Habit Part 3 with Jason Park – Audio OnlyBig victories are the result of a collection of small wins. BUT visualizing the prize at the end, gives me discipline in the moment. It gives me hope and that hope shapes my habits. These habits provide a road paved with confidence and direction filled with peace. The habit of Listening to God drowns out the noise of this world. When we listen to God and allow for what we hear to leak into our hearts, we experience VICTORY.
- 218Force Of Habit Part 2 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyInspiring, supporting and encouraging men to be healthy in their spiritual life and in their relationships with others, offering them the tools they need to face today’s challenges and be all they can be for God, for their families, and for themselves.
- 219Force Of Habit Part 1 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyThe Bible reveals that an authentic relationship with God is a lifestyle - a way to be and believe that produces a way to behave daily. As opposed to what you say? A compartmentalized event or a disconnected set of singular experiences? Yet that is how many men experience God. Before a meal. On a Sunday. When loss or pain suggests we pray. At a men's group. At Christmas and Easter. God is situational. We divide our lives into sacred and secular. He is invited into some aspects and events but not all dimensions of our thinking and living. If God is who the Bible describes him to be it begs the question: How do you compartmentalize an infinite person who is everywhere all at once? Answer: You don't! But that is exactly how we treat God - like an event versus an ever-present person who is walking with us and shaping our behaviors and thoughts in life. Your lifestyle reflects your habits. Your habits reflect your thinking. Your thinking reflects your character. Between your lifestyle and character are your habits and they become driving forces for better or for worse. You will become what you repeatedly do. Think about that for minute and then dive into this powerful study in God's word with men's expert and pastor Kenny Luck. FORCE OF HABIT will help break bad ones, build good ones, and become the man God created you to be.
- 220It Ain’t About You with Jason Park – Audio OnlyJesus’ teachings are not recommendations for how we should “feel.” They are commands for how we should act. Where we prefer to act in compliance with how we feel, Jesus calls us to act in a way that is often in defiance of how we feel. What does that mean? If we plan to follow the commands of Jesus, we will do some things we do not feel like doing. Our gut (aka pride, selfishness, sinful nature, etc.) is going to tell us, “No, this doesn’t work for me.” Jesus is going to tell us…..” IT AIN’T ABOUT YOU! In Luke 6:27, Jesus says, “Love your enemies.” The word “enemy” elicits all kinds of feelings. Today more than ever, we need to be reminded; it is not about our feelings. It is about our doings.
- 221Inner Man Part 5 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyKnowing something through experience is different than knowing about something. Head knowledge is good but heart knowledge through experiencing something or someone is way better. Someone asks: "Do you know him?" You can have one of three responses: "I don't know him" or "I know about him but we are not friends" or "I know him personally and he is a close friend." When it comes to God's love and your personal connection to Christ, God wants a heart - not just a head - connection! There is a big gap between "I know a lot about God" and "I know him" by experiencing Him. Distance and detachment versus closeness and connection. More specifically, God's love was never intended to stay in your head. It is not a knowledge thing it is a knowing that rises above lifeless knowledge. God's love is intended to travel from your head and flood downward into your heart and change you forever. It is a battle you must fight and win. In Part 5 of theThe Inner Man men's expert and pastor Kenny Luck reveals the keys which unlock the gate so that you can experience a breakthrough of God's love in your life. God's love is a fact but it is meant to be felt.
- 222Inner Man Part 4 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyIf your identity has never been stolen you probably know someone who has been exploited. Sensitive and personally identifiable information was compromised and a HACKER started stealing their livelihood ruining their life for a period of time. There was a security breach. Did you know that your identity in Christ and your inner security in him is under attack right now? A Hacker is attempting to breach your inner man and he is seeking to compromise the truest truths about you - that you are fully accepted, fully loved and fully defined by God's love. The attack is subtle - it is simply a suggestion that God is, somehow, limited and unable to deliver what you need in some aspect of your life. The Hacker infects your thinking with repeated thoughts of "your are losing out" or "you are missing out" or "you are striking out" because of your faith. The message is DON"T TRUST GOD. Instead, trust yourself. Take God's place on this issue. Move over God. Stop living in and out of his love and start living in and out of fear. When that happens your inner man is corrupted and your identity has been taken over by an intruding and unwelcome presence. In Part 4 of INNER MAN, men's expert and Pastor Kenny Luck helps all men of faith recognize and respond to spiritual attack on the inner man. Will you recognize the red flags of a breach to your inner security? What are the signs your inner man has been hacked by fear? Will you be exploited or will you neutralize the threat?
- 223Inner Man Part 3 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyInspiring, supporting and encouraging men to be healthy in their spiritual life and in their relationships with others, offering them the tools they need to face today’s challenges and be all they can be for God, for their families, and for themselves.
- 224Inner Man Part 2 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyInspiring, supporting and encouraging men to be healthy in their spiritual life and in their relationships with others, offering them the tools they need to face today’s challenges and be all they can be for God, for their families, and for themselves.
- 225Inner Man Part 1 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyInspiring, supporting and encouraging men to be healthy in their spiritual life and in their relationships with others, offering them the tools they need to face today’s challenges and be all they can be for God, for their families, and for themselves.
- 226Resolve Part 5 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlySometimes the best lessons of our lives are discovered through the "backdoors" God opens while we are waiting for life to unfold a certain way. Initially, we don't like being delayed but then, with hindsight, we see the wisdom of the back door plan God had in mind. We often don't think of Jesus having to wait on God for anything but the Bible reflects a completely different picture. He had to wait - a long time in some instances - on the Father's green light. And, as men's expert and Pastor Kenny Luck is going to reveal in this study, he is waiting on YOU! Jesus is determined and decided - he is RESOLVED - to wait for the next part of his existence to unfold God's way. In this concluding session of this series, He is going model what is meant for us today!
- 227Resolve Part 4 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyEver made a bad decision that taught you a good lesson. Godly men become godly not because they make perfect decisions but because they repent well from their bad ones! They RESOLVE to take their lumps well and not come out of a situation without the lesson. That's exactly what the Paul in the Bible did and God used the consequence of a bad decision to change his life and the lives of billions forever. How? Because he waited well on God! He couldn't have know it at the time but he is glad he did! How about you? What powerful outcome is on the other side of your waiting room of life right now? Join men's expert and pastor Kenny Luck to unpack the core disciplines you can do right now as you wait for God to move your life forward.
- 228Resolve Part 3 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyGod makes you a promise. You get excited. Then... KABOOM! Life happens and his promise seems a distant memory because life has taken you down a slippery slope of misery and difficulty? Ever feel like that? What happened to your faith? How did you get out of it? Are you still stuck in it? The Bible says that God never stops working even though you feel he has taken a coffee break with respect to moving your life forward. He is on the move if we have eyes of faith and wait well! In part 3 of RESOLVE we meet a man who somehow managed to live out that belief in real time and it ushered him right into the promise God made years before. Join men's expert and pastor Kenny Luck for this powerful session and find true power to wait well and experience God's presence and promise in your right now life.
- 229Resolve Part 2 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyTiming is everything. When you are in pain or in the cloud of unknowing, you want things to move faster so that you can experience peace and clarity sooner. When the "stars are aligning" in your favor you don't want the good times to end. Above all our wishing and hoping in the ups and downs of life is the Providence and goodness of God. He is there and working out His plan outside of what is happening to us - good or bad. In fact, God is on the move right now in your life! David was a person who experienced both extremes and RESOLVED to seek God in both the peaks and the pits of life. Flawed and vulnerable He waited well on God. How about you right now? Think about it. Life is moving forward. Something else other than your present reality is coming. Things will change. But until that moment comes, how do we work with God prior to things getting clear or cloudy, better or challenging? In Part 2 of RESOLVE men's expert and pastor Kenny Luck shines the light on the man "after God's own heart" and some specific steps he took while he waiting for the next chapter of his life to unfold.
- 230Resolve Part 1 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyInspiring, supporting and encouraging men to be healthy in their spiritual life and in their relationships with others, offering them the tools they need to face today’s challenges and be all they can be for God, for their families, and for themselves.
- 231A Man in Uniform with Jason Park – Audio OnlyA man's uniform is a physical representation of his identity. It symbolize’s his appointed position, helps regulate his level of accountability, and accelerates his authority. The same can be said about a man of God. By way of our appointment, we have a designated uniform that represents our identity. Our response to being chosen and appointed is to put on our uniform and take a stand. All of God's weapons are at our disposal, but all is worthless unless we put His uniform.
- 232Not Of It Part 5 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyRelationships are a risk. You commit to someone without knowing if they will stay committed to you. You invest in the relationship. You make promises. You sacrifice for the people you love. But then a distance starts to creep in. Emotionally there's a change. The connection is strained. Something has come between. We all know what it looks like or perhaps have experienced it ourselves. It looks like an affair or adultery or cheating on someone else. In your relationship with God, God wants your loyalty and commitment in the presence of a powerful force that seeks to draw you away from Him - the world. Here's the problem - you can't blend a commitment to the values of the world when you are in a relationship with God. But how do we stay faithful under the constant pressure and pull of our appetites, our desires, and our insecurities? In Part 5 of NOT OF IT men's expert and pastor Kenny Luck dives into the problem of spiritual adultery among God's men and how to say "no" to the world by saying "yes" to God on a daily basis.
- 233“No Room for Hate” with Jason Park – Audio OnlyThere was a time when we would meet someone, find something in common, and the conversation would ensue. Lately if feels like that dynamic has shifted into our society fixated on finding what we don’t have in common and live in that space. Sadly it feels as of late that message has been amplified beyond our control. Now days having an opinion can be terrifying for some to share and that can be where hate starts to enter one’s heart. In those moments we feel like we are taking a position in favor of an issue, when in reality, we’re favoring hate. In today’s study, NO ROOM FOR HATE, we navigate how to caution ourselves in those moments where our feelings are in conflict with our faith. Our feelings are telling us to react strongly about our opinion and our faith is telling us to react lovingly toward those people. Our feelings want us to think of ourselves first. Our faith wants us to remember the words of Jesus when he said In Mark 8:34, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way…”. More than ever do we need a reminder that when you sprinkle even the slightest bit of hate into the recipe, that’s exactly what you get.
- 234Not Of It Part 4 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyEver had a deal come across your life that was hard to refuse? Whatever comes into our minds, no deal in human history was ever as big as the one Jesus rejected. Imagine being offered the entirety of the world's wealth, pleasures, and notoriety. All earthly desires? Done. All earthly wealth? Yours. All earthly significance and fame? Golden. Sounds amazing but what were the terms of the deal? How did he respond? What did he say? While it is a different time and different culture, the same deal is being offered to every man who loves God on planet earth. You cannot escape it. Jesus' advice? Lose the world to gain your soul. But what does that mean? How does that fit into the context of my life and culture today? What kind of strength is required to say no? In Part 4 of NOT OF IT men's expert and pastor Kenny Luck will help you navigate the cultural riptide and battle so that you be in the world but not of the world as Jesus said.
- 235Not Of It Part 3 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyNot being "of the world," as Jesus describes every man of God, means we have a different source, a different means of influence, and a different mindset living "in the world." When Jesus briefed the disciples about their mission on earth he said it has to come with a mindset: "I am sending you out like sheep among wolves." Jesus didn't provide false hope or codependent comfort. He gave it to them straight. He did not want them to be ignorant. He needed them to think right about themselves and the spiritual reality surrounding them in the world as it related to their mission. Think about wolves for second - you don't want to be caught alone against a pack of them. The solution for this? Be shrewd and be innocent. In today's cultural riptide Christians are surrounded by strong and powerful mindsets that are not of God but of the world. Their influence over us is subtle but effective. Jesus says you have to be alert and sober to the reality of the spiritual battle being waged in between your ears. You have to have the right mindset to not just survive but take territory for God. In the midst of cultural upheaval and challenge, God's men must be shrewd and be innocent to advance God's Kingdom and not be hijacked by the enemy. In part 3 of "NOT OF IT" men's expert and pastor Kenny Luck takes us into the briefing room with Jesus himself. Your mission is a "GO."
- 236Not Of It Part 2 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyJesus told his disciples that they would stand out by not allowing themselves to be controlled by cultural movements or thinking that excluded God or were hostile to God. They would be swimming up stream for sure - especially when it came to choosing Christ above longstanding cultural norms. The many new challenges they never had to consider before were facing them like a large tidal wave. Can you relate? In today's cultural riptide, one wrong word or statement and you get a label or are excluded from relationships with others. It is happening in culture and happening among believers. Behind this symphony of conflict and destruction is the Great Divider, the sworn enemy of healthy connection between people. And just like Jesus' disciples who had their moment in time, every Christian alive today has this powerful moment, a powerful enemy against them, and a powerful mission to engage and use the events of the world to influence others for God. Will you be able to rise above culture, engage it, and overcome it. In Part 2 of NOT OF IT, pastor and men's expert Kenny Luck explores the four ways Jesus told his disciples they would stand out in the midst, not in the absence of, a challenging and sometimes hostile culture.
- 237Not Of It Part 1 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyRight now everybody's insides are pouring out and onto to the streets, into conversations at the dinner table, and creating a host of negative and separating emotions. We are being forced to stake out positions, plant ourselves, and take a side. It is unavoidable. What also seems to be unavoidable is identifying ourselves with cultural and political positions at the expense of our biblical and spiritual identity. There's a word for that - it's called "hijacking." Issues are being conflated and blended and eventually taken over by agendas that just don't feel right to us on every side of the cultural and political spectrum. How do you identify yourself? What does that identity tell you to do and say? What allegiance is owed to that identity? What outcomes does that identity, energy, and allegiance produce for your relationships with God and people? Jesus knew his disciples needed clarity on who they were or else they would not know what to under the cultural pressures of their times. In Part 1 of NOT OF IT author and pastor Kenny Luck takes us back to the most clarifying about you, about this cultural moment, and about your conduct within it by shining the light on what Jesus declares to his disciples about their primary identity and allegiance in the midst of powerful cultural tension
- 238The Big If Part 4 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyPart 4 Sometimes we know right away because it hurts. Sometimes we are used to it and don't realize it until many years or decades later. A dad left us. A friend that betrayed us. A business partner that stole from us. Perhaps people abused us. Spouses that gave up on us. Welcome to a broken humanity. The common denominator of all hurt is that you get sad and mad. Most men stuff their hurts and walk around with it quietly and never talk about it until they have to, are forced to, or the pain is greater than the need to hide it any more. Other men walk around with a big fat chip on their shoulder determined that no one will ever hurt them again, trying to control everyone and everything to self-protect against future injury. Jesus predicted such pain and showed us a better way to handle it. His way? Forgiveness. Really? Jesus says there is no way around it if you want to live and experience joy again as a human being. There's just one catch - if you have not experienced it at a deep level it is hard to offer it. Worse, if you have experienced it and don't offer it? That's the BIG "IF" that could make or break your future forever with God and people. Join men's expert and pastor Kenny Luck for this powerful journey into God's mind on forgiveness.
- 239The Big If Part 3 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyPart 3 Here is a bottom line truth in life...IMPORTANT relationships get your time and energy. Those that are not ...DON"T. Giving time. Staying connected. Re-arranging priorities. Sacrificing other things to spend time. That communicates one thing - the other person TRULY matters to you. Really smart men discipline themselves toward their most important relationships. And those that don't wish they did. The reason we have to get this straight is because sometimes we SAY relationships are important but... if you are not making deposits of time and energy ....your words will mean nothing and your connection will dry up. TRUE with the people in your life. ALSO true with God. After all, he is a person who feels, who senses, and can recognize the VIBE we send to HIm by where we spend time, how we spend our time, and who we spend it with. If you haven't thought about it lately, your connection to God is really important... to God! So.... are you closely connected right now to him? IF not, there is good news, he is waiting for you! If you ARE close right now, can I give some advice? Stay close! Guard your connection. Don't let anything separate you from Jesus, his love, and his presence. It's a daily battle. It's full of hard decisions. You will be tested. You will be tempted. And right now... God is saying "I got you. Don't let go."
- 240The Big If Part 2 with Kenny Luck – Audio OnlyToday we are in Part 2 of our latest men's series called the BIG IF...and to get you ready let me ask you a question. Do you like clear, simple communication? You know the kind that allows for simple responses, simple choices, and simple connection with whoever you are talking with? If your answer is YES then you are gonna love this series. I also think that we can agree that language matters in relationships - but it especially matters in your relationship with God. And on that front it's a good news/bad news situation. The good news is that God speaks clearly and uses simple IF/THEN language when talking about how we can connect to him and experience Him. The bad news is that we can choose the negative consequences of going against his revealed will and plan. Today's study is no different - Jesus says simply "Anything is possible if a man believes." I want IN on that don't you? Anything is possible? That is exactly what Jesus said and is saying right now to you - no matter what challenge you may be facing right now. So now the question is: what does believing mean exactly so I can see God's power flow into my life? That's what we are going to dive into right now.. but before we do that ... do you know of anyone facing a difficult situation or circumstance who needs the hope of Jesus' promise if we believe?
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