July 2024 WACMM Emale...Happy 4th!

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Tim Hawkins Shortens Pop Songs

The very funny Tim Hawkins is also a very talented musician. Here he takes some popular but too long songs and condenses them to a verse, Hilarious! HERE

Traffic Reporter's On-Air Melt Down

In this comedy sketch, a local news traffic reporter has a meltdown as he does a live traffic report. HERE

"I Wasn't Allowed to Watch Anything"

Hailed as “The Nicest Man in Stand-Up,” Nate Bargatze is a Grammy nominated stand-up comedian from Nashville. Check out this hilariously clip about his growing up in a Christian home. HERE

Britain's Most Extreme Sport

“Cheese Rolling” is one of the oldest, most extreme yet popular sports in Great Britain. Record-breaking crowds turn out at the treacherous incline of Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire to watch crazy, brave souls risk life and limb plummeting after a 7 pound of Double Gloucester cheese. HERE

When Greed Gets the Best of a Black Hole Discovery

A sleep-deprived office worker accidentally discovers a black hole - and then sin kicks in and gets the better of him HERE

Golfing with Gary

Legendary comedian Brian Regan shows how different men and women are when it comes to being with their closest friends. Regan mentions to his wife he had just played golf with his close friend Gary who was recently divorced. HERE

Check out this classic BBC wedding skit when the officiant checks to see if there’s any reason that the ceremony shouldn’t proceed. Everyone’s stunned by the response to his question, “Speak now or forever hold your peace.” HERE

Britain's Phobia Workshop

“Phobia Workshop” is an iconic skit by the “The Sketch Show’ - Britain’s classic comedy channel. Check out this hilarious journey into the world of fears and phobias. HERE

Man Rescues Best Friend

Check out this Australian dude who rescues his hunting dog by taking on a dangerous kangaroo who's captured the dog. HERE

What's Wrong in Many Churches

PUT THESE IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE 'EM

“When I pray, I talk to God, but when I read the Bible, God is talking to me; and it is really more important that God should speak to me than that I should speak to Him I believe we should know better how to pray if we knew our Bibles better. What is an army good for if they don’t know how to use their weapons?” ― D.L. Moody

“The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.” – John Stott

“We cannot afford to let down our Christian standards just to hold the interest of people who want to go to hell and still belong to a church.” - A.W. Tozer

“No matter what good truths you have to teach, no one will thank you if you do not speak kindly.” - C.H. Spurgeon

“It is God’s kindness that leads us to repentance, not our repentance that leads God to be kind." — Scott Sauls

"You can't avoid exclusive truth claims... What you need is people who've got an exclusive truth that humbles them." - Tim Keller

“If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Pride is the carbon monoxide of sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.” ~Tim Keller

“The judgmental heart owns a hundred microscopes and no mirrors.” - Gunnar Gundersen

"Make no mistake: To be at peace with your sin is to be war with God." - Kevin DeYoung

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False Promises of Masculinity

Social media platforms are full of content targeting young men who aspire to be self-described “Sigma Males.” YouTube, for instance, features videos with instructions, steps, and guides.

A recent column in the Guardian explored this phenomenon with the following description:

“You are a lone wolf. You are an independent thinker who makes his own rules. You are confident and competent. Women are drawn to you, but you don’t really care about them. Your day begins at 4:30 a.m. with a cold shower, followed by a punishing workout and an even more punishing skincare routine. You shun conventional career paths and run your own business, probably in crypto or real estate or vigilante crime fighting. You are that rarest of males—you are a sigma.”

The so-called “Sigma” life is just another model of masculinity in a culture where young men, many without positive male role models in their own lives, search for the meaning of life. Some of the content in these spaces is helpful, such as tips on exercise, diet, and finance. But often these pursuits become rabbit trails that lead to a twisting of masculinity into something that often celebrates misogyny, racism, and what Carl Trueman labels, “crudity, verbal thuggery ... and the frictionless kindergartens of social media bubbles.”

In the absence of wholesome models of masculinity, some Christian young men are retreating to these perpetually online embattlements, where they are imbibing a syncretistic mixture of Christianity and barbarism. Christian men with influence should warn those in danger of falling prey to Bronze Age Warlord style machismo while also recognizing the social and cultural void these self-styled online shock jocks are filling. READ REST OF ARTICLE

What is True Friendship?

“True friends put enough trust in you to tell you openly of your faults. Give me for a friend the man who will speak honestly of me before my face; who will not tell first one neighbor, and then another, but who will come straight to my house, and say, “Sir, I feel there is such-and-such a thing in you, which, as my brother, I must tell you of.”

"That man is a true friend; he has proved himself to be so; for we never get any praise for telling people of their faults; we rather hazard their dislike; a man will sometimes thank you for it, but he does not often like you any the better.” - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

My Ditches, Pits and Snares

Psalm 23 often reminds me how our Good Shepherd continues to save me and rescue me from myself.

Check out this brief video clip link below that shows what happens when I wander off on my own, straying from my Lord, getting myself into needless trouble.

However, unlike our Good Shepherd (who “will never leave you nor forsake you” Heb 13:5), the rescuer in this video clip gives up, frustrated by constantly trying to save stupid, stubborn sheep from their pits, ditches and snares. That’s not our Good Shepherd - we are His sheep - the beloved recipients of His relentless grace, persistent hesed, and incessant rescue!! HERE

“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned - every one - to his own way…” – Isaiah 53:6

‘All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” Romans 3:12

Hebrews 13:5 “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Check 'Em Out...

Radical Discipleship: Uncompromising Conviction in a Hostile World by Hensworth Jonas HERE

Impossible Commands: How To Obey God When It Seems You Can’t by Jonty Allcock HERE

The War on Children: Providing Refuge for Your Children in a Hostile World by John MacArthur HERE

The War on Men: Why Society Hates Them and Why We Need Them by Owen Strachan HERE

The Titus Ten: Foundations for Godly Manhood by Josh Smith HERE

How Can I Love Church Members with Different Politics? By Jonathan Leeman HERE

Courage: How the Gospel Creates Christian Fortitude by Joe Rigney HERE

Agents of Grace: How to Bridge Divides and Love as Jesus Loved by Daniel Darling HERE

Remade: Embracing Your Complete Identity in Christ by Paul Tautges HERE

Sports Should Unify Us

The following is an excerpt from a talk delivered on April 17, 2024 by Clay Travis at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Bellevue, Washington. Travis is the founder of the sports media company OutKick and co-hosts the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Radio Show.

"Think about [the] controversy over women’s sports from a man’s point of view. In general, men aspire to be bigger, stronger, and faster than they naturally are. That’s a big reason why gifted athletes are so popular with men. By definition, this is never going to include women who are pretending to be men. I don’t say this to be mean—it’s simply a fact that women pretending to be men aren’t going to make it in men’s sports leagues. No woman will ever become an NFL quarterback or a major league pitcher or an NBA point guard. Men won’t allow someone who’s not a man to define what masculinity is…

Women fought for a long time to get equal numbers of athletic scholarships so their daughters could compete on the same level as boys. It’s a shame to see those hard-won gains being sacrificed on the altar of the reigning left-wing orthodoxy—which is more accurately described as a kind of mental illness rooted in a denial of reality. Men, and especially fathers, must continue speaking out in defense of women’s sports. But a big part of the solution must be women who summon the courage to defend the truth about what it means to be a woman and to refuse to capitulate to the idea of men taking over women’s spaces. READ MORE

"A cheerful heart is good medicine"

Proverbs 17:22

Brothers,

Have a Happy July 4th celebration, remembering the Lord's bountiful blessings upon our lives and the freedom we have in our nation to worship Him in spirit and truth.

Above all, remember with gratitude that Christ has set us free from sin and death. "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery." Galatians 5:1.

COVENANT PRAYER by John Wesley

I am no longer my own, but yours.

Put me to what you will, place me with whom you will.

Put me to doing, put me to suffering.

Let me be put to work for you or set aside for you,

Praised for you or criticized for you.

Let me be full, let me be empty.

Let me have all things, let me have nothing.

I freely and fully surrender all things to your glory & service.

And now, O wonderful and holy God,

Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer,

you are mine, and I am yours.