Join me in a GREAT interview with Pastor Bucky. He shares with us what we are going to be talking about this season at Men on the Path, and he shares why he goes to a men’s group.
Listen, enjoy, and as always please share with us your comments to this post.
Join me in listening to an interview with Gene who gives a GREAT example and IMPORTANT reasons to join us at Men on the Path this coming Wednesday morning at 6:45am-8:00am.
Note: it is best to enter the housing complex off of Portolla because then when you go through the gate the club house where we are meeting is straight ahead of you. When you enter at the Portola gate tell Jim, the guard there, that you are attending the Pathways meeting.
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Get READY! We are starting a new adventure as men on the path together.
There are 2 men’s groups that I know and love. One meets Wednesday mornings and the other on Friday mornings–both meet from 6:45am-8:00am. The Friday morning group meets at Mariners Church, room 204 (see map). I have been a part of this amazing, life changing group for almost a decade. If you are free on Friday’s…join them! They are going to be looking at a GREAT book this season: Jack Hayford’s book, “Prayer is Invading the Impossible” The group starts September 19, 2008.
It took me some time to see it (15 years), but it finally dawned on me as I observed another doctor do it. I saw a patient who was dying of end stage liver disease from alcoholism. The first question that the admitting doctor asked the patient was “When was the last time that you had a drink?” How is that relevant at the end of this patients life?
I have been guilty of this as well. I have seen patients dying of lung cancer that I have asked if they smoked and how much. WHY?!! There is no medical reason to ask. We ask these types of questions because it makes us feel better. We think to ourselves: 1. They are to blame for their demise and 2. I won’t get this horrible disease because I don’t smoke or I don’t drink.
The blame game does NOTHING to help with the suffering, the evil, the tragedies, the messes of life. We must rise above the blame game to ask ourselves how can I help others through this and to help heal the pain with God’s help.
We all play the blame game and look for someone to blame.
I have learned an INVALUABLE lesson this last year. Know your enemy; Learn about your enemy; Pray for your enemy; and finally Learn to Love your enemy. No better person to learn from than Abraham Lincoln. For the podcasters I have added this story via audio, and for the readers in the group, I have posted the story in written form (both the audio and written version of the story are the same) and are from a GREAT book: When The Game Is Over It All Goes Back In The Box by John Ortberg
Please PRAY and consider becoming a donor for my friend’s sister-in-law:
Dear Friends,
As some of you know, my sister-in-law, Lisa, was diagnosed with blood cancer (Acute Myelogenous Leukemia) on June 21, 2008. Right now Lisa MUST have a bone marrow transplant in order to survive. An exhaustive search of current available donors has not produced a matching donor. Please see the two attachments for more information on becoming a donor. The process is fairly easy. We have teamed-up with DKMS (www.dkmsamericas.org) for a donor drive. First, you can check your eligibility at the DKMS website (donors cannot have diabetes, heart disease, etc). Second, there are two ways to register to become a donor: 1) come by our donor drive this Friday or Saturday at my father’s ministry office located at 3636 Westminster Ave, Santa Ana. Or, 2) go to the DKMS website and they will mail you a swab kit for free. Either way, it’s a simple process of rubbing a swab on your cheek. After the swab is analyzed (2-3 weeks) and a matching donor is found, the transplant is usually taken by blood. Eighty percent of the time, the needed cells are donated through blood. Please help us find a donor. Time is of the essence since only 20% of patients find a matching donor. Lisa must have a bone marrow transplant to survive. You or someone you know could save Lisa’s life. Please pray for Lisa. Please help us save her life.
With love,
Martin & Lela
Men on the Path starts Wednesday, September 17 at 6:45am to 8:00am at North Park Community Center:
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Get READY! We are starting a new adventure as men on the path together. Starting September 17, 2008 at North Park Community Center from 6:45am to 8:00am. Look forward to seeing all your smiling faces again!!!
If you had to make a top 10 list of the most important Men’s Group Topics what would it be? Please give me comments/feedback to help me get a top 10 list together.
Coming soon! (If? When? the new version of podpress comes out to fix the problems between wordpress 2.6 and podpress 8.8) I plan to do a 10 part audio series on the VERY BEST men’s group topics of all time and an audio series on the best learnings from how to win friends and influence people!
Any other topics of interest? Let me know!