Are You A Man (or Woman) Built for Others?

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Are you a man built for others?

In the amazing book, Season of Life, author Jeffrey Marx writes, “What happens when you decide to be a man built for others?  You strap on the oxygen tank and start climbing stairs to save people in the World Trade Center.  When you’re the CEO of a company, you make sure everybody has a living wage, everybody has health insurance, and everybody is treated with dignity and respect.  When you’re a high school football player, you play every single snap as hard as you can, with all your talents, because you play not only for yourself but everybody else.  As a father, you make sure that you focus on what your children need.  You make sure that there’s no one, ever, treated better than the gal you marry.  You do the things that you know you’re supposed to do.”

Are you a man built for others?  Find out with these 10 ways.  Tony Dungy shares his thoughts on what a man built for others looks like.   Click Here for the full article.

 

Post-Election Football: Did the Family Win?

Post-Election Football: Did the Family Win?
We like to view elections like our favorite sport, football for example.  For your information, MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - my Pittsburgh (where I grew up) Steelers beat the Cincinnati (where I used to live) Bengals last night.  Yeah!  We want to know who won and who lost.   What was the score?   Some are reporting because the Repbulicans won most US elections last week, therefore biblical morality (kindness, honesty, integrity, self-sacrifice, compassion, charity, etc,), American principles (freedom, limited government, etc.) and family values are the victors.  I think it's more complicated than that.  Bob Patterson, author, friend and pastor provides some insight in his article, "Republican plan ignores the American family crisis."

Why is family important?  It is the fundamental unit of society.  It is the first social unit, the first church, the first corporation, the first school, the first hopsital, the first , the first court, the first goverment, etc.  If you want to solve any problem in society (not just put a band-aid on the symptoms) then you need to start with the family (the source of human capital and the future of humankind).  Let me provide you with some quick examples (according to the scientific facts coincidentally they also reflect biblical truth):

• Poverty - statistically, natural married families are the least likely to end up in poverty in the US (if you want to guarantee you will never be poor do three things - graduate high school, get married at age 20 or older and have children after you get married - sounds like some pretty simple goals actually)
• Crime - single males from fatherless homes represent the greatest risk to commit crimes (includes me)
• Domestic Abuse - the greatest risk factors for spouse and child abuse include children in divorced, separated and cohabiting families, especially with live-in boyfriends
• Healthcare - intact natural married families are healhier, live longer and lower healthcare costs
• Environment/CO2 Emissions - Intact married family households use less resources, use less energy and create less waste per person.  Single households in the USA are the most wasteful!   

What is the natural family and why is it the solution to societal problems? 
Go here to find out more: http://www.familymanifesto.net/fm/what_is.asp .

 

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Republican-plan-ignores-the-American-family-crisis-1105436-104294993.html