Category: Starting Friday study

New section of our study begins this week…..”Be Watchful”…..!  Your homework is to read the (short) chapters, 9 and 10.  Think about how God is reminding us to be “on alert and watchful” in our homes, and other areas of our lives.

What is causing you to be distracted from being watchful?  Are your Spidey-sensors up, watching for harm?  Or are you like our author, on duty but not paying attention?

Meet Friday morning at 7:30 am.  Mike kicks off the lesson and the new section starting at 7:45 am.  Cornwell Center location…..as usual!

Peace!

FMMF Charlotte will not meet this week, given the Thanksgiving holiday.  Enjoy time with family and friends.  Be thankful for all our blessings!

We’ll gather NEXT Friday, NOV 30, and start the next section of our current study, Act Like Men.  If you’re looking to get a jump on next week, then dig into chapters 9 – 10 of the book.

Mike leads next week.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Peace!

Ever wonder where that phrase came from….”moved by the spirit”..?

Honestly, for me, it’s one of those phrases that I never stop to think about “where” it started.  But now, after reading this week’s chapter in our study, it’s becoming pretty clear to me of the origin!  Up until this point in our study, our author has been leading us down a path of what WE need to be doing in our lives to “act like men”; to be quality men.

This week, in Chapter 8, you’ll see how God has provided us a partner in our lives to help keep us on track!  I won’t spoil the ending….and hopefully you already know who that partner is in our lives….

Instead, let’s rely on Jon Paschal, this week’s leader, to bring the message to us and share Chapter 8’s key points.  Chapter 8 is your homework as we wrap up the first section of the book:  “Let Your Partner Take the Lead“.  We’ll wrap up section 1, “Act Like Men”, and lean forward towards section 2, “We Watchful”.

Quick reminder that we won’t meet next Friday since it’s Thanksgiving week.  Section 2 will start on Friday, Nov 30th for Chapters 9-10.

See you this Friday for Chapter 8 at The Cornwell Center.  Gather at 7:30 am….Jon will kicks things off at 7:45 am.

Peace!

Leadership Ministries, our “mothership” out of Atlanta, launched a new website earlier this week:

www.leadmin.org

Take some time to go through it…..lots of great information!  Click on the Friday Mornings tab to see the Charlotte Friday Morning Men’s Fellowship (FMMF) as well as the others!

Enjoy!

 

 

Or was he?  Actually, Ford (the company), had a motto years ago that read, “Quality is job one….”.  Even our author this week talks about it, in reference to his father-in-laws actions along an auto plant’s assembly line.  This week, our homework is to continue on in our first section of “Act Like Men” by reading chapters 6 (“Truly As Good As It Gets…“) and 7 (“Disneyland Quality“).  These two chapters fit nicely together as MacDonald discusses “what is perfection” and “what (and who) seem to be perfect” is not always the case.

Jon Pascal will lead this week as we tackle the key points in the chapters.  Short reads, once again, and great questions to consider at the end of each chapter.

See you in Fellowship beginning at 7:30 am this Friday at The Cornwell Center!

Peace!

Whoops!

It’s been one of those weeks!  And having chocolate on the brain from Wednesday night’s Halloween “event”, isn’t helping matters either!

Week 3 of our study…..homework is Chapter 4 (“And the Gold Goes to….”) and Chapter 5 (“What Are You Looking at..?“).

I took a different approach this week in preparing for Friday’s lesson.  I went, first, to the questions at the back of each chapter….then did the reading.  Yes, they’re still short reads…but knowing the questions helped me focus on the author’s message.

I won’t steal Rob Miller’s thunder…..he’s leading us this week.  I’ll see everyone at the Cornwell Center starting at 7:30 am in Fellowship!

Peace!

We’re in week 2 of our new study, “Act Like Men” by James MacDonald.  Recall that the book is divided into five sections, with each of those sections having eight chapters.  Have I lost you yet?

Those five sections are:

-Act Like Men

-Be Watchful

-Stand Firm in the Faith

-Be Strong

-Let All That You Do Be Done in Love

Now if the words of those sections sound familiar, then you’re on the right track with the book’s primary theme that comes to us from scripture:

“Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.  Let all that you do be done in love.”  1 COR 16:13-14

Last week we started out at an easy pace out of the starting blocks.  And we’re picking up our stride a little bit this week……lean forward and pump those arms!

HOMEWORK is to read Chapter 2 and Chapter 3; “A Quality Man” and “Not a Quality Man”, respectively.  These are very short chapters but focus on the questions and reflections at the end of each chapter as those will be the basis for our discussion.

Mike will lead this week.  Gather in the parlor room at the Cornwell Center starting at 7:30 am.  We’ll pick up the pace promptly at 7:45 am.

See you then!

 

Hurricane Michael slowed us down a little bit last week, resulting in our meeting locations being closed.  The power was out, too, so that made matters a little worse.  This week, we’re back on track with plans to “kickoff” our new series, Act Like Men by James MacDonald.  Your homework this week is fairly light….read the book’s Forward, Introduction, and Chapter 1: Acting Like Men.

I’ll have a tentative schedule for this series to share on Friday.  Looking closely at the best way to break up the book.

As always, come regardless if you’ve read ahead of time or even gotten the book!  You’ll also leave more fulfilled through insight and fellowship.  I hope to see you on Friday!

Cornwell Center front parlor room.  Gather starting at 7:30 am.  I’ll introduce our new series starting at 7:45 am.

Peace!

Our meeting location, The Cornwell Center, will be closing early today, 10/11, and will have a delayed opening on Friday, 10/12.  As such, and taking safely into consideration, we are going to cancel this Friday’s FMMF and will introduce the new series NEXT Friday, 10/19.

The streets around Myers Park look like a war zone right now, with fallen down trees and debris.  Please be careful out there!

Prayers for our city and all those impacted by this storm along the Florida Panhandle, as well as Georgia and the Carolinas.

Peace!

Okay, buckle up, men.  We’re at the start of our next study series, “Act Like Men” by James MacDonald.  I don’t have a set schedule, yet….the plan is to see how the first couple of weeks go, and we’ll plan things out after that.  This week, homework is to read the book’s Forward, Introduction and Chapter 1 (Acting Like Men).  Those three sections, albeit a little short in pages, provide an excellent foundation for the book ahead.

This week, Mike leads us using the scripture passage from 1 Corinthians 13: 11 as our backdrop.

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away my childish things.” (KJV)

If you haven’t ordered the book yet, do that at this LINK.  And even if you don’t have the book, show up on Friday!  With what I see as a long series ahead, you’ll still have plenty of time to make that purchase!

See you this Friday, ready to go by 7:45 am at The Cornwell Center.

Alright, alright…..alright!

Peace!