It’s time to REFUEL

Less than 2 weeks until BASECAMP.

"For those of us who spent years resolutely steering our lives from one ditch to another, one of the most practical ways to surrender to Christ is to pick up the telephone and tell the truth to another Christian. God always rewards that simple act of humility, even if we wind up spilling our guts to a machine." Nate Larkin

This quote reminded me of the importance of having men in my life who I can be honest with and so be known. Each week I meet with a group of men where we tell the truth about ourselves to each other. We not only share our joys and sorrows but our sins as well. It has become a crucial part of staying in integrity with myself and God. Do you have something similar in your life?

I am looking forward to seeing you at BASECAMP. See you then.

LT Hopper

Read

Help! I Keep Losing My Temper. For those who find their temper to be a special problem, this article provides three suggestions.

Extra: For more on the topic of anger, watch Roger’s testimony shared at BASECAMP 2019.

Middle-aged men are among the loneliest in Australia. This article for the ABC discovers that men aged 35 to 49 have the highest levels of loneliness.

On the topic of friendship, Carl Truman writes:

“drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on a regular basis might be the best investment of time you ever make.”

A Serenity Prayer for Porn Addiction. You may have read or even prayed the Serenity Prayer. This article explores how to use this prayer to respond to sexual temptation.

When You Don’t Like Your Wife, Love Your Wife. There may not be times in your marriage when you stop loving your wife, but there may be times in your marriage when you stop liking her—or when you stop acting like it, anyway.

Watch

The internal noise generated by anxiety can be deafening. 

How do you silence it? Some people try to silence it through feverishly gathering more and more information, but it doesn’t ultimately work. 

Watch as Peter shares some thoughts on a better way forward.

Reflect

From John Stott:

No comment could be more hurtful to the Christian than the words, ‘But you are no different from anybody else.’ For the essential theme of the whole Bible from beginning to end is that God’s historical purpose is to call out a people for himself; that this people is a ‘holy’ people, set apart from the world to belong to him and to obey him; and that its vocation is to be true to its identity, that is, to be ‘holy’ or ‘different’ in all its outlook and behaviour.

Sing

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Find it hard to read the Bible? With Dwell you can listen to the Bible instead. It’s not free, but it is good. 

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Which of this month’s resources was most helpful for you?

Refuel is a monthly email with resources to help you live well as a Christian man. It is connected to BASECAMP Men’s Conference — a ministry of Katoomba Christian Convention (KCC).