Man In The Mirror
Everywhere you go you see men who are frustrated from trying to win the rat race that nobody wins. Is there hope? Absolutely.
The Man in the Mirror reveals how to live successfully with the man in your mirror. This book is written for you, the man grappling with the pressure and stress of everyday life.
In 1989, Pat Morley wrote this landmark book that poured from his own search for meaning, purpose, and a deeper relationship with God. With nearly 3,000,000 copies, this best-selling book has captured the imaginations of hundreds of thousands of men worldwide, and was selected as “one of the 100 most influential Christian books of the twentieth century.”
Identity Problems (6)
#1 - The Rat Race
Galatians 5:7, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Matthew 23:12, Hebrews 12:1-3
The BIG Idea: “The rat race is the conflict between who I am created to be, and who I am tempted to be.”
#2 - Leading an Unexamined Life
Colossians 2:8, Romans 12:2, 2 Corinthians 13:5
The BIG Idea: “The unavoidable result of an unexamined life is to end up Christian in spirit but secular in practice.”
#3 - Biblical Christian or Cultural Christian?
1 John 2:14-15, 1 Corinthians 7:29-31, Matthew 13:12-23, Revelation 2:2-5 & 3:15-20
The BIG Idea: “To be a cultural Christian is to love this life more than the next life.”
#4 - Significance: The Search 4 Meaning and Purpose
Ecclesiastes 3:10-14; Acts 17:24-28; John 15:5, Ephesians 1:11-23
The BIG Idea: “A man’s most innate need is his need to be significant— to find meaning and purpose.”
#5 - Purpose: Why Do I Exist?
Philippians 2:13, Acts 17:26, Ephesians 2:10, 1 Peter 4:10-11
The BIG Idea: “We will feel most alive, most useful, and most significant when we are doing what God created us to do.”
#6 - The Secret of Job Contentment
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12, Colossians 3:22-24, Luke 14:31-33, Philippians 4:12-13
The BIG Idea: “The secret of job contentment is not getting what we want, but redefining what we need.”
Relationship Problems (4)
#7 - Broken Relationships
John 13:34-35; Philippians 2:4-5, 21; Matthew 6:14-15
The BIG Idea: “The relationship is the task.”
#8 - Children: How to Avoid Regrets
Proverbs 22:15, Colossians 3:21
The BIG Idea: “The two greatest needs of every child are structure and encouragement.”
#9 - Wives: How to Be Happily Married
Genesis 1:27-28; 2:18-25, 3:16; Ephesians 5:21-33
The BIG Idea: “After God, but before all others, make your wife your top priority.”
#10 - Friends: Risks and Rewards
John 13:34-35; Proverbs 17:17; 18:24; 27:6, 9, 17; Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
The BIG Idea: “The price of true friendship is personal vulnerability.”
Money Problems (2)
#11 - Money: A Biblical Point of View
James 4:2-3, Matthew 6:25-34, Philippians 4:19
The BIG Idea: “God’s perspective on money is so difficult not because the Bible says so little, but because it says so much.”
#12 - The Four Pillars of Financial Strength
Proverbs 13:11, 21:20, Matthew 6:19-21, Malachi 3:10, Proverbs 22:26-27, 6:1-5
The BIG Idea: “How I handle money is a window into my soul.”
Time Problems (3)
#13 - Decisions: How to Make the Right Choice
Mark 14:32-36, Matthew 4:1-11, Proverbs 3:5-6, 16:1-4, 9,21:30, Philippians 4:13
The BIG Idea: “The goal is to bring my free will into alignment with God’s will.”
#14 - Priorities: How to Decide What’s Important
Luke 4:42-43
The BIG Idea: “Biblical priorities are how we align our free will with God’s sovereign will.”
#15 - Time Management: Doing God’s Will
Proverbs 16:1-4
The BIG Idea: “The most effective time management strategy is “Pray, then plan.”
Temperament Problems (5)
#16 - Pride
Luke 18:9-14, Galatians 6:3-4, Romans 12:3, 2 Corinthians 5:12, James 4:6
The BIG Idea: “Pride is a sin of comparison in which I compare my strengths to your weaknesses.”
#17 - Fear
Matthew 14:22-33, 1 John 4:18, Romans 8:15, 28, 2 Timothy 1:7, Philippians 4:6-7
The BIG Idea: “Vast is the difference between fear and a spirit of fear.”
#18 - Anger
Ecc 7:9, James 1:19-20, 4:1, Proverbs 17: 9, 14,1 John 4:20-21, Eph 4:26-27, Colossians 3:8
The BIG Idea: “An angry spirit is easily angered by that which is not sin.”
#19 - The Desire to be Independent
Jeremiah 17:5-8, 10:23, Colossians 1:16-17, Matthew 10:29, 5:36, James 4:14, Acts 27:20
The BIG IDEA: “Letting” it happen versus “making” it happen.
#20 - Avoiding Suffering
Daniel 11:35, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, James 1:2-4, Hebrews 4:15-16, 1 Peter 5:10
The BIG Idea: “I love suffering because it brings me into fellowship with Christ at a depth I can find no other way.
Integrity Problems (3)
#21 - Integrity: What’s the price?
Job 2:1-10, 1 Chronicles 29:10-19, 1 Kings 9:1-9, 11:1-4
The BIG Idea: “Integrity is a one-to-one correlation between my Bible, my belief, and my behavior.”
#22 - Leading a Secret Thought Life
Romans 7:14-25, 8:5-6, 2 Corinthians 10:3-5
The BIG Idea: “There is nothing you can say to me that I have not already thought.”
#23 - Accountability: The Missing Link
Galatians 6:1-2, Philippians 2:4, Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, Matthew 12:36
The BIG Idea: “Accountability is to be regularly answerable for each of the key areas of our lives to qualified people.”
Final Challenge - Sustainability
#24 - How Can a Man Change?
Matthew 13:24-30, Acts 1:8, Galatians 5:22-23, Ephesians 6:10-19
The BIG Idea: “The great irony of surrender is that it leads not to defeat, but victory.”
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