The Noble Man

We’re kicking off a new season of The Noble Man Podcast talking about mentorship. This short episode packs a punch as Mike answers some of the most frequently asked questions he gets about mentoring, including: What’s the one thing every man wants and needs in his life? What’s the difference between mentorship and discipleship? What’s necessary for a good mentorship relationship? Who should be a mentor? What if you’ve made some major mistakes? Can God still use you? Can a younger guy mentor an older guy? Discipleship doesn’t happen without intentionality. Ask yourself how to have the posture of someone who is being conformed to the image of Christ. Listen and take on the mentorship challenge. Resources: Noble Warriors Mentoring Resources What is Mentorship? Yet Jethro Mentored Moses Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman Just One Conversation by Chuck Lawless MasterLife: A Biblical Process for Growing Disciples by Avery Willis Master Builders Bible for Men Letters to an Apprentice by J. Taliaferro View Show Notes: NobleWarriors.org/episode73 Leave a Review: If you like what you’ve been hearing, we invite you to leave us a review. Tell us what you love about this episode! More Resources and Encouragement: NobleWarriors.org © Copyright 2022 All rights reserved

We’ve all been going through a crisis for the last year and a half. Brian Autry, Executive Director of the SBC of Virginia, joined us at our Spring 2021 Tailgate Tour to remind us never to waste a crisis. We can say to our God, “We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.” 2 Chronicles 20:12b Where do you focus your eyes when you have a problem? We dream of being the hero of the story, but we should be seeking the Lord. In focusing on Him, we find our hope. “For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.” Romans 15:4 Brian gives one of the coolest encouragements I’ve heard as he walks through what it would have taken for the children of Israel to cross the Red Sea and live in the desert. Did you ever think about what it took for them to get across in just one night? They’d have to march across 5,000 people wide, about a 3-mile-wide part in the sea! Not to mention the 11 million gallons of water, 750,000 quail, and 2 million gallons of manna they’d need daily – and so much more that God provided for them. You’ve got to hear this faith-building breakdown of his faithfulness in the desert. Our God can handle your crisis. Tune in and listen as he gives the steps we can take to keep our eyes on Him. He is the one true hero that we hand the ball off to because the battle belongs to Him. Join us for our Fall Tailgate Tour! Resources: Brian Autry Executive Director • SBC of Virginia (sbcv.org) The Noble Man Shares the Word with His Family [Podcast Ep. 13 Father’s Day Edition] – Noble Warriors Podcast with Brian Autry Hope in the Supplier, Not the Supply: Finding Financial Hope During a Crisis – Noble Warriors Practical Tips from Gary Wood: Finding Financial Hope During a Crisis – Part 2 – Noble Warriors Helpful Tools from Randy Rowekamp: Finding Financial Hope During a Crisis – Part 3 – Noble Warriors Leading Through the Coronavirus: 3 ‘L’s for Men [Podcast] – Noble Warriors April Wisdom: Joseph’s Way [Podcast Ep. 55 with Steve Hall] – Noble Warriors View Show Notes: NobleWarriors.org/episode72 Leave a Review: If you like what you’ve been hearing, we invite you to leave us a review. Tell us what you love about this episode! More Resources and Encouragement: NobleWarriors.org © Copyright 2021 All rights reserved

“God has preordained all of us to achieve greatness in our life, but until we get ourselves cleaned up and hooked to the right power source, we’ll never be what he wants us to be.” We live in a time when people are hooked up to the wrong power source, anything other than God. “For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18 From our Charlottesville Tailgate this past Spring, our friend Gordon Fields tells us how to maintain a strong connection to our power source. Gordon, a pastor for 30 years who now works with UVA Athletics graduate assistance through the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, is dedicated to investing in young athletes, leaders, and coaches. He’s lived firsthand what it’s like to have “a good battery, but a weak connection.” “We have to have a good connection with God to benefit from the power that is available to us.” What do you do when the corrosion of sin causes a clicking sound and a bad connection that keeps us from having a good connection with God? Hear one of the coolest ideas he walks through: the “Tailgate in Suffolk on September 25, or find out when we are coming to a city near you. Help us Connect the Dots on the map and connect other men by donating to offset Tailgate expenses. Resources: Fellowship of Christian Athletes (fca.org) – Gordon Fields Romans 10:17 Romans 8:38-39 John 3:16 Matthew 11:28-30 Psalm 23 "Touch Some Grass" and Boost Mental Health: Resources for The Languishing Pastor - Noble Warriors View Show Notes: NobleWarriors.org/episode71 Leave a Review: If you like what you’ve been hearing, we invite you to leave us a review. Tell us what you love about this episode! More Resources and Encouragement: NobleWarriors.org © Copyright 2021 All rights reserved

If you could get advice on how to make decisions from the wisest man who ever lived, would you take it? At our Waynesboro Tailgate this past Spring, Director of Church Planting for the SBC of Virginia, Josh Turner, gives us that advice from King Solomon out of Proverbs 4. “My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.” Proverbs 4:20-23 The NIV states it this way, “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” Guard. Your. Heart. It’s the number one tip he gives. Above. All. Else. It should be the number one priority in our lives. When something needs guarding, it’s because it is valuable. In the same way, we guard our hearts because “if we lose our heart, the potential is we might lose everything.” In this episode, Josh shares three ways we can begin to guard our hearts. 1. Resist the urgency of the day for the priority of prayer. Prayer and time with the Father is the work. We can’t live off yesterday’s blessings and time with God. 2. Know who we are in Christ. “True freedom comes when we find our identity not in what other people think about us, not in how popular we are, but very clearly in Christ alone.” 3. Acknowledge we have blind spots and have friends who we give permission to speak into our lives. “Sin demands to have a man by himself.” Bonhoeffer Tune in to Josh to better understand how to make guarding your heart a priority in your life. Things can look good on the outside, but if you peer on the inside, we might be headed for disaster. “Men fall in private long before they fall in public.” J.C. Ryle You can help point other men to Jesus by supporting our Fall Tailgate Tour. We are hitting the road this weekend for our kick-off in Roanoke, VA. Help us Connect the Dots on the map and connect other men by donating to offset Tailgate expenses. Resources: CONNECT THE DOTS WITH US – Noble Warriors Josh Turner | SBC of Virginia (sbcv.org) RESOURCES | Noble Warriors Inc Screen Accountability™ | Covenant Eyes Extreme Mind Makeover: How to Transform Sinful Thoughts and Patterns into God-Pleasing Habits by Steve Etner The Four Voices by Patrick Morley (maninthemirror.org) Ordering Your Private World by Gordon MacDonald When Men Think Private Thoughts: Exploring The Issues That Captivate The Minds Of Men by Gordon MacDonald View Show Notes: NobleWarriors.org/episode70 Leave a Review: If you like what you’ve been hearing, we invite you to leave us a review. Tell us what you love about this episode! More Resources and Encouragement: NobleWarriors.org © Copyright 2021 All rights reserved

You can’t have it both ways. Dr. Ed Gomes, Director of Spiritual Development for Liberty Flames football and shoe-shiner extraordinaire, asks us to decide, “Have you been allowing the world to conform you, or are you allowing God to transform you?” It’s a contradiction. I can live my life the way I want to live it or the way God wants me to live it. I can do it my way and get wood, hay, and stubble, or do it God’s way and get the opposite. Dr. Gomes received his salvation at the age of 17, and from that time until now, at age 67, God gave him a new “want to.” He decided to follow Jesus no matter what, become a student of God’s Word, and allow it to transform his life. “Becoming a Christian isn’t based on something that I do, but rather it’s based on something Christ has already done.” In Romans 12:1-2, Paul offers a negative and a positive admonition to believers. Dr. Gomes helps us see how we can make every day count, allow the Word of God to permeate our thoughts, and apply it to every situation. In the last seven days, have you been in the Word? As we get closer to the end of our Tailgate Series on the Podcast, the end of one season marks the beginning of another. Connect the Dots with us on the Tailgate map across the region and help us hit the road. Help noble men connect! And check out our Fall Tailgate Lineup! Resources: Dr. Ed Gomes | Liberty Flames More from Dr. Ed Gomes on Noble Warriors Discipleship for Student Athletes by Dr. Ed Gomes | Amazon Building a Legacy: Student Guide by Dr. Ed Gomes | Amazon Leaving a Legacy: Leader's Guide by Dr. Ed Gomes | Amazon Romans 12:1-2 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. View Show Notes: NobleWarriors.org/episode69 Leave a Review: If you like what you’ve been hearing, we invite you to leave us a review. Tell us what you love about this episode! More Resources and Encouragement: NobleWarriors.org © Copyright 2021 All rights reserved

“We may not have started well, but with Jesus we can finish well.” Sometimes we feel like a failure as a father or a husband. Josh Turner brings a message of redemption and restoration for a man who was a complete failure in God’s Word. He had no hope. He was in the darkest place. He lived in a cemetery He cut himself. “But everything changes when you meet Jesus.” If you’ve ever met anyone you thought was too far gone, or if you have ever felt like you are that guy, there is always, always, always hope in Jesus. There is no addiction, no chain too strong He can’t break. As you listen, think about who the guys are in your life right now that you are praying for or think they’ll never come to know Jesus. If God changed this guy’s life, He could change anyone’s life. People need the hope that comes only through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It only makes sense that we share that hope with all those around us and leave a Gospel legacy. “It’s more important how we finish than how we start. God wants to change us in an incredible, powerful way.” Episode 68 is part of our Tailgate Series originally shared in Danville, VA. Josh Turner is a church planter and now Director of Church Planting for the SBC of Virginia. The Fall 2021 Tailgate Tour is kicking off soon, so help us hit the road and help Noble Men connect through our August campaign, Connect the Dots with Us. Thank you for helping us point men to Jesus and launch small groups all over the state! Resources: CONNECT THE DOTS WITH US - Noble Warriors RESOURCES | Noble Warriors Inc (square.site) Josh Turner | SBC of Virginia (sbcv.org) New Life Community Church | Home (newlifelouisa.com) Mark 5:1-20 | ESV.org View Show Notes: NobleWarriors.org/episode68 Leave a Review: If you like what you’ve been hearing, we invite you to leave us a review. Tell us what you love about this episode! More Resources and Encouragement: NobleWarriors.org © Copyright 2021 All rights reserved