If you only had 24 hours to live and you had to teach your son or sons everything you learned about being a man from life to love

Money to marriage people to porn and everything in between what lessons would you teach him?

Well, when my son was only 12 years old, I wrote a book for him I wanted to leave behind as my legacy. It's called are you the man?

Two hundred and one lessons I wish my dad would have taught me. And I squeezed all of those lessons on manhood into

just 124 pages. The lessons I share in this book not only come from my successes in life,

but many of them also come from my painful and even shameful failures, including divorce, abuse, addiction,

adultery, and abandonment, just to name a few. You can read and learn in less than two hours

what it took me over 30 plus years to learn the hard way. So just go over to are you the

man.com and get your copy today. That's are you the man.com. Trust me, your wife and children will

thank you for it later. Hello, Mighty Men of God, Joe Martin here, man builder, award-winning

speaker, author, and Tanya's husband and Kendall and Faith's dad. Welcome to the Real Man Connect

podcast where we help good men become great men God's way. Every Wednesday we interview some of the nation's most respected and accomplishment of faith

to find out what it really takes to become the kind of husband, father, and spiritual leader God called and created us to be.

Today is the real men check-in.

The real men check-in is just a quick way to help you start your week on the right foot in the right way.

Every Monday, I share personal insights, encouragement, and support that will move you beyond

church to real change. I keep it short, I make it fun, and then I'm done. So let's get started.

Real men live to reset, not to regret. Let me say that one more time. Real men live to reset, not to regret. Romans 122 says,

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. Now, if you took a poll of how many times you've heard that particular verse as a Christian, I think we'll be safe to say at least a dozen times, if not more. Now, for me, personally, it's been at least a hundred times, no joke. But there's so much power and truth in that script that because we've heard it so much, it's starting to lose its power in our lives. Well, this week on the Real Men check in, I hope to recharge your eternal battery, so whenever you hear or read that scripture again, you will never think about it the same way. Now, I meet with a small group of men and a discipleship group called Every Man a Warrior. And the purpose of our group is to equip us as men, husbands and fathers,

and his spiritual leaders, so we can in turn go out and do what Jesus command all believers to do,

which is to go out and make disciples. Well, this past week, one of my brothers asked a question,

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