Hey Warrior, I know you're tired of doing life, work, and relationships alone, and not knowing what to do or how to do it, but you know you can't do it by yourself. And how do I know? Because I was you. So here's what I want you to do. I want you to book a free breakthrough call so we can talk about your life and your future and what's frustrating you the most as a man. And I want to get you connected to an amazing community

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Welcome to the Real Men 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 accomplished men 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 are God made, not self-made. That's right, you heard me. I say real men are God made, not self-made. That's right, you heard me. I said, real men are God-made, not self-made. Now, I heard someone once say, show me a man who's self-made, and I'll show you a man with a fool for a creator. Ouch. See, we live in a society that values and reveres what we call the self-made man. The man who's able to pull himself up by his own bootstraps, the man who can make his own way in the world, the man who can control his own destiny, the man who becomes the master of his fate. However, if you read in Deuteronomy chapter 8 like I did this past week, you'll see that God sees the self-made man a little differently than we do. Now, in full disclosure,

this chapter cut a little bit too close for me for comfort. I'll explain shortly, but allow me to

read just a few passages to you from Deuteronomy chapter 8, starting in verse 11. Check this out.

Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments and his ordinances

and his statues,

which I am commanding you today.

Verse 12 goes on and says, otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied and have built

good houses and lived in them, and when your herds and your flocks multiply and your silver

and gold multiply and all that you have multiplies, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the

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