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?

201 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 theman.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 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 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 don't make plans. They follow God's

plan. Let me say that one again. Real men don't make plans. They follow God's plan.

This week on the real men check in, I have a couple of questions I want to ask you. One, do you believe God has a plan for your life?

And if so, question number two is, do you know what that plan is? Now, Proverbs 169 tells us that the heart of man plans his way, but the Lord

establishes his steps. In Proverbs 1921 says, many are the plans in the mind of a man,

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