Session 3, Darrin Patrick on “Being and Building Men for the Local Mission” —
• “When you become a leader of men, you plug your life into an ampiflier and everyone hears it.”
• “There’s nothing more destructive for people who are trying to know God than legalism.”
• “You don’t obey for your acceptance, you obey from your acceptance.”
• “You don’t measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus.”
• “You can’t legislate inner character. It can’t be done. Law cannot do anything with the root of anger, greed and lust.”
• “Paul tells us to crucify the flesh. Crucifixion is a slow death, but it is a certain death.”
• “Your flesh is anything you use other than Jesus to get God’s approval. Your flesh will take your ministry and make it your righteousness.”
• “A key to killing your spiritual flesh is through surrounding yourselves with brothers. You have to have some guys who aren’t impressed with you. You need elders who tell you no.”
• “You need guys around you who hate your sin. You need guys who are pursing Christ to the degree that when you look at them you say ‘I want to pursue Christ like that.’”
• “You must allow other people to bear your burdens. You’re not the Savior.”
Next message: Tuesday at 2:45PM (EST); John Piper’s biographical sketch on J. C. Ryle. (desiringgod.org/live)

Lessons Learned from His Father: Quotes from Crawford Loritts
By Jonathan Parnell | Jan 31, 2012 10:20 am

Session 2, Crawford Loritts on “Lessons Learned from His Father” —
• “Greatness is not pop or fad. Greatness has a staying power.”
• “Manhood is not a private matter. It is a public thing. A man aspires to be the desired destination at which others arrive.”
• “This summarizes my dad: Stepping up, never walking away, if it belong to you, you do something with it.”
• “There is a correlation between being a man and keeping promises.”
• “Every child is born with two broad categories of emotional need: nurture and discipline.”
• “Manhood is imprinted.”
• “Our disproportionate desire for relevance is injecting embalming fluid into the next generation.”
• “Out of struggle comes strength; out of strength comes discipline; out of discipline comes integrity; out of integrity comes inheritance.”
• “How people treat you should never define you. It’s not what people call you, but what you answer to.”
• “All we have to give to the next generation is what we have become.”
• “You don’t produce the fruit of the Spirit. It is the fruit of the Spirit.”
• “Repent of wallowing in our self pity and deifying our disfunction. Yield. ‘God, I can’t do this. Help me!’ Believe him.”
Next message: Tuesday at 11:30AM (EST); Darrin Patrick on “Being and Building Men for the Local Mission.” (desiringgod.org/live)

Leading the Home: Quotes from Doug Wilson
By Jonathan Parnell | Jan 30, 2012 09:00 pm

Session 1, Doug Wilson on “‘Father Hunger’ in Leading the Home” —
• “Begin with gospel, walk in the gospel, end with the gospel.”
• “Fatherhood in the home and pastoral care in the church are analogous activities. This makes sense only if they are related activities.”
• “When Paul considers the leadership of the church he doesn’t first refer to a rigorous MDiv program.”
• “Is there anything that the Father has which he has withheld from us?”
• “The way we image the Father is to be open-handed and generous in all that we have.”
• “Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.”
• “Masculine toughness has to lay underneath masculine tenderness. It is a velvet covered brick.”
• “Biblical authority knows how to bleed for others.”
• “If you want to preach the gospel to your wife and to your children, then die.”
• “When men take up their responsibilites to provide and protect it resonates with their being. When men walk away from their responsibilities, they walk away from their assigned masculine identity.”
• “Men don’t carry things because they have broad shoulders; they have broad shoulders because they are meant to carry things.”
• “Dads, your authority was given to you as a gift to your children.”
• “In the gospel, the fatherless no longer are.”
• “Fathers are speaking about God the Father constantly. They have no option to shut up.”
• “If we are strict where God is merciful and merciful where God is strict, then we are supplying the pole dancers of tomorrow’s strip clubs. We are destroying people.”
• “The Father is not guilty of the sins you are repenting of. We have not truly repented if we turn to the Father thinking that he will receive us the same way we would have received ourselves before repentance.”
• “Know that your heavenly Father is looking down the road for you.”
Next message: Tuesday morning at 10:00AM (EST); Crawford Lorrits on “Lessons on Biblical Manhood Learned from His Father.” (desiringgod.org/live)