Real Men Make Right Choices

Pt. Dave Kenney

Acts 16 : 25 - 34 (MSG)

Real men make right choices about God - you need to choose.
Joshua 24:15 (NIV)

• Choose right habits - we're all creature of habits.
  if you don't decide to change, there won't be a new habit.

• Choose spiritual growth - by always doing the right thing ; that's creating habits also.
  Our God is a God that forgives, but you won't grow if you can't overcome old bad habits.
  You need to be doing the things that leads you grows, not on the activities.

• Choose to influence others.
  You will influence people by the things you choose to do.

Real men make right choices about their single life.

• Choose honesty - single men tends to have less responsibilities and that makes the opportunity of dishonest to be bigger.
  Matt 5: 16 (NIV)

• Choose purity - whatever worldly concepts that is going out there, is a NO GO for Christians. Being single doesn't mean you have less responsibilities to about holiness and purity.
  1 Cor 6:16-20 (MSG)
  
  
• Choose others - can choose to do so many activities to be an influence to others. Be used by God to touch others.

Real men make right choices about their marriages.

• Choose to love - your own wife.
  Love is not about feeling. You need to tell it. Emotions is great, but it comes and goes.

• Choose to build - instead of tearing down.
  "..two become one.." if you attack one, you're attacking yourself.

• Choose to be faithful
  the only thing that can break this faithful is the sin of sex, and it's a matter of choice.
  in the Old Testament: idolatry = adultery.
  

Real men make right choices about their children.
Eph. 6 : 4 (NLT)

Choose to discipline :

• for real violations - not because they embarrasses you.
• not in anger - you don't want to deliver a message : you got punished because you make daddy angry.
• not in extreme - not let them remember the discipline, and not the lesson
• consistently

Choose to teach - have to talk, to listen to them, and spend more time with your kids.
Choose to model - children will follow what you DO, and not what you SAY.
Choose to lead - cause the world is full of trap. You need to lead examples for them.