IronMen of God

IronMen of God - March 2024 Coffee

Speaker: Dan Holland

Topic: Leadership and Servanthood

IronMen of God - February 2024 Coffee

Speaker: "Cowboy" Don McIntyre

Topic: The Image of God and Manhood

Guy Nichols teaching IronMen Connect | 2/16/24

1)     How do you describe in your own words what commitment, love, and sacrifice mean to you?
2)    How do you exhibit these three virtues in your daily life?
3)    What is the secret for accomplishing these three virtues in our lives?

Chris Severance teaching IronMen Connect | 2/9/24

1) Are you willing to be used of God for his purposes in 2024? And how are you answering God's call of YOU to meet the needs of the 21st Century culture of today?

2) Honestly, are you actively participating in the reaching and studies set forth for IronMen of God for 2024?

3) Do you have obstacles in your life by way of your own habits and hangups that present your fruitfulness and effectiveness in serving in the Kingdom work? And are you wiling to name them and come to repentance now to be fully used to fulfill God's purpose for your life?

Don Stanton teaching IronMen Connect | 2/2/24

1. How do you speak up about faith even when it is uncomfortable or seems silly?

 2. How do you teach others about JESUS CHRIST?

 3. How do you show Humility?

IronMen of God - January 2024 Coffee

Speaker: Rick Bohner

Topic: Introduction to Biblical Manhood

Peter Weed teaching IronMen Connect | 1/19/24

1. When have you sensed God asking you to step out of your comfort zone and take action in some situation?
2. How did you respond to that call and what were the results when you either did or didn’t take action?
3. In a world where it seems most people are reluctant to share their faith with a stranger, what action are you willing to take to help you finish well, would you actually get out of the boat in the storm?

Jim Taylor teaching IronMen Connect | 1/12/24

1.  Character is an important element as a follower of Christ.  Share a time or a way you had to protect and preserve your character.

2.  We read from Matthew 16 where Jesus asked the disciples, “Who do you say I am?”.  If Jesus were to ask you this question today, how would you answer?

3.  Have you ever realized that God has revealed a truth to you as you have spoken something, been in prayer, or while reading the scriptures?  Share what the Holy Spirit revealed to you.

David Hull teaching IronMen Connect | 1/5/24

1) Describe your first encounter or the time when you accepted Jesus as Lord. What changed in your life?

2) Share any life experiences (successes, failures, restoration) that have helped or are helping shape you as a better disciple/leader for Christ.

3) What does it mean to “Follow Jesus” and be a “fisher of men” to you practically?

IronMen of God - December 2023 Coffee

Speaker: Obie Diaz & David Hill

Topic: Gratitude

Dax Pearson teaching IronMen Connect | 12/8/23

1.    How does God talk to you?... AND are you intentionally spending time there listening?

2.    What do you see God pointing you toward as your life’s purpose?... AND are you intentionally obeying?

3.    Are you actively pursuing what God has pointed you toward… AND if so how… OR why not?

Shane Swan teaching IronMen Connect | 12/1/23

1. Have you had a road to Damascus moment in your life?  If not, did you have an experience when you knew you were in the presence of God?
2. Is a crisis necessary to make a full surrender to God?
3. How has your life, relationships, work or anything else changed since you began following Christ?

IronMen of God - November 2023 Coffee

Speaker: Austin Arthur

Topic: Paul: How God Empowers Men to Fully Follow Christ

Dave Ogden teaching IronMen Connect | 11/10/23

1. Deconstruction and Reconstruction: How has a challenging experience in your life acted as a deconstruction phase, breaking down old habits, attitudes, or perspectives? How did this lead to personal growth?
2. Molding through Adversity: Can you recall a particularly challenging situation that tested your mental, physical, or spiritual resilience? How did you cope with this challenge, and in hindsight, how did it shape your character?
3. Finding Greater Purpose: Reflecting on personal experiences, how has your spiritual journey led you to recognize a greater purpose in your life? Have there been moments where you felt aligned with His calling or serving a purpose beyond yourself? How did this impact your life or actions?

IronMen of God - October 2023 Coffee

Speaker: Michael Molthan

Topic: Peter: How God Equips Men to Reach Other Men

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Mike Winslow teaching IronMen Connect | 10/20/23

1. How do you intentionally stay connected with friends? 
2. How have you been a faithful friend to someone beyond your family?
   
3. Describe a time you had a friend walk you through a dark time where you were struggling, or you walked a friend through a struggle 

Keith Greiveldinger teaching IronMen Connect | 10/13/23

1.)    Have you ever gone through a period of suffering and been surprised and frustrated and after did you look back on it with gratitude for this suffering?

2.)    Do you ever feel like you are running in the wrong race or do you feel confident you are running the right race with God?

3.)    Do you believe God is always at work in and through our Sufferings? What are some examples of the time he has done this in your life?

Jack Levine teaching IronMen Connect | 10/6/23

1. The disciples suffered to get closer to God.  Are you truly willing to suffer to get closer to God?      

2.  Do you think suffering in your life has made you a better person and brought you closer to God?

3. God says He will test our faith. Give an example in your life when you believe your faith was tested by suffering.

Bonus - How should you treat other people, believers and nonbelievers, when you see they are suffering? What words of encouragement if any, would you give to them?

IronMen of God - September 2023 Coffee

Speaker: Dr. Charles Cooper

Topic: Job: How God Molds Men Through Suffering

Scott Gration teaching IronMen Connect | 9/15/23

1.  What event(s) has God used to get your spiritual attention…to focus on your dash?
2.  For what purpose God has placed you in your vocation and/or community?
3.  Do you believe that you must be in “full-time ministry” to serve God full time?

Bob Gilbert teaching IronMen Connect | 9/8/23

1. Provide an example of an issue that captured you and drew you to the act.
2. How did you know that your action was driven by God and not your ego or self-aggrandizement?
3. Were there challenges that caused you to question your motivations, and how did you deal with them?

Craig Huston teaching IronMen Connect | 9/1/23

1) Share a time you knew you were supposed to take action, and you didn’t. What held you back?

2) When did you feel compelled to act, asked God to help you, and did it even though you were hesitant?
3) What’s something God is calling you to do today? What’s the first step you're going to take?

IronMen of God - August 2023 Coffee

Speaker: Jesse Stanley

Topic: Nehemiah: How God Calls Men into Action

Bill Wagner teaching IronMen Connect | 8/18/23

1) What are you chasing today that you haven’t consulted God about? Would his council change your direction? What is holding you back?

2) Having people in your group to speak truth into your life is important, tell a time when someone’s honesty with you helped you live in God's commandments.

3) Happiness outside the Lord is impossible. Share examples of how God has shown you Happiness, what did that look like in your life.

Michael Babcock teaching IronMen Connect | 8/11/23

1) What example(s) can you share of times you were deceived, and then the Lord opened your mind to the truth?

2) How can we protect ourselves from the world's deceptions?

3) Can you think of anyone in your life that needs to be (gently) confronted with the truth?

Jesse Stanley teaching IronMen Connect | 8/4/23

1. Discuss a time when you pursued something that had God in it but God wasn't in all of it.
2. Discuss a time when you failed to pursue something that was God-led.
3. If the whole duty of man is to fear God and keep His commandments, what would your judgement look like today?

IronMen of God - July 2023 Coffee

Speaker: Doug Hurley

Topic: Solomon: How God Shows Men the True Path to Happiness

Bob Troxel teaching IronMen Connect | 7/21/23

1) If you are still dealing with the consequences of past sin, are you trusting in God’s goodness and redemptive purposes?  (Hebrews 6:13-20)
2) What encouragement do you need from your table mates to press on in participating in God’s “good work” in you – and stand firm with your brothers in the faith of the gospel?  (Philippians 1:3-6, 27)
3) Share two things that you want your table mates to pray for.  Record what your table mates share and commit to praying for them over the next month.  Then, close out your time in prayer for each other.

Keith Strong teaching IronMen Connect | 7/14/23

1) Where did Nathan get the courage and strength and words to speak so boldly to King David?
2) Who is your Nathan?
3) What burr on you needs sharpening or smoothing?

IronMen of God - June 2023 Coffee

Speaker: Brett Clemmer

Topic: David: How God Rescues Men When They Go Astray

Eddie Taubensee teaching IronMen Connect | 6/16/23

1. We mentioned the idea of Fear ≠ Failure if you know God is with you.  Does this statement give you more assurance or more concern in the hard times knowing that God may not take away that fear totally?
2. God routinely takes our weakness and turns it into strengths.  What will it take for you to allow God to make you into the future you you need to be?
3. Does 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 give you hope, if so, why?

Eddie Lopez teaching IronMen Connect | 6/9/23

1. Have you ever felt under qualified like Gideon?
2. Have you ever asked God to show you signs and still not believe?
3. Are you currently working or doing what you felt you were under qualified for?

Jason Walker teaching IronMen Connect | 6/2/2023

1. Share about a time in your life when you were asked to do something seemingly impossible, very difficult, or significantly risk personally and whether you did it or not.  What factors went into your decision?
2. Share about one of your strongest commitments to a leader or cause (exclude Jesus and God as examples for this question).  What made you decide to commit so strongly to them?
3. What would need to happen now for you to significantly risk personally and do something seemingly impossible?  If the factors are different than previously, what changed? 

IronMen of God - May 2023 Coffee | Speaker: Patrick Laudone | Topic: Gideon: How God Turns a Man's Fear and Weakness into Strength

Tom Smothers teaching IronMen Connect | 5/19/23

1.    Describe a time God has moved you to be BOLD and to get out of your comfort zone to do His will. How do this go? 

2.    Have you ever allowed self-doubt or unworthiness affect you in doing God’s will? Were you able to overcome these feelings? What was the outcome either way?

3.    Have you ever had an experience that you needed to speak in front of others and had no idea what to say only to have God provide you with all the right words to say?

Shawn Sorenson teaching IronMen Connect | 5/12/23

1. Are you asking the Lord to use you to help the Kingdom? Are you listening to the Holy Spirit?

2. If you hear the Holy Spirit (little voice inside) and He gives you a nudging to do something, speak something, or help someone, do you act? And do you act in faith?

3. When you hear the Holy Spirit prompting you to act and you act in faith, what results do you see?

Rodney Green teaching IronMen Connect | 5/5/23

1. Have you ever found yourself in the wilderness? If so when?

2. How long did you wander?

3. How did it transform you?

IronMen of God - April 2023 Coffee | Speaker: George Cope | Topic: Moses: How God Changes a Man's Character

Darren Lowe teaching IronMen Connect | 4/14/23

1. What thought, principle, practice, or scripture that Darren shared inspire or challenge you?

2. What person(s) or situation(s) have you struggled or failed to forgive?

3. What is holding you back from forgiving? Pride? Perceived injustice? Selfishness? Something else?

BONUS. How would you and your story be changed if you could “relinquish retribution” in the areas of your most profound pain? What is the cost of your unforgiveness?

Austin Arthur teaching IronMen Connect | 4/7/23

1. In the story of Goshen, we see what a city can be under good leadership and what can happen with bad leadership. In what way do you lead yourself, your home, and your family? In what areas can you improve?

2.  Seeing that, as God’s vessel and with His aid, a sole man (Joseph) saved the house of Israel (from famine) and another sole man, as God’s vessel and His aid (Moses) saved the house of Israel (from Slavery), what does tell you about how we, as men, should be acting and behaving in our own culture.? What sort of things should we be doing in our communities and society as Godly men ready to be used as His vessel? 

3. What specific situation within your community (family, work, church, neighborhood, school) needs change ie needs prayer? Pray for that situation as a table of men. 

IronMen of God - March 2023 Coffee | Speaker: David Buckles | Topic: Joseph: How God Shapes Men for a Higher Purpose

Kevin Marron teaching IronMen Connect | 3/17/23

1) God spoke audibly to Abraham and visited him. How has God communicated with you? What did he say?

2) Abraham was asked to go on a journey with no specified destination. Most of us would never leave on a trip without knowledge of our destination.  Have you ever gone on a journey, not knowing the purpose or intended result of the trip? Where? Why?

3) Have you been in a situation when your only recourse was to simply trust God? How hard was that to simply TRUST GOD? 
No promises, no guarantees. How did that turn out?

Ali Flores teaching IronMen Connect | 3/3/23

8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.   -  Hebrews 11:8-10

1. How does faith in God produce obedience?
   
2. In what areas of your life do you have the most difficulty obeying God?
   
3. Has there ever been a time when God called you to something that looked challenging? How can that experience serve as a testimony to others?

IronMen of God - February 2023 Coffee | Speaker: Ron Tewson | Topic: Abraham: How God Makes Man's Faith Stronger

Guy Nichols teaching IronMen Connect | 2/17/23

1.     Do you really trust God (in all matters)?

2.     Are there any things that from the world’s perspective, seem impossible for good to come out of, yet you are putting your faith in the LORD to see you through (for God’s will to be done and to work all things out for your good)?

3.     What precious prize has God used to challenge your faith?

Chris Severance teaching IronMen Connect | 2/10/23

1) Have you answered the call to be an authentic Biblical Christian of Integrity? Or is that something you would like to do?
2) "Bible Time" can be a very long time, but our Lord is the original Covenant Maker and Promise Keeper.
While our works do not save us, the Bible does talk about rewards, both the blessings we receive here and in eternity for our perseverance. What do you envision those rewards to look like for your life of faithfulness?

3) Chapter One talks of The Three Tests- We all face tests of one sort or another as Abraham did.   Are you willing today to come alongside a Brother in their struggles for mutual support and accountability?  Will you make that commitment today?  Iron Sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17 (ESV).

Don Stanton teaching IronMen Connect | 2/3/23

1. How or with who could you help fight the good fight but have not done so?

2. How can you expand your ways of honoring and or show reverence to God? Little or big!

3. Where can you or who can you serve where you have thought about it but have not taken the challenge?

IronMen of God - January 2023 Coffee | Speaker: Pat Morley | Topic: How God Makes Men

Troy Schmidt teaching IronMen Connect | 1/20/23

1. What did you learn about yourself last year?  New insight?  New potential?
2. What did you do last year to show your obedience?  A leap?  A stretch?
3. Does God make junk?  Do you really consider yourself a masterpiece?
4. BONUS: If you know where you are going, how does that change your “now”?

IronMen of God - December 2022 Coffee | Speaker: Dwight Bain | Topic: What Matters Most