Disciplines of a Godly Man

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Each chapter looks at the discipline being discussed by follow by a section titled “Food for Thought” that has great discussion questions and there’s also an application/response section following that. This book was incredibly useful in helping me understand that spiritual discipline is essential to godliness and that discipline is essential to accomplish anything in this life. He and his wife, Barbara, live in Spokane, Washington, and have four children and an ever-increasing number of grandchildren. The impure act is an act of despite against God's good gift at the very moment it is being proffered. This book was not only encouraging but also convicting, providing insight on how we tend to approach different situations, people, and God’s word.

I went through this book with other men together and every single chapter there was stuff that convicted us and encouraged us. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.

As Kent Hughes explains in the beginning of his book, Disciplines of a Godly Man, in today's culture there is an alarming lack of spiritual leadership in today's evangelical churches.In the current age in which we find elusive distinguishing a mere male from an actual man, this book is not only a must-reading, but also what I deemed it a whole university course, so to speak. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among the saints.