Do you ever feel like your present moment is so far from where you really long to be? Do you ever struggle with embracing your right now because you are so focused on the future?

Too often, we feel disappointed with our "right now"—our life circumstances, our relationships, our lack progress towards our dreams and goals, our daily grind. We want to do so many things—good, godly things—but our situations don't allow us to step into them.

This class  invites you to:

Never has there been a greater need for good men than in our world today. The Christian man lives every day of his life behind enemy lines. Our world is hostile territory: hostile to our values, hostile to our beliefs, and hostile to the principles we live by. The way forward involves setting our sights on recovering biblical manhood. When we consider the characteristics of strong men in the Bible, we see a different pattern emerge. Good men of the Bible didn't start out as superheroes. Many of them were not especially strong or extraordinarily gifted. Most of the men who became heroes of the faith started their journey as ordinary men. But as they came to the end of the road, their steady faithfulness brought them eternal rewards. And what was true for them will be true for us today.

To have found God and still to pursue Him is a paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religious person, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux stated this holy paradox in a musical four-line poem that will be instantly understood by every worshipping soul:

"We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread,
And long to feast upon Thee still:
We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead
And thirst our souls from Thee to fill."

Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God.

Lessons will carry you on a journey through the Scripture, challenging you to apply principles of the Word to your life as we seek to live out our faith as disciples of Jesus Christ.