Author: Rich Gorecki

Numbering Our Days is Not YOLO

August 7, 2021 No Comments

‘The very worst advice I have ever heard is to live every day as if it is the last. It’s likely that the decisions you make would be horrible, and you would be stuck with them for a very long time.’ The above quote comes from a post about Psalm 90 that I want to use for this week’s Weekend Wisdom. The quote suggests the YOLO (You Only Live Once) mantra is actually bad advice. It can leave you with regrets about living that haphazardly rather than incorporating God’s plans for the number of days of your life. The post reminds us that this distorted and unliveable philosophy injects a false urgency into our life that ensures we only take the short-term view. Of course, there may well be times when we do know our days are short, such as when we have a terminal illness or are in advanced

MANual Lessons: Introduction to The Gospels

August 2, 2021 No Comments

This year-long journey through The MANual, my NIV Bible for Men, brings us to the most important set of books in the Christian Bible: The Gospels. In this post, I introduce you to the first four books of the New Testament that followed a time period after the Old Testament called the “400 years of silence.” Its “Good News” The word Gospel comes from the Greek word ευαγγέλια (pronounced evangélia) which means “good news”. The Gospels are the written accounts of the life and teaching of Jesus Christ, the Messiah foretold in the Old Testament. The Greek was later rendered into Latin as “evangelium” for use in the Vulgate, the late-4th-century Latin translation that became the Catholic Church’s official Latin Bible which is still used today in the Latin Church. In Old English, the Greek was translated as “gōdspel” (gōd “good” + spel “news”) and retained as “gospel” in many

It’s Time to Examine Your Life

July 31, 2021 No Comments

This week’s Weekend Wisdom (my new name for the end of the week, in-between the main GB posts) comes from one of my heroes in the men’s ministry space, Patrick Morley of Man in the Mirror. Pat challenges us as men to look at our life to see if we are living with meaning and purpose. He writes “Perhaps the greatest weakness men currently face is that they tend to lead unexamined lives.” I also add one of my favorite quotes by Socrates, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Both quotes lead to the question, “Do I live according to the ways of the culture or do you live according to God’s Word?” In his post, Pat Morley describes a term called “Cultural Christianity” who are people that allow the culture to influence them more than the word of God. A cultural Christian tries to have the best of