Author: Rich Gorecki

New Year; New Types of Friends

January 3, 2022 2 Comments

A new year is a perfect time to start something fresh. Better yet, it’s a good time to re-evaluate your life’s practices and habits in general. This could include your food and alcohol consumption, frequency of exercise or spiritual disciplines, and even how you engage in relationships. This is especially true when evaluating your types of friends. Spoiler Alert: This post includes a free download to a Relationship Self-Assessment to help you. Jump to download As I wrote in my last post, Reflections on My Journey through The MANual, I found many lessons as I read the entire Bible last year. In addition to staying COVID-free, I also published a book titled Get Out of Your Man Cave: The Crisis of Male Friendship which expands the narrative about why men (and women for that matter!) need better friendships. After retiring from my “paying job” in 2020, the book certainly is a “bucket list”

Reflections on My Journey through The MANual: Year 3 of GodBuddies

December 27, 2021 2 Comments

Throughout this year, I’ve been on a journey through The MANual, my NIV Bible for Men. Each week, I wrote a GodBuddy post containing lessons from a book (or group of books) of Scripture. These lessons are written primarily for men but many are certainly also applicable to women. In this final post of the series, I share my reflections on this journey. I hope it encourages you to take the same journey at some point in your life. (When you are ready, here is a page with links to all posts so you can easily access any lesson). Why Take This Journey? At the beginning of the year, I challenged you to join me on this journey through the Bible primarily to help you. But it also was to help me! Over the years, I’ve found it difficult to stick with a Bible reading plan or devotional book for

MANual Lessons: John’s Revelation of the New Kingdom

December 20, 2021 No Comments

My year-long journey through The MANual, my NIV Bible for Men, has reached the end of the Christian New Testament. The book of Revelation is one of hope about the victorious Savior’s return to rescue His people and settle accounts with those who deny Him. But it’s also a warning for believers about the final judgment about their commitment to following Jesus Christ. In the End, God Wins! The book of Revelation (not Revelations with an ‘s’) is apocalyptic literature. This is a type of Jewish literature about the cataclysmic events that will transpire at the end of the world. The imagery and puzzling symbols make it one of the most difficult of the entire Bible. Even today, interpreters have drawn widely different conclusions about whether historical or current events are revealing the end times foretold in the book. Regardless of these debates, the fundamental message is clear though: