Author: Rich Gorecki

In this current series about the foundations for my God Buddy concept, one of the surprises of my journey was realizing I had spiritual gifts and abilities I did not expect. At first, I wondered where those came from and why they appeared when they did.  But then, I learned that God gives us all these gifts, we just need to recognize and use them.   Let me first explain the difference between spiritual gifts and natural abilities.  Spiritual Gift or Natural Talent? According to this article titled How to Identify and Effectively Use Your Spiritual Gifts, a spiritual gift is a God-given ability, distributed to individual Christians by the Holy Spirit that allows him/or her to work through their lives to help the church execute its mission on earth. The article describes natural talents as the physical abilities to do special things such as musical ability, carpentry, mechanical aptitude, and

In this current series of posts, I’ve described some important aspects of my growth as a man of God and their foundations for my God Buddy concept.  It was not until I understood who I was — and Whose I was, did this growth really begin for me though. For most men, the answer to the question, “Who am I?” really begins when we know “Whose am I? “. Let’s have a little vocabulary lesson. The Difference between “Who’s” and “Whose?” According to Dictionary.com, “Whose” is the possessive form of the pronoun who, while who’s is a contraction of the words who is or who has. More simply: Who owns vs who has. Also, capitalizing the first letter is considered “reverential capitalization”, which is the practice of capitalizing religious words, particularly pronouns, that refers to a deity or divine being. For Christians, it means “of God” or “of Jesus Christ”. Identifying Who We Are As Men Today, we

There is a difference between retreat and isolation. One is good for a man’s soul and the other is not so good.  An important foundation for my GodBuddy concept came when I realized that men need to get away and retreat with other men. Now, I don’t mean retreat in a military sense but to change the pace and relaxation to recharge their batteries. A quick Google search will present you with a vast array of wellness retreats, yoga retreats, and detox retreats that are mainly targeted at women. For men though, the options are significantly less, which presumes that women need to retreat more than their male counterparts. But I would suggest the opposite is true. Why is it essential that every man needs some time away either in solitude or for adventure and to hang out with other like-minded guys?  First, here are some definitions: Retreat: (Noun) a place of