This past weekend we experienced yet another amazing Men’s Conference hosted by Mansfield Baptist Temple.  The theme was Expect A Victory, based on 1 Samuel 17:48 where David faced Goliath and “ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.”  Four tremendous preachers challenged us men with powerful, heartfelt messages from the Word of God.

Here are a few highlights from the various speakers:

Evangelist Mark Rogers:

• “Bible hope is not wishful thinking.”
• “Without hope we don’t expect a victory.”
• “Hope takes away shame” (Rom 5:5).
• “The world wants to take the shame out of sin.”

Pastor Bill Fennell:

• “Sin blinds, binds and ultimately grinds.”
• “We are living in the days of the mighty weakling.”

Rev. Scott Pauley (Crown College):

• “My story fits into His story. When I step out of His story, there is great danger.”
• “Every decision has a ripple effect.”
• “The story [of our life] is still being written.”
• “Every decision has a ripple effect.”
• “Whatever is still left to be written matters.”
• “Famines always come… but don’t last forever.”
• “Great men make dumb decisions in the famine.”
• “When God teaches, a test is coming.”
• “Worse than bad circumstances are bad choices.”

Pastor Kurt Skelly:

• “God puts us in impossible situations to give us greater capacity to please God by faith.”
• “We live on the interstate: go everywhere and see nothing. God has to stop us so we can see.”
• “To avoid dealing with pain we jump into mind-numbing activities.”
• “We often are foolish and stupid ‘as a beast.’ We respond to God like a dog responds to the word ‘treat!’”
• “We have to find the God-place or we will have a bad perspective.”
• “The Levites got no ‘stuff’ – but they got God! They got to serve God! And it is enough. ‘My portion forever.’”