Patrick Morley - How God Makes Men: Ten Epic Stories. Ten Proven Principles. One Huge Promise for Your Life.

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Copyright 2013 by Patrick Morley

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Morley, Patrick M.

How God makes men : 10 epic stories, 10 proven principles, one huge promise for your life / Patrick Morley. First Edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-60142-462-4 ISBN 978-1-60142-463-1 (electronic) 1. Christian menReligious life. 2. BibleBiography. I. Title.
BV4528.2.M664 2013
220.920811dc23

2013029595

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Praise for
How God Makes Men

Dont we all sometimes feel like theres another man coiled up inside us who desperately wants to get out? In How God Makes Men, Pat Morley is going to show you Gods way to help you release that man. This isnt just a book. Its a skeleton key to unlock Gods master plan for your life. Read it. Apply it. Let God change your life. Youre going to love this book!

M ARK B ATTERSON , New York Times best-selling author of The Circle Maker

Pat Morley knows menwhat they want, what they need, and Gods way of helping them get it. Now he has written a watershed book that clearly explains Gods role in changing mens lives. After unpacking ten timeless principles of how God forged our Bible heroes, Pat will help you connect the dots to your life today. I highly recommend How God Makes Men for your personal reading or small group.

D R . T ONY E VANS , president of the Urban Alternative and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship

There are all kinds of help out there to encourage us to be better men. But nothing compares to the manhood wisdom drawn directly from Gods Word. And thats what Patrick Morley richly blesses us with in How God Makes Men. I highly recommend you drink deeply from it.

R OBERT L EWIS , founder of Mens Fraternity

I believe that men are under attack in our culture. Television and other media feed us a steady stream of weak, complacent menbut thats not the kind of man you see in Scripture! All through the Bible, we see stories of bold and brash men who followed Gods call into some incredible adventures. In How God Makes Men, Patrick Morley reminds us that God still makes those kinds of guys.

D AVE R AMSEY , New York Times best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio-show host

This is not a book. Its a gift. Patrick Morley has taken what decades of faithful ministry to men has taught him and laid this wisdom atop the incredibly poignant, true stories of men in the Bible. What God is up to in your life and mine has everything to do with our learning obedience and a faithful walk with Him while He writes our story. Because of Gods grace, our story even has a chance to be epic. Depending on what you and I need right now, this book will be either an encouragement or a necessary kick in the pants.

D R . R OBERT W OLGEMUTH , best-selling author

Pat Morley is a masterful teacher of men. How God Makes Men is his most ambitious project since his best-selling Man in the Mirror twenty-five years ago. Its a fascinating blend of the thousands of up-close-and-personal conversations with men in a variety of circumstances in a turbulent world matched with the stories of ten Bible heroes and how they faced their own strikingly similar issues. There is nothing quite like it!

B OB B UFORD , founder of Leadership Network and author of Halftime and Finishing Well

God takes strong men, breaks them down and makes them weak. No man wants to go through this, but this is the path to being used by God. Pat Morley has experienced this and understands the process. For the man who is broken and confused, How God Makes Men will bring hope, healing, and biblical clarity. I read it, highlighted it, and marked it up. That to me is the acid test for a valuable book.

S TEVE F ARRAR , author of Point Man

No matter how much you already knowor dont knowabout God, this captivating book is going to help you grow leaps and bounds in your relationship with Christ. Pat clearly demonstrates how God makes a man by using the personal stories of ten great biblical characters to show us how we, too, can adopt ten life-changing principles that are the trademark of Gods man. Pats knowledge and passion to help every man be the person God created him to be makes How God Makes Men a must-read!

K YLE V ANN , energy consultant and retired CEO of Entergy-Koch LP

To Story, Callie, Annie, and Davis.
Our grandchildren.
I love you.

When I travel and meet strangers, someone will often say, You work with men. That must really be hard.

My response is always the same. Youve got the wrong guy! I have the best job in the world. Every day we see men coming to Christ and growing as disciples. God is powerfully at work in mens lives!

With that said, we need to do a reality check. Men today are under severe attack. A counter-Christian pop culture ridicules men in general and Christian men in particular. The battle line against biblical manhood is clearly drawn and fiercely contested. As a result, legions of men struggle to sustain what they started and finish the race.

Because I get to work with men as my vocation, Ive been watching this battle play out and intensify at an alarming rate. Every week at our Bible study, I meet men who have professed faith in Christ but who, for the last five, ten, fifteen, or more years, have been living by their own wisdom. Many were told, Just pray this prayer and everything will turn out okay. But it hasnt. They enlisted and were issued a weapon theyve never learned how to clean and shoot. These men are not bad, just confused.