Man To Man
A Devotional Book For Men
© 1961 Richard Halverson
Cowman Publications, Los Angeles, California
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1. Men
— Prayers and devotions.
2. Meditations. 3. Men
— Prayer-books and
devotions.
LC Class: BV4843 .H3 ~~ Dewey: 248.87 ~~
OCLC: 3715795 ~~ LCCN 61000977 ~~
259p.
Man To Man is presently held by 115 libraries including Fuller Seminary and the U.S. Naval Academy
Table of Contents
The Man's Man ....... 14
Take Heed to Your Soul ....... 16
The Peril of Idolatry ....... 19
Destiny In An Infant ....... 22
Divine Diagnosis ....... 24
Christ's Cause ....... 30
Haste Makes Waste ....... 33
Grace To Receive ....... 35
Chapter 2. The Man Who Knows Where He Is Going
Better Than A Known Way ....... 40
More Than Conquerors ....... 42
Christian View of History ....... 44
Jesus Christ In The Old Testament ....... 47
The Way To Begin The New Year ....... 50
The Reasonable Remedy ....... 52
The Original Sin ....... 54
Your Life, A Plan Of God ....... 56
The Inerrant Guidance Of God ....... 58
Your Way Can Be Sure ....... 60
The Committed Life ....... 62
How God Leads ....... 64
Man's Reasonable Service ....... 66
The Peril Of Tolerance ....... 70
No Man Is Without A God ....... 73
You Can Prove It ....... 76
The Three-In-One God ....... 78
Behold Sin's Remedy ....... 80
Jesus And Himself ....... 82
Lord Of The Sabbath ....... 85
Never Hunger — Never Thirst ....... 87
Jesus: Egomaniac Or Truth ....... 90
Jesus Is Jehovah ....... 93
He Could Not Be Killed ....... 96
You Gotta Show Me ....... 99
The Verdict Is Yours ....... 101
Man As He Is By Nature ... And Grace ....... 104
Truth Through Personality ....... 107
Religion Is Not Enough ....... 109
A Gift Must Be Received ....... 111
A New Man ....... 113
Goodness Vs. Godliness ....... 115
Authentic Goodness ....... 118
The Good Secular Man ....... 121
The Good Man's Criticism of Jesus ....... 123
The Misguided Prayer Of A Good Man ....... 125
The Good Man Who Lacked Something ....... 128
The Enigma Of The Cross ....... 132
Easter, Fact or Fiction? ....... 135
A Loose, Much-Married Woman — And Jesus ....... 138
Chapter 5. The Knowledgeable Man
The Wise Builder ....... 142
The Wise Man And The Fool ....... 144
Much Which Adds Up To Nothing ....... 146
The Power Of The Tongue ....... 148
What's In A Name? ....... 150
Never Underestimate The Power Of A Woman ....... 152
New Testament Capitalism ....... 155
The Inevitable Outcome Of Secularism ....... 159
The Spirit of Giving ....... 162
The Most Important Quality In Stewardship ....... 165
Have You Been An Answer To Prayer? ....... 168
Pardon, Your Character Is Showing ....... 172
Guide To Christian Conduct ....... 175
The Key To Human Relations ....... 177
Christianity In The Home ....... 180
Husbands, Love Your Wives! ....... 183
Christianity In Industry ....... 186
Christianity In The Church ....... 188
Your Real Influence ....... 191
Wait Till The Facts Are In ....... 194
The Church, A Lay-Movement ....... 198
Has Christianity Failed? ....... 201
Authentic Christian Influence ...... 204
The Deception In Foreign Missions ....... 207
Why Missions? ....... 210
Is Money For Missions A Poor Economy? ....... 214
The Primary Task Of Missions ....... 217
The Power Of The Missionary ....... 219
Do You Have A View? ....... 224
Three Sides To Every Question ....... 226
Is Your God Big Enough? ....... 229
The Mighty God ....... 231
What Is God Like ....... 233
Faith Is Possession ....... 236
Know Your Assets ....... 238
Absolute Safety ....... 241
Built To Take It ....... 243
The Profit In Patience ....... 245
The Praying Man ....... 248
The Cure For Worry ....... 250
Antidote For Escapism ....... 252
Strength Where It Matters ....... 254
Future Unlimited ....... 256
"Christianity works when men work it . . . "
"Having faith in God is more than a 'passport to heaven.' It is a way of life."
"Christianity is primarily a matter of life or death, not right or wrong, goodness or badness."
A direct "straight from the shoulder" book for MEN ONLY. Here is action-packed spiritual trust articulated clearly with a special kind of masculine pungency.
Dr. Richard C. Halverson (1916-1995) served as assistant pastor at Hollywood Presbyterian Church in the 1950s then became senior pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Bethesda, MD for 23 years from 1958 to 1981. For 14 years he was the Chaplain of the United States Senate until 1994. He was also active as Associate Director of International Christian Leadership, Inc. and was Vice-president of World Vision, Inc. He is the author of 27 books including Christian Maturity and The Living Body : The Church Christ is Building.
Man out of touch with God is a caricature!
Man out of fellowship with God is man out of place!
As the fish was made for water, man was made for God. In God man "lives and moves and has his being." God is the native habitat for which man was created, in which man was intended to dwell. The fish may be active as it flops and wiggles on the shore, but it is doomed. It is just a question of time. And man, individually and collectively out of fellowship with God may be very active, but he has no future!
Man was meant to be free, gloriously free, the servant of God alone. Man enjoys his maximum freedom — his optimum productivity and efficiency, when he serves God. Mastered by God, man is the master of himself and his world. Mastered by something less than God, man is the victim of himself and his world. He may think he is having his own way, but it is sheer illusion, his freedom is increasingly
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restricted until he is enslaved by an environment he was intended to master. He becomes less and less the man God intended him to be, more and more conscious of what he is missing in life, more and more aware of his bondage to habits which were begun in the name of "liberty." He finds himself less and less in control, more and more dominated by circumstances beyond his control.
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Man must be ruled by God or he will be enslaved by tyrants!
Man was made for God and his restlessness increases in ratio to his rebellion against the rule of God in his life until rebellion leads to total impasse and man finds himself arriving at the ultimate in frustration and futility. (This in fact is collective man at the mid-twentieth century.)
As man takes God seriously and gives himself to God, he grows, matures, expands into progressively greater freedom, efficiency, productivity, fulfillment; as man resists God, life becomes increasingly confining.
Man without God experiences an increasing hunger that finds less and less satisfaction in life. Satisfaction
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comes in inverse ratio to his effort to find it. He learns more and more about less and less, becomes increasingly insensitive to the basic realities of life, increasingly immune to the deep things of the heart and mind, increasingly impervious to the loving overtures of God in Christ. He ends up with an insatiable appetite that gnaws and growls interminably. He is God hungry!
Rejecting God from his life, man sets himself on a road that leads to ever-increasing dissatisfaction, frustration and emptiness. He becomes a hollow soul, a bubble, a zero with the edges rubbed off, a meaningless cipher in a mass of meaningless ciphers. The life that defects from God is a life of drift, meaningless, purposeless, directionless.
The most predictable thing in life is sin and the worst sin is self-alienation from God whether by militant revolt or quiet, respectable indifference. Sin leads to boredom, total boredom. The more a man sins, the less he gets out of it, until he goes all the way and receives nothing. Sin numbs a man, renders him totally insensitive to its effects, and totally vulnerable to its devices. Sin takes the shine and vitality and virility out of life. It is dulling, enervating, debilitating. Sin is like quicksand. The more a man struggles once he is in its grip, the deeper he sinks helplessly into it.
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Skidrow is the end of the line in miniature for the sinner. The hopelessness, colorlessness, shallowness, the sheer boredom and drift of skidrow is a candid shot of the pay-off of sin in this world. The important thing to remember is that a man can be on skidrow figuratively, if not literally. He may have enough money, position, prestige to keep himself off the street and out of the gutter, but the only difference is one of geography. He is as much a skidrow bum as the little fellow the cops pick up perennially and throw into the tank or boot out of town as a vagrant.
"Thou has made us for Thyself O God, And restless are our hearts until they rest in Thee." — St. Augustine
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23
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