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This week is a guest post from best-selling author and speaker, Jay Payleitner. I met Jay a few years ago and have picked his brain on a few occasions about my blog and my eventual book about God Buddies. I hope you enjoy his take about God writing out the list of your closest friends. — Rich, your Chief God Buddy It’s pretty clear, some bucket list items deliver more long-term value, edification, and spiritual significance than others. As a matter of fact, I dedicated an entire book titled What If God Wrote Your Bucket List? to the idea of polishing and prioritizing your bucket list based on God’s values. One of the chapters suggests that God values human friendships. Which leads to the question, “How many friends do you have? True friends?” I daresay that most people have had fewer than a dozen authentic friends over the course of

Most guys thrive from the mentorship and leadership of an attentive father who taught them about masculinity, the skills necessary to grow into a mature adult, and how love and respect are shown in marriage. However, too little is given to the relationship between a son and his mother, for this relationship is often a tell-tale sign of how a man treats all of the women in his life.  So as I remember the third Mother’s Day since my mom’s passing, I have no better way to honor her than with a post about the impact of mothers.  First, let me tell you about my mother, June Gorecki.   About My Mom June Carolyn Baechtold was born on June 17, 1941, in Chicago. She later resided in several locations in Illinois, before spending much of the last 12 years of her life in Arizona. She passed away in Tucson on Independence

I conclude this series about a man’s greatest challenge of maintaining sexual purity with some guidelines for all the relationships with women in our lives, whether it is relationally with our co-workers, friends, and neighbors, or relationally and sexually with our wife. My earlier posts indicated that God designed sex for the pleasures of marriage but also to guard us against the temptations of sexual sin. I provided some useful tips on how to change the behaviors that reinforce our sexual temptations but suggested that we could only enjoy proper relationships with women after a “heart transformation”.   So before I provide those guidelines, let’s start with some understanding of the different kinds of relationships a man has with the opposite sex. Types of Male-Female Friendships The article Can Christian Men and Women Be Friends? describes four types of male-female friendships that deserve unique attention:  A single woman and a