A Christ-centered man looks for instruction in how to live, lead, interact and influence. The Bible contains practical instruction for life, family and business. But what about the prophecy in the Bible?

Here are some common questions we receive from table leaders, and some suggestions for how to maintain best practices and grow in life and leadership.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892) was an English pastor of the New Park Street Chapel (later renamed Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years. He became known as the “Prince of Preachers” for his spellbinding sermons, which sometimes ran two hours or more.

What if you could know what God Himself was thinking? What if you were able to discern the very thoughts of God? How would that skill and divine knowledge benefit your life and leadership?

As the clock strikes 12:00 on January 1, many men “take stock” of their lives and leadership during the New Year’s break. How might you invest your time and resources in the coming year to do something meaningful and memorable?

As in many facets of a man’s character, the instruction on trust with respect to biblical leadership is very different. Proverbs 3:5 tells us, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.”

Today in the US, 6 billion texts will be sent. But that pales compared to the 269 billion daily emails—that’s 74 trillion a year. And the antiquated phone call? Just 2.4 billion per day among America’s 300 million cell phone users. We are certainly communicating… but are we connecting?

Atlanta has some of the worst traffic in the country. Of the six million people who live in the metro, about 4.5 million of them drive each day. As a result, each Atlantan spends an average of 70 hours every year stuck in traffic.

If God “opens doors”, then does He also close them? Are there times where you lose a job or a client, or change your role, or a friendship is broken, or a series of circumstances bring about a major change in life—and that’s God at work?

Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, Daniel, Isaiah, John, Paul, Timothy, Jesus… does the Bible, through its primary characters and events, give us examples of leaders, or does it actually teach leadership skills and principles?

Your daily time alone with God and study of the Bible is the key to growing in leadership. Yet only 45% of Christians say they read the Bible “at least once a week”, while a third say they engage in the Scriptures “seldom or never”.

A recent study found that the average college graduate reads about one book a year. What about the average CEO? They’ll read 60 books a year. Reading gives the leader tremendous advantages beyond simple knowledge.

Leaders aren’t full of limitless energy. Go hard enough for long enough and you’ll run out of steam. You need to relax, refresh and recharge.

A table might not seem like a foundation for developing as a man, a husband, a father, a leader, but it is! Leadership is ultimately about your impact and influence on other people. At Friday Morning Men’s Fellowship we focus leadership development at a table.

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (1393 – 1468) was a German inventor of the moveable type printing press. Gutenburg’s printing press led to the explosion of knowledge through printed books during the Renaissance. Today he is regarded as one of the most important figures of the last 1,000 years.

The very first mention of a table in the Bible comes in Exodus 25. God is giving instructions to Moses about the construction of the tabernacle, the Jewish house of worship. God’s command was to build a specific type of table.

The Bible is the world’s best-selling book. It contains history, poetry, prophecy, woven in a profound narrative of the world from creation to present. And it is the foundational book on leadership.

God’s faithfulness is His reliability in doing what He has promised. In other words, we can count on God. In life and work filled with anxiety, disappointment, temptation, crisis, frustrations, hate, failure and adversity, we serve a God that we can rely on.