ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Gene Mason is President of Leadership Ministries Inc. and a Trustee of the Kingdom Growth Foundation. He is a writer, speaker, teacher and leader, serving both nonprofit and marketplace organizations for 38 years. Gene is an adoption and foster care advocate, with concentration in special needs and trauma-informed parenting. He and his wife, Keri, are parents of three adopted children. His newest book, The Men at the Table, is now available on Amazon.com.

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The Benefits of Discipleship

A disciple is a life-long student, one who studies along with others, and then lives out those teachings in daily life. The key to a relationship with Christ is to be a disciple—and also to make disciples.

The Death of Men's Ministry

Today, many pastors quietly admit what few are willing to say out loud: men’s ministry, as a structured and ongoing discipleship effort, has disappeared in nearly all churches. The data tells a sobering story.

Servant Leadership in a Self-Promoting World

esus Christ defined leadership not as a pursuit of status, but as a commitment to serve. For men seeking to lead well, the challenge is not simply to succeed within the world’s system, but to embody a different kind of leadership altogether.

Daily Discipleship in Business

Discipleship is not designed to be confined to church settings or private devotion. It is a way of life that extends into every arena, including the workplace.

Ask for Advice

As a leader you do not have all the answers. Smart leaders surround themselves with people whose knowledge, skills and experience supplement their own.

Can Anyone Withstand the Test of Time?

What will you do of significance with the 80-or-so years you have? When we’re young we have all the time in the world. And once we realize that isn’t true, we never have enough left to do anything with it.

Leadership Reproduction

When a sculptor completes his work in clay, he prepares to make a mold of the piece so he can recreate it. He’ll have to do something to his artistic work to make this happen, and that is to cut it apart.

I Will Make You

As Jesus began His ministry on earth, He called a dozen men to be His disciples. We can learn about Jesus’ methodologies from His uniquely worded invitation.

Leading in the Fourth Quarter

A 65-year-old leader will never have more experience than he has in his fourth quarter. He will have more knowledge than he has ever had.

Can Leadership Be Hacked?

A hack is a clever trick or shortcut for accomplishing something. There are hacks for smartphones and cooking and driving. What about in your leadership? Is being a good leader something that has hacks?

Men's Table Q&A

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.

Jesus and Influential Leadership

Jesus and His disciples traveled and ministered together, day and night, for three years. We don’t know of all the meals they had together, the conversations as the walked from town to town, or what Jesus said when they fished, and started campfires, and woke up in the mornings.

Understanding Relational Leadership

As a leader, you’re not over a what, but a who. To lead is to influence others in a way that helps them grow personally, professionally and spiritually. Leadership is fundamentally about influencing people.

How to Stop Quitting

Let’s face it, we all want to quit sometimes. In the midst of misery, despair, depression, failure, pain, surprise, problems, emergencies—we are all tempted to throw in the towel.

Lead to What End?

Some leaders see themselves as a steward of their position. Others want to claim a top position in business. Still others want to accomplish something specific. None of these purposes, however, outlast the leader himself.

How Wise Leaders Use Their Time

There is great wisdom in the profitable use of time. For a leader, this takes a certain amount of discipline, and a purposeful desire to use his days for positive and impactful tasks and relationships.

A Few Good Men

The selfless, brave, serving, chivalrous and kind men we aspired to be growing up have been largely replaced by a generation more self-involved, fragile and less grounded to an internal moral code. What happened?

How to Make the Decisions That Others Can’t

Did you know that the word decision comes from the Latin word caedere, meaning “to cut off”? In other words, a decision will cut you off from other possible outcomes.

What Does It Mean to Be Offended?

Being offended is to feel hurt, angry or upset by something that is said or done. Note that offense is a feeling. Have you offended someone or been offended today?

The Value of a Mentor

A mentor is an advisor and support for someone less experienced. This is not a manager, but rather a specific relationship designed to build up the skills and experience of the mentee.

Crisis of the Unmentored

In men today we have a crisis of the unmentored. Because men lack wisdom-building relationships, they cannot become the leaders they need to be for their marriages, families and businesses.

Leadership Lessons from Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett is CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and is considered one of the most successful investors on earth. He has a net worth of over $117 billion (March 2022).

The Biblical Secret of Retirement

Retirement is something you’ve been thinking about it for years, planning for it, saving for it. There will be a time when you can quit work and enjoy your later life. But the Bible contains a great secret related to retirement that you probably didn’t know.

Where Leadership Begins: The Table

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.

Starting a Table

You begin a men’s fellowship for the purpose of growing in leadership. Our simple model of gathering weekly in a small group setting to learn, live and lead has seen thousands of men become great leaders through more than 40 years.

Leadership Lessons from Niels Bohr

Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885 – 1962) was a Danish physicist who proposed and later confirmed the structure of the atom. He is responsible for the initiation of quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

How To Become an Influencer

As a leader, your influence can mean more, though, than product endorsements to an online audience. The Bible endorses faith-centered leaders influencing others toward God and good works, by their speech and through example.

Who Is Seated at Your Table?

No table group is like any other. We often hear of the advantages of “diversity” in the workplace, but this is most likely based on traits like skin color. The true benefit of diversity, though, is in a broad range of thoughts and experience.

The Secret to Becoming a Great Leader

As you grow through life and work, you might wonder if there is a secret to becoming a great leader. Do the world’s best leaders know something that you don’t, which enables their leadership in a more effective and impactful way?

How to Find a Mentor

The idea of learning from someone more experienced than you, and then living that out by passing it on to the next generation, is the crux of mentoring. Having a mentor will greatly enhance your life and leadership.

Books on Discipleship

Therefore: A Study of Romans 12

For those seeking direction for their lives— those who want to understand how to be right with God and to be at peace with the decisions of life, work and family, there can be no better guide than Paul’s words in Romans Chapter 12.

Walk Like a Man: Seven Biblical Directions for Manhood

Today males have a difficult road moving from boys to men. Our culture struggles to even define a man, much less understand the unique and specific purposes for which God made him.

E.M. Bounds on Prayer

Prayer is the Christian’s lifeline to God, and with it lives are changed for eternity! E. M. Bounds knew the secrets of prayer and that God has established divine principles and promises for our every need.

How to Pray

The act of praying demands an impossibility that we request and Lewis’s insights on Christianity, reflections, and teachings are cultivated from essays, articles, letters, and his classic words in How to Pray.

Lead with Prayer: The Spiritual Habits of World-Changing Leaders

Looking for help in their own leadership, entrepreneur Ryan Skoog, CEO Peter Greer, and executive advisor Cameron Doolittle set out to investigate how leaders pray. What do they say to God?

Higher With God in Prayer

A.W. Tozer pointed out that the Church's greatest curse is unanswered prayer, and that many people do not seem bothered by that. Maybe they don't understand what answered prayer is all about.

Knowing God

For over 40 years, J. I. Packer's classic has been an important tool to help Christians around the world discover the wonder, the glory and the joy of knowing God.

The True Measure of a Man

Men just get this book. It seems to resonate with them. Men who don't read many books read this one and want to get it into the hands of others.

Experiencing God

When you open this book, you’ll find that you aren’t just reading. No, you are being remade, reoriented, restored from the frustration of what you may have known as stale religion.

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

A compelling emotional and spiritual case against hurry and in favor of a slower, simpler way of life.

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe—the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor—loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love.

Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge

Do you pray as often and as bravely as you want to? Are you looking to strengthen your relationship with God and experience a deeper, more intentional prayer life?

Did God Really Say That?

The Bible is the infallible Word God. It is reliable. Good science and archaeology support its accuracy. We must follow God’s plan.

How to Study Your Bible

Bible teacher Kay Arthur’s inductive study method has helped millions of people discover the truth of God’s Word for themselves. This bestselling and dynamic guide, written with David Arthur and Pete De Lacy, invites readers of all levels of Bible literacy and learning to dive deeper into God’s promises.

The Word of God in English

With so many Bible translations available, how do you make a choice between them? How do you even know what the criteria should be for making a choice? Learn how we got our modern Bible in English.

How We Got the Bible

How and when did the books of the Bible originate? In what sense are these books different from other books? How have these books been preserved and transmitted to us?

Faithful God

There is sweetness in the providence of God, whose "judgment is unsearchable" and whose "paths beyond tracing out", yet is committed and faithful to care for the most needy amongst his children.

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle would actually look like.

Authority and Accountability

God has chosen to give His authority to men in various areas including the government, employment, the church and families. If we have a healthy understanding of the fear of the Lord, we will understand why God places authorities in our lives.

Our Accountability to God

Contained in these pages is a warm-hearted, incisive, yet deeply substantial treatment of that most crucial of Christian doctrines, the depravity and powerlessness of mankind.

The Pursuit of God with Study Guide

In this Christian classic, late pastor and evangelist A. W. Tozer brings the mystics to bear on modern spirituality, grieving the hustle and bustle and calling for a slow, steady gaze upon God.

Evidence That the Bible Is True

Is the Bible true, or is it merely a collection of myths and legends? Explore extraordinary evidence revealing that the Bible is trustworthy from beginning to end.

The Christian in Complete Armour

Originally written in the seventeenth century by William Gurnall, this is among the most regarded Christian books ever written. This modern format contains 365 daily devotionals.

The Weapons of Our Warfare

Right now, there is a real spiritual battle going on in the unseen realm. Every Christian must equip themselves against the forces of darkness. Victory is possible when we use the full armor of God described in Ephesians 6.

Dressed to Kill

Dressed To Kill is considered by many to be a true classic on the subject of scriptural warfare. Questions at the end of each chapter will guide you into deeper study.

The Full Armor of God

Respected scholar and speaker Larry Richards offers a balanced, evangelical-friendly approach to spiritual warfare based on the book of Ephesians.

Handbook for Personal Bible Study

The Bible is the most important book ever written. And yet we are separated from its authorship by millennia. To engage the Bible fully as a life-changing practice, we need to find our way into it and through it.

Know Your Bible

A concise, easy-to-understand guide to God's Word—giving you a helpful and memorable overview of all 66 books. For each book of the Bible, Know Your Bible provides data on the author and time frame, and more…

Living Fearless

All human conflict originates from fear, and fear originates from a false view of God, ourselves, and others. Until we exchange what's false for what's real, we will never experience being fully alive, fully human, and fully free.

Mentor Like Jesus: His Radical Approach to Building the Church

Learn the power of intentionality when it's a part of authentic community… the processes Jesus used and modeled, distilled and activated for the 21st century. Here's a way for more mature believers to find purpose and meaning as they move into the giving back season of life.

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