Men's Frat at LCBC

09/07/2026

Hello, my friends. I recently delivered this message at Lifeway Church. It’s important that everyone know their true identity in Christ and live out of that identity every day. I share this link along with a prayer that it will transform your life. Blessings!

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09/07/2026

Thought for the Day

Have you ever reached a place in life where you were simply sick and tired of it all—where it seemed as though you couldn't do anything right? I know I have.

I used to think those feelings were something to ignore, suppress, or simply put out of my mind. But then I began to ask myself, Could this actually be a longing for God?

If it is, I don't need to fear it or run from it. Instead, I need to lean into it. Sometimes the emptiness, frustration, and desperation we feel are the very things that drive us back to the Father.

And it is in His presence that we find the wisdom, strength, and direction we need to make the kind of choices we will never have to regret.

Desperation can be a good thing when it drives us to the Father.

Hang tough and stay tender.

- Steve Sabol

09/06/2026

Thought for the Day

Wise men understand that some things can happen only when the time is right. A quest must not simply be abandoned because the journey is long or difficult. Innocents may go unrescued for a season, but not forever. And a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.

So do not abandon your quest to become like Jesus Christ. Stay the course. Now is the time to rescue those within your realm.

Rescue your woman from the distorted and degrading images of manhood painted by broken men. Show her—and the rest of your world—a new, noble, and heroic example of what it means to be a man: manhood as our Creator intended it to be.

Rescue the children from a bleak and hopeless future marked by abuse, neglect, and abandonment. Show them that they can live protected and secure in the presence of a servant-leader—a man who puts others before himself. Let them see through your life that the best is not behind them, but still ahead.

May our comrades discover what a true friend looks like as we stand beside them in their moments of weakness and failure, extending grace while courageously showing them the way back to the path they have forsaken.

Remember: the happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.

Stay the course. Do not abandon the quest.

All is well that ends well.

Strength and honor!

-Steve Sabol

09/05/2026

Thought for the Day

There is a significant difference between being interested in something and being committed to it.

When you are merely interested, you do something when circumstances are convenient. When you are committed, however, you refuse to let inconvenience, discomfort, or difficulty keep you from reaching the goal.

Whether we are truly committed to becoming like Jesus—or simply interested in the idea—is often revealed by how easily we are deterred. When we are only interested, obstacles can turn us back. But commitment presses forward, follows through, and finishes what it starts.

May we demonstrate the honorable trait of commitment by refusing to quit when the journey becomes difficult and by faithfully following through on what God has called us to do.

Need an example? Look no further than Jesus.

As He hung on the cross, after accomplishing everything He had come to do, Jesus cried, “It is finished!”

Jesus finished well—and because He did, we can live well, finish well, and live forever with Him.

All's well that ends well.

Strength and honor!

_Steve Sabol

09/04/2026

Thought for the Day

Strength can be found in smallness. A spark can start a fire. The huge pin oak tree in my front yard started out as a tiny acorn. A single idea can inspire someone to change the world. Likewise, faith, regardless of its size, can change desperate circumstances into a hope-filled situation.

In Matthew 13, Jesus told a parable about a mustard seed and how its smallness affects greatness. In Jesus’s day, a particular variety of mustard plant in Palestine grew rapidly from a minuscule seed into a bush and then into a large tree. The mustard seeds were so small that the naked eye could barely see them. Yet the result was a strong-branched tree. The lesson of the parable is that the Lord Himself sows the mustard seed of faith in each of us. The issue is not the size of our faith but the object of our faith. Faith needs to be directed toward God. Even the smallest amount of faith can be the difference in whether or not you finish strong.

I remember in 1972 when NASA launched the exploratory space probe Pioneer 10. By 1997, twenty-five years after its launch, the satellite was more than six billion miles from the sun, beaming back radio signals to scientists on Earth from an eight-watt transmitter, which radiates about as much power as a bedroom night light. In the same way, the seed of faith planted within us is like that tiny eight-watt transmitter. We can keep going and going and going. God has implanted in all of us the faith we need, we just need to keep our hearts focused on Him.

- Steve Sabol

09/03/2026

Thought for the Day

Doubts can arise for a lot of different reasons—persecution, sickness, loss. We can start to feel like God is distant and to question what we believe, wondering if it is really true. Peter wrote in 1 Peter 1:20-21 that Jesus had come in space and time as a living, breathing human being. That’s a historical fact.

Jesus of Nazareth lived and then was executed by the Romans—dead and buried. But proving beyond any doubt that His claims were true, Jesus came back to life, rising literally and physically from the grave. The resurrection happened; the tomb is empty. Faith in God is not some blind leap in the dark against all reason. Jesus is the indisputable proof that God exists and that He loves us.

God sent Jesus to live on earth as a man and to die on the cross as the perfect sacrifice for our sins. His resurrection and ascension show us that He was and is God’s eternal Son. We can be confident that God is real and true and that we will have eternal life, just as He promised.

When doubts start to creep in like a cold winter night, remember these facts about Jesus. When problems hit you like a punch in the gut, hold on to the reality of Christ. When sadness and despair threaten to cloak you in darkness, take hope in God’s promise of deliverance and eternal life. Jesus was chosen, revealed, raised, and glorified!

- Steve Sabol

09/02/2026

Thought for the Day

Many years ago, I found myself sitting beside my father’s grave at Fort Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, where he has rested since 1987. He was a veteran of World War II. That day, I had brought something very personal with me—a handwritten letter I had written specifically for him.

As I sat there, I read the letter aloud. Its central message was simple: I forgave him for all the things he never was as a father.

It was a deeply emotional and cathartic moment for me, and I am grateful that I did it.

But as I walked away from his grave that day, I carried something else with me: gratitude. I was grateful that I had made a different choice with my own children. Rather than perpetuating the wounds and patterns of the past, I chose to break the cycle. I chose to become a different kind of father than the one I had known.

The Bible promises in Malachi 4:6 that God will “turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.”

There is something powerful about healing the generation behind us. It gives us the strength and freedom to build a healthier generation ahead of us.

So, to every dad reading this today, I offer this encouragement: Live your life in such a way that when someone asks your children who their heroes are, they will not have to think very long before they mention your name.

-Steve Sabol

09/01/2026

Thought for the Day

A great warrior must possess courage and determination as well as a willingness to sacrifice—to lay it all on the line. One of my favorite characters in the Old Testament met these qualifications. His name is Eleazar, son of Dodai, one of King David’s three mighty warriors.

Eleazar is remembered for what took place in a field of barley one fateful day (1 Chronicles 11:12–14). Picture this: David’s army is arrayed in the field, taunting the Philistines. Then the enemy begins to rush wildly toward them. Overcome with fear, the Israelite soldiers drop their weapons and run for their lives—but not Eleazar. He digs his feet deep into the dark soil of that barley field, draws his sword, and stares the enemy straight in the eye. Eleazar fought so hard that day alongside his king that, after the dust had settled and the Philistines lay dead at his feet, his hand had literally become frozen to his sword!

What about you, man of God? Are you ready to stand your ground when the forces of darkness advance and others flee? Will you fight alongside your King until your hand freezes to the hilt of your sword—the Word of God? And as the dust settles, will you be found standing firm in the fields that are ripe for harvest (John 4:35)?

- Steve Sabol

08/31/2026

Thought for the Day

Often, the stress we experience in life does not come because we are living without purpose, but because we are living for the wrong purpose.

Even as I type these words for you to read, I feel a little stressed. There are things I absolutely must do today, yet they don't seem to have much connection to the deeper purpose for which I believe I have been called and created.

Like Cicero said in Gladiator, “Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time I do what I have to.” That, in many ways, is an inescapable reality for all of us. Life is filled with responsibilities, obligations, and demands that do not always feel connected to our highest calling.

But we must be careful not to allow the urgent to continually crowd out the important.

Proverbs 19:21 reminds us, “Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.”

So don't just find time today—make time. Make time to pause, refocus, and align your life with the divine purpose for which you were called and created.

Don't spend so much of your day doing what you have to do that you neglect the reason you are here in the first place.

Live today on purpose—for God's purpose.

- Steve Sabol

08/30/2026

Thought for the Day

We are a comfort-seeking culture. Pillows and memory-foam mattresses promise us the best night’s sleep imaginable. The newest cars practically drive themselves. We can control the temperature of our homes, order almost anything with the touch of a button, and have food delivered to our door. We have become remarkably skilled at eliminating discomfort.

It may surprise us, then, to discover that God sometimes wants us to be less comfortable, not more.

Yes, God is a God of comfort. He comes into our lives to bring comfort, joy, peace, and hope. But there are also times when God comes to disrupt our comfort—to wake us from complacency, stretch us spiritually, challenge our assumptions, push us beyond our comfort zones, help us see beyond our small and self-centered worlds, and tear down the walls we have built through prejudice, fear, and even hatred.

Some of God's greatest work in our lives happens in uncomfortable places.

It takes rain to produce a rainbow, wind to lift a kite into the sky, resistance to build muscle, tension on guitar strings to make music, and pressure to produce strength. In much the same way, discomfort can develop character.

So don't waste your difficult seasons. Don't immediately pray for God to remove every uncomfortable circumstance. Sometimes the very thing you want God to take away is the very thing He is using to shape you.

The discomfort isn't intended to last forever—unless we refuse to learn the lesson it came to teach us. It is not meant to break you, but to make you; not to destroy you, but to develop you; not to defeat you, but to deepen you.

God is molding you, shaping you, and making you into the godly man He created you to be.

Don't run from the discomfort. Ask God what He is trying to develop in you through it.

-Steve Sabol