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Have you ever felt dirty, worthless, broken?  Join host and author Mike Silva as he continues to explain how to share the Gospel with your friends.  Mike uses the illustration of a $20 bill that gets rumpled, dropped, stepped on, kicked, and run through the dirt. But you know what?  It still has value.  If you are feeling dirty, rumpled, and kicked around,remember that you still have value to God.  And next time you are with a friend you can pull out a $20 bill and say, "I've got twenty dollars that says God loves you," and use this simple illustration to share your faith.

Host and author Mike Silva continues his talk this week about how to share your faith effectively with your friends.  If you are going to reach your friends for Christ, it isn't going to be because you've memorized 66 points of theology, or memorized all the books of the Bible.  Using illustrations to share the Gospel is a way to share Jesus in your every day conversation. Listen as Mike uses an illustration about heart attacks to talk about the terminal illness we're all born with: sin.

Join host and author Mike Silva this week as he continues to talk about friendship evangelism.  We all face traps in our personal lives; financial traps, moral traps, marital traps, physical traps, just to name a few.  Personally, we all use all kinds of traps; mouse traps, mole traps, wasps traps. Whatever kind of trap it is, the real purpose of a trap is to destroy.  Spiritually, our enemy is constantly setting traps for us too.  Listen as Mike talks about how God has given us a way to avoid these traps.

Join host and author Mike Silva this week as he continues to talk about friendship evangelism.  In this episode Mike tells us how to use the everyday things around us as illustrations to share our faith.  When you're sharing your faith with a friend and you want to use an everyday real life story to share the Gospel, you'll want to hear the story that Mike shares in this episode.   Contact us during this podcast series on Friendship Evangelism to get a free copy of Mike's book, "Would You Like Fries With That?"

This week join host and author Mike Silva as he changes gears a bit to talk about how one man can reach another man with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ, so that the other man may began his journey to become a #1 Man himself.  How does a man share the Gospel without coming across as a weirdo,  holier-than-thou or a seminary professor?   Listen as Mike shares some great tools for effective friendship evangelism.

This week join hosts and authors Mike Silva and Bradley Burck as they discuss how to be affectionate with your daughters, and why it is so important. Your daughter needs your hugs, your kisses, your attention, and she needs you to model what is appropriate affection. She especially needs this if her love language is physical touch. To find out more about your daughter's love language go to www.5lovelanguages.com.

This week join hosts and authors Mike Silva and Bradley Burck as they talk about how to get to know your daughter as her dad vs. her friend. Don't take the easy way out and just be her friend. There are lots of people who can be her friends, but only you can be her dad. What it really comes down to is time. Do you take time to do the things your daughter wants to do? To get to know her as an individual? Listen as Mike and Bradley give you encouragement to go and be the best dad for your daughter.

Bradley Burck is in the studio today with hip-hop musician Benjiman talking about how to teach your boys to relate to girls as they get older. Particularly how to model respectful  relationships in a culture that regularly degrades women. How do you help your boys have purity of mind and the correct focus towards girls?

Join hosts and authors Mike Silva and Bradley Burck as they discuss how to accept your daughter with her individual strengths and weaknesses. Mike talks about being a student of your daughter’s interests and personal tastes. Sometimes you have to give up your own expectations and let your daughter be herself. God made your daughter to be something, as a dad it's your job to foster her God given talents.      

Mike's oldest daughter Jenna joins him in the studio for this weeks episode. She explains how daughters can build relationships with their dad's, using the acronym DADDY'S GIRL. Daughters investing in your relationship with your dad will reap big rewards. Jenna gives lots of useful tips for daughters to begin using today in their relationship with their dad.    

In this episode Mike's daughter Grace joins the discussion on dating and relationships. Mike and Grace share candid stories, and discuss why daughters, even those whose fathers are active in their lives, feel the need to date.        

Join hosts and authors Mike Silva and Bradley Burck as they finish their discussion about the fruits of the spirit. This week they discuss what gentleness looks like in today's culture. Reminding you that you can be a tough man and have a tender heart. Your daughters will respond better to gentleness than to acting like a marine corp. drill sergeant. Finally they discuss how self control is like the bow that ties all the rest together.

Join hosts and authors Mike Silva and Bradley Burck as they continue their discussion about the fruits of the spirit. This week they discuss how important patience and faithfulness are in a father's life, and how those traits will impact your daughter. Being a #1 Man doesn't mean you're perfect, it means you're giving it over to Jesus to work on these issues in your life.

Join hosts and authors Mike Silva and Bradley Burck for this weeks #1 Man Podcast. Mike and Bradley continue their discussion of the fruit of the spirit with peace and goodness. One verse that Mike really wants listeners to take to heart during the fruit of the spirit discussion is I Peter 4:8 "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins." Literally love covers a boat-load of sins. Be encouraged by these words this week.

Join hosts and authors Mike Silva and Bradley Burck in their second season of the #1 Man podcast as they begin a discussion of the fruit of the spirit. Mike and Bradley discuss the fruits of Love and Joy. Being a #1 Man means not only showing your daughter love and having a joyful attitude being an example of how to live these characteristics.