Men's Morning Devotional

Metro Life Church
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Men who stand strong prepare before the battle begins - so take a few minutes every morning to get into the Word before you face the world. Every weekday, the Men's Morning Devotional challenges and encourages men with Biblical lessons that speak to the pressures they carry as husbands, fathers, and leaders. Hosted by Steve Alessi, a pastor with over 40 years of ministry experience, along with his four sons and sons-in-law, you’ll get truth you can take straight into your day.  We’re here every weekday morning so make sure you follow and subscribe. Don’t let a single morning go by without putting on your armor. This is a perfectly timed, short Bible study for Christian men, so you can spend some quiet time with God and prepare for the challenges life brings you every day. Let’s get into God’s Word. It’s time to man up.

  1. 15h ago

    Put God First, Not What's Left

    Look at your calendar and your bank statement. If a stranger studied both, what would they conclude is most important in your life? For most men, the honest answer is uncomfortable — because we tend to give God whatever's left after everything else gets covered. In this episode, Chris Muiña tackles a principle that cuts straight to the heart of what a man truly trusts. Pulling from Proverbs 3, he reframes a passage most men assume is only about money and reveals what it's actually testing: whether you'll put God first, or just give Him the leftovers. Passing that test means confronting the "self-made man" myth head-on. Every paycheck, every promotion, every opportunity ultimately comes from the Lord — and honoring Him with your first fruits isn't about the amount, it's about the condition of your heart. Real men don't cling tightly to what God has given them. They hold it with an open hand and live with an open heart, trusting that when they do their part, He takes care of the rest. What a relief it is to live under that. Verse of the Day: Proverbs 3:9–10  Your Daily Man-Up Challenge Take an honest look at your priorities and ask: Does the way I spend my money and my time show that God is first? Then take one intentional step today — start with the tithe, give to someone in need, thank God for His provision, or trade a financial worry for prayer and surrender. Choose to put Him first with your best, not with what's left over. Send Us A Message! NEW TO THE MEN’S MORNING DEVOTIONAL?  Welcome! The Men's Morning Devotional is a podcast to help you man up in every way - in your faith, your family and your work - by spending a few minutes getting into the Word before you face the world.  Every weekday, you'll get a challenge and encouragement from Scripture that speaks to the pressures you carry as a husband, a father, and a leader. You’ll get truth you can take straight into your day. And you’ll know you’re not standing alone, because men everywhere are waking up to fight the same battle. Your hosts are Steve Alessi, pastor of Metro Life Church of Miami, FL, along with his sons and other leaders of our Goodfellas men's ministry. Join us every weekday to man up!  MORE PODCASTS YOU'LL ENJOY Find more podcasts about faith and family from Metro Life Studios, including: My Morning Devotional The Family Business with The Alessis The Mary and Martha Show  You can listen to all of these shows on our Metro Life Studios app here!  Get The Metro Life Studios app

  2. 1d ago

    Don't Just Hear It - Live it

    You've heard the sermons. You've read the verses. You can probably quote scripture on demand. So why doesn't your life always look like the truth you already know? In this Man Up Moment, host Chris Muiña gets underneath one of the quiet traps that catches faithful men: the gap between knowing God's Word and living it. Drawing from Proverbs 3, he uncovers why God was never after a head full of Bible facts — He's after a heart that's been reshaped. And here's the uncomfortable part: the longer you've walked with God, the easier it becomes to lean on your own understanding instead of His. Because real strength isn't found in knowing more — it's found in obeying what you already know. Every small decision to choose integrity over shortcuts, patience over anger, prayer over panic, and forgiveness over bitterness is you storing God's Word in your heart, where it slowly shapes the man you're becoming. Your family doesn't need a perfect man. They need one whose heart is anchored in God's truth — because when your heart is right, your life follows. Verse of the Day: Proverbs 3:1–2 Your Daily Man-Up Challenge Before your day ends, ask yourself one honest question: Is there one area of my life where I know what God says, but I haven't been living it? Don't overcomplicate it — pick one. Your attitude, your language, your marriage, your parenting, your work ethic, your integrity, or your time with God. Then take one concrete step of obedience, and ask God to move His Word from your head into your heart. Send Us A Message! NEW TO THE MEN’S MORNING DEVOTIONAL?  Welcome! The Men's Morning Devotional is a podcast to help you man up in every way - in your faith, your family and your work - by spending a few minutes getting into the Word before you face the world.  Every weekday, you'll get a challenge and encouragement from Scripture that speaks to the pressures you carry as a husband, a father, and a leader. You’ll get truth you can take straight into your day. And you’ll know you’re not standing alone, because men everywhere are waking up to fight the same battle. Your hosts are Steve Alessi, pastor of Metro Life Church of Miami, FL, along with his sons and other leaders of our Goodfellas men's ministry. Join us every weekday to man up!  MORE PODCASTS YOU'LL ENJOY Find more podcasts about faith and family from Metro Life Studios, including: My Morning Devotional The Family Business with The Alessis The Mary and Martha Show  You can listen to all of these shows on our Metro Life Studios app here!  Get The Metro Life Studios app

  3. 4d ago

    Man Up and Remain

    The principled man isn't defined by what he says no to. He's defined by what he gets to keep. Chris closes out his series on Proverbs chapter 2 with a promise instead of a warning: "For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it." After a whole week building the portrait of the principled man, Solomon lands the chapter on a single powerful word — remain. The principled man doesn't just avoid the wrong road; he inherits the right one. Remain means to endure, to be left standing after everything else has been stripped away. It's the man whose marriage is still standing at the end of his life, still present with his grown kids, still trusted at work, still rooted in his faith when others have fallen off. And blameless doesn't mean perfect: it's the word used of Job, meaning whole, complete, undivided. His private life matched his public life. Here's the great irony: The shortcut man was chasing a full, flourishing life the whole time and never got it. The man who takes the long road ends up with the very thing the other man was after. Verse of the Day: Proverbs 2:21 Your Daily Man-Up Challenge Write down your answer to this question: What does it look like for me to remain — in my marriage, my family, my faith, and my integrity? Five years from now, if I stay on the road I'm building today, what does it mean to remain? Let that picture pull you forward. Send Us A Message! NEW TO THE MEN’S MORNING DEVOTIONAL?  Welcome! The Men's Morning Devotional is a podcast to help you man up in every way - in your faith, your family and your work - by spending a few minutes getting into the Word before you face the world.  Every weekday, you'll get a challenge and encouragement from Scripture that speaks to the pressures you carry as a husband, a father, and a leader. You’ll get truth you can take straight into your day. And you’ll know you’re not standing alone, because men everywhere are waking up to fight the same battle. Your hosts are Steve Alessi, pastor of Metro Life Church of Miami, FL, along with his sons and other leaders of our Goodfellas men's ministry. Join us every weekday to man up!  MORE PODCASTS YOU'LL ENJOY Find more podcasts about faith and family from Metro Life Studios, including: My Morning Devotional The Family Business with The Alessis The Mary and Martha Show  You can listen to all of these shows on our Metro Life Studios app here!  Get The Metro Life Studios app

  4. 5d ago

    Man Up Before It's Too Late

    Some doors only swing one way. You tell yourself you'll make it up later — later, when the deal is closed, when the busy season ends, when the kids are older. But some windows close for good. Chris works through Proverbs 2:19 and one of the most sobering phrases in the chapter: "None who go to her return." Not most. Not few. None. The adulterous woman here is a symbol: she represents every path that promises pleasure and ease without the cost of doing things the right way. She's the embodiment of the shortcut. And Solomon's warning is stark: every shortcut has a point of no return, and the time to turn around is before you reach it. God can redeem anything, but some consequences we live with permanently, even after we're forgiven. The father who keeps telling himself he'll make it up to his kids eventually finds the window has closed and they're grown. The husband who erodes trust through small deceptions finds the foundation quietly crumbled. An oak tree takes decades to grow and a few hours to cut down. You don't get to choose the consequences of your choices — only the choices themselves. Verse of the Day: Proverbs 2:19 Your Daily Man-Up Challenge Ask yourself honestly — is there a path I'm on right now that I know is heading somewhere I don't want to end up? Name it. Then turn around today, before the point of no return. Don't wait for the weekend. Make the U-turn right here, right now. Send Us A Message! NEW TO THE MEN’S MORNING DEVOTIONAL?  Welcome! The Men's Morning Devotional is a podcast to help you man up in every way - in your faith, your family and your work - by spending a few minutes getting into the Word before you face the world.  Every weekday, you'll get a challenge and encouragement from Scripture that speaks to the pressures you carry as a husband, a father, and a leader. You’ll get truth you can take straight into your day. And you’ll know you’re not standing alone, because men everywhere are waking up to fight the same battle. Your hosts are Steve Alessi, pastor of Metro Life Church of Miami, FL, along with his sons and other leaders of our Goodfellas men's ministry. Join us every weekday to man up!  MORE PODCASTS YOU'LL ENJOY Find more podcasts about faith and family from Metro Life Studios, including: My Morning Devotional The Family Business with The Alessis The Mary and Martha Show  You can listen to all of these shows on our Metro Life Studios app here!  Get The Metro Life Studios app

  5. 6d ago

    Man Up to The Long Road

    The shortcut always looks faster. The workaround always looks smarter. And almost every time a man walks off the straight path, it doesn't feel like walking into sin — it feels like being clever. In today’s episode, Chris works through Proverbs 2:15 and the picture of the man whose paths are crooked and devious. In Hebrew, crooked means something twisted out of its original shape: a path that should be straight but got bent and rerouted. And devious means to turn aside. Here's the catch: Solomon says these men left the straight path. It was a choice. There are no shortcuts to the life God has for you. The crooked path feels faster until it isn't. The temptation toward the crooked path almost never shows up as wickedness. It shows up as a shortcut. Stretch the truth to close the deal faster. Avoid the hard conversation to dodge the conflict. Look the part without doing the work. But we've watched lives play out over and over, and the shortcut always costs more than the long road. Always. The man who cuts the corner isn't ahead of you — he's already lost. Verse of the Day: Proverbs 2:15 Your Daily Man-Up Challenge Where are you tempted to take a shortcut right now? Be specific — marriage, work, spiritual life, health, or finances. Name the shortcut. Then name what the straight road actually looks like in that area, and commit to it. And if you want to take it seriously, tell somebody about it. Send Us A Message! NEW TO THE MEN’S MORNING DEVOTIONAL?  Welcome! The Men's Morning Devotional is a podcast to help you man up in every way - in your faith, your family and your work - by spending a few minutes getting into the Word before you face the world.  Every weekday, you'll get a challenge and encouragement from Scripture that speaks to the pressures you carry as a husband, a father, and a leader. You’ll get truth you can take straight into your day. And you’ll know you’re not standing alone, because men everywhere are waking up to fight the same battle. Your hosts are Steve Alessi, pastor of Metro Life Church of Miami, FL, along with his sons and other leaders of our Goodfellas men's ministry. Join us every weekday to man up!  MORE PODCASTS YOU'LL ENJOY Find more podcasts about faith and family from Metro Life Studios, including: My Morning Devotional The Family Business with The Alessis The Mary and Martha Show  You can listen to all of these shows on our Metro Life Studios app here!  Get The Metro Life Studios app

  6. Aug 18

    Man Up to The Source

    If you take God out of the equation, where does right and wrong actually come from? Culture is pushing that question hard right now — and a lot of men don't have an answer. In today’s episode, Chris continues through Proverbs chapter 2, landing on verse 6: "For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding." Wisdom doesn't originate in experience, education, or the school of hard knocks — though God uses all of those. It originates in Him. And that leads to a truth our culture is fighting hard against: you can't separate morality from God, because morality doesn't exist without Him. God isn't moral because He follows some standard above Him: God is the standard. Goodness isn't a rule He obeys; it's an expression of who He is. Asking whether God can be immoral is like asking whether water can be dry. The question is broken. He is the source. And a man untethered from that source has no compass and no fixed north — his standard just shifts with the culture around him. Verse of the Day: Proverbs 2:6 Your Daily Man-Up Challenge Identify one area of your life where you've let culture, convenience, popular opinion, or how you were raised shape your moral decisions instead of going back to God as the source. Name it honestly. Then take it to Scripture — what does God actually say about that area? A principled man doesn't outsource his ethics. He goes to the source. Send Us A Message! NEW TO THE MEN’S MORNING DEVOTIONAL?  Welcome! The Men's Morning Devotional is a podcast to help you man up in every way - in your faith, your family and your work - by spending a few minutes getting into the Word before you face the world.  Every weekday, you'll get a challenge and encouragement from Scripture that speaks to the pressures you carry as a husband, a father, and a leader. You’ll get truth you can take straight into your day. And you’ll know you’re not standing alone, because men everywhere are waking up to fight the same battle. Your hosts are Steve Alessi, pastor of Metro Life Church of Miami, FL, along with his sons and other leaders of our Goodfellas men's ministry. Join us every weekday to man up!  MORE PODCASTS YOU'LL ENJOY Find more podcasts about faith and family from Metro Life Studios, including: My Morning Devotional The Family Business with The Alessis The Mary and Martha Show  You can listen to all of these shows on our Metro Life Studios app here!  Get The Metro Life Studios app

  7. Aug 17

    Man Up To Principle

    You can't stumble into wisdom. It won't find you by accident, and you definitely don't already have it just because you want it. So how do you actually get it? This week, Chris Alessi kicks off week seven of the Men's Morning Devotional as we move into Proverbs chapter 2. Working through the first five verses, Chris unpacks a principle that changes everything about how we chase after God: what you pursue determines what you discover. Solomon doesn't open the chapter with a promise — he opens with a condition. Four of them, actually, stacked one on top of another. Receive the words. Turn your ear. Call out for insight. Search like a treasure hunter. And only then comes the "then God will." This isn't prosperity gospel. It's a promise with a condition attached — if we pursue, we will find. Jesus said the same thing: Seek and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened. But too many of us are hoping wisdom just shows up while we sit still. God is waiting on us to move first. Verse of the Day: Proverbs 2:4–5 Your Daily Man-Up Challenge Read Proverbs 2:1–4 and write out the four "if you" conditions Solomon lays out. What does each one actually look like in your life right now? Then write verse 5 at the bottom of the page as the promise you're standing on — and put it somewhere you'll see it all week. Send Us A Message! NEW TO THE MEN’S MORNING DEVOTIONAL?  Welcome! The Men's Morning Devotional is a podcast to help you man up in every way - in your faith, your family and your work - by spending a few minutes getting into the Word before you face the world.  Every weekday, you'll get a challenge and encouragement from Scripture that speaks to the pressures you carry as a husband, a father, and a leader. You’ll get truth you can take straight into your day. And you’ll know you’re not standing alone, because men everywhere are waking up to fight the same battle. Your hosts are Steve Alessi, pastor of Metro Life Church of Miami, FL, along with his sons and other leaders of our Goodfellas men's ministry. Join us every weekday to man up!  MORE PODCASTS YOU'LL ENJOY Find more podcasts about faith and family from Metro Life Studios, including: My Morning Devotional The Family Business with The Alessis The Mary and Martha Show  You can listen to all of these shows on our Metro Life Studios app here!  Get The Metro Life Studios app

  8. Aug 14

    Refusing the Drift

    Are you finding yourself just coasting through life? If so, you're in more danger than you realize. Thing is, complacency never announces itself as danger. It just feels comfortable - until it's too late. Most men think the greatest threat to their spiritual lives is outright rebellion, but they're mistaken.  In this episode, Steve Alessi names the two things that quietly destroy a man. The first is obvious: knowing what's right and choosing your own way anyway. The second is far more subtle.  Listen today to find out how you can become a man who sleeps differently, leads differently, loves differently, and faces an uncertain future differently — because his confidence isn't in himself, but in the One who never changes. Verse of The Day:  Proverbs 1:32-33  Your Daily Man-Up Challenge  Ask one honest question: Where have I become complacent — my walk with God, my marriage, my health, my leadership, my parenting, my integrity? Choose one area where you've been coasting and start rowing again. Then make this commitment: I'm not just going to hear God's Word this week — I'm going to live it, and better yet, I'm going to be it. Send Us A Message! NEW TO THE MEN’S MORNING DEVOTIONAL?  Welcome! The Men's Morning Devotional is a podcast to help you man up in every way - in your faith, your family and your work - by spending a few minutes getting into the Word before you face the world.  Every weekday, you'll get a challenge and encouragement from Scripture that speaks to the pressures you carry as a husband, a father, and a leader. You’ll get truth you can take straight into your day. And you’ll know you’re not standing alone, because men everywhere are waking up to fight the same battle. Your hosts are Steve Alessi, pastor of Metro Life Church of Miami, FL, along with his sons and other leaders of our Goodfellas men's ministry. Join us every weekday to man up!  MORE PODCASTS YOU'LL ENJOY Find more podcasts about faith and family from Metro Life Studios, including: My Morning Devotional The Family Business with The Alessis The Mary and Martha Show  You can listen to all of these shows on our Metro Life Studios app here!  Get The Metro Life Studios app

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Men who stand strong prepare before the battle begins - so take a few minutes every morning to get into the Word before you face the world. Every weekday, the Men's Morning Devotional challenges and encourages men with Biblical lessons that speak to the pressures they carry as husbands, fathers, and leaders. Hosted by Steve Alessi, a pastor with over 40 years of ministry experience, along with his four sons and sons-in-law, you’ll get truth you can take straight into your day.  We’re here every weekday morning so make sure you follow and subscribe. Don’t let a single morning go by without putting on your armor. This is a perfectly timed, short Bible study for Christian men, so you can spend some quiet time with God and prepare for the challenges life brings you every day. Let’s get into God’s Word. It’s time to man up.

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  • Creator
    Metro Life Church
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    38
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Metro Life Church
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    Men's Morning Devotional