No More Excuses: Be the Man God Made You to Be

322 Pages·2006·2.53 MB·English

by  Tony Evans

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No More Excuses
Copyright © 1996 by Tony Evans
Published by Crossway Books
a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers
1300 Crescent Street
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
and Renaissance Productions
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,

stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any

means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise,

without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided by

USA copyright law.

Cover design: Jon McGrath

First printing, trade paper edition, 2006

Printed in the United States of America

Scripture taken from the Holy Bible New International Version ®.

Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission

of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

The “NIV” and “New International Version” trademarks are registered

in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by International Bible Society.

Use of either trademark requires the permission of International Bible Society.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Evans, Anthony T.
No more excuses / Tony Evans
1. Men—Religious life. 2. Men (Christian theology) I. Title.
BV4528.2.E92 1996
248.8'42—dc20 96-4894
ML 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06
15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
CONTENTS

Dedication / With Gratitude vii

Foreword by Bill McCartney ix

Introduction xi

1 No More Hiding Behind the Past 13

2 No More Feeling Worthless 33

3 No More Allowing for Immorality 51

4 No More Going Through the Motions 69

5 No More Dabbling in Defiance 85

6 No More Compromising Your Integrity 101

7 No More Sifting Through the Rubble 117

8 No More Giving in to Temptation 133

9 No More Second-rate Marriages 149

10 No More Passive Fathering 167

11 No More Sissified Males 183

12 No More Playing the Lone Ranger 199

13 No More Ownership 215

14 No More Clock-punching 233

15 No More Business as Usual 249

16 No More Half-stepping 267

17 No More Standing on the Sidelines 285

18 No More “Loser’s Limp” 301

Epilogue 317

DEDICATION

Dedicated to my sons,
Anthony, Jr., and Jonathan,
whom I love more than words
could ever express.
Seeing them grow up to become men of God
is my greatest challenge and deepest joy.
WITH GRATITUDE

Once again I want to say thanks to my friend Philip Rawley for the way
he organizes my ideas and words into a sharp, clear literary style. My
appreciation also goes to Lane Dennis and Leonard Goss of Crossway
Books for their guidance and patience with this book. The editorial
skills of Len Goss helped bring No More Excuses to its finished state.

FOREWORD

By Bill McCartney
When I was coaching football, I used to sit down with my players one
at a time the night before a game and ask each young man what I
could expect from him on the field the next day.
I didn’t do it to make them nervous, of course. It was a way of
letting them know that I had confidence in them, that I knew what they
were capable of, and that I would be looking for their best effort sup­
ported by the best coaching our staff was capable of giving.
That’s something of what I believe God is doing with men all
across America. He’s sitting us down, so to speak, and asking, “What
can I expect of you in light of what I’ve given you?” God is calling
men to faithfulness to Him and to their families, to godly leadership
in the home and in the workplace.
This is the heart of the movement known as Promise Keepers.
And one of the men who has given this movement its vitality and its
spiritual direction is Dr. Tony Evans. Tony has been speaking to men
straight from his heart for a long time, and in this book he takes his
challenge to godly manhood to a higher level.
No More Excuses is not a book you read for a breezy morning