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    <description><![CDATA[The Godly Man: When God Touches a Man’s Life is a BFF Discipleship series by Paul J. Bucknell. These messages call men to pursue God closely so that their thoughts, ways, and attitudes reshape their whole person. Through biblical studies on purity, humility, faith, grace, truth, love, righteousness, goodness, the fear of God, and waiting upon God, the series equips believers for personal growth, small group study, and practical godliness. Companion resources include the full book introduction at https://www.foundationsforfreedom.net/Help/Store/Intros/Godly_Man_intro.html and the free video course at https://bffbible.org/courses/godly-man.]]></description>
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      <title>The Godly Man: God’s Heart Examination</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Paul J. Bucknell opens The Godly Man series with the first purity study, examining 1 Samuel 16:7–13 and God’s choice of David. Rather than judging by outward appearance, God searches the heart and seeks men whose loyalties are whole before Him. The lesson calls believers to bring their divided hearts to the Lord and ask Him for the pure, undivided heart promised in Jeremiah 24:7.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Paul J. Bucknell opens The Godly Man series with the first purity study, examining 1 Samuel 16:7–13 and God’s choice of David. Rather than judging by outward appearance, God searches the heart and seeks men whose loyalties are whole before Him. The lesson calls believers to bring their divided hearts to the Lord and ask Him for the pure, undivided heart promised in Jeremiah 24:7.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>The Godly Man: The Pure Heart</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Building on Jesus’ promise in Matthew 5:8, Paul J. Bucknell shows that purity of heart is not merely outward morality but undivided devotion to God. This study traces the dangers of a hardened or fragmented heart, the inner competition that drains confidence and clarity, and the restoring grace that reunites the heart through repentance. The message calls believers to watch over the heart, turn from impurity, and seek the Spirit’s work for holy devotion.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Building on Jesus’ promise in Matthew 5:8, Paul J. Bucknell shows that purity of heart is not merely outward morality but undivided devotion to God. This study traces the dangers of a hardened or fragmented heart, the inner competition that drains confidence and clarity, and the restoring grace that reunites the heart through repentance. The message calls believers to watch over the heart, turn from impurity, and seek the Spirit’s work for holy devotion.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>The Godly Man: Stepping Down to Humility</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Humbling oneself is not a vague feeling but a deliberate, crucial decision before God. This study gathers Scripture’s commands to humble ourselves and looks at Paul’s weakness in 2 Corinthians 12 and Moses’ prayer in Psalm 90 to show how God works through humbled servants. Bucknell presents humility as accepting ourselves before God so His holy change can take root.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Humbling oneself is not a vague feeling but a deliberate, crucial decision before God. This study gathers Scripture’s commands to humble ourselves and looks at Paul’s weakness in 2 Corinthians 12 and Moses’ prayer in Psalm 90 to show how God works through humbled servants. Bucknell presents humility as accepting ourselves before God so His holy change can take root.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>The Godly Man: The Secret of Humility</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jesus provides the clearest picture of humility. This session explores Philippians 2:3–11 and Isaiah 52–53, showing how Christ’s lowliness, obedience, and suffering reshape leadership and service. A godly man learns not to protect pride, but to embrace the humble path through which God forms holy character and fruitful ministry.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Jesus provides the clearest picture of humility. This session explores Philippians 2:3–11 and Isaiah 52–53, showing how Christ’s lowliness, obedience, and suffering reshape leadership and service. A godly man learns not to protect pride, but to embrace the humble path through which God forms holy character and fruitful ministry.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>The Godly Man: Faith and Faithfulness — Following the Invisible God</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Following the Invisible God begins the series’ faith and faithfulness studies. Paul J. Bucknell explores how knowing God’s faithfulness strengthens our faith, using Abraham in Genesis 15:6 to show how God grows trust in His promises. Men are called to look beyond what is seen and follow the reliable God who speaks, promises, and fulfills.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Following the Invisible God begins the series’ faith and faithfulness studies. Paul J. Bucknell explores how knowing God’s faithfulness strengthens our faith, using Abraham in Genesis 15:6 to show how God grows trust in His promises. Men are called to look beyond what is seen and follow the reliable God who speaks, promises, and fulfills.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>The Godly Man: Faith’s Significance — Hebrews 11</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Faith is crucial for godly living because faithfulness grows out of faith. Through Hebrews 11, this message shows how faith overcomes secularism, materialism, and false security while turning weakness into a place where trust in God can grow. Bucknell calls men to live by faith rather than by sight.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Faith is crucial for godly living because faithfulness grows out of faith. Through Hebrews 11, this message shows how faith overcomes secularism, materialism, and false security while turning weakness into a place where trust in God can grow. Bucknell calls men to live by faith rather than by sight.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>The Godly Man: Grace and Graciousness — A Biblical Study of Grace</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Grace brings God’s goodness into the life of the undeserving. This biblical study traces grace to its source in God Himself and shows how redemption pours His goodness into His people. Men who receive grace are called to shine out that same goodness in a dark world so that God receives glory.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Grace brings God’s goodness into the life of the undeserving. This biblical study traces grace to its source in God Himself and shows how redemption pours His goodness into His people. Men who receive grace are called to shine out that same goodness in a dark world so that God receives glory.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:duration>00:22:01</itunes:duration>
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      <title>The Godly Man: Enjoy God’s Grace</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[God’s goodness, grace, and pleasure are deeply connected. Drawing from James 1:16–18 and Psalm 16:11, this message shows how God’s good gifts display His grace and train believers to enjoy Him rightly. Testimonies and study questions help men receive grace not as a theory but as a transforming delight in God.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[God’s goodness, grace, and pleasure are deeply connected. Drawing from James 1:16–18 and Psalm 16:11, this message shows how God’s good gifts display His grace and train believers to enjoy Him rightly. Testimonies and study questions help men receive grace not as a theory but as a transforming delight in God.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>The Godly Man: Truth, Not Deception</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Truth leads to the best life because it aligns men with the physical and spiritual realities God has made. Drawing from Psalm 45 and related Scriptures, Bucknell contrasts the stability of truth with the damage caused by deception and lies. This episode calls men to stop living by false images and return to integrity before God.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Truth leads to the best life because it aligns men with the physical and spiritual realities God has made. Drawing from Psalm 45 and related Scriptures, Bucknell contrasts the stability of truth with the damage caused by deception and lies. This episode calls men to stop living by false images and return to integrity before God.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>The Godly Man: The Power of Truth</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Truth radically changes lives when it is believed and obeyed. This study examines the seven uses of truth in Ephesians and shows how truth shapes salvation, marriages, churches, spiritual strength, and the armor of God. Bucknell explains why the man of God must not merely know truth but stand in it.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Truth radically changes lives when it is believed and obeyed. This study examines the seven uses of truth in Ephesians and shows how truth shapes salvation, marriages, churches, spiritual strength, and the armor of God. Bucknell explains why the man of God must not merely know truth but stand in it.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>The Godly Man: Love’s Mighty Touch</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[God’s love is most clearly seen in Jesus Christ giving Himself for sinners. This session follows Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3 and 1 John 4:7–8 to show how God roots and strengthens His people in love. A godly man learns that love is not sentimental weakness but a mighty work of God that reshapes motives, prayers, and relationships.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[God’s love is most clearly seen in Jesus Christ giving Himself for sinners. This session follows Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3 and 1 John 4:7–8 to show how God roots and strengthens His people in love. A godly man learns that love is not sentimental weakness but a mighty work of God that reshapes motives, prayers, and relationships.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>The Godly Man: Love’s Genuine Tests — Matthew 5:17–44</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[God’s love flows to His people and through them to the world, but Scripture also tests whether love is genuine. This message examines love through six studies from the Sermon on the Mount, addressing anger, lust, integrity, honesty, and love for others. Bucknell presses beyond words to the practical obedience that proves love real.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[God’s love flows to His people and through them to the world, but Scripture also tests whether love is genuine. This message examines love through six studies from the Sermon on the Mount, addressing anger, lust, integrity, honesty, and love for others. Bucknell presses beyond words to the practical obedience that proves love real.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>The Godly Man: Pursuing Righteousness — 1 Timothy 6:11</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Righteousness must be pursued if it is to grow. Paul J. Bucknell defines righteousness and shows how compromise, even in small forms, undermines God’s good work in a man’s life. This episode calls believers to reject passivity and actively pursue the holy character God commands.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Righteousness must be pursued if it is to grow. Paul J. Bucknell defines righteousness and shows how compromise, even in small forms, undermines God’s good work in a man’s life. This episode calls believers to reject passivity and actively pursue the holy character God commands.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>The Godly Man: Defining Righteousness — Romans 3:30</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This study explores the Old and New Testament words behind righteousness, justify, and justification. Bucknell also considers how Western culture has shifted away from the biblical foundation of righteousness. The message helps men distinguish God’s declaration of righteousness by faith from the culture’s unstable moral language.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This study explores the Old and New Testament words behind righteousness, justify, and justification. Bucknell also considers how Western culture has shifted away from the biblical foundation of righteousness. The message helps men distinguish God’s declaration of righteousness by faith from the culture’s unstable moral language.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>The Godly Man: 7 Proofs of God’s Goodness — Genesis 1:1–2:3</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[True contentment begins with discovering the goodness of God. This message traces seven proofs of God’s goodness from Genesis 1:1–2:3, showing how creation reveals His good purpose, wise design, and generous character. Men are invited to answer their doubts about God’s goodness by looking again at the God who made all things good.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[True contentment begins with discovering the goodness of God. This message traces seven proofs of God’s goodness from Genesis 1:1–2:3, showing how creation reveals His good purpose, wise design, and generous character. Men are invited to answer their doubts about God’s goodness by looking again at the God who made all things good.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <description><![CDATA[Doubts about God’s goodness can quietly weaken a believer’s growth. This episode faces the problem of evil and suffering while calling men to take important steps of faith in God’s goodness. Bucknell shows why stable Christian living depends on trusting that God remains good even in a painful and morally confused world.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Doubts about God’s goodness can quietly weaken a believer’s growth. This episode faces the problem of evil and suffering while calling men to take important steps of faith in God’s goodness. Bucknell shows why stable Christian living depends on trusting that God remains good even in a painful and morally confused world.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>00:21:33</itunes:duration>
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      <title>The Godly Man: Understand the Fear of God — Malachi 3:17–18</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Paul J. Bucknell explains the fear of God as sincere reverence for the Lord arising from sensitivity to His glory, holiness, and majesty. This episode distinguishes the fear of God from the fear of man, shows that the New Testament still commands and commends God-fearing lives, and connects reverence with obedience, holiness, wise decisions, and spiritual strength.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Paul J. Bucknell explains the fear of God as sincere reverence for the Lord arising from sensitivity to His glory, holiness, and majesty. This episode distinguishes the fear of God from the fear of man, shows that the New Testament still commands and commends God-fearing lives, and connects reverence with obedience, holiness, wise decisions, and spiritual strength.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>00:21:48</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:episode>17</itunes:episode>
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      <title>The Godly Man: The Fear and Love of God — 1 John 4:19</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This message shows how fearing God protects a man from the fear of man while the love of God draws him nearer to the Lord. Paul J. Bucknell contrasts person-pleasing with strong godly leadership, traces the effects of reverence on children, discipline, society, and revival, and shows how biblical fear and divine love work together to produce mature, responsible, holy living.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This message shows how fearing God protects a man from the fear of man while the love of God draws him nearer to the Lord. Paul J. Bucknell contrasts person-pleasing with strong godly leadership, traces the effects of reverence on children, discipline, society, and revival, and shows how biblical fear and divine love work together to produce mature, responsible, holy living.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>00:27:27</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:episode>18</itunes:episode>
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      <title>The Godly Man: Learning to Wait on God</title>
      <itunes:title>Learning to Wait on God</itunes:title>
      <description><![CDATA[Waiting on God is not passivity but active faith in the Lord’s timing, help, and plans. Drawing from the Psalms, Isaiah 29–32, and Hezekiah’s crisis in Isaiah 38, Paul J. Bucknell shows how God exposes self-reliance, teaches His people to find, accept, and see His plans, and uses prolonged distress to turn the heart toward prayer, courage, trust, and noble obedience.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Waiting on God is not passivity but active faith in the Lord’s timing, help, and plans. Drawing from the Psalms, Isaiah 29–32, and Hezekiah’s crisis in Isaiah 38, Paul J. Bucknell shows how God exposes self-reliance, teaches His people to find, accept, and see His plans, and uses prolonged distress to turn the heart toward prayer, courage, trust, and noble obedience.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>00:26:35</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:episode>19</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:keywords>Godly Man, waiting on God, Psalm 27:14, Psalm 33:20, Psalm 37:7, Isaiah 29, Isaiah 30, Isaiah 31, Isaiah 32, Isaiah 38, faith, prayer, trust, God’s plans</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>The Godly Man: Waiting on God for Ministry</title>
      <itunes:title>Waiting on God for Ministry</itunes:title>
      <description><![CDATA[God often trains His servants in the space between calling and public usefulness. Using David’s anointing, his trials under Saul, and Psalm 52, Paul J. Bucknell shows how waiting prepares a man’s heart for ministry by proving loyalty, deepening dependence on God, restraining revenge, and teaching him to trust God’s lovingkindness while facing evil and delay.]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[God often trains His servants in the space between calling and public usefulness. Using David’s anointing, his trials under Saul, and Psalm 52, Paul J. Bucknell shows how waiting prepares a man’s heart for ministry by proving loyalty, deepening dependence on God, restraining revenge, and teaching him to trust God’s lovingkindness while facing evil and delay.]]></itunes:summary>
      <link>https://bffbible.org/video/view/gm20-waiting-on-god-ministry-and-revenge</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>00:24:44</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:episode>20</itunes:episode>
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      <itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:keywords>Godly Man, waiting on God, ministry training, David, Saul, 1 Samuel 16, Psalm 52, heart training, loyalty, revenge, dependence on God, God’s timing</itunes:keywords>
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