Manhood Mantra
If there was a mantra of manhood in the conservative Church, it would be “That’s just the way things are.” The Southern Baptist Convention’s recent vote limiting the title and office of any pastor to men only exemplifies that this is just the way things are. The Bible has instruction about women not teaching men […]
A Tim Ballard Update
Remember how I described Tim Ballard’s Sound of Freedom as displaying manhood in action as one of 3 societal events in the Prism of Manhood? I was surprised by how suddenly everything turned on Ballard, he was out of an organization he founded, every search was instantly negative, and I didn’t understand. Now I know […]
Patient Practical Patriarchy
Patient, Practical Patriarchy is not just an example of alliteration.It’s what Jesus practiced. Not all women or all people these days appreciate how practical Christianity has been throughout the ages, or how Jesus had genuine pragmatism in certain areas of His ministry. Importantly, pragmatism was not in His values, message, or beliefs, but in the […]
Dividing Walls
As we continue to look at the Prism of Manhood and the 3 societal events happening concurrently in our culture, we’re in the thick of the SBC’s vote regarding women in the pastorate. With a flood of yellow cards, a wall was built. . But was it a protective wall or a dividing wall? Protective […]
Plentiful Harvest, Path of Peace
“Then Jesus said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field.” (Matthew 9:37-38) That was my life verse, confirmed in many ways, when I made the choice to obey God and endure seminary though I really […]
Riptide and a Line in the Sand
In what might seem to be a case of FAFO or “play stupid games, win stupid prizes,” more than a few churches have neglected sound doctrine and inched a bit too close into the riptide of WOKE culture wars—only to get sucked under, destroying everything– their legacy, their present witness, and their future. It does […]
Biblical Chads
Not all “muscular Christians” are muscular. Some are just Biblical Chads…buff in their theology, exercising strong principles, working out their doctrine with actions, and full of the Accountability, Authority, and Action that form the 3 sides of the Prism of Manhood. This brings me to the third of three societal events in this Prism of […]
Reviving Muscular Christianity
Still thinking about the Prism of Manhood and the “Sound of Freedom“, if Indiana Jones is the manhood of Hollywood, fictional adventure, leather jacket, good-guy wins, and you were to contrast that with “Sound of Freedom“ with its godly manhood of true heroes rescuing actual children, it’s clear which of these show authentic acts of […]
Misguided Manhood and the Church
Jake Meador writes about the decline of Christianity in America in a recent Atlantic article saying, “Nearly everyone I grew up with in my childhood church in Lincoln, Nebraska, is no longer Christian. That’s not unusual. Forty million Americans have stopped attending church in the past 25 years. That’s something like 12 percent of the […]
