Feminism has effected men far more than we realize.

Feminism has infiltrated our churches. Here are a few of the most common identifiers…

Feminism has become so pervasive, that many of us are contributing to it unwittingly.

Men tend to be goal-setters, and we also have some innate desire to leave our mark, to be remembered. Something in us cares more about what people will think of us after we’re gone than what people think of us while we’re here. Well, now that was uplifting.

Sure, someone can learn some wisdom later in life. But after looking verse by verse through the entire book of wisdom, namely Proverbs, I can’t help but notice the emphasis being on starting young, pursuing hard after wisdom during that time, and then enjoying the benefits of it for life.

I write this one with some hesitation. People complain about ministry online. Perhaps they want sympathy? I don’t care about getting sympathy.

We tend to think of born leaders as just aggressive, overzealous, and ambitious people, always whipping out their sword at the wrong time (John 18:10) or taking matters into their own hands, but…

This celebrate-everything idea has become a major part of modern parenting philosophy. Undoubtedly, many of the millennial generation (not all) presently trying to fundamentally change our culture were likely raised this way. Now, these people are adults, at least by legal designations.

So, how much do I "nail" things from the pulpit? Well, I'm afraid that "nailing" things is based on the presumptions that people don't get it, the Holy Spirit is incapable of telling them, and they can't come to the right conclusion without me telling them exactly what they need to do practically.

It just seems that no matter how much society tries to normalize adult men who are gamers, society still doesn’t respect adult men who are gamers.

The author uses this term and I’m not sure who get’s to decide what “third-level” matters are. Does he? Did God?

The thinking man however, he also struggles with doubt at times, but he continues acting on the decision of faith. He never lets it become worry. He just continues moving in the direction his initial faith took him. His progress reveals what side of the faith/doubt knife edge he is on — the faith side.

We remember on this day in history those who ran toward an almost certain death, not away from it, because liberty for others mattered to them. Some today think words are violence when the men who charged the beaches of Normandy actually faced real violence of the worst kind.

A man who wasn’t a Christian, was probably terrible, and who I don’t know anything else about said, “There are two ways to slide easily through life- by believing everything or by doubting everything. Both ways save you from thinking.” -Alfred Korzybski. Despite what the man believed, that statement makes a lot of sense. I think it explains, at least in part, how we got this way…

When called on to pray publicly, sometimes people will inevitably feel pressure to “knock it out of the park”. Sure, this is often a fleshly, self-imposed pressure. But it should never be a peer pressure. People asked to pray in church should not feel any social obligation to impress with their praying, but rather just pray in humility and sincerity with “clean hands, and a pure heart” (Psalm 24:3-4). And those being led in the public prayer ought to have enough brotherly charity to not care how it came out.

…They separate from you, not because you changed what you stand for, but simply because you stopped offering virtue-signaling disclaimers to them. They likely feel guilty that your unwillingness to play the game makes them look juvenile and foolish. Then they get mad at you. Then you become the brunt of their griping with whatever inequitable and uncharitable brethren they can find next.

I think it’s definitely on purpose that we see these verses side-by-side. The inherent manly quality of a strong will can be useful in the right way, but it must be tempered with Godly charity. The balance of these virtues seems to be the only way to get Biblical manliness right.

The fact is, they’ve “made their bed.” Now they’re lying in it and claiming someone else shorted the sheets.

What seems so crazy about all of this is that this is a phenomenon that unregenerate, likely God-denying secularists have observed and studied. Some even seem willing to examine themselves for it. Yet, as Biblicists, we know that the Bible gave it a name long ago. And so many of us seem unwilling to examine ourselves with honest examination to see if we’re affected.

As I was stumbling backwards trying not to fall he said, “Never stand like that.” That was my first lesson in fighting. Subsequent lessons would all come from trying not to get punched in the face…. and getting punched in the face anyway.