Ok, I am going to do something a bit different than I typically do on this blog (like I do a good job of keeping up with this blog anyway...).
Here is an overview of what I am going to do over the next few weeks, and why: I was reading in Proverbs 20 this morning and I found myself thinking about v.7:
"The righteous man walks in his integrity; how blessed are his children after him."
So, I began to think about what that means for me as a husband and a dad while I took some time to meditate on this verse. Sometimes, though, "meditating" ona…
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Masculinity and Femininity
The world we live in sure has ways of defining what it is to be a man. If we were to watch enough commercialsfor beer, we would discover that apparently real men drink a lot of beer, hide out in their sports memorobilia man-cave that is actually made of beer cans, and often have the intelligence quotient of the hops in the beer.
Other pictures of manhood might teach us that we are truly a man when we can beat someone up or physically dominate them. You know the type - they feel they have to have on a piece of "TapOut" gear at all times so…
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Continuing our dialogue on what Biblical masculinity looks like, I think we need to recap a couple of things. Fundamentally, we learn what masculinity looks like through Jesus and all the gospel teaches us about Him. From that, and from our review of Philippians 2:5-11, we highlighted two aspects, or descriptors, of masculinity as seen in Jesus: humility and servanthood.
So, if we can agree that the characteristics of humility and servanthood are two large, general descriptions of masculinity as seen in Jesus, then it becomes easy enough to…
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Well, to say that I am out of my league with this post would be an understatement. Trying to articulate the right idea of femininity is very difficultwhen only knowing the reality of masculinity (and though having a wife,we are still a majority"boy" house since I don't have any girls, and two boys,as children). But, since you are reading this blog, it appears that I am somewhat stupid enough to tackle the subject (speaking of "somewhat stupid" - is that possible? Isn't it akin to saying things like "I'mslightly drunk" or "I barely killed…
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