Category: Men & Women
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Odds and Ends, June 2024
I wanted to give a little follow-up on my sermons on 1 Samuel 14 from the last couple of weeks: A few links I want to share: At some point, we will have conference video from the “Courageous Church, Hostile World” conference we held at TPC back in February. In the meantime, I wanted to…
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The Narcissism of Today’s Pop Culture: Falling in Love with Someone Other Than Yourself
I commented on the Barbie movie, so I guess I’m also obligated to comment on Taylor Swift too, right? I thought this article was very interesting and insightful. Like Hemingway, I am a Gen Xer, though his knowledge of more recent pop culture definitely exceeds mine. My knowledge of pop culture peters out pretty quickly after about…
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Pearcey Review (Summation)
Nancy Pearcey seems like a wonderful, delightful, and godly woman. She is obviously brilliant and she is totally devoted to the defense of the Christian faith in the public square. In her new book on masculinity, it’s clear that she appreciates men/masculinity and wants to defend Christian men against unfair accusations. To be honest, I…
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Pearcey’s Toxic War on Masculinity
The whole generation is womanized, the masculine tone is passing out of the world; it’s a feminine hysterical, chattering, canting age. — Henry James (1886) Finally Modernism, which denies and abolishes every difference, cannot rest until it has made woman man and man woman, and, putting every distinction on a common level, kills life by placing it under…
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Charles Spurgeon on Masculinity
Charles Spurgeon on Christian faith and masculinity, from his 1898 book “A Good Start”: When I say that a man in Christ is a man, I mean that, if he is truly in Christ, he is therefore manly. There has got abroad a notion, somehow, that if you become a Christian, you must sink your manliness and turn milksop. It…
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Barbie and the Patriarchy
I can’t believe I’m actually going to comment on the Barbie movie….but here goes. A couple disclaimers: First, I have not seen the movie and do not intend to any time soon, so this is not an attempt to review the movie. In general, I would refrain from commenting on a movie I have not…
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Triple Threat
Lately, I’ve seen some Facebook controversy amongst my friends over masculinity, particularly between those (mostly older men) who want to emphasize the spiritual aspects of masculinity (being a good man) versus those (mostly younger men) who want to to recover the physical aspects of masculinity (being good at being a man), like weight lifting. Some…
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Wedding Homily #4
David and Sophia, today you begin your new family together as husband and wife. You leave your old families behind to cleave to one another. Every wedding is an act of God, every wedding is a new creation. Today, God is joining you together. Marriage is a bond God forms between you. As you begin…
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Wedding Homily #3
HK and Alex, it is a great honor to be with you here today as you make your vows before God and these witnesses, and enter into the covenant of marriage. You have both given your lives to Christ, and today you come to give him your life together as well. You both believe the…
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Wedding Homily #1
I will occasionally post old wedding homilies on the blog.This one is from my son’s wedding in September, 2022. John and Madison — it is a great honor to do your wedding service today. John, it has been a great pleasure for your mother and I to raise you and we could not be more proud of you. Madison, we have been…
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