Posts Tagged ‘Manhood’
Resources on Manhood and Womanhood
This week our theme came to be the roles of men and women in our various relationships, especially concerning ordination to Christian ministry. Recent controversy in the Southern Baptist Convention gave the impetus for these articles. Here are our contributions for this week: Ordination of Women: Some Issues Just Won’t Go Away by Jeff Straub…
Read MoreThree Marks of a Real Man
We live in a society that seems low on doses of masculinity. Moreover, the occasional representations of masculinity we do encounter often twist and pervert God’s biblical intention for men. What, then, is masculinity according to Scripture? In the book of Ruth, Boaz demonstrates three qualities every man needs. He provides: When Boaz discovers his…
Read MoreGender Questions (Part 3)
Time to wrap up the series of gender questions emailed to me a while back. (For related issues previously discussed, see Part 1 and Part 2.) Q: Since man and woman are both image-bearers, should we look at them as equal halves of a single image, neither of which completely bears that image without the…
Read MoreGender Questions (Part 2)
More questions about gender issues from an emailer. (See Gender Questions Part 1 for backstory.) Q: Scripture quotes Eve saying that she ate because she was deceived (Gen 3:13). Was she just blame-shifting or do 2 Cor. 11:3 and 1 Tim 2:13 corroborate her statement? She was, indeed, deceived. However, her deception doesn’t automatically mean…
Read MoreHonorable Christian Manhood (part 12)
Taigen Joos Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ Part 3 ♦ Part 4 ♦ Part 5 Part 6 ♦ Part 7 ♦ Part 8 ♦ Part 9 ♦ Part 10 ♦ Part 11 In striving to be an honorable Christian man, loving God rightly and supremely is of utmost importance. Our love for God fuels…
Read MoreHonorable Christian Manhood (Part 11)
Taigen Joos Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ Part 3 ♦ Part 4 ♦ Part 5 ♦ Part 6 ♦ Part 7 ♦ Part 8 ♦ Part 9 ♦ Part 10 An honorable Christian man cultivates healthy loves. The kind of love that the Bible advocates is, at its root, a volitional kind of love.…
Read MoreHonorable Christian Manhood (part 10)
Taigen Joos Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ Part 3 ♦ Part 4 ♦ Part 5 ♦ Part 6 ♦ Part 7 ♦ Part 8 ♦ Part 9 An honorable Christian Man cultivates healthy loves. In the previous entry to this thread, we considered the truth that an honorable Christian man cultivates healthy love. and…
Read MoreHonorable Christian Manhood (pt 9)
Taigen Joos Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ Part 3 ♦ Part 4 ♦ Part 5 ♦ Part 6 ♦ Part 7 ♦ Part 8 An honorable Christian Man cultivates healthy loves. Yes, you read that right: “loves.” There are many things that call for our love. Real mean are lovers, but we are called…
Read MoreHonorable Christian Manhood (pt 8)
Valuing What God Values Taigen Joos Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ Part 3 ♦ Part 4 ♦ Part 5 ♦ Part 6 ♦ Part 7 Our honor, our Christianity and our manhood are things which should be greatly valued by all men claiming to be Christians. As men, we tend to place a value…
Read MoreHonorable Christian Manhood (Pt 7)
Taigen Joos Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ Part 3 ♦ Part 4 ♦ Part 5 ♦ Part 6 The Meaning of Manhood There are many faulty views of what manhood means. Here is a list of some faulty notions of what true manhood involves: A supercharged sex life Multiple sexual conquests Sexual attractiveness to women…
Read More