Do Not Trust the Tools
Let your trust rest in the one place strong enough to hold it. Make use of the tools available to you, but do not hope in them. Reserve that for the One who supplied the tools in the first place.
Read MorePrepared For Battle
God made you a man to fight evil, build culture, lead your family, work hard, and to know Him, all with the knee bent firmly in service to your king, Jesus Christ. Embrace it. Don’t let Hollywood or Washington, DC or academia tell you what masculinity is. Instead, find out from the One who made all mankind.
Read MoreProper Direction
Though well-intentioned, the so-called “good” inspirational and motivational content can end up having just as much of a detrimental effect on our self-conception as well as our understanding of how reality actually works. All of the positivity can lie to us just as readily as the other stuff.
Read MoreUnequal Weights and Fair Discussion
Honesty in our positions and consistency in our argumentation is far more important than winning any particular debate or grandstanding about our own virtue. If the truth is not really what we’re after, we will yield to a pragmatic approach that only values getting our own way. We will forsake the truth, reason, and logic for the fleeting exaltation of a sense of personal triumph.
Read MoreMan of War
In a society consumed with naïve notions of peace, unity, and tolerance, the idea of any Christian filling the role of a man of war seems to many to be backwards, archaic, or even sinful. Verses about peacemaking and loving one’s enemies are used as proof texts against such an attitude and militaristic metaphors are criticized within the ranks of safe, comfortable church goers and their academic leadership.
But the Bible knows better.
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