Preparing For the Inevitable Unknown

We only have so much control, even in a country where the citizens are allowed to “choose” office holders, it is still run by the majority. We may not get what we want. What are we to do? How are we to act? What is our responsibility? What if things don’t go the way we think they should?

 

True Virtue: Masculinity

Today we have Charles Grubb from Building Godly Christian Men finishing out the series on True Virtue with an article about true manliness. Charles' goal for his page and as a writer "is to add value to you as a Christian man, and specifically target who and what we need to be as men as spoken through the Bible."

True masculinity. What does that mean? What does it look like? In the worldly sense, many men think to be a man you have to like cars and engines, guns, fishing and sports, and if a man doesn’t like those things then he’s not much of a man. But I know many men who don’t like a lot of those things. Does that really make them less of a man? Some men think aggressiveness and fighting makes you a man and you have to be “tough.” On the flip side, the modern world of late is blurring the lines as far as gender and now we have gender neutral clothing and bathrooms, and now we have a movement that says a child can choose their own gender despite how they are born. There are so many mixed messages and men are being told by the world that the things that makes us men is not what the world wants us to be anymore. It’s no wonder we are having a crisis with men and what their roles are and what it means to be a man. We have fewer role models to teach us.

Don't Be His Mom

What I've Learned in Marriage 13--I have seen the adage that “a woman doesn’t need kids because she has a husband” and it definitely seems true in some cases, but I don’t think that should be our attitude. Whether your husband acts like a child or not, it is not your job to be his mom. He already has one and it’s not you.

What I've Learned in Marriage-8

Give to those what they are due—There is an old(er) country song that talks about giving credit where credit is due, and it is true. We need to give others what they are due (note that does not necessarily mean what they deserve.)