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Looking Beneath Gillette’s “What Is A Man?” Controversy

There is a longing in the human heart for strong, incorruptible manhood, something better than we usually see in this fallen world.Gillette’s razor ad and Egard Watch’s ad ask the same question, “What is a Man?” Christ-followers are blessed with the answer to this contentious cultural question. “He is a glorious ruin who, with Eve’s daughters, bears the image of God.”

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7 Reasons Boys Must Understand Godly Masculinity

Everyone Knows that many forces in Western culture are challenging the creation fact that God "created them male and female." But so what? What difference does it make? It makes a HUGE difference in the shaping of our BOYS the next generation of men. Here are 7 reasons we must not let the culture shape the rising generation of boys' understanding of their calling and responsibility to be MEN.

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Toxic Masculinity: Thinking Biblically About This New Term in Our Culture

Toxic Masculinity means many things in our culture. To the degree that toxic masculinity refers to the ways that Adam’s fall into sin has affected men—causing rape, physical abuse, and the selfish use of power, Christians can affirm the use of this term. But it is often used along with an ideology that views differences in male/female roles as a social construct, (a form of patriarchy) that is oppressive. This ideology often identifies Christianity and the Bible’s teaching of complementarity as patriarchal, and repressive. This article shows that at the core of the biblical call to manhood is not TOXIC masculinity but LIFE-GIVING masculinity.

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