While toxic masculinity has been a real problem throughout human history, today’s culture has wrongly conflated toxic masculinity with masculinity itself.  What God in Creation pronounced as “very good,” modern society now decries as very bad. So, what is it?  Is masculinity a good or bad thing?  And if it’s a good thing as God clearly declares, then what exactly is toxic masculinity?  Moreover, how does it effect men, what does it do to the world men are called to subdue, and how can a man prevent his masculinity from becoming toxic? Join us this month in Talk 7 of our series, What is a Man? as we tackle this important and often misunderstood subject.

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What is a Man? Toxic Masculinity - Living Life as a Sub-Masculine Man 7.1

What is a Man? Toxic Masculinity - Living Life as a Sub-Masculine Man 7.2

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God made the World to flourish through Men who singularly trust and faithfully reflect their Creator by engaging life’s chaos with the courage of a Warrior and imagination of a Poet.  When men live according to this Divine design their marriages, families, communities, and nations will thrive with “Shalom”—Life in this World as God intends it to be.  But people are not thriving, and the World is not flourishing because men are not living according to design.  Ever since the Fall in Genesis 3 something destructive has been passed down to every generation of men that has left their masculine souls confused, afraid, and stubbornly committed to avoiding chaos rather than engaging it.  Instead of living as Warrior-Poets, men have devolved into “Dreamer-Destroyers”—sub-masculine men given over to absence, passivity, silence, anger, intimidation, and shame.  No man wants to be like this.  In fact, all men intuitively long to live as the masculine men God designed.  But instead they feel stuck, hopeless, and powerless to change. And for this reason, the marriages, families, communities, and nations of the World are progressively descending into a chaotic, life-diminishing, anti-shalomic mess.

In this final talk of our series, “What is a Man?” we will address this all-important question:  “Is there hope for Men?”  Can men be restored to make a difference?  Is it possible for a man to experience deep and real change from the inside-out?   The kind of change that empowers him to not only “act like a man” (1 Cor 16:13), but to also bear the kind of good masculine fruit that brings order, beauty, and life to the Word, blesses others and honors God.  If you are looking for this kind of God-sized hope, sit back and enjoy this final talk: Restored Masculinity: Living into God’s Good Design for Men.

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What is a Man? Restored Masculinity: Living into God’s Good Design for Men 8.1

What is a Man? Restored Masculinity: Living into God’s Good Design for Men 8.2

As men, we all struggle with internal, fiery forces that reside deep within our souls. These internal forces can seemingly remain dormant, only to suddenly burst into an uncontrollable blaze. One such “hidden fire” is our sexuality. What God created to be "good," to be fully enjoyed within the covenant of marriage, can quickly turn destructive, consuming everything good in our lives. Because we are sexual beings, we cannot eradicate this fiery force; instead, we must come to understand and direct it by learning to navigate our lives according to the Ways and Wisdom of the God who designed us as sexual beings. Only then can this internal fiery force be a blessing to our world, bring joy to our hearts, and glorify the God who made us!  Please join us in this series as together we seek to develop into men of sexual integrity.

This series will cover such topics as: 

·       Getting to the Heart of Lust
·       Lead us not into Temptation
·       Dealing with Sexual Sin
·       Affair-proofing Your Marriage
·       Super-Marital Sex
·       Sex and the Single Guy
·       Navigating the Pathway to Sexual Integrity

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Hidden Fire 1.1: Navigating Sexual Passion and Desire for the Glory of God

Hidden Fire 1.2: Navigating Sexual Passion and Desire for the Glory of God

Hidden Fire:  Navigating Sexual Passion for the Glory of God

The second session in this series will equip you with a biblical understanding of sexual temptation as a powerful weapon used by Satan in the Spiritual battle to target your heart's devotion toward God.

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Hidden Fire 2.1: Sexual Temptation (Part1) "The Fiery Arrow Targeting you Heart"

Hidden Fire 2.2: Sexual Temptation (Part1) "The Fiery Arrow Targeting you Heart"

Hidden Fire:  Navigating Sexual Desire and Passion for the Glory of God Sexual Temptation – Part 2:  Dealing with Sexual Temptation from the Context of the Spiritual Battle

 In our last session, we explored how sexual temptation, though biological in nature, has a spiritual origin. Like a poisonous arrow, the forces of darkness target our sexual passions with seductive lies, aiming to undermine our heart’s devotion to God. While temptation itself is not sin, it can open the door to sin if we allow its spiritual poison to find its way into our hearts. This is why the Bible urges us to “guard our hearts” as we “stand firm” in the Spiritual Battle that is simultaneously taking place all around us in both the seen and unseen realms. But what exactly is this “Spiritual Battle” behind sexual temptation? Is it about “breaking strongholds” and casting out demons, or is there something deeper?  Join us in part two of our talk on Sexual Temptation, as we examine the nature of the Spiritual Battle and why understanding it is so crucial in resisting temptation.

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