Future Men

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Canon Press & Book Service, 2001 - 199 páginas
How do we build our sons to be tough but not arrogant? mannered but not soft? imaginative but not lazy? bold but not hollow? Future Men is a Christian guide to raising strong, virtuous sons, contrary to the effeminacy and sentimentalism of contemporary culture. When Theodore Roosevelt taught Sunday school for a time, a boy showed up one Sunday with a black eye. He admitted he had been fighting and on a Sunday too. He told the future president that a bigger boy had been pinching his sister, and so he fought him. TR told him that he had done perfectly right and gave him a dollar. The stodgy vestrymen thought this was a bit much, and so they let their exuberant Sunday school teacher go. What a loss. Unbelief cannot look past surfaces. Unbelief squashes; faith teaches. Faith takes a boy aside and tells him that this part of what he did was good, while the other part of what he did got in the way. "And this is how to do it better next time." As we look to Scripture for patterns of masculinity for our sons, we find them manifested perfectly in the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the one who set the ultimate pattern for friendship, for courage, for faithfulness, and integrity.

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Introduction
7
The Shape of Masculinity
11
Z Effeminacy and Biblical Masculinity
17
Molding Future
18
A Call for Fathers
31
A Covenant Home
33
Doctrinal Meat
41
Future Men Against Themselves 6 Secret Sin Tolerated Sin
51
Giants Dragons and Books
99
School Work
107
Friends
115
Fighting Sports and Competition
123
Girls and Sex
133
Courtship and Betrothal
143
Contempt for the Cool
151
Fighting Idols
163

Laziness and Hard Labor
57
Money Paths and Traps
65
Christian Liberty
73
Future Men with Others 10 Mom and Sisters
81
Church and Worship
91
Liberty and Marijuana
171
Proverbs Was Written for Boys
183
Acknowledgments
191
Index of Scripture
193
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