Hey hey Warrior Saints!!!
In an age filled with one crisis after another, one in particular stands at the forefront: The Crisis of Masculinity. Men now pose for the cover of Playboy magazine, female actors now play male roles and 30 year old boys still live in their mother’s basement playing video games, watching porn, with no job, no woman, no future and no hope.
The assault against traditional masculinity is not happenstance and has produced a generation of soft males who feel entitled to an easy life with self as their main focus. Unable to confront the rough edges, today’s male rages against anything and everything that seems offensive or looks like hard work.
Despite the media’s portrayal that this emasculation is a good thing, we all feel the void left by a scarcity of true men. Many fear that strong, sacrificial men who lead their families, businesses and communities are a thing of the past.
Fear not! We have seen an increase in young men (and not so young men) who reach out to us, hungering for something more. They long to have God at the center of their lives. They ache for the rewards that come from a legitimate work ethic. They seek an authentic and ferocious life. In short, they want to become Warrior Saints.
As Warrior Saints, we know that authentic, God-fearing men are essential to our marriages, families, businesses, churches and communities. We consider it our responsibility to raise a generation of men by teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the True Man.
Going forward, we will turn our focus to training males to become Warrior Saints. And we mean exactly that: Warriors and Saints. God-fearing men (and women!) who live Crucifixional lives by putting God’s will ahead of their own.
Today’s episode sets the direction for us by exploring the contrast between the first man, Adam, and the True Man, Jesus Christ. This may be the most important lesson we’ve produced yet.
It’s time to get some!
Nailed, it. On the flip side of things. I get accused of being Hyper Masculine or the ‘Toxic Male’ type. Especially, in Hyper WOKE corporate environments, I.E. Apple. I see this as a way to push me into a corner, to box me up and dismiss thus make me not be the force that I am in the room.
I am the ‘scary/mean muscle guy’ who is needs to be dismissed and ignored. I am stranded that I do have the ability to be compassionate, understanding, intelligent or empathetic because of the way I look, and hold myself. It is very interesting for those whom meet me for the 1st time, often as time passes in the conversation, it always turns to, and stated in a surprising tone, ‘Dan, surprisingly you are really a nice guy’ I then reply, “why, thank you” and the conversation moves on. LOL
This focus occurs in the youngest ages in school…. no longer, is it allow, to have say, “Boys will be Boys” with is a path to manhood, making those errors at a young age and getting corrective action by the father in the household. “the teaching of a lesson.” Boys need to be raised by MEN. I know you have touched on this a lot. However, I always told my bride, ” you are to coddle them and ‘slupp’ them up, my role is to toughen them up, and teach them consequences so they can be good fathers when their time comes” Too many of my peers leave the raising of the children to their wives, Father’s need to be the rule book and enforcer.