tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post6574132921587349735..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: Real Men...Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-76753586535844361562009-10-03T19:14:54.694-05:002009-10-03T19:14:54.694-05:00Our boys need real men. Our girls need real men. ...Our boys need real men. Our girls need real men. Our wives need real men. Weak Christians need real men. The Church and her Ministry need real men. Society needs real men.<br /><br />Not overbearing, because-I-said-so, you-must-honor-me men, but men who act as Christ did when He gave himself up for the Church, not because it is commanded by the law, but because of the love Christ showed to him.<br /><br /><i>Rise up, O men of God!<br />The church for you doth wait,<br />Her strength unequal to her task;<br />Rise up and make her great!<br /><br />Lift high the cross of Christ!<br />Tread where His feet have trod.<br />As brothers of the Son of Man,<br />Rise up, O men of God!</i><br /><br />IggyAntiochusIggyAntiochushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04448305182789845259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-34572951290529710322009-10-02T20:20:50.548-05:002009-10-02T20:20:50.548-05:00I have often found true masculinity by imitating t...I have often found true masculinity by imitating the Head of the Bride as I have sought to head my marriage and home. He suffered for His Bride and did not lord his Headship over Her, even though He is Lord. To be head is to minister, not to be ministered to.123https://www.blogger.com/profile/14514075641944568806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-53155530413729172402009-10-02T20:17:54.094-05:002009-10-02T20:17:54.094-05:00Check out “The Truth About Men & Church” in th...Check out “The Truth About Men & Church” in the June 2003 issue of Touchstone. I have it here:<br /><br />http://orrologion.blogspot.com/2008/12/truth-about-men-church-you-cannot-keep.html123https://www.blogger.com/profile/14514075641944568806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-67361722536475574942009-10-02T16:27:55.480-05:002009-10-02T16:27:55.480-05:00Another added facet to the feminization of our cul...Another added facet to the feminization of our culture is that lack of a military draft for young men who turn eighteen years of age. Imagine the difference in our culture were we to re-institute a draft? Masculinity is both inborn and is taught/caught. Recapturing "male and female He created them" will involve a transformation of both the Church and the Society. <br /> God bless you for your focusing our attention on this issue of our times, namely gender. Perhaps the day will come again when the dust settles of our culture and ecclesiastcal collapse where men will once again be men- and there will be no need for "Men's fraternity" clubs in search of masculinity; maleness just is for those who are so made.<br /><br />Fr. Daniel HackneyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-64812864778933541662009-10-01T19:30:17.005-05:002009-10-01T19:30:17.005-05:00My father was a man of great faith and a wonderful...My father was a man of great faith and a wonderful example. I did not appreciate it until much later in life - when I started to mature spiritually. He sacrificed financially to send my sister and I to a Lutheran school. I would see him studying his Bible and taking notes on the weekend. He was one of only a handful of men from the church who would make evangelism visits to those interested in the church. He faithfully attended church. He was witnessing to his children by his actions rather than empty words.<br /><br />Godly men are truly needed in our world today. Your post was a reminder of just how blessed I was. Thanks.<br /><br />JamesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com