By Mathew B. Sims This October and November we asked, “How should theology inform manhood?” Theology isn’t something to shy away from and it isn’t something only academics do. All of us do theology because all of us believe certain things about God, salvation, the gospel, etc., so what we believe matters. John Calvin says,...

By Jeff Medders Power Over Porn Predestination conquers pornography. Or, as I heard John Piper once say, “Theology can conquer biology.” Because we know God, we can “abstain from sexual immorality,” and we can “know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who...

By Kyle Worley We hope that it has been helpful for you to consider how sin has marred manhood. We wanted to provide a one source location for you to go back and read any posts you might have missed in this series, re-read any posts that you thought were particularly striking, or direct those...

By Jeff Medders Do you remember Geoffrey the giraffe? What about the painfully catchy tune, their retail battle cry and hymn? I don’t wanna grow up; I’m a Toys-R-Us kid. If you learn one thing from this post: Never trust a giraffe. Theology from a giraffe is never a good thing. From my limited experience,...

  by J.A. Medders Leave the lame gift at the store. Get a good one. And whatever you do, don’t order you and your wife the same thing and call it a Mother’s Day present; this happened to a guy I know— I know this guy, like Paul knew a guy that went to the...

By J.A. Medders “He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith.” Acts 11:24 Growing up I wanted to “be like Mike.” Who didn’t? He was the King of Basketball. I loved watching Jordan, and I loved imitating his dunks on my bedroom door’s Nerf goal. He was my role model...