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The Masculine Mandate: God’s Calling to Men is unavailable, but you can change that!

There is a crying need in the church today for men to be men. But competing visions for what a man is to be—some growing out of popular culture and others arising from flawed teaching in the church—are exacerbating the problem. Rev. Richard D. Phillips believes the problem and the inadequate solutions being put forward demand sound exegesis of biblical passages relating to masculinity. The Bible...

are service and leadership, modern words that relate closely to the biblical words servant and lord. Based on the teaching of Genesis 2, men are to enter into the world God has made as the men He has made us to be—lords and servants under God’s authority—that we might fulfill our mandate: to work and to keep. Let me end this chapter by going back to Brian Deegan. The last thing this brother needs to be told—newly married, with his little baby on his lap, and through his God-given
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