Future Men: Raising Boys to Fight Giants Revised Edition Contributor(s): Wilson, Douglas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1591281105 ISBN-13: 9781591281108 Publisher: Canon Press OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Living - Men's Interests - Religion | Christian Living - Family & Relationships - Family & Relationships | Parenting - General |
Dewey: 248.845 |
LCCN: 2011048124 |
Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.52 lbs) 200 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |