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A Guide to Biblical Manhood

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In A Guide to Biblical Manhood, Randy Stinson and Dan Dumas say that men need to act like men. "We need men who aren't pre-occupied with their amusements or appearance, but instead are willing and able to take on manly challenges." These manly challenges primarily have to do with leadership, provision, and protection.

The authors apply biblical examples to men's roles within the workplace, home, and church. While I have some small disagreements, the overall message is sound, and the advice is helpful. I particularly enjoyed the sections titled, "Twenty Five Things a Dad Should Teach a Boy" and "Eleven Connecting Points between Baseball, Biblical Masculinity and Godly Character."

The overall theme of this book is that true manhood is about humility and self-sacrifice; we can't be reminded of that enough. But it has been said a lot lately. Biblical manhood and womanhood top the popularity charts among reformed writers. Anything that can be said has been, many times and many ways. This book offers nothing new, nothing that isn't already said in many other books like Richard Phillips' The Masculine Mandate. The strength of this particular book, however, is that it summarizes the others in less than 110 pages. More men are likely to read and benefit from it. And at $5.99, it's not only a bargain, but the right choice.

It can be difficult to get men together around a book, but Stinson and Dumas have made it easy and enjoyable in A Guide to Biblical Manhood. This little guide is a clear, concise practical theology written from a complementarian perspective that calls men to be men in all of life, but especially in their marriages and families.

Dr. Stinson and Mr. Dumas urge men to be doers of the Word "in the classroom, on the job, as a husband or as a father." The authors reveal insights into these areas by a wonderful review of key men in Scripture - men just like us today with all our successes and failures. In these stories, we see the character of biblical manhood highlighted and are challenged to join the pursuit of becoming men patterned after the True Man - Jesus Christ. The book also provides a guide for husbands, fathers and pastors to take the teaching of biblical manhood and put it into daily practice.

A Guide to Biblical Manhood is an easy read and comes at an excellent price. These features make it an attractive resource that can guide individuals and groups of men into heading and living out the Word of God as they have been uniquely designed to do as men. If you only pick up one resource on biblical manhood, this is the one to have.