Leadership Library Spotlight
by on Sep 2nd, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Book: The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life
Author: A. W. Tozer
“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us” p. 1
“Always the most revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God, just as her most significant message is what she says about Him or leaves unsaid, for her silence is often more eloquent than her speech. She can never escape the self-disclosure of her witness concerning God.” p. 2
One of my favorite authors is A. W. Tozer because he had a gift for clearly and simply explaining hard-to-grasp issues in a way that was memorable and challenging. The more I read biblical and scholarly literature, the more thankful I am for a man who could get down to the heart of a matter, address it, and move on. While scholarship has its important place, this resource is among the finer works to be submitted in the twentieth century, and the message still demands our attention. Dated it is not.
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Book: The Masculine Mandate: God’s Calling to Men
Author: Richard D. Phillips
“That is the Masculine Mandate: to be spiritual men placed in real-world, God-defined relationships, as lords and servants under God, to bear God’s fruit by serving and leading.” p. 9
Many Christian books on manhood will offer descriptions of what real men are supposed to do, but they fail to construct a prescriptive idea of who a man is supposed to be. Readers are given a treatment on rules, regulations, and behaviors without a proper understanding of why these rules, regulations, and behaviors should even exist and how they work together to form a man.
Fortunately, Richard D. Phillips attempts to avoid this mistake by concentrating on the reasons for man and the elements that form him. In this book, Phillips bases his definition of manhood on the first man, Adam, and the initial mandate that God gave to this initially sinless person. His reason for existence is directly linked to the fact that he bears the image of God. Man is, therefore, to rule over the world and cultivate its resources in a way that would demonstrate who God is to this same world.