Manhood on the Mind
by Adam McCune on Feb 8th, 2010 at 12:01 am
Ok, so the Super Bowl is over, and now our uber-consumeristic culture will set its mind toward who will win next year (of course, this follows all of the “I-told-you-so” articles from sports critics).
Hopefully for us, life has not been severely derailed by a game. Here are some articles from the past week that, I hope, will draw your focus in profitable places.
“Getting Your Eyes Off the Other Guy” by Doug Wilson
Never underestimate the deceitfulness of sin and its ability bring harm to others.
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Do you live in the Cincinnati area and want to be challenged by other men of God? Consider attending the Men of Valor Conference on March 6, 2010 in West Chester, Ohio. The cost is $29 with a $19 price tag for students. This year’s theme: Pursuing Integrity in a Sexualized World. Thanks to Lee for the heads up on this!
Coming Updates For The Making Of Men:
- We just installed an RSS feed. Now you can add our blogs to your readers.
- Right now, there is no way for readers to contact the writers. We’re working on creating a contact mechanism so we can hear from you and you can hear from us.
- We are up and running on Facebook. Already, we’re #2 on the Top 50 blogs on Manhood. Invite men that you value or want to encourage to join us. The more interest the site has, the easier it will be for me to get other writers for the site (you seriously don’t want me writing everything)!
- I have made it a personal goal to finish the “About Us” page by the end of February. That’s a short month so I better get back to work.
Book: Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Revised Edition
Author: Richard A. Swenson, M.D.
"A man from Mali, West Africa told me, ‘You Americans have all the watches, but we have all the time." p. 125
One of the guiding principles of the Leadership Library for this site is to provide you with resources that are worth buying and keeping for many years to come. Books come and go, so if you have limited funds (like me), you want to invest your money into books that will prove to be as helpful in 2030 as they are in 2010. Richard Swenson’s book, Margin, ideally suits this principle.
Because I live on a college campus, I often overhear (a.k.a. eavesdrop) conversations from students who share with one another how tired and stressed they are. They’ll inevitably complain about some exam, quiz, project, or absurd homework assignment and then shift to how such work is cutting into the demands of their social life and extra-curricular activities. Now, I have tried to learn a lesson from my uber-patient professors when I was the college student making the same complaints by not saying a word. However, a part of me wants to grab them by the collar, look them in the eye, and say, “You have no idea how easy you have it right now!” Of course, if a forty-year old professor or administrator saw me do this, they would probably be justified in telling me how easy I have it!