Just a reminder.
This is the Lord’s service for the Lord’s people on the Lord’s Day, as we hear Lord’s Word and feast on the Lord’s Supper.
The whole generation is womanized, the masculine tone is passing out of the world; it’s a feminine hysterical, chattering, canting age. — Henry James (1886) Finally Modernism, which denies and abolishes every difference, cannot rest until it has made woman man and man woman, and, putting every distinction on a common level, kills life by placing it under the ban of uniformity. — Abraham Kuyper (1898) Don't you ever say that again about your fathers, because they are not cowards. You think I am brave because I carry a gun; well, your fathers are much braver because they carry responsibility, for you, your brothers, your sisters, and your mothers… I have never had this kind of courage. — The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Charles Spurgeon on Christian faith and masculinity, from his 1898 book "A Good Start":
Maybe Eugene Peterson can help: "Every congregation is a congregation of sinners . As if that weren’t bad enough, they all have sinners for pastors.... There’s nobody who doesn’t have problems with the church , because there’s sin in the church . But there’s no other place to be a Christian. "
This is a repost from 2022. Ecclesiocentrism is incredibly simple to understand and absolutely ubiquitous in Scripture.
About 18 years ago, the men of Trinity Presbyterian Church began gathering monthly for “Trinity Tavern Thursday.” This is a letter I sent out to the congregation to explain what we were doing and why. It’s republished here for a new generation of men at TPC, in the hopes that the TTT tradition will be carried on for decades to come.