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.
He is the one who set the ultimate pattern for friendship, for courage, for faithfulness, and integrity..
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.
And this is how to do it better next time.
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.
Unbelief squashes; faith teaches.
Unbelief cannot look past surfaces.
What a loss.
The stodgy vestrymen thought this was a bit much, and so they let their exuberant Sunday school teacher go.
TR told him that he had done perfectly right and gave him a dollar.
He told the Future president that a bigger boy had been pinching his sister, and so he fought him.
He admitted he had been fighting and on a Sunday too.
When Theodore Roosevelt taught Sunday school for a time, a boy showed up one Sunday with a black eye.
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
