#129 - Matt Chandler // Toxic Masculinity: A Christian Perspective

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Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson

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🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Pastor Matt Chandler addresses the cultural narrative of "toxic masculinity" that has left many men feeling discouraged, devalued, and demoralized. He begins a week-long exploration of biblical masculinity by examining God's unique biological design for men and setting up the question of why God created these differences. • The American Psychological Association's 2018 guidelines denounced "traditional masculine ideology" as harmful • Many men today struggle with loneliness, frustration, exh...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary
0:07.2	spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and
0:13.4	Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up. Morning men. This is Pastor Matt Chandler from the village church in the Dallas-Fort Worth area,
0:26.4	and I'll be walking with you this week. In 2018, the American Psychological Association,
0:34.2	it released its first guidelines for counseling boys and young men. The APA denounced
0:40.2	what they called traditional masculine ideology as psychologically harmful. This is the birth of the
0:48.2	phrase toxic masculinity, and it's been injected into the bloodstream of the American imagination.
0:56.6	It's like a catch-all phrase for any kind of male aggression.
1:01.3	Now, I don't think anybody's claiming that there isn't something like toxic masculinity,
1:07.2	but the problem is this is kind of blanketedly laid across anything that would be
1:12.8	even biblically masculine. And so what ends up happening, brothers, is we can hear this message
1:18.7	so often, especially young men, they can hear it so often that they start to believe there's
1:23.5	something inherently defective in male character. And this is what the data is showing,
1:30.5	brothers. All the sociological data is showing that men feel discouraged, devalued, demoralized.
1:38.0	And I just want to kick off the week just asking, does any of that resonate with you? Like,
1:43.1	do you feel lonely like few people know and
1:46.1	or understand the pressure you are feeling and walking in during the season of your life?
1:51.5	Do you have a low level of frustration that's like always simmering beneath the surface?
1:57.3	Do you find that sometimes it boils over and you don't even understand why then you're filled with
2:01.8	regret and shame? Are you tired in your bones with the weight of the responsibility you shoulder
2:08.1	and then the pressure that goes along with that? Like you just feel like you just can't screw up
2:13.7	this whole thing. Are you fighting with everything in you to not maybe be like your dad?
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