Hey folks, my name is Johnny Artivannis, and this is Dialin. I have some exciting news for you.

If you've been following along for any length of time, you may know that I've been writing a book

on anxiety for the last couple years. It'll be published by Zondervin in October, and it's now

available for pre-order. The book is called Consider the Lilies, Finding Perfect Peace in the Character of God.

For so long as I worked in camping ministry and then college ministry and then now as a pastor

of a church in Franklin, Tennessee, I've worked with many people who are worried and anxious and fearful

and they're looking for the peace that only God can give them. And the book that I wrote predominantly focuses on how the character of God,

his different attributes, his sovereignty, his love, who he is as our father,

how those realities provide us with the peace that Paul says surpasses all understanding.

I'm so excited, and the book is now available for pre-order and you can buy that

wherever books are sold and it'll be released on October 8th. Again, the name of the book is

Consider the Lilies, Finding Perfect Peace and the Character of God. Now in this episode, I'm really

excited. I get to sit down with a friend and a guy I respect Dr. Greg Gifford.

He's the professor of theology and biblical counseling at the Master's University, where I served

as the dean of campus life for three years before moving to Franklin, Tennessee.

And in this episode, I discuss with Dr. Gifford biblical masculinity. At times, we live in a culture

that jumps from one ditch into another

and those two ditches being maybe hyperfemininity on the one hand and then this hyper masculinity

on the other hand that's identified by just this machismo but it lacks the maybe grace and

gentleness that mark the life of Jesus. And right in the middle and I don't even like to refer to it as the middle,

but there is a category for what we're going to refer to as biblical masculinity.

Let's dial in.

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