Hi everyone. This is Leslie Ludi host of the Set Apart Girl Podcast, biblical encouragement for women of all ages. Today we're going to be diving back into our relationship series with a really important message.

Our theme today is on letting guys be guys.

Or another way of saying that would be making room

for strong masculinity.

It's a very foreign concept in our world where men are becoming more

feminized and it's more popular for men to be more like women than men.

There's a really powerful description in Job chapter 29

where he explains the type of man that God had built him into and in Joe 2917 says, I broke the jaws of the wicked and pulled the spoil out of his teeth.

It's this powerful picture of aggressive, bold, godly manhood.

And yet it's a little bit jarring for us in modern culture

to say, wow, that seems a little too intense.

Are guys supposed to be like that? Are they supposed to be breaking

the jaws of the wicked and pulling the spoil out of his teeth? Well I want to

take a look at that biblically today. I was speaking at a conference a few years ago and I had asked my husband Eric to come

along and to speak during some of my sessions because we often speak as a team and I

felt that he had some really valuable things to share with the women from a

male perspective. And if you've ever heard Eric speak, he speaks with great passion and

boldness and volume when he's delivering a message he wasn't always

like that but God had worked on him quite a few years ago to just rise up and

speak in a more authoritative way and to learn how to preach

the gospel with boldness instead of just sort of teach in a passive way and

that that's a whole story that you would have to listen to his

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