Recovering the Masculine Mind, June 19, 2024, from the Credenda Archives 1995, volume 7, number 5. The problem can be called by many names. The men of our generation have had a failure of nerve. They have

fallen to use the fallen to use the biblical term into the sin of unbelief.

God has always promised tremendous blessings

for those who keep his covenant faithfully, but to be blunt, men no longer believe him.

We have fallen so far away from his word that we no longer even know what a covenant is,

still less the terms of his covenant with us us and the nature of covenant reality around us.

Until we come to recover this understanding, I say recover because our fathers had what we have lost.

We have no way of comprehending the cultural chaos which surrounds us.

The clamor of voices rises higher every day, wondering what to do next.

Pundance on the television, point us in all directions, that we might know the way out.

This way, know that. How is it that we have come to be ruled by such capons and fools?

In order to answer the question, we must probe our wounds deeply.

The pain is excruciating, which is not surprising surprising given the extent of our crisis.

What is surprising is our discovery that a biblical probe discovers a wound

we did not even know we had.

So a biblical discussion of our cultural crisis will not only cause considerable pain, but it may initially look as though it were a complete change of subject.

Rest assured, it is nothing of the kind.

God always deals with men by means of covenant. He is a covenant-making and covenant-keeping God.

This sounds nice and very religious, but what does it mean?

These covenants are a solemn bond, sovereignly administered with attendant blessings and curses.

God made a covenant of creation with Adam before the fall,

hosiah 6.7.

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