The following message is by pastor John Piper. More information from desiring God is available at

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D. D. desiring God. O.R.. My title is some sweet blessings of masculine Christianity. that's the title I gave some months ago.

And what I'd like to do is put it in a context

and then give you about 11 sweet blessings of masculine Christianity.

The context is first this.

I ask that this booklet 50 crucial questions be put on the table for everybody so that I

could just relax and say that the exegetical footwork is here and I don't have to do it again here because if I tried

to unpack my biblical foundations for why I think there is such a thing as masculine Christianity. That's all we do and I think what you

what I'm expected to do is give some practical implications and applications to the

life of the church. So this is the 20th anniversary this year of the emergence of the Council of

biblical manhood and womanhood and the writing of the Danvers statement.

Wayne Grudem and I wrote the Danvers statement.

Actually, I wrote it, Wayne tweaked it.

I wrote this, and Wayne tweaked it.

Whenever it has Wayne Grudem in my name, I wrote it, Wayne tweaked it.

And Wayne tweaked it. Which is a great partnership because Wayne see things I miss and he's a good

tweaker. I don't think this one is there but this is important and I'll refer to it. All of these these two

are chapters in the big book here so if you have this you don't need these unless you

want to have a separate so So recovering biblical manhood and

woman who had Wayne and I put together 1991 I think it was. I can't remember.

So that's the context in terms of foundations, but I thought it's really not fair, don't think to say nothing about foundations.

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