You're listening to the Hard Men Podcast, reclaiming biblical masculinity in a world of science. Both the culture and the modern church have done an excellent job at misrepresenting the biblical

Jesus.

As a culture, we have largely produced a caricature of Christ based on the anemic and soft-smiled

Roman Catholic paintings where Jesus looks like he's just

put on a fresh coat of blush and tweez his eyebrows. Add the rise of feminism,

the deconstructionist movement, and the progressive church, and you end up with a delicate Jesus who's knocking gently on the door of your heart.

But it goes much further than this. Our modern culture despises masculinity.

In fact, any form of masculinity that does not adhere to the world's standard is

deemed toxic. There is a reason Ariana Grande's song

God is a woman was number one on the Billboard top 100 list. The world is hell bent on

distorting, perverting, and redefining any biblical comprehension of gender whatsoever.

To think this won't pervert our generation's view of maleness of Jesus is just plain naive.

Unfortunately, the pulpit has not helped either.

For the past 30 to 50 years, the church has been infatuated with kino-Christianity,

where infotainers crack jokes and sprinkle in scripture.

As a result, these pulpitiers have left thousands of congregations with a Christ the people want, but not the Christ that God sent. In truth we have made a Jesus in our

own image. An excerpt from Dale Partridge's book, The Manliness of Christ.

How the Masculinity of Jesus eradicates effeminent Christianity.

Well, welcome to this episode of the Hardman Podcast. I love that excerpt from my friend Dale Partridge in his book, The Manliness of Christ.

Dale sent me a copy of this book. I was very excited to see it. And then of course in today's show we're going to be talking with Dale about the book. What inspired it and what we can do to improve the quality of biblical sexuality in today's culture, especially in the church.

And so if you haven't yet, I'd encourage you to check out this small book. It's small but mighty. I think it's about 75 pages or so. You can pick it up at

Dale's website relearn.org. We'll have a link for that in the show notes as well and again definitely appreciate Dale

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