"I grew up going to church. And I hated it." That's not the testimony most dads share with their kids. But the sanitized version—the one that skips the doubt, the boredom, the moments you thought everyone around you was crazy—leaves your children alone when they hit their own wall of unbelief. Here's the problem: you've got a 90-minute documentary's worth of spiritual formation crammed into a 22-second elevator pitch. And you're delivering that same thin version to your five-year-old, your fi...
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"I grew up going to church. And I hated it." That's not the testimony most dads share with their kids. But the sanitized version—the one that skips the doubt, the boredom, the moments you thought everyone around you was crazy—leaves your children alone when they hit their own wall of unbelief. Here's the problem: you've got a 90-minute documentary's worth of spiritual formation crammed into a 22-second elevator pitch. And you're delivering that same thin version to your five-year-old, your fi...
The Idiot Dilemma: Finding Christ's Balance Between Judgment and Compassion
Authentic Masculinity
6 minutes
3 months ago
The Idiot Dilemma: Finding Christ's Balance Between Judgment and Compassion
When you spot someone doing something objectively foolish—the teenager without a helmet doing wheelies near toddlers, the man demanding fairy pronouns—what's your instinctive response? This episode explores the challenging tension between labeling folly accurately and falling into smug self-righteousness. Christ modeled a clear approach: He named sin without hesitation while maintaining genuine compassion for the sinner. Both modern extremes fail—refusing to call anything foolish abandons tru...
Authentic Masculinity
"I grew up going to church. And I hated it." That's not the testimony most dads share with their kids. But the sanitized version—the one that skips the doubt, the boredom, the moments you thought everyone around you was crazy—leaves your children alone when they hit their own wall of unbelief. Here's the problem: you've got a 90-minute documentary's worth of spiritual formation crammed into a 22-second elevator pitch. And you're delivering that same thin version to your five-year-old, your fi...
