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“Culture Wants Weak Men — God Calls You to Be Strong.” · The Slippery Slope

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  Culture wants weak men, but God calls you to be strong.
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  God created you with the noble and intentional purpose, a
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  purpose rooted not in confusion, not in cultural trends, and not
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  in the shallow promises of modern ideology, but in His
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  design from the very beginning. So from Genesis onward,
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  Scripture makes it clear you were created in the image of
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  God, says that in Genesis 127. That means that your identity is
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  not random, it's not accidental and not disposable.
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  It is sacred. But our culture has been lying
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  to us from all directions. We've got the lie of modern
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  feminism. Modern feminism has tried to
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  convince men that masculinity is toxic, dangerous, or
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  unnecessary. It has told us that strength is
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  oppression, leadership is domination, and fatherhood is
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  optional. It has tried to strip men of the
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  very qualities God designed them to embody.
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  Yet Scripture says the opposite. In First Corinthians 1613.
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  It says be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men and
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  be strong. God calls men to strength, not
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  to suppress it, not to apologise for it, but to channel it
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  towards righteousness, protection and sacrificial love.
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  But then you also have the lie of the menosphere.
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  You know, on the other side, the menosphere has fed this
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  different type of lie, one that looks like strength but is
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  actually weakness dressed up as bravado.
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  It tells us that masculinity means becoming a barbarian.
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  Sleep around, dominate, chase pleasure, chase status, chase
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  women, chase wealth. It it tells us that our worth is
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  measured by conquest. But Scripture warns us plainly
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  in first John 216. It says for everything in the
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  world, everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust
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  of the eyes, and the pride of life comes not from the Father,
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  but from the world. Hedonism is not strength,
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  domination is not leadership, and pleasure is not purpose.
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  For every man who chases these things eventually discovers the
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  same truth, the actual truth, and that is that these things
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  leave us, leave you empty. We have God's design for men.
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  We weren't created for hedonism. You weren't created to be a
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  brute. We we weren't created to measure
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  our worth by conquest or money or ego.
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  God designed us for something far greater.
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  In Ephesians 210 it says For we are his workmanship, created in
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  Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand.
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  That's because you were created for a noble purpose, a purpose
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  that reflects God's character, not the world's confusion.
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  So yes, be strong, yes, be capable, and yeah, cultivate
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  discipline, courage and resilience.
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  But understand this, your deepest joy and truest identity
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  will never come from power, pleasure or performance.
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  It comes from knowing Him, the One who created you, and living
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  out the purpose that He gave you.
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  For many men, that calling will be lived out most fully as a
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  husband and a father, roles that demand strength, sacrifice, and
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  devotion. Scripture honours these roles.
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  In Ephesians 525 it says, Husbands, love your wives, just
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  as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
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  That is not domination, That is not barbarism.
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  That is sacrificial leadership and fatherhood.
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  Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring
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  them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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  That's in Ephesians 64. Fatherhood is not weakness.
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  It is one of the highest, if not the highest, calling a man can
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  walk in. Your identity isn't found in the
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  lies of culture, it isn't found in feminism's distortion of
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  masculinity, and it is not found in the manosphere's counterfeit
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  version of strength. Your identity, our identity is
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  found in Christ. 2nd Corinthians 517 says if anyone is in Christ,
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  He is a new creation. He defines you, He'd shapes you,
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  He calls you, He empowers you, and He created you for a noble
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  purpose, not a hedonistic one.