Brad and Paul on the Breakpoint Blog!
Read it here.
Labels: BradStine, PaulCoughlin
Jun 27, 2007
Apr 4, 2007
New blog from Paul is up on Crosswalk
Paul has a new blog up on Crosswalk.com titled Pain and Prejudice.
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Mar 26, 2007
Friendly Fire and Media Spin
A powerful media personality recently described my work and the work of my brothers who are part of GodMen “adolescent” and dismissed its impact. His source? One biased and inaccurate report from a national newspaper that has a reputation for besmirching Christians. Now the same person is crying foul, saying the media is misrepresenting him.
As actions truly say more than mere words (especially ones edited by someone who wasn’t present at the event in question)…
After GodMen, a man picked up a homeless young man. Gave him a place to stay. Got him back on his feet. Helped him receive free dental care. He wouldn’t have done that if he hadn’t attended.
Men came clean with their addiction to porn. They have hope again.
Men became honest with the fear and passivity in their lives. They began the soulwork necessary to drive the sins of passivity from their lives.
Men took their fathering more seriously. They wept for their children and for the fathering they didn’t receive. They look to God for help now.
They learned that emotions properly displayed make you more manly, not less.
Men cultivated courage, without which no other virtue like love has a fighting chance.
A Vietnam vet opened up and shared the pain he has been carrying for nearly 40 years.
Soldiers were honored for their sacrifice and courage.
Men were encouraged to be both tender-hearted and tough-minded—absolute essentials for healthy leadership.
Men sought wisdom greater than their own regarding how to best love their wives.
Men were inspired to become warriors of light.
Does this sound “adolescent” to you?
Paul Coughlin
As actions truly say more than mere words (especially ones edited by someone who wasn’t present at the event in question)…
After GodMen, a man picked up a homeless young man. Gave him a place to stay. Got him back on his feet. Helped him receive free dental care. He wouldn’t have done that if he hadn’t attended.
Men came clean with their addiction to porn. They have hope again.
Men became honest with the fear and passivity in their lives. They began the soulwork necessary to drive the sins of passivity from their lives.
Men took their fathering more seriously. They wept for their children and for the fathering they didn’t receive. They look to God for help now.
They learned that emotions properly displayed make you more manly, not less.
Men cultivated courage, without which no other virtue like love has a fighting chance.
A Vietnam vet opened up and shared the pain he has been carrying for nearly 40 years.
Soldiers were honored for their sacrifice and courage.
Men were encouraged to be both tender-hearted and tough-minded—absolute essentials for healthy leadership.
Men sought wisdom greater than their own regarding how to best love their wives.
Men were inspired to become warriors of light.
Does this sound “adolescent” to you?
Paul Coughlin
Labels: Albert Mohler, PaulCoughlin
Mar 20, 2007
Paul Coughlin: New Male Spitituality II
Friday, March 16, 2007
New Male Spirituality II
I have many letters from Christian women who find today’s ideal Christian man boring and even creepy. His lack of get-up-and-go sets off warning flares in their feminine souls. He’s so distasteful that some women say they do not want to get married. And those who are married to one wish they hadn’t said “I do.”
Writes the wife of a Christian man low on what history recognizes as gumption, assertiveness, and readiness: “I struggle to love my husband, but I no longer respect him. We’re separated and contemplating divorce. I’ve spent endless nights crying over what I’ve come to see as my sweet Christian husband who everyone else loves but who I can’t stand anymore. He is so unreliable and unmanly. He doesn’t know how to act like a man.”
Sometimes Christian men recognize this deficit in themselves: “Before getting married women told me how pleasant I was. Now that I’m married, my wife tells me that she wishes I were more alive and motivated. She says I’m not as assertive as a married man with two kids should be. She’s right. But something inside me tells me it’s wrong to stand up and behave like a man.” I know this sounds harsh, but I’m willing to bet that his “something” is sermons he hears at church.
Sometimes their cry for help is shorter and more haunting. “When am I going to feel like a man?” asked one husband after the latest GodMen conference, a man also on the verge of divorce.
read the rest at Crosswalk.com
Paul Coughlin's Crosswalk blog has been added to the Godmen blog links.
New Male Spirituality II
I have many letters from Christian women who find today’s ideal Christian man boring and even creepy. His lack of get-up-and-go sets off warning flares in their feminine souls. He’s so distasteful that some women say they do not want to get married. And those who are married to one wish they hadn’t said “I do.”
Writes the wife of a Christian man low on what history recognizes as gumption, assertiveness, and readiness: “I struggle to love my husband, but I no longer respect him. We’re separated and contemplating divorce. I’ve spent endless nights crying over what I’ve come to see as my sweet Christian husband who everyone else loves but who I can’t stand anymore. He is so unreliable and unmanly. He doesn’t know how to act like a man.”
Sometimes Christian men recognize this deficit in themselves: “Before getting married women told me how pleasant I was. Now that I’m married, my wife tells me that she wishes I were more alive and motivated. She says I’m not as assertive as a married man with two kids should be. She’s right. But something inside me tells me it’s wrong to stand up and behave like a man.” I know this sounds harsh, but I’m willing to bet that his “something” is sermons he hears at church.
Sometimes their cry for help is shorter and more haunting. “When am I going to feel like a man?” asked one husband after the latest GodMen conference, a man also on the verge of divorce.
read the rest at Crosswalk.com
Paul Coughlin's Crosswalk blog has been added to the Godmen blog links.
Labels: Crosswalk, Godmen, PaulCoughlin
Mar 9, 2007
Mar 4, 2007
Paul Coughlin’s No More Christian Nice Guy
Paul's goal "is to correct the popular and destructive caricature of Jesus as being the nicest guy who ever skipped across ancient soil." You can find out more about Paul at his website. You can also preview the first chapter of his book No More Christian Nice Guy.
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