The Masculine Mandate: God's Calling to Men

In this book, Richard D. Phillips cuts through the cultural confusion, highlights God‘s mandate for men, and encourages readers to join him on a journey of repentance and renewal. Phillips begins in the Garden of Eden, drawing foundational teaching for men from the earliest chapters of God‘s Word. This is teaching that reaches into all of life. Christian men today need to examine their hearts and embrace their God-given mandate. Only then will they be able to recognize their high calling, and by God‘s grace, serve faithfully in whatever context God has placed them.

Endorsements

“Egalitarian and chauvinistic thinking have corrupted our ideas about godly manhood. With boldness of heart and pastoral wisdom, Rick Phillips leads us back toward biblical manhood—masculinity grounded in the cultural mandate, the cross, and the ordinary means of grace. May men of the church answer the call of this mandate to stand up and be counted, and to live out their faith courageously as workers, protectors, nurturers, and leaders for Christ.”
—Eric C. Redmond

“In the face of the widespread confusion in our culture, Rick Phillips lays out the biblical mandate for men to work and keep the world around us. This book carefully avoids stereotypes and legalistic rules, while unfolding with clarity and practical simplicity the biblical vision of men as individuals and in rela- tionships to other men, to our wives and children, and to the church of Jesus Christ. I learned much from this book and look forward to sharing it with my sons.”
—Dr. Iain M. Duguid

Contents

Foreword
Preface

Part One: Understanding Our Mandate

1. Man in the Garden
2. The Masculine Mandate
3. Man’s Sacred Calling to Work
4. Man as the Image of God
5. Man as Shepherd-Lord

Part Two: Living Our Mandate

6. God’s Astonishing Design for Marriage
7. Marriage Cursed and Redeemed
8. Marriage and the Masculine Mandate
9. To Work: The Discipling of Children
10. To Keep: The Discipline of Children
11. Men in Friendship
12. The Masculine Mandate in the Church
13. Servants of the Lord

Notes
Index of Scripture
Index of Subjects and Names