Disciplines of a Godly Man

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To be fair, he spends the last 6 pages or so speaking on the disciplines in the context of grace and warning against legalism. This is a Christian classic that many in my church have read through and used extensively by previous pastors before me.

But through a vast majority of the writing it comes across as though he is making a long spiritual to-do list that causes more burden than freedom, which is what the disciplines are really for. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. A helpful challenge for me to live up the biblical commands for Christian men across the whole of life. When you have a book that has been revised and updated several times since it was first printed in 1991, you know you have something rather special. einen göttlichen, einen voll maskulinen Mann ausmacht, schmeiss Men's Health weg, das hier ist das Ultimative, mit allem drum und dran.The chapters on marriage and fatherhood are about what you'd expect, though I think he does a good job of warning fathers not to be too harsh in punishment; something often quite lacking in the Christian world. My most recent reading of this book was in the last two years as I slowly went over it with some of the high school young men in my church. For many people, the word discipline evokes a sense of resistance–but Kent Hughes points out that the heart of spiritual discipline is a relationship with God. Just when we think we are the safest, when we feel no need to keep our guard up, to work on our inner integrity, to discipline ourselves for godliness - temptation will come!

He retired from his pulpit ministry at College Church and was given the title Senior Pastor Emeritus in December 2006. Godliness and sensuality are mutually exclusive, and those in the grasp of sensuality can never rise to godliness while in its [sic] grip. R. Kent Hughes' book, Disciplines of a Godly Man, should be required reading for men of all ages and one that is picked up again and reread every few years.The bare-knuckle command is "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. DoaGM put an unnecessary amount of guilt on one with a tender conscience, so the group was able to remind one another that we are disciplined by grace and out of grace. The difference between legalism and discipline is one of motivation: legalism is self-centered; discipline is God-centered.