![]() Even if he can’t quite put it into words, every man is haunted by the question, "Do I have what it takes?”Įvery man feels that the world is asking him to be something he doubts very much he has it in him to be. A man’s search for validation is the deepest search in his life. Why do you suppose that when a boy learns to ride his bike with no hands or do his first back flip on a trampoline or hit his first home run, he wants his dad there to see it? And all the crazy things young men do-cliff jumping into rivers, racing motorcycles, all the sports competition-what is fueling all that? Our search for validation. ![]() To read my review and summary of Gordon Dalbey's Healing the Masculine Soul: How God Restores Men to Real Manhood (1988, 2003), CLICK HERE. ![]() And thank God I found and read this book! I was deeply moved by this book and I wholeheartedly recommend this wisdom and truthful teaching to all fathers and sons, and every husband and brother – all men! I underlined so many and wrote notes here and there (so, I will not lend it) because this book speaks to me personally as a man who needs to see God as the loving Father in order for me to be a real man of God.ĭalbey writes, “ we dare to respond as Father God calls us out to become His men, if we allow Him to nail our pride and our plans to the cross, we’re eligible at last to receive His Spirit and do our appointed task in restoring His kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.” After I read John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart last year, I try to find another book on manhood.
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