For the next couple of weeks, we’ll be looking at the battles that men fight. I’m going to be talking to men, so if you are a woman reading this, I have a couple of thoughts.

First, chances are you know some men. Maybe you live with one. Maybe you married one, or have been raising one, or maybe you grew up with some. Maybe you would like to marry one someday or you have some male friends. Since you probably have a lot of relationships with men, this is going to be a great few weeks for you as well.

Second, especially for the married ladies, don’t nudge your man during the service this weekend. Men hate nudges, especially when a woman does it. Also, no glaring. Men hate glaring, especially when that glaring is coming from a woman. He needs to be able to process the teaching from this series, and so you need to give him the room to do that. You also need to know that we’re not really interested in the differences between men and women. We’re more interested in the differences between a boy and a man, and age doesn’t always produce a man.

The call this Sunday will be to leave boyish thinking and behavior behind for something bigger and better. The call will be to become men, not just who are physically strong, but who are spiritually and emotionally strong as well. We want to build men who champion Christ, not just boys who champion themselves.

When people think of a guy like Samson, they usually think of the ultimate male: jacked and handsome. But that’s probably not even true. Samson is not meant to be a picture of the ultimate male, but rather of what God can do through ordinary people through the power of the Holy Spirit. So Samson probably looked very normal. He may have even looked a little bit pudgy. He probably didn’t look like Hugh Jackman or Tom Cruise, but instead more like Jim Gaffigan.

Join us this weekend as we leave boyish thinking and behavior behind for something better.

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