Restoring Heroes Project

Lead your Family. Slay the Dragons. Obey Christ.

  • Man-Child Syndrome

    Puer aeternus

    As Christian men our goal is to grow into maturity. We are not to be childish temper tantrum throwing, penis fondling, Mama’s boys. We are men. We are husbands and fathers that need to put to death The Man-child mentality.

    Puer aeternus Latin for ‘eternal boy’ in mythology is a child-god who is forever young. In psychology, it is an older person whose emotional life has remained at an adolescent level, which is also known as Peter Pan syndrome.
    Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
    Ephesians 4:13‭-‬14 ESV

    Refusal to fight.

    “Many young men are struggling academically, socially, spiritually, financially, and sexually. They are living at home into their late 20s and 30s, choosing to remain in the comforting confines of their parents’ care rather than testing the unknown waters of independence. Instead of striving to create something of themselves, many prefer the familiar and comfortable virtual worlds of internet, pornography, and video games.” Academyofideas.com
    If we are not careful we will build spaces to escape from the responsibilities of Biblical Manhood. A virtual kingdom to pretend that we have our crap together. A place where no one questions us about our decisions and everyone agrees with us. A virtual paradise for our folly. As our homes burn from the dragons we refuse to fight.
    Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
    Proverbs 14:29 ESV
    Men do not throw temper tantrums. We do not explode in anger in a barrage of cussing and fussing when we don’t get our way. That my friends is Man-Child behavior. That behavior needs to be taken to the back and shot. Why because losing our tempers is soft-serve. And no dragon is afraid of soft-serve. The folly in this is that we actually think you are operating in power.

    Killing Tinker bell

    With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him. All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast till an arrow pierce’s its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.
    Proverbs 7:21‭-‬23 ESV
    It goes without saying but I am going to say it porn is Man-Child behavior. Foundling your penis while in the shower or strolling on your phone is not Manliness embodied.
    “And when a man finds a particular woman beautiful and attractive, and then he satisfies himself by watching as another man takes her, he is deadening all the remaining vestiges of masculinity within him. It is not a hyper-masculine impulse to watch other people get it on. It is the opposite. It is one of the hyenas strutting in front of the other hyenas, doing his best leonine imitation. It is not a cosmopolitan decadence. It is not worldly wise. It is not the experience of a man of the world. It is getting your jollies through losing, which is, as sexual perversions go, down near the bottom.”
    Douglas Wilson Pornography for Cuckolds
    We have to fight against the allure of the pixelated breast and hinderparts that don’t belong to us. The blinking lights of the screen are attractive but only because they are baiting you into a trap. Before you know it you are being digested by the Angler fish of lasciviousness. There is no hope unless the sword of the spirit guts that son of a flounder and releases you from the pit.

    Mama’s boy

    Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
    Genesis 2:24 ESV
    “…he hopes to be caught, sucked in, enveloped, and devoured. He seeks, as it were, the protecting, nourishing, charmed circle of the mother, the condition of the infant released from every care…No wonder the real world vanishes from sight!”
    Carl Jung, Aion
    Failure to launch is another cause of Man-Child syndrome. The lack of strong men causes young men to cling to their mothers. Also causes the mother to be overbearing to make up for the miss piece. She also will use the child to fill the hole left by the man. This is why is it imperative to lead your family.
    “Sons also need to watch their father in the world. They need him to show them how to be in the world, how to work, how to bounce back from adversity…They need the activation of their inherent masculinity both by outer modeling and by direct affirmation.”
    James Hollis, Under Saturn’s Shadow
    Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body.
    Ephesians 5:25‭-‬30 ESV
    Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
    Ephesians 6:4 ESV

    How to destroy the Man-Child in you 

    1. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7 ESV
    2. Know your triggers: so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs. 2 Corinthians 2:11 ESV
    3. Get some Wise council: Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed. 
    Proverbs 15:22 ESV
    Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.
    Proverbs 18:1 ESV

  • Patriarchy Inescapable

    Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
    Genesis 1:26 ESV

    Men always lead. I said men not mankind or human or( insert hip term here). I repeat for the the one in the back plugging their ears and screeching. Men always lead. This truth is inescapable.

    Here is some proof.
    In the media there are six major companies. Out of all those companies, most if not all of their CEOs are men. Check the list below.

    • Summer Redstone – National Amusement
    • Bob Iger – Disney
    • Jeff Bewkes – Time Warner
    • Brian L. Roberts – Comcast
    • Rupert Murdoch – News Corp
    • Kazuo Hirai – Sony
    • Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook
    • Jack Dorsey – Twitter
    • Sundar Pichai – Google
    • Tim Cook – Apple
    • Satya Nadella – Microsoft
    • Jeff Bezos – Amazon

    That means everything that is on your flat screens, phones, and computers is in some way connected to men. Yep, that means when Blue’s Clues has a drag queen sing a song. Or some young boy stumbles upon porn searching for pictures of his favorite superheroes. Or when a young lady contemplates suicide because of a social media post. If Mickey Mouse explains to Goofy about the LGBTQRS Mousekatool in the clubhouse that makes you walk funny. A man is involved on some level. Why? Because like Michael Foster says, “You can’t escape the patriarchy”.

    Let me explain
    Patriarchy means A social system in which the father is the head of the family. To put it simply “father rule”. This is something that can’t be avoided, because it is built into the very nature of man by the Creator God. We as men are created to lead. That means we lead rather we intend to or not. Our passivity or activity can direct the course of a nation. The question is where are you leading?
    Tale of two Kingdoms
    The Bible records that the children of Israel was split into two different kingdoms Northern and Southern. Northern kingdom ( Israel) was lead by kings who went after false gods. So, the people followed their king.

    And the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, “Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins, behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
    1 Kings 16:1‭-‬3 ESV

    So, let’s think of this world like it is split into two kingdoms. The Kingdom of Light and the kingdom of darkness. The kingdom of light is lead by the Living God the Holy Father. The lesser kingdom of darkness is influencing by satan.

    Going back to the media companies from earlier. Do you wonder why there is so much sin being promoted as product and entertainment. Well, it is because the men in charge of the outlets are submitted to the kingdom of darkness. So they will promote and advocate for evil. They will praise and worship demons and cause those under their influence to do the same. Evil men will lead people to evil. You can see the evil patriarchy at work. The father of lies leads his people to destruction. This is the patriarchy that the world calls toxic masculinity. The type that the feminist write blogs about and Supergirl villains are made of.

    However there is a greater kingdom. The world flourishes when men submit to God. The way of the Holy Father leads to beauty. Under this patriarchy families, churches, and communities blossom. When things are done Gods way blessings follow.

    Since the beginning of creation men were created to lead. Father rule is ingrained in the very fabric of mankind. Children need and women crave godly patriarchy. If you don’t lead the evil patriarchy will.

    if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
    2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV

  • The Shape Of Masculinity

    The Shape of Masculinity (1) Download Infographic