The plummeting birth and marriage rates are so alarming, and the solution so simple and profound, that I published a whole book about it last year. Domestic Extremist was written in response to the attempt by the left to turn concerned parents into literal domestic terrorists. The irony is that parents of big families are not actual domestic extremists; we are just extremely domestic. But this innocent preference for family over state does in a way make us a threat to the powers that be — which is why we should continue encouraging our own kids to be domestic in the extreme.

Breaking news: Conservatives believe in marriage and babies more than liberals do.
This is not exactly a groundbreaking observation. But a recent Pew survey made news last week when it revealed that the political divide over having a family is not just real — it’s spectacular. It’s enormous. There is a full 40-point difference between the two sides on this issue!
“The percent of Trump supporters who say society is “better off if people make marriage and having children a priority is 59%, compared to 19% of Biden voters.” Just 19 percent!
That seems pretty bad. But what looks like a glitch to normal people is a key feature of anti-human leftist ideology. In other words, that 19 percent means liberalism is working as intended. It’s the result of years of mass indoctrination through K-12 education and the media convincing women to prioritize careers and themselves over a husband and parenthood.
It’s not a shock to learn that conservatives tend to believe in marriage and family more than liberals do. After all, tradition is our brand. Meanwhile, liberal women (but I repeat myself) are groomed from preschool to meticulously avoid pregnancy at all costs using a dizzying array of pills, devices, shots, inserts, implants, and various unguents to prevent implantation of a fertilized egg.
If all of that fails, there are emergency pills and potions to save you from the permanent curse of parenthood. And if those don’t work, a few hours on an operating table expressing your commitment to reproductive justice will do the trick.
“Planned Parenthood” did just that: It tricked young people into “planning parenthood” — delaying it indefinitely until it’s too late. Who needs to brutally enforce a Chinese-style “One Child” solution when leftists in the U.S. will simply choose to self-sterilize? Truly diabolical.
It’s important to point out that keeping people atomized and sterilized is part of the plan.
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The real reason why men need to be in church is the same reason why all of us do. Our actions and attitudes about the calling of God to us in the work that we do, and understanding more deeply the glory of a life lived not for yourself, or for this present evil world, but for the honor of the life to come is what makes a Christian man work hard for his family, for his faith, and for his kith and kin. There is something greater than himself in the labors he does every day, if every man lived so boldly, and with such humility, imagine where we would be today?

Being young and invincible in some ways is the best part of life. Understanding that you are not is the first step towards maturity. I grew up in a time when it was common to office banter to hear the local dad joke connoisseur come up to you while you were getting a cup of coffee and say, “Hey Ben, you working hard or are you hardly working?”. There are days where I am glad I do not work in an office. Those days end in “y”. God made me a little bit to be a lone ranger, that has its benefits and has caused me problems in the past. Few things were more annoying as a corporate drone than forced small talk when I just wanted to do what I was there to do and go home. When God ordered Adam to tend to the Garden He did so in the context of Adam’s pure heart and soul, which had not been stained with sin. There was a kind of joy to his labor that became a drudgery after he broke the covenant of works, and all humanity then fell with him.
In today’s prayer and worship help we are going to dovetail into talking more about men and church, but this time from a point of view that wants to help all of us think some more about what the Lord would have us to be and to do in light of His marvelous grace, and the promised eternity which comes through Jesus Christ alone. Seeing the future as more than one’s own lifetime changes how we approach labor and life. It also is meant to remind us that the world is bigger than either ourselves or our earthly existence. Walking by a graveyard every day has the habit of reminding me that the moment is limited and what we do and who we are will largely be forgotten in a few generations. Not to make this more morose than it needs to be, but it’s part of asking the question concerning how we are to approach the time that God gives us, and why what we do in the Lord’s house on the Lord’s Day has more than a weekly benefit.
Getting back to work habits for a second the apostle Paul tells us in Ephesians 5:16 that we are to redeem the time because the days are evil. What he means by that is not that there is something sinful about Mondays. (Monday is my favorite non-Sunday day of the week).
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Our young men need public and private examples of godly men in generations past and present.  Our pastor would tell us that his personal pursuit of holiness was for the benefit of others—because his wife needed a godly husband and his children a godly father and the church a godly leader. He modeled meekness and godliness even in his later years of immense personal suffering.  He showed us how to die. The church needs more everyday heroes like him to prepare our young men to “pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness” and to “fight the good fight of the faith” until the Lord calls them home (1 Tim. 6:11-12).

A hero went Home this week.
It’s hard to put into words the measure of a man.  God gives many good men to His church.  As I mourn this beloved pastor, I can’t help but wonder how many of our young men are in the queue to lead the next generation.  I know not every man can or will be like him – but that was not his aim, nor his desire to be a standard for comparison.  His aim was to build men who follow after Christ (1 Cor. 11:1) and become more Christ-like (Rom. 8:29), from one degree to another (2 Cor. 3:18).  Christ is the only imitable way, truth and life (John 14:6).
Yet, the scriptures do command us to “consider your leaders and the outcome of their faith” (Hebrews 13:7) and to follow them, as they follow Christ (1 Cor. 11:1).  I’ve had ample opportunity to “consider…the outcome” of this pastor’s life as a sheep in his flock for 35 years.  And, at the risk of the criticism of romanticizing a fallible man, I offer these reflections of one man’s faithful life to encourage the Church to nurture our young men, so that it will flourish in their generation.
Set Christ apart in your heart by faith.
We must encourage our sons to live wholeheartedly for Christ.  There is no middle ground, no nuanced path. Indeed, the way is narrow and has only one gate. Our pastor would say to us, “Look to Christ” who is the “author and finisher of our faith” in all things (Heb. 12:2).  Our world holds many glittering distractions for a young man’s heart, but we must pray that our sons’ hearts esteem Christ above all else. When men learn to find their treasure in Christ alone, many worldly distractions fall away, scattered in dull comparison.  We must pray for our young men because this act of “setting apart” is a sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit alone, in His timing.  The Church must exercise patience, grace and grit to equip men to grow into “mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” (Eph. 4:13).
Have a vision to change the world.
We must encourage our young men to have a vision for their lives that extends beyond their personal gain, for the glory of God’s kingdom. Our pastor’s vision to change the world was not to have a world-renowned name for himself, but to lead, train and send men “into all the world” (Matt. 28:19) for Christ’s name.  As we foster interests and enable talents of our sons, we need to never stop encouraging them to think big and take risks for His glory and for the good of others.
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