John Eldredge
John Eldredge
John Eldredgeis an American author, counselor, and lecturer on Christianity. He is known for his bestselling book Wild at Heart...
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Date of Birth6 June 1960
CountryUnited States of America
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In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn't marry and he couldn't own land until he had killed a lion. It was symbolic.
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The scripture is filled with examples of genuine masculinity; you could mine David's story for probably a year by itself. And we have to get the masculinity of Jesus back. Not the pale-faced altar boy, but the man that made a weapon and cleared the temple, who boldly cast out demons and calmed the raging sea.
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'Wild at Heart' simply came out of my journey as a man and then my work with men.
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The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.
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Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.
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The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.
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A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love.
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I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.
The more that you come to know Jesus for who He really is, loving Him is not a problem.
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It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in 'religion.' I had no exposure to Christianity as a child. I was not raised in a Christian home. I became spiritually hungry in high school.
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We're told that you can have a relationship with Jesus, but most Christians don't experience Jesus personally like that. They just don't. We honor Him. We respect Him. We worship Him. We don't experience Him and His personality like we do the people we love the most in our lives.
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The modern era has brought up immense conveniences but at what price. The human heart is desperate for something more than a quicker serving of popcorn.