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Do you flinch a bit at words like power, authority, or dominance? Chris Stefanick thinks that reaction has been trained into you.

Chris makes the case that strength itself was never the problem, but instead where it's aimed. He points out how "toxic" gets so quickly attached to masculinity, while words like noble, protective, and beautiful rarely do, and argues that's not an accident.

Chris digs into the Greek word behind Jesus's "Good Shepherd," kalos, and makes the case that "beautiful" is a truer translation than "good." A shepherd with beautiful calloused hands and a beautiful protective heart over his flock.

Where might you be treating your own strength as something to be ashamed of?

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