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| Tennessee Titans Coach Says Men Need Emotions |
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5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
The Tennessee Titans, the NFL's only undefeated team, play the Indianapolis Colts in the next Monday Night Football. Titans coach, Jeff Fisher, was once asked in The Tennessean: “What do you consider the most underrated virtue of men?” His gave a one word answer – “Emotions.”
Jeff is right. It seems to me that most men in our society don’t consider emotions to be a virtue at all, but rather a liability. When we are little boys we are frequently told that big boys (or men) don’t cry. Men tend to see positive emotions in other men as a sign of weakness. A few negative emotions like anger or rage are considered manly, but like Jeff Fisher said: Positive emotions are way underrated as manly attributes.
Football coaches and players, however, know that positive emotions win games. They call them “intangibles.” Enthusiasm, joy, excitement, anticipation, hope, encouragement, appreciation, team spirit, self-respect, inspiration, concern, passion, and “umph” all can play decisive roles in football games. (Triumph is just a little "umph" added to try.) That is why players bang their chests together when they come out on to the football field. They are stirring up those underrated positive emotions.
But positive emotions can do so much more for men than just win football games. They can heal and transform marriages. Positive emotions can set men free from self-destructive behaviors. They can create awesome fathers. Those underrated positive emotions can help men overcome any obstacles that life may offer. They can turn men into passionate worshippers and followers of Jesus Christ.
Positive emotions are the engines that power a noble and virtuous life. So men, why not get worked up, fired up, and stirred up about loving God and serving others?  |
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| October 24, 2008 |
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| Great blog, Steve! |
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| October 24, 2008 |
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| Thanks Carol and Mike. Go Jesus!!! |
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| October 24, 2008 |
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I love it Steve. Coach Fisher is one of my sports heroes. Just the way he carries himself. Probably my biggest sports hero is the man he will coach against that night, Coach Dungy. He has often talked about emotions of being a Christian man in a brutal sport, a Christian father and husband among other things. He was not afraid to show his emotions when he suddenly lost a son in the heat of the AFC playoffs one year. |
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| October 24, 2008 |
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Well imagine that! BTW, go Tennessee!!!! |
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| October 24, 2008 |
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This is really great!
"umph" ... that made me laugh :D |
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| October 24, 2008 |
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Being a single mom of fiveawesome young men and an art- music and vocal teacher I have had to touch on dealing with emotions with boys/young men and men for that matter on different levels than women all together on different levels.
Praise Burn (only if corection is needed) then Build in HARD PRAISE is always the best way to tap into a mans emotion.
Men are our warriors... on emotional levels too! They go at it HARD and in our society, (Chritians forget this often too) we need our MEN to be our streangth in evry level the way God designed it to be. I want my man to know where all of his feelings are as a woman because that is my man! He is my head of the house, he is who goes out into battle for me and my family in the worldy and physical sense. He is the one who has to be able to stand his ground out in the rest of the world with all the other warroirs (no matter who's team they are playing for God's or not- the Titan's or the Bronco's- the Davis's of the Smith's etc...) All battles are fought and won first in the spiritual realm. All Hero's are in touch with there emotions (like King David.... as a young man he was in traing to be a Warrior for God by tapping in to what his emotions were and where exactly his virture laid. That is what I feel made him a MAN AFTER GODS OWN HEART.
I wrote much more than what I had planned but this is so important- Thank you for such a great post (of course you always do :0) How cool would it be if all of us were as christians to be the warriors called us to be and if we as mothers and teachers were able to teach our sons to be "in touch with their emotions" the way God showed us by giving us examples to follow like David? Hmmmm.... Would that in and of itself just set the world on fire alone? |
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| October 24, 2008 |
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| Thanks for the comment, Angela. You said a lot that we need to consider. |
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| October 24, 2008 |
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| Dan: Will you still be my friend if the Titans beat Indianapolis? lol. |
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| October 24, 2008 |
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| I really enjoyed this blog, Steve. Good one!! |
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| October 24, 2008 |
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| Thank you very much, Coreena. |
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| October 24, 2008 |
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| Fisher and Dungy are both great coaches, Jerry. |
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| October 24, 2008 |
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Tri-UMPH!!!! What a great way to look at it! Another sterling post, Steve. Thanks as always for making us think. I'm one of those people who believe the only acceptable form of manly rage is indignation at seeing hunger, poverty, homelessness, or any form of economic hardship. (Ohmy, do I sound like an activist??? :0 ) |
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| October 24, 2008 |
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| An activist for God -- that's a good thing to be, Bookish. |
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| October 25, 2008 |
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| GREAT BLOG..ENJOYED THIS! |
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| October 25, 2008 |
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| Thanks, Cyn. |
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| October 25, 2008 |
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I must add one more thing... it bugged me last night and I have to add this... My greatest HERO IS JESUS If we all just stop and think for one second of exactly what a REAL MAN he was... and think of just how "in touch was HE with ALL of his emotions- and he did it correctly! LOVE, Compassion, ANGER, RAGE, forgiveness, friendship, virtue, honor, worship, emotional displays (both in public and in private) even in his displays of disgust, even in his weeping! A real MAN knows how to weep... May we all come closer (myself included) to be more in touch with the example of the correct warroir- hero -like qualities that my Jesus left for us to hold onto so that we can fight the fight we need to fight untill we are called home! Untill that day lets get more intouch with our weapons of waarfare for they are mighty and we have abilities that go beyond realms of this world and into greater deapths of holliness and lead us into a mightier service to our Mighty King :0) |
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| October 25, 2008 |
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| Great points, Angela. |
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| October 26, 2008 |
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| Is anybody going to watch Monday Night Football tomorrow? |
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