Here’s a helpful interview with C.J. Mahaney on some basic principles for thinking through biblically and intentionally what it looks like to be a faithful man.
Without breaking it down by every exact question, it roughly goes like this:
- 3:00—18:00, how to be wise as a young man and how fathers should lead their sons
- 18:00—30:00, how men can grow in leading their wife and children
- 30:00—40:00, how men can seek fellowship and invite criticism
Here are the books C.J. mentions:
- Derek Kidner, Proverbs
- Ed Welch, When People Are Big and God Is Small
- Piper and Grudem, eds., Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
I’d also mention two books by C.J. that go into greater depth on some of the issues he mentions: