At The Drawing Room, you won’t find a lot of confusion about what it means to be a man. But you will find a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives on how to live out a high-horsepower, Christ-centered, masculine life. The January 9, 2020, edition of The Drawing Room put this goal into high gear. Thirteen men attended this final episode of season 2 of The Drawing Room, including two men who have faithfully attended all eight sessions: Wayne Boyd and David Lane. Here were the evening’s topics:

  • New Year’s Resolutions
  • My Race Car Driving Days by Aaron Hogue
  • Men Raising Men: Rearing Boys in Today’s Culture by Scott Perron
  • Boycotts: Do They Work? Should We Do Them?
  • Women’s Roles in the Family, Church, and Society: Complementarian vs. Egalitarian View of Sexes by Thomas Walters
  • TurboTalk | Should Trump Have Been Impeached? Should He Be Removed from Office?
  • Kayaking Kentucky by David Lane

A few links to note: During the segment on Complementarianism vs. Egalitarianism, we mentioned an excellent sermon by Dr. Albert Mohler entitled “Male and Female He Created Them.” Also mentioned from Dr. Mohler was his response from The Briefing to Christianity Today‘s editorial calling for Trump to be removed from office.

One of the highlights of the evening was the fun video produced by David Lane especially for The Drawing Room audience. It made quite a splash!

Thanks go out to David and the other presenters—Aaron, Scott, and Thomas—as well as to Larry’s wife, Tina, who whipped up a scratch batch of mouth-watering Cincinnati chili, 3-way, 4-way, and 5-way. Delish!

The evening also included an important announcement about Volume 3 of The Drawing Room. In the context of New Year’s resolutions, Larry relayed that his life theme for 2020 is to “Streamline and Simplify” in order to create margins in his life for him to “Sensitize and Serve” others. To that end and prayerfully for the long-range success of The Drawing Room, Volume 3 of The Drawing Room will include three sessions instead of four. Larry mentioned that once a quarter seems to come around very often, and people vote with their feet. So it’s hoped that this change will enable this league of busy men to stay faithful to the group and still enjoy a critical mass of community and camaraderie. Another tweak that was announced is that in a continuing effort to foster more discussion and interaction, we will try moving from 7–9 topics per evening to 3–4 topics, one of which will be an in-depth, hour-long focus on a larger topic. This format should help cultivate a better exchange of ideas while still keeping the evening moving at a fast pace.

The next Drawing Room will be four months away on May 7, 2020. God’s speed to you!