Foreword -- Preface -- Understanding our mandate -- Man in the garden -- The masculine mandate -- Man's sacred calling to work -- Man as the image of God -- Man asShepherd-Lord -- Living our mandate -- God's unexpected design for marriage -- Marriage cursed and redeemed -- Marriage and the masculine mandate -- To work : the discipling of children -- To keep : the discipline of children -- Men in friendship -- The masculine mandate in the church -- Servants of the Lord