Books by Bnonn
It’s Good to Be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity
“Men were made to rule. They always have and always will. Nothing can change that. Nothing will. It is not a question of whether men will be ruling, but which ones and how.”
Our modern society has called for us to “smash the patriarchy,” and the church has not done much better. Instead of telling men how they can hone and refine their aggressive traits, the church has told men that they should aspire to be meek servant-leaders, and when a man shows any signs of independence, he is shown to the door.
This leaves most young men lost. They don’t know what to do or how to improve, so they watch Jordan Peterson videos on YouTube to learn how to grow in their masculinity and sense of mission. In this book, Michael Foster and Bnonn Tennant seek to remind men that their natural aggressive instincts are gifts from God that are meant to be used for the kingdom. Men are supposed to found households, join brotherhoods, and work towards a mission. This book offers men a quick guide to where they are and how they can get better. God made men to be strong and aggressive risk-takers. This is a feature, not a bug. Foster and Tennant remind us that It’s Good to Be a Man.
The Ash and the Air
EElaine Corren is virtually unknown until she leads a breakthrough at Avon Academy—creating a device called the Totem which launches a new era in scientific understanding. Working with an artificial intelligence called the Queen, the Totem brings scientists closer than ever to a Theory of Everything: a complete model of the universe, describing every possible phenomenon using a single equation.
But when political upheaval threatens the project’s survival, Elaine and the Queen devise a way to cheat the system—and short-circuit their development time by thousands of years. As they close in on the Theory of Everything, will Elaine pick up on the meaning behind the Queen’s strange questions…and on the danger of an innocent change to the equipment? In the project’s final hours, as disturbing things start to happen, will she heed an unbelievable warning from a strange source? Will she realize that she stands at a fork in time, where the cost of the knowledge she seeks will be decided—and that if she doesn’t piece together the clues before she steps onto the wrong path, she could end human civilization forever?
The Spine of Scripture: God’s Kingdom from Eden to Eternity
A short primer outlining the teleological framework of what the gospel is about—and what it is doing. The Spine of Scripture asks: why does the Bible consistently call it the “gospel of the kingdom”…and why isn’t that how we think about the gospel today?
I start at the locus classicus of the gospel message, John 3:16, and show that it is fundamentally about God transforming Adam’s ruined kingdom into his own eternal one. I then go back to Genesis to explain the origin of this kingdom, demonstrating that the image of God in Adam is actually representative rulership and sonship. From there, I trace the history of this kingdom through the fall in Eden to the disinheritance at Babel—all the way to the occupation by Satan’s forces by the time of Jesus. This then sets up a comparison between the way that the New Testament preaches the gospel, and the way modern evangelicals do.
My conclusion is that the gospel of the New Testament is fundamentally the message of the triumph of Jesus as king of the cosmos, which he now reigns from the right hand of God, impressing the patterns of heaven into the earth, through his body the Church. The Great Commission is therefore a directive to conquer the lands ruled by Satan, in the name of the now-reigning King, Jesus; a directive which consciously mimics the dominion mandate given to Adam, and should be seen as God’s end-game in retaking the whole earth as his kingdom—a plan that will succeed through “the power of God for salvation” by the time Jesus returns.