Theology That Bites Back
How does a woman build her house? Nancy Wilson begins with the kitchen table, remembering how each scratch and stain in the wood chronicles “hours of stories and jokes, questions and concerns (through courtships and pregnancies), prayers and discussions.” She continues, each essay full of stories and encouragement—the beauty of imperfection, the comfort of Velveeta, …
This book was originally one with To A Thousand Generations. I broke them into two books to make the work on parental promises available to baptists.
The modern dating system is bankrupt. It does not train young people to form a relationship but rather to form a series of relationships, hardening themselves to all but the current one. Recreational dating encourages emotional attachments without covenantal fences and makes a joke of a father’s authority. The disrespect children have for their fathers …
This was originally a series of 39 sermons on marriage, which one wit in our congregation described as the “40 stripes save one” series.
This book was written in the conviction that sexual purity is too important to leave it for the prudes to defend. Often what young men need is some straight talk, administered with a cricket bat.
Federal thinking is foreign to the modern mind. Federal has come to mean nothing more than centralized or big. Because our federal government has become so uncovenantal, it is not surprising that the original meaning of the word is lost. But federal thinking is the backbone of historic Protestant theology, and the Church needs to …
