Theology That Bites Back
“In a healthy society, if wives are generally submissive to their own husbands, there will be a cheerful deference to the leadership of men generally, a reality to be welcomed and not resented. The end result generally will be a patriarchal society.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 116
“Submission denied can take pathological forms. This is why we have sad-masochism, rape fantasies, bondage and submission games, and Fifty Shades of Hurt Me Baby. Such is the nature of our demented times” ().
Concise and to the Point, p. 114
This is the last regularly scheduled post before I move into NQN beast mode and, as it turns out, it is also the last post before the midterms—those foreboding midterms. I have something of a rag bag of thoughts for you all on that topic, and so I have put them down for you in …
Letter to the Editor: Good overview, but I think two key things are missing.One claimed cause was that students were upset that the schools they go to, but other people pay for, are underfunded. ...
“More is involved in raising up a godly seed than for a man to have dogmatic convictions about birth control, matched only by his unwillingness to feed, read to, educate, pay tuition for, bestow upon, and love the results of his dogmatism. There are no promised covenantal blessings for the self-absorbed proprietors of stud farms.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 108
Introduction: One lesson that is soon learned in pastoral ministry is that you don’t try to counsel people, or evangelize them either for that matter, when they are drunk. Save your energy for sweeping water uphill. But the tenderhearted feel so sorry for the person who is, um, impaired, that they want to step in …
“Every fruitful minister in the history of the world has routinely been in over his head. Trust God and go . . . And when you have done all, and you stand before your Maker—cut, bleeding, grimy, sweating, and breathing hard—you will say that you are an unworthy servant, and only did as you were instructed (Luke 17:10). If that. And he will say, “Well done, good and faithful servant” (Matt. 25:23). Enter into joy.”
Concise and to the Point, pp. 98-99
I would remind you all that I was out gallivanting for several weeks, and so did not have a letters section for you on Tuesdays, as was my wont. So we are back in the saddle now, but with one necessary ...
“Men who resent being warned are men who have already neglected too many warnings.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 97
