Theology That Bites Back
“In such a movie, a petite woman can throw five 300-pound guys around like they were made of balsa wood. All she has to do is have the director on her side. But that’s not the way it works in the real world. If your daughter buys into it, at some point she is going to be thirty-eight, owner of her own company, very lonely, and wondering where all the good men have gone. It turns out they didn’t want to be married to a girl boss.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 78
“So I don’t want liberty for secularists because secularism is true—it isn’t. Secularism is an opium dream, complete with flashing eyes and floating hair. I want liberty for secularists because Jesus is Lord. Because Jesus is Lord, the right of fallen sinners to wield coercive power must be strictly limited. One of the toughest lessons for sinners to learn is the necessity of leaving other sinners alone.”
Introduction: The worst corruptions are corruptions of the very best things. The devil himself fell from a very great height, and it is not surprising that the greatest creational gifts can be turned ...
This morning Nancy and I had a really fun time going down to watch our fourth annual Fourth of July parade. It was a blast, and for quite a number of reasons. Thousands of people turned out, and the parade entries were just one motorized slab of Americana after another. It was just the right …
“All societies are theocratic, with the only thing distinguishing them being the nature and attributes of the reigning theos.”
“We can all acknowledge that a father spitting in his daughter’s face is not something that we would call a great moment in child-rearing. This is obviously a family with some serious dysfunction going on. Nobody reading this should want to be that dad. So don’t be that dad. Not ever. But here is the point. Suppose I had gone a different route and said something like “Whatever you do, don’t be that daughter, man. Whatever she did, it must have been pretty bad.” Enlightened moderns everywhere would be aghast. They would be aghast for a reason, and that reason is the thing I want to point to. The striking thing here is that, even in such a grim scenario, all the social pressure in ancient Israel was applied to the daughter, and not to the father. She was the one who bore the shame” ‘If this happened, should she not be ashamed for seven days?’ This default assumption seems almost inconceivable to us. We tend to wonder, ‘Why was the father not arrested and charged?’”
Keep Your Kids, p. 72
“When you look around your home at a little sea of toddlers, you should look forward to the time when you’re sitting around a table with your grown children and their grown children, telling stories and laughing together. You are at one end of the table, and your wife is at the other end, and you’re talking about how God has used your family. That is the joy that is set before you. That is what you have your eye on as you trust God’s promises. Don’t look at the chaos and get sucked down into it as though it determines everything. It doesn’t determine anything.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 66
“I propose that as a nation we formally confess together that Jesus actually did rise from the dead. If you protest that this would kill the great secular experiment that is America, I would reply that the great secular experiment that is America appears to have already gone out behind the barn and shot itself already.”
Letter to the Editor: Hmmm. "What we need now are true and good men " . . . I'm not up on all the personalities , but what we we need is people to preach and teach the gospel and to disciple ...
