“If the father uses the rod judiciously, his son will not die—sound effects notwithstanding.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 2
Descend to Hilarity
“Few earthly blessings compare to sitting around a dinner table with your grown kids and their spouses, all of them Christian. Someone starts telling spanking stories, and the evening descends into hilarity. In the next room, the grandkids are going at it as well. All this, coupled with wine, and laughter, and psalm singing, and jokes, and sausage stew, and a fire in the fireplace . . . The covenant is a wonderful thing.”
Keep Your Kids, pp. xi-xii
Anxiety Storms and the Empathy Wars
Introduction: The empathy wars seem to have some staying power. It was around seven years ago that Joe Rigney set the whole thing off within Reformed circles when he sat down with me for an interview ...
No Nuance at All
“All of this means you have to settle in your mind, in your soul, down in your bones, what you actually believe. And you have to be ready to walk into a buzz saw if you’re really going to practice some of the things that the Bible says we ought to practice. Your stance should be that of the sailor at Pearl Harbor who, when the third wave of Japanese Zeros was flying overhead, thought to himself, ‘The time for nuance has passed.’”
Keep Your Kids, p. xi
April Letters May
Letter to the Editor: You said:"In times like ours, when deliberate efforts are underway to erode or otherwise destroy our national and civic identity, it is not unlawful for Christians ...
Notes from My Talk at Reformcon25
The Surpassing Worth of Knowing Christ: Introduction: Peter tells us that there are places in Paul’s letters which are difficult to understand (2 Pet. 3:15-16). That is true enough, but I also ...
The Weight of Your Blessing
“Great God Jehovah, we call on You now,
And ask for the weight of Your blessing of glory.
We know we cannot, on our own, make it happen,
We know on our own, our wells are all dry.”
21 Prayers, p. 128
Give It Just a Little More Time
Real Substitution
“I pray that by faith we would come to see Christ
In the dragon impaled and set up in the wilderness,
And that You would help us really to see
The glory of ultimate and real substitution.”
21 Prayers, p. 124
The Ground That Is Fallow
“Break up the ground that is fallow within us,
And raise up a crop that fits with Your purpose.
What You have determined should be grown in our lives,
Water it, grow it, and harvest it all.”
21 Prayers, p. 122