“The faithful say thus saith the Lord instead of it seems to me. The message of the Bible is proclaimed and declared by heralds. John the Baptist did not come out of the wilderness issuing invitations to seminars.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 129
Risk Before the Fall
“God did not create a safe world for us. Even before the sin of man ruined so much, the paradise of Eden had a serpent in it. Adam was in a momentous conflict before he sinned. God insists that we bet with real money. God requires us to risk things. This risk includes all that we hold dear, and to shrink back from it is to incur the displeasure of God. The wicked and lazy servant was the one who would not risk what had been entrusted to him. To play it safe is to play it dangerous.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 127
Fighting for Love is Not Loving to Fight
“The shepherd who will not fight the wolves does not love the sheep. The shepherd who loves to fight simply for the sake of fighting, and wolves will do for an adversary, is a shepherd with disordered affections. The shepherd must hate the wolves because he loves the sheep. If he hates the wolves because loves to hate, then he is a wolf himself.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 126
Priorities
“Righteousness is more important than victory, and victory will come only to those who care about righteousness more than victory.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 126
Ebullient Warriors
“We may fight with abandon precisely because we are not abandoned. Fatalistic warriors can be grim and fell, but never merry.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 123
Regress for Women
“The early twentieth century was characterized by the Christian wife. The early twenty-first century is characterized by the tattooed concubine. And these sons of Belial have the chutzpah to call it ‘progress for women.’”
Concise and to the Point, p. 119
The Feminine Battle Within
“The prophecy that her desire would be for her husband to (Gen. 3:16) was not predicting romantic getaways but rather that there would be a struggle for mastery. So instead of trying to get mastery over her husband, she should struggle to get mastery over this besetting impulse within herself.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 118
Where Patriarchy Begins
“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 Gone Weird
“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
Blinkered Dogmatism
“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