Theology That Bites Back
“One of the basic rules of firearm safety is that you should treat all guns as if they were always loaded. We are all sexual beings . . . how should younger women be treated? Paul says they should be treated as sisters, with all purity, with all holiness, with all comeliness . . . We call one another brothers and sisters in the Lord. So treat Your fellow church members that way, Paul says. This is a most necessary admonition because, again, every gun is always loaded.”
Keep Your Kids, pp. 97-98
“You cannot teach children to have respect for other cultures by inculcating in them a contempt for their own. A son who honors his own mother deeply is going to understand why another honorable son wants to honor his mother. That makes good sense to him.”
“Answered prayer should not be like a blue comet.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 93
“A Christian nation should never be mistaken as being the same thing as a chosen nation. There is no exceptionalism in it.”
“Fathers, your highest parental priority is to manage and maintain a climate of true fellowship in your home. You’re in charge of the thermostat. Too often, dads are just the thermometer, thinking to themselves, ‘It sure is hot in here.’ But fathers are called to control the temperature of their household.”
Keep Your Kids, pp. 88-89
“When Jesus assumed human nature, He did so first as a single cell. The eternal Word of the eternal Father, the who spoke the heavens and earth into existence, took on a body that was the size of the period at the end of this sentence.”
“Too many Christian parents, because they’ve got their shoes laced way too tight and because they want to be good, conservative, Bible-believing, Reformed types, give their kids a garden of no with the occasional, intermittent, and very reluctant ‘Yeah, okay, I guess so this time. Don’t let it go to your head.’ That is not how God is. And since we are supposed to imitate our Father in heaven, we are supposed to be openhanded.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 87
“Though we call it a silent night, this suckling child was actually the deafening shout of God’s defiance. The principalities and powers, the thrones and dominations, were all going to come to nothing.”
“But the secret of the gospel is that grace works better than works do . . . Works are frustrating and impotent. Works collapse under any weight you try to put on them. That’s the issue. Works don’t work. But grace liberates. Grace sets you free to work.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 85
“The time to train your kids is when they’re kids.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 84
