“It is the easiest thing in the world to find a moral standard in the Bible and then to be selfish with it”
Rigorous Grace
“The environment of your home should be full of grace. When you have a home filled with grace, it is not without standards. You are not introducing moral anarchy. Grace is not an amorphous, gelatinous mass. Grace has a backbone. However, when the standards are broken, the heaviest sacrifices in the work of restoration are made by the guardians of grace, not by enforcers of the law, finger-pointers, parental accusers, or people who correct in a nasal tone of self-pity”
Necessary Song
“If there is not a song in it, it is not a biblical sacrifice. Without a song, it is a poor-me, look-at-the-martyr-go sacrifice, and those kinds of sacrifices have a very poor return”
Thanks at the Foundation
“When he took the loaf of bread that represented His own broken body, He picked it up and gave thanks . . . It is a thanksgiving meal, not only because we thank God for what Jesus did for us, but also because He thanked God when He instituted it . . . God is …
Imitate High
“Parents, you are not able to save your children. You cannot just press a button or make a decision and be the ground of your children’s salvation. You obviously cannot be their saving grace, but you are commanded to imitate that saving grace and to facilitate it and have it permeate the atmosphere of your …
The Imitation Key
“Imitation is absolutely crucial for childrearing. You do not want your children imitating you unless you are imitating God. If you are not imitating and pursuing God, sincerely and openly beholding His face in worship weekly, being transformed from one degree of glory to another, then the last thing you should want is for your …
Intervening Kindness
“Parents can give their children something that their own parents did not give them, because our God breaks cycles of sin” (Why Children Matter, p. 5).
More Than Enough
“This message of salvation is honey made by industrious celestial bees, and they work in fields of clover the size of Jupiter. There is more than enough for you. This offer of the gospel places just a bit of it on the top of your tongue. There—do you taste it now? The Spirit and the …
Not a Minor Detail
“The plot against the Lord Jesus appeared to have gone perfectly, and the only thing that ruined it was that Jesus came back from the dead”
Our Real Problem with Creation
“We do not belong to ourselves because we did not make ourselves” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 120).