"Because one of the male strengths is simple-mindedness, men tend to evaluate all things according to the sort of criterion (fixed in their minds sometime in junior high) best illustrated by arm-wrestling contests or a footrace. Life is simple -- stronger and faster is better. … [Read more...]

"The resurrection of Christ defines history, and not the other way around. The central Christian confession--the Apostles' Creed--is full of historical claims, and ministers are the appointed guardians of those claims. At any moment, a trained historian might come into the Garden … [Read more...]

"The duty of ongoing sexual relations is clearly presented by Paul when he says, "Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband" (1 Cor. 7:3). Modern liberated types enjoy sniffing at this, as though making sexual relations a … [Read more...]

"But all preachers must also be historians in some sense, because we preach from the Bible, most of which is sacred history. The center of our faith is the resurrection of Jesus Christ, an event in history. When a professional historian sidles up to me and says that the event did … [Read more...]

"Whenever religious teaching is detached from the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, it always degenerates into a vapid moralism. And when husbands instruct their wives without the framework of the atonement shaping their thinking, their instruction will exhibit only a pious cast … [Read more...]

"A man who is the head of his wife is preaching all day about Christ and the Church -- his obedience or disobedience will determine whether his preaching is full of lies or not, but the very nature of his relation to his wife means that he is preaching, like it or not" (Federal … [Read more...]

"In our modern egalitarian world, submission is always seen as a form of losing or of being inferior in some way. But we fall into this error because we no longer think in a trinitarian fashion. Submission is seen as entailing inferiority because we do not understand the deity of … [Read more...]

"This means that our theology of Christ's love will be determinative of how a Christian wife is loved. How a man understands ultimate covenant loving will settle how he sets about covenantal loving. How he understands the thing to be imitated will determine how and what he … [Read more...]

"Anyone who undertakes to add to the number of modern books on marriage had better have some good reason. This is particularly true if the author in question is doing it for the second time and all apparently unprovoked. One would think our interest in marriage books would be … [Read more...]