Theology That Bites Back
“This is the behavior of a ruler who devours his people rather than a ruler who feeds his people. You can see the contrast in the Gospel of Mark, where Jesus feeds the people by the sea right after Herod throws a banquet where the head of John the Baptist is brought out on a serving platter. One king feeds His people, one king eats his people.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 15
“Godless secularism still maintains an impressive facade. Like an ornate shell of a long dead creature of the deep blue sea, there is enough to keep quite a number of people from pointing out the obvious, to wit, that the shell is hollow.”
“Notice how nobody ever says that the majority opinions in pursuit of judicial activism are ‘living documents’ also. No, you have to interpret their words with sobriety and respect, no funny business, and why? Where respect for the plain meaning of words is demanded, you have identified the god of the system.”
“You don’t have to give up all your perspectives, opinions, and thoughts on child-rearing. You don’t have to assume that everyone who criticizes your parenting is right. They might not be; they might be as self-deceived as you have sometimes been. But you do have to budget for that possibility. You must surrender the point to God in principle. The key to being a sensible parent is to be a sensible person.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 14
“Being spiritual does not mean being ethereal or ghostly. Being spiritual means being obedient—and this includes the way you speak to your children, discipline your children, encourage your children, teach your children.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 12
“If man is god, as he is in secularism, then the ethics of that society will reflect the nature of man. But man changes all the time. He is unstable, like water.”
“If the parents are foolish, then so will the parenting be. If the parents are dictatorial, then so will the parenting be. If the parents are wise, then so will the parenting be.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 12
“We’ve gotten to the point where surgeons can operate on and chemically castrate children. We can have mastectomies for teen girls and genital mutilation for the boys. And why? Because if we don’t, we might hurt somebody’s feelings. We are simultaneously sentimental and cruel . . . There is no way to bridge this gap by negotiations, but discussion, by trying to be winsome. You can’t. You can’t apologize your way into a good relationship with people who are on the other side of this chasm.”
Keep Your Kids, pp. 8-9
“The fact that we clean up real nice on Sundays and go to church and sing songs and like to do religious things and like to talk theology doesn’t change the fundamental kink or twist in every human heart. That kink or twist can only be mortified by the Holy Spirit.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 7
“Adam’s sin includes us. We are sinners by nature, bad to the bone from the very first moment—bad to the bone before we have any bones.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 4
