“Johnny’s eyes were round, like a couple of trash can lids, only a different color” (Evangellyfish, p. 100).
Fullness and Headship
“Scripture teaches that headship involves ‘fullness’ . . . (Eph. 1:22-23). In Scripture, headship does not mean a stand-alone, autonomous authority. Headship is trinitarian, bestowing fullness from above and summoning fullness from below. The head fills the body, and the head is filled by the body” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 58).
Very Loosely Tied
“He could tell that Johnny was not really a highly trained logician, and would simply go as he was directed, as long as the suggested direction did not conflict with the tangled bundle of platitudes, loosely tied with string, that made up his worldview” (Evangellyfish, p. 100).
Either Way He Goes
“Obedience and disobedience on the part of a husband does not make him a head or not a head. He is a head regardless. But he can be an obedient head or disobedient head. He can be a head who tells the truth about Christ in his sacrificial love, or he can be a head …
Actual Experience
“The point of these stories had been pressed home to him by the kind of preachers who rolled up their shirtsleeves, threw their necktie over the right shoulder, and hopped around while they preached. Many Americans have complained of too many hellfire and damnation sermons in their past, but Bradford was one of the 112 …
True Gift
“The salvation that God is working into us is actually God Himself — God gives Himself in our salvation” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 56).
So to Speak
“And when the blind lead the blind, they both fall into a youth ministry” (Evangellyfish, p. 95).
Incoherent Heresy
“When we consider the three persons of the holy Trinity, we must not fall into the heretical mistake of thinking that, out of the three of them, Jesus is the humble one” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 55).
Improving the Blood Flow
“But somehow her giving him a back rub always turned into him giving her a front rub, and then they would fall again. That was actually how their relationship started, which is to say, through those darn back rubs. It was her senior year in high school, and she was in Johnny’s youth group, which …
Potency Either Way
“The flip side of this is that when this goes wrong, it goes really wrong. No one can make a home as pleasant as a godly woman can, and no one can make a home as unpleasant as an ungodly woman can” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 52).