“One of the most pernicious forms of Sabbath-breaking is this: ‘Once every seven days God expects us to get chintzy for Him'” (For a Glory and a Covering, p 130).
Getting Feet Under the Table
“This is all glorious, but let’s make it practical — let’s get our feet under the table. How does all this apply to marriage? Remember, first ‘male and female created he them,’ and then, in that particular context, God blessed, charged, and fed them. And in this biblical context, we need to realize that if …
Especially When There Are Cheesy Potatoes
“The family that eats together stays together” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 127).
A Word Fitly Spoken
“Words are not abstract entities with an ethereal life of their own in Dictionary Heaven . . . The glory of words is therefore revealed when they are enfleshed and particularized” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 122).
Like Coriander Seed
“That kind of anger is like manna. Even if it is good, it goes bad overnight if you try to keep it” (Evangellyfish, p. 224).
Illegal in Some States
“Husbands are prohibited from bluster, bossing about, selfish grasping, and all the rest of it, but the Bible nevertheless requires wives to obey their husbands. This obedience is to be cheerful, complete, reverent, all the way down, and across the board. Remember that in our passage St. Paul tells wives to be subject to their …
Hidden Likenesses
“The first thing she did was hand him the check, like Jacob driving his flocks toward Esau, not that either of them was thinking about this exactly” (Evangellyfish, p. 221).
Which Is Not a Technique
“The Christian pattern of self-improvement is to die and rise” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 117).
That Doesn’t Work
“‘What bothers me is that I will have to talk to him. Sometimes I think I have forgiven him, and other times the thought of talking to him without fighting just creeps me out. I don’t know how to talk to that man without being angry. I haven’t done it for years.’ John sat there …
Imitating the Inimitable
“This kind of love is efficacious. Obviously, husbands cannot reenact the substitutionary atonement for the sins of the world . . . But they are commanded to imitate it — and to imitate it with an eye on the results. In this, as with everything else, the results are God’s” (For a Glory and a …