“All his scruples were wound tight around his axle, and the more he gunned the engine, the more things were starting to smoke deep inside his head” (Evangellyfish, p. 80).
High Standards on a Low Setting
“He was a classic paper-clip counter, correct-department-code-numbers-for-the-copying-machine maintainer, and one who generally focused on pennies, policies, and those blank ‘spirit of the law’ spaces in between the lines of all written procedures — but only so long as ‘spirit of the law’ was interpreted and applies by a committee of first-century Talmudic scholars, all of …
Salt and Sugar
“Talking about how men and women differ from one another ought to be commonplace, but in our egalitarian age, to point out differences that use to be as obvious as the differences between salt and sugar is to be guilty (in some quarters) of a thought crime” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 39).
Where the Answers Hide
“John Mitchell began to feel like something hot and wet was crawling up his spine . . . John had learned years before that there are no coincidences in pastoral ministry . . . ‘What do you want?’ Cindi asked him, ‘I’ll get it for you.’ ‘I want,’ John said darkly, ‘answers.’ ‘You’re the pastor,’ …
The Glory of the Feminine
[Concerning 1 Cor. 11:1-16 and Is. 4:5] “The NKJV translates it this way: ‘For over all the glory there will be a covering.’ This is what Paul is referring to — a godly wife is to her husband what the Shekinah glory was to the tabernacle. Now this is how it all ties in with …
Especially Verse 15
“Pastor Winmore had been the pastor of Grace Reformed prior to John, the one who blew up one day in the middle of Romans 9 — an easy thing to do, admittedly” (Evangellyfish, p. 73).
The Lord’s Pattern
“In God’s pattern, in God’s glory, glory increases as it descends. In Christ, the one who has descended the furthest, all the glory of the Godhead is revealed” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 34).
Real Slippy
“He jumped down the hall and slid into the kitchen the way he always did when nobody was home. He wasn’t sure that the apostle Paul would do something like that, but there was no clear prohibition of it anywhere. And besides, his socks were slippy” (Evangellyfish, p. 71).
Marriage Between Man and Woman Defined
“The first is that you must have an explicit covenant surrounding a sexual relationship. Not everyone who is sexually united is married, and not everyone who has exchanged vows is married. The covenant exists when the two elements are there together: covenant vows surrounding a covenant union” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 33).
Fifty-Pound Heads
“He rocked back in his chair and stared thoughtfully at the picture of his family on the opposite wall, just above the sofa covered with multiple stacks of books, all of them written by men with fifty-pound heads” (Evangellyfish, p. 70).