Amanda cook

“Indulgence cannot give you strength to face the challenges of life. Love can. Love rarely indulges. Instead, it requires you to make the difficult choices. The right ones. The ones that heal and restore.”
― Tessa Afshar, Daughter of Rome

“As Presbyterian pastor and American founder John Witherspoon said 250 years ago, “If superiority and authority be given to the man, it should be used with so much gentleness and love as to make it a state of as great equality as possible.”2”
― Kevin DeYoung, Men and Women in the Church: A Short, Biblical, Practical Introduction

“The Word is God’s revelation to us, profitable for rebuke, for correction, for training and instruction in righteousness, capable of making us complete, sufficient for any and all good works (2 Tim. 3:16 – 17).”
― J.D. Greear, Jesus, Continued...: Why the Spirit Inside You Is Better than Jesus Beside You

“The Christian approach to marriage is not so much “his needs, her needs” as “his opportunity to honor Christ, her opportunity to honor Christ.” The wife submits as to the Lord, and the husband loves as Christ to the church.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Men and Women in the Church: A Short, Biblical, Practical Introduction