Status Updates From The Storm-Tossed Family: Ho...

"Headship will not seem often to the outside world to be 'being the head of one's house' at all. Headship will look, in many cases, like weakness. So does the cross."

"In all of this, God's ultimate goal is not to make us 'real men' and 'real women' so much as it is to drive us away from the self and toward one another, toward the cross."

"Christ and the church are not here [Eph 5:32] presented as an illustration of men and women in marriage. To say this would be as absurd as if I, as a Baptist, were to argue with my friends who christen by sprinkling that Jesus was crucified, buried, and raised from the dead in order to teach us the proper mode of baptism."