Sublime

the timeless principles of male headship and female subordination, at least among husbands and wives; it also reveals that appearance or demeanor during worship (or anywhere else, for that matter, but especially during worship) should in no way send the wrong cultural signals that one is unfaithful—either to God or to one’s spouse.

Thus a characteristic Arminian response to particular redemption (or “limited atonement”) is to say,

If we are the ultimate judges of what is right and wrong, and if we think we have a better, more updated understanding of what love is, then we are doing nothing more than replicating the sin of Eden and becoming our own moral authority—determining what is right and wrong. And God help us all.

antinomianism

In verses 22–24, Paul says, controversially, that wives should submit to their husbands. Immediately, however, he tells husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church and “gave himself up for her” (25), which is, if anything, a stronger appeal to abandon self-interest than was given to the woman.

The central elements in the Marrow Controversy remain some of the most important pastoral issues of today.

the only way to be productive is to realize we don’t actually have to be productive (our goal is to please God, not appease God), and how the gospel continues to give us peace of mind even when everything is blowing up around us.

careful we need to be with our use of category terms.

God has promised himself to you in Christ, and he will secure you to himself in Christ. To be hidden with Christ in God is to be as secure as Christ is.