3 Things

1. At Colossians as Cornerstone 5 Douglas Wilson writes:

Just remember this. Husbands, you are the head of your wife, the way Jesus is the head of the church. But you cannot expect anybody to want to remember this if you are forgetting it yourself by refusing to wear your Jesus coat. You cannot reject Jesus as the new man you are refusing to put on, while demanding that everyone else treat you as though you actually had that coat on. That is self-defeating. But at the end of the process, remember that the biblical position is sacrificial patriarchy. The husband has true authority. He is truly a head. And like the head of Christ, he accepts the crown of thorns. What does it mean to be a Christian husband? It means that you die first. 

2. In Jesus Died So God Wouldn’t Be Angry With Us Anymore…and Other Misunderstandings about the Cross David Vreeland echoes N. T. Wright:

Regrettably the most popular misunderstanding is that Jesus died so we could go to heaven when we die. This kind of heaven-only eschatology leads us astray.

While it’s true that those who die in Christ are “away from the body and at home with the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:8), a disembodied heaven is not our final stop. As we fast forward to the end of our story, we discover God’s dwelling place, pictured as the new Jerusalem, is coming from heaven to earth (Revelation 21:2). The end isn’t heaven, but a renewed intermingling of heaven and earth where God dwells with God’s people on earth.

Jesus’ death takes away our sins and cleans us up from the effects of sin so we might be a spotless bride prepared for Jesus our groom.

In this way, it would be better to say that Jesus died so we could be citizens of God’s kingdom which is among us now and which will come.

[BTW, there is so much other good stuff in this article that snipping a single quote proves difficult. I highly recommend this one.]

3. And finally, there's this from Mr. Tolkien:

I did not want to be quibbled into Science and cheated out of Faërie by people who seemed to assume that by some kind of original sin I should prefer fairy-tales, but according to some kind of new religion I ought to be induced to like science. Nature is no doubt a life-study, or a study for eternity (for those so gifted); but there is a part of man which is not ‘Nature’, and which therefore is not obliged to study it, and is, in fact, wholly unsatisfied by it.

Found at: Tolkien and the Golden Age of Fantasy, over at Mere Orthodoxy.