“You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words: but most of your friends do not see it at all, and often wonder why, liking this, […]
“I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.” C.S. […]
Here are some of my favorite quotes about how precious and how wonderful the Church can and should be. I hope it stimulates some deeper thinking about your relationship to the Church and why you feel the way you do. Famous Church Quotes The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon […]
There seems to be a movement these days to separate spirituality from community. As if a personal, private encounter Christ is better than dealing with others at church. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were made to live in community, to practice the skills of forgiveness, grace and love and in the process […]
Church is born out of forgiveness, grace and love. Not just flowing from Jesus to you, but from you into others! The Church then is a conduit, an overlap of Heaven and Earth in which the prayer “Thy Kingdom come, on earth as it is in Heaven” is fulfilled, at least temporarily. Is this conduit […]
Origins of the Moral Law. An good review of the power of the moral Law to transcend science and philosophy. It’s a good CS Lewis summary. Related posts: A Year with C.S. Lewis Finding My True Country Gratitude is a Choice! Screwtape Letters: Spirituality in Action
Are Christians better people because they are Christian? When we become Christians do we become better than other people? It’s certainly the accusation most non-Christians level at the church community. We are perceived as arrogant, holier-than-thou people who shake their finger at the world with a condescending tone rather than washing feet and offering grace. […]
The Screwtape Letters were written by CS Lewis as a fictional (I hope) account of a Senior Demon teaching a Junior Demon (wormwood) in the ways of destroying the human spirit. In the passage the Patient (a human being) has had some thoughts of a spiritual kind including the ideas of repentence. What does this […]
Imagine looking at life from the other side, that is the side of evil. What would be the strongest attractions evil has and what would be its greatest weaknesses? Obviously if you were going to persuade people that evil was “better” [of course how could evil suggest that it was better than anything, doesn’t that […]
CS Lewis’ writings have never stopped engaging my mind, challenging my faith, and opening new doors of Christian life and thought. For me the adventure really all began with Mere Christianity. Lewis’ clarity and ability to ask questions he know we all have and then provide the answers is like talking to an old friend […]
We talk alot about church growth, about motivation of the frozen chosen, and living as faithful discipleship in the post-modern world. All good questions to be sure, but I have come to believe that the questions behind all other questions is “why are we here?” It seems simple enough really. Surely everyone knows why they are […]
“Suppose We really Found Him?” “There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?” – Miracles Lewis suggest that for the most part we’re just playing around […]