THE RUMOR OF RESURRECTION At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh…
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THE DEVIL'S STRATEGY Tell the people that God is real. Tell them that they should have faith in Him. Tell them that the Gospel is true, that Jesus Christ died to save them from their…
MORE ON MATURITY Lewis speaks of the freedom of reaching maturity. "When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed it I had been found doing so. Now that…
FORGIVING THE SCARS OF YOUTH I have just read George Sayer's biography, Jack: C. S. Lewis and His Times (Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1988). It is the most illuminating and helpful of the Lewis…
A SAD HERITAGE In George Sayer's biography of C. S. Lewis he describes the impact of the life and death of Joseph Greeves, the father of one of Jack [C. S.] Lewis's best friends, Arthur…
WHEN THINGS DON'T SEEM TO WORK Jeremiah teaches that life isn't all beer and skittles. There are also the tough times when things don't flow as neatly as a seminar notebook would imply. Jeremiah crys…
JUDGE NOT, EVEN IN WORSHIP I plucked this piece from Dr. Paul Brand, veteran missionary surgeon: During my life as a missionary surgeon in India and now as a member of the tiny chapel on…
BEARING PAIN In the preface to The Problem of Pain, Lewis limits the scope of his book by writing: No one can say "He jests at scars who never felt a wound," for I have…
LOVE AND PAIN I might, indeed, have learned, even from the poets that Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness: that even the love between the sexes is, as in Dante, "a…
THE ONLY GOOD We are bidden to "put on Christ," to become like God. That is, whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think…
ANOTHER WORLD "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." C.S. Lewis
ON JOY Joy is never in our power and pleasure is. I doubt whether anyone who has tasted joy would ever, if both were in his power, exchange it for all the pleasure in the…
THE GREAT SIN Pride is one of the primary forms of wickedness. In his classic, Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis refers to pride as The Great Sin: "There is one vice of which no man…
LEWIS ON EXPOSURE OF OUR SHAME C. S. Lewis makes a very interesting comment on shame in The Problem of Pain, where he is admittedly speculating. In the chapter on Human Wickedness he is dealing…
IF WE MAKE HEAVEN OUR GOAL Scripture and tradition habitually put the joys of Heaven into the scale against the sufferings of earth, and no solution of the problem of pain which does not do…
THE RATIONALE OF GOD'S LOVE He loved us not because we were lovable, but because He is love. C. S. Lewis, "Membership"
CHOICE AND CONVERSION The following is from C. S. Lewis's autobiography Surprised by Joy: Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must…
C. S. LEWIS ON MORNING PRAYER The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in…
GIVE The only safe rule is to give more than one can spare. In other words, if our expenditures on comforts, luxuries and amusements, etc. are up to the standard common amount with those with…
I MEAN REPULSIVE Did you ever get hooked by an author's ability to describe a scene so graphically that it just grabs you and holds you by the throat? I find many of those kind…
