Thursday is for Discipleship Last month I got to spend four hours with an old friend I hadn’t seen in 27 years. I had the privilege of leading him to faith in Christ some 34 years ago. What an incredible joy to see and hear of the difference the gospel has made in his life, … More Conversations that Last a Lifetime and Change Everything
A prayer for friends fighting for joy in the midst of heartache. When Darkness Seems to Hide His Face.
Sunday Musings “The children, the poets, and the philosophers were right. As there is one Face above all worlds merely to see which is irrevocable joy, so at the bottom of all worlds that face is waiting whose sight alone is the misery from which none who beholds it can recover.” —-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra, (MacMillian … More Beatific and Other Visions
Musing and Quotes from My Weekend Reading On How Sin Warps Our Emotions “Bent creatures are full of fears.” –C.S. Lewis (Out of the Silent Planet, 122) On the Need for both Discontentment and Contentment in the Christian Life “The biblical summons of Christian disciples to a lifestyle of contentment in Christ does not mean … More On How Sin Warps Our Emotions and Other Issues.
Randy Alcorn had a great quote on his blog yesterday from C.S. Lewis on the vulnerability of love. I’ve got nothing to add except that I want to encourage you to not think of its application with regard to romance but in relationship with your neighbors and those to whom God is calling you to … More Loving Your Neighbor is Impossible without a Willingness to Risk
Wednesday is for Prayer I hate it that I wrote this post more than three years ago (now 14 years ago) and that it continues to be relevant for too many people today. I love it that the gospel is still a powerful balm to the soul of the distressed, betrayed, and hurting. In light … More When Darkness Seems to Hide His Face: Hope for Oklahoma
Just spent some time in Borders while I was exiled from my house because of a potential buyer looking it over. I was accompanied by my daughter and my old copy of C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce, which has nothing to do with divorce but instead considers an imaginary bus ride from the edges of … More Longing for Holiness
Three books: The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis The Prodigal God by Tim Keller The Prodigal Sister by John Piper A past classic, a current classic and one that compliments it. “…if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.” (Lewis, 6) Piper moved … More Rereading Some Classics over the Weekend
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