Monthly Archives: June 2017
Pitch Your Demands Heaven-High
C.S. Lewis prayed often. He says in one letter, “I have two lists of names in my prayers, those for whose conversion I pray, and those for whose conversion I give thanks. The little trickle of transferences from List A to List B is a great comfort.” It’s comforting to …
August 30, 2017 11:21 am Leave your thoughts
All My Road Before Me ebook- $1.99 through 9/4 (U.S. only)
While serving his country in the Great War, C. S. Lewis’ the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, and Christian apologist—made a pact with a close friend and fellow soldier. If one of them died, the survivor would take care of his family—a promise Lewis honored. Developing a deep …
August 25, 2017 12:09 am Leave your thoughts
Communication Problems
What do you think is the communication problem between the Christian and the wider world? Lewis has a couple of points to make about it in an essay titled “Before We Can Communicate”. So, before you answer, let’s look at what he wrote and see if you agree.
August 19, 2017 3:56 am
It’s Not About the Status Quo
If we think God came down from Heaven to restore the status quo, we are mistaken. The whole miracle of the incarnation and subsequent death and bodily resurrection of Jesus doesn’t simply reboot the story to before Adam and Eve scared it in their sin.
July 30, 2017 6:22 pm Leave your thoughts
The World’s Last Night ebook- $1.99 through 7/31
In seven satirical yet poignant essays, C. S. Lewis tackles the temptations of evil. Challenging readers to decide how they would live on the world’s last night, he writes, “We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. …
July 26, 2017 12:46 am Leave your thoughts
God is Pleased but Hard to Satisfy
There are moments in Scripture where the closer an individual is to God, the closer he or she is to the dangerous divide between creature and creator. Jesus’ command to be perfect, as Lewis points out, is a reflection of that danger. “I think [Jesus] meant,” he says, “‘The only help …
July 16, 2017 3:00 am Leave your thoughts
This World is Not My Home
In relation to our want of heaven and abandoning the earthly rewards that we once ran after, Lewis writes that it probably will not happen in a day. Rather, he says, “poetry replaces grammar, gospel replaces law, longing transforms obedience, as gradually as the tide lifts a grounded ship.”
June 28, 2017 1:33 pm
From Atheism to Paganism to God
In Surprised by Joy, Lewis recalls his early childhood experiences with Christianity. He remembers the candles and incense, hymns and vestments. None of it offered an invitation. Instead, “What really mattered,” he says, “was that I heard the doctrines of Christianity… taught by men who obviously believed them.”
June 22, 2017 3:48 pm Leave your thoughts
Regarding Church
Over the next few articles, I hope to draw out several observations that Lewis gives to us about church. There are several occasions where he mentions church life generally, but they aren’t frequent, so we should be able to maintain his observations more easily than if we were addressing his thoughts on …
May 31, 2017 10:29 am Leave your thoughts
Why Do We Pray?
Miracles puts forward many questions about the life of faith. Among them is the subject of prayer. Why do we pray? Do we pray because God is likely to change his will? Do we pray because if we don’t, we think that God won’t have the opportunity to change his will? …
May 14, 2017 4:08 am Leave your thoughts