C.S. Lewis has a wonderful insight on what to do when you discover you are on the wrong way: We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. […]
Yesterday was Palm Sunday, the triumphal entry of the Servant King, riding a donkey into the city of God. It marks the beginning of the most Holy Week of the Christian calendar. The events of the upcoming week will race by with growing intensity. Living Word is not a strongly liturgical church. In fact, we […]
I make no apologies for it. I am a RAVING fan of C.S. Lewis. He continues to delight me, surprise me, enlighten me, and move me. In Lewis, I find brilliant ideas, beautifully expressed. In Lewis, I find a faithful teacher of historical Christian faith, in fresh ways. On Sunday, I read several paragraphs from […]
This past Sunday, Pastor Aaron mentioned in the sermon the need for a genuine humility that acknowledges we are sinners in need of a gracious and holy God. One of the workbooks of spiritual exercises I created is called What’s Gone Wrong? It is an in depth look at what sin has done to us […]
Think of yourself, just as a seed patiently waiting in the earth; waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into the real world, the real waking. C.S. Lewis We are not yet finished. Nothing in the created order is yet finished. We are already in motion, but we are not […]
I am an avid reader. I think most of you who read this blog know that. And I enjoy good conversations with my many friends and colleagues who are avid readers as well. We will often refer to authors when we preach and teach. We know that these authors are not always so familiar to […]
“I don’t believe in God, but I miss him.” What a poignantly insightful and profoundly sad opening to a memoir by the atheist Julian Barnes (Nothing to Be Frightened Of). Here is another one, only from G.K. Chesterton: “He who does not believe in God, doesn’t believe in nothing, he believes in anything.” * Now […]
Joy is a hallmark of the Christian faith. You are made for joy. You are made to find joy in Christ. Rejoicing should be as automatic and natural as breathing. Here are three thoughts from C.S. Lewis about joy: “The whole of man is to drink joy from the fountain of joy.” (The Weight of […]
May I assume that you know God is smarter than you are?* And may I assume that you know God is a Whole Lot smarter than you are? How much smarter is God than you? Through the prophet Isaiah, we get a little glimmer of HOW MUCH smarter God is. Let’s just understate it and […]
In a devotional reading I had this past week, C.S. Lewis made this observation: “These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings all over the earth have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they […]