Ahh … good question. A question that is quite a bit above my theological pay grade to answer, and above most people’s pay grades to answer. That doesn’t mean people haven’t tried. From time to time you hear about someone who died and went to heaven and had a tour of heaven and then they […]
There are no ordinary people. You are not ordinary. You have never met, nor will you ever meet, an ordinary person. We have said this over and over at Living Word. We didn’t think it up, C.S. Lewis did. It is just one of dozens of brilliant and beautiful thoughts from Lewis that we pass […]
You know how much I love C.S. Lewis. I read and reread him all the time. Here is a thought from Lewis that spoke to me once again. I put it on an image to visually communicate the power of his words. This thought from Lewis reminds me of Hebrews 11:13-16. In that passage, the […]
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 […]