Matthew’s Infancy Narrative – The Introduction
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David and son of Abraham.
The Screwtape Letters – 27 & 28
On the distractions and efficacy of prayer and the creeping worldliness of middle-age.
The Screwtape Letters – 25 & 26
The issue of a “Christianity AND . . . ” and the difference between Love and mere Unselfishness
The Screwtape Letters – 19 & 20
the line between attraction, affection, and the multiple uses of the word “love” is impossible to sort out. The goal of the demons is to take this situation and mold it and use it to draw us away from God. Instead of sexual attraction being the building block of a deeper more intimate relationship that comes to mirror God’s relationship with humanity, it simply becomes its own end.
The Screwtape Letters – 17 & 18
The Gluttony of Excess is easy to spot, the Gluttony of Delicacy is less easy to spot. We all want what we want, and we usually cannot see when we have crossed that line. Like most sins, this is much easier to see in others.
The Screwtape Letters – 15 & 16
This week, we are reading through and discussing letters 13-16 of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters. Letter 15 – The Present: In this letter, Screwtape instructs his nephew on the differences between the past, the present, the future, and the eternal. According to Screwtape, it is only in the Present where Eternity breaks through. Therefore, …
The Screwtape Letters – 13 & 14
This week, we are reading through and discussing letters 13-16 of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters. Letter 13 – Small Pleasures: In this letter, Screwtape berates Wormwood for allowing the Patient to experience a spiritual renewal or second conversion. As a result, an “asphyxiating cloud” has enveloped the Patient preventing any spiritual attacks to come …
The Screwtape Letters – 11 & 12
Nothingness is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man’s best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind.
The Screwtape Letters – 9 & 10
Think through the issues that are present in any company that you keep. It is human nature to want to be liked by others and therefore to adopt their outlook on fundamental matters.