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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 upon him. The source of this renewal was a good book the Patient read for his own enjoyment and a…

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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.
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The Screwtape Letters – 7 & 8

But is in the Dark Night of the Soul where transformation ultimately takes place. Think back to those dark places in your life when God appeared to be absent and see how you are now different on the other side.
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The Screwtape Letters – 5 & 6

Reflect on how war, suffering, or any other evil in human society can often be a means of turning people towards God. Also, reflect on how the modern world’s concealment of death and suffering can prevent us from turning fully towards God.
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The Screwtape Letters – 3 & 4

Another means of distracting the Patient from true prayer, Screwtape writes, is to have the Patient pray to something and not the Enemy.
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The Screwtape Letters – 1 & 2

In the letters, Screwtape shares with Wormwood his knowledge, experience, and skill derived from his many years of tempting humans to abandon “the Enemy” (i.e. God).
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Jonah and U.S. Foreign Policy

Is the foreign policy the result of our need to avenge American honor or American deaths, as Jonah advocates, or is the policy rooted in the mercy and loving-kindness of God?
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Jonah 3 – Repentance

It is the king of Nineveh and his subjects who fulfill the perfect fast of repentance as described in Isaiah 58:6.
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Jonah 2 – The Sign of Jonah

The sign of Jonah goes beyond simply the understanding that Jesus, like Jonah, will spend three days in the belly of Sheol. The Sign of Jonah is only complete when the fish vomits the incorruptible Jonah out.
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