For the last few days I’ve been reading the Minor Prophets and I have also been reading JC Ryle’s book, Holiness, and studying the book of Daniel. When you think about the power, holiness, mercy, grace, and wrath of God it is amazing that we can think so lightly of God. I remember hearing about [...]
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On Saturday night I started reading CS Lewis to Kimberly Joy. We started reading The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and it has been great. We just read one chapter on Saturday, but on Sunday night I read the second chapter and asked, “Do you want to read one…” and before I could get [...]
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I’ve been reading through Randy Alcorn’s book Heaven with a group of men and this week we came across a quote from C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series. Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of [...]
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CS Lewis said, “Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find [...]
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Yesterday we talked about Jonathan Edwards quote and saw that we should enjoy God more than the things God gives us. I want to explore that a little more. In his sermon “Weight of Glory,” CS Lewis said, “Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised [...]
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