The Revd. Richard Baxter (1615-1691) The source of C. S. Lewis’ phrase “mere Christianity,” according to Walter Hooper: “You know not of what Party I am of, nor what to call me; I am sorrier for you in this than for my self; if you know not, I will tell you, I am a CHRISTIAN,
A Word of Grace – February 26, 2019
Dear Friends, Thanks for all the good comments on last week’s message about healing from childhood abuse. It took me three weeks to write it in the right spirit and to build the courage to send it out. My thoughts resonated in the soul and experience of many of you and I appreciate the responses
A Word of Grace – February 21, 2019
Dear Friends, It is a marvelous thing to read of Jesus setting free men and women who are despised and rejected, shackled by shame, and crippled by the behavioral habits learned in their struggle to survive. We rejoice in his love and mercy that turns their darkness of soul to lightness of spirit. Early in
How To Pray, ch. 11: The Art of Prayer
In ch. 11 of How To Pray, we move from letters written by a devil to Lewis’ kind and personal letters to “an American lady.” The Editor, Zack Kincaid, pieces together selections from Letters to an American Lady, and arranges them in a manner that works well. By this time in Lewis’s life – he was
How To Pray, ch. 10 – Watch your state of mind…
“Consider the lilies of the field….” We have now come to the fourth and final excerpt from the Screwtape Letters in the new HarperOne book, How To Pray, this being from Letter 6. We could say that these three paragraphs are about “states of mind” (p. 86). There are primarily two involved. First, we should