As we end the Christmas season today, let’s reflect on the blessed privilege of being able to cast all our cares upon our Lord. This ninth chapter in the new book, How To Pray by C. S. Lewis, is comprised of 4 out of the 5 paragraphs from number 27 of The Screwtape Letters. It
How To Pray, ch 8: Danger of Drifting
Chapter 8 of How To Pray, pp. 74-79, is the second of four excerpts from The Screwtape Letters. This one is from Letter 12. The chapter follows up well from the last, which was about our wish to live truly in the presence of God, as he knows himself to be – not what we
How to Pray, ch. 7: Think and Pray
Chapter 7 of the new book, How to Pray from HarperOne, begins four chapters that are excerpts from C. S. Lewis’s famous book, The Screwtape Letters. Prayer is such an important part of the Christian life that it is obvious the devil would want to hinder it or spoil it. In the process of evaluating
A Word of Grace – November 5, 2018
Dear Friends, My colleague and brother in Christ, Chris, was taking a break in my office, sitting with me and reading social media on his phone, while I reviewed contracts. He described to me a post in which the blogger tells what he wants people to know about him as a member of our Christian
C. S. Lewis’s How To Pray, Ch. 6: Morbid Confession?
Each chapter in this new book by HarperOne, How To Pray (HTP), is entitled with a question, for which the excerpt from Lewis’s writing provides the answer. In this chapter, the question is, “Does Prayer Require Morbid Introspection of our Sins?” The answer comes from the last few paragraphs of Lewis’s essay, “Miserable Offenders,” which appears