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Encouraging Message Series for Young Believers
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Tag Archives: Christianity
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JUNE 13
Now Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. For moods will change, whatever view your reason … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MAY 8
On morality I think all Christians would agree with me if I said that though Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: APRIL 28
On hell There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than this, if it lay in my power. But it has the full support of Scripture and, specially, of Our Lord’s own words; it has always … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: APRIL 22
On God It is always shocking to meet life where we thought we were alone. “Look out!” we cry, “it’s alive.” And therefore this is the very point at which so many draw back—I would have done so myself if … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MARCH 8
On faith It is a profound mistake to imagine that Christianity ever intended to dissipate the bewilderment and even the terror, the sense of our own nothingness, which come upon us when we think about the nature of things. It … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: FEBRUARY 22
Screwtape reveals a powerful tool for distraction: What we want, if men become Christians at all, is to keep them in the state of mind I call ‘Christianity And’. You know—Christianity and the Crisis, Christianity and the New Psychology, Christianity … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: FEBRUARY 10
On Church No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as “what a man does with his solitude.” It was one of the Wesleys, I think, who said that the New Testament knows nothing of … Continue reading
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: FEBRUARY 8
All sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that ‘God is love’. But they seem not to notice that the words ‘God is love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons. Love is … Continue reading
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