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IN TOUCH DAILY: JANUARY 23

Posted on January 23, 2020 by glsociety-admin

Holding Fast to Our Convictions Hebrews 10:32-39 It’s easy to hold firm to our beliefs when we’re with like-minded people in church. But if we’re among people who doubt or disagree with Christianity, we need courage to stand up for … Continue reading →

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: DECEMBER 11

Posted on December 11, 2019 by glsociety-admin

In the earliest days of Christianity an ‘apostle’ was first and foremost a man who claimed to be an eyewitness of the Resurrection. Only a few days after the Crucifixion when two candidates were nominated for the vacancy created by … Continue reading →

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: DECEMBER 3

Posted on December 3, 2019 by glsociety-admin

Screwtape shows Wormwood how to transform a minor trespass into a major sin: Success here depends on confusing him. If you try to make him explicitly and professedly proud of being a Christian, you will probably fail; the Enemy’s warnings … Continue reading →

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 19

Posted on November 19, 2019 by glsociety-admin

The letter and spirit of scripture, and of all Christianity, forbid us to suppose that life in the New Creation will be a sexual life; and this reduces our imagination to the withering alternative either of bodies which are hardly … Continue reading →

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 5

Posted on November 5, 2019 by glsociety-admin

On feeling I think the thrill of the Pagan stories and of romance may be due to the fact that they are mere beginnings—the first, faint whisper of the wind from beyond the world—while Christianity is the thing itself: and … Continue reading →

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 11

Posted on October 11, 2019 by glsociety-admin

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 solitary religion. … Continue reading →

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 27

Posted on September 27, 2019 by glsociety-admin

TO MR. N. FRIDAMA, who seems to have asked Lewis about the steps in his conversion to Christianity: On the Calvinist doctrine of double predestination. 15 February 1946 I was baptised in the Church of Ireland (same as Anglican). My … Continue reading →

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 6

Posted on September 6, 2019 by glsociety-admin

There are three ways of taking the command to turn the other cheek. One is the Pacifist interpretation; it means what it says and imposes a duty of nonresistance on all men in all circumstances. Another is the minimising interpretation; … Continue reading →

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 3

Posted on September 3, 2019 by glsociety-admin

On death On the one hand Death is the triumph of Satan, the punishment of the Fall, and the last enemy. Christ shed tears at the grave of Lazarus and sweated blood in Gethsemane: the Life of Lives that was … Continue reading →

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: AUGUST 18

Posted on August 18, 2019 by glsociety-admin

If there is any thought at which a Christian trembles it is the thought of God’s ‘judgement’. The ‘Day’ of Judgement is ‘that day of wrath, that dreadful day’. We pray for God to deliver us ‘in the hour of … Continue reading →

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IN TOUCH DAILY: JANUARY 23

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: DECEMBER 11

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 19

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 5

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 11

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 27

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