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IN TOUCH DAILY: JANUARY 17
Jesus Is Lord Romans 14:7-12 In the New Testament, Lord is a commonly used title for Jesus Christ. Although it is rare to hear this term used in our daily life, there’s a similar word with which we are all … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: DECEMBER 21
The golden apple of selfhood, thrown among the false gods, became an apple of discord because they scrambled for it. They did not know the first rule of the holy game, which is that every player must by all means … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: DECEMBER 19
The surprising thing was how small it looked. He thought he could account for this. The lack of atmosphere forbade nearly all the effect that distance has on Earth. The serrated boundary of the crater was, he knew, about twenty-five … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: DECEMBER 13
On silence [The demon Screwtape writes:] Music and silence—how I detest them both! How thankful we should be that ever since our Father entered Hell—though longer ago than humans, reckoning in light years, could express—no square inch of infernal space … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 25
Theologians have sometimes asked whether we shall ‘know one another’ in Heaven, and whether the particular love-relations worked out on earth would then continue to have any significance. It seems reasonable to reply: ‘It may depend on what kind of … Continue reading
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Tagged adult life, c s lewis, common interests, earth, eternal, eternal world, heaven, irrelevant, kindred soul, love, natural, nature, occupations, prep school, relations, significance, the four loves, theologians, total stranger
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 7
WORMWOOD Thou only art alternative to God, oh, dark And burning island among spirits, tenth hierarch, Wormwood, immortal Satan, Ahriman, alone Second to Him to whom no second else were known, Being essential fire, sprung of His fire, but bound … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 6
Screwtape advises Wormwood on using time to wear down a soul: The Enemy has guarded him from you through the first great wave of temptations. But, if only he can be kept alive, you have time itself for your ally. … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 11
I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his … Continue reading
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