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Encouraging Message Series for Young Believers
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JUNE 23
TO EDWARD LOFSTROM: A letter of great encouragement for someone who had been struggling with excessive self-awareness. 10 June 1962 You are of course perfectly right in defining your problem (which is also mine and everyone’s) as ‘excessive selfness’. But … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: APRIL 14
TO MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE: On the very comforting fact that Jesus was afraid. 2 April 1955 In great haste. I hope your next letter will bring me news that the operation has gone swimmingly. Fear is horrid, but there’s no … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: APRIL 10
TO MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE: On keeping to a regular pattern of religious life during the storms of life. 9 November 1955 I agree: the only thing one can usually change in one’s situation is oneself. And yet one can’t change … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MARCH 5
If you asked twenty good men today what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you had asked almost any of the great Christians of old, he would have replied, Love. You … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: FEBRUARY 19
TO FLORENCE (MICHAL) WILLIAMS, the widow of Charles Williams: A letter of condolence. 22 May 1945 Thank you for your most kind letter. We all knew that your marriage was one in a thousand. I think you will not be … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JANUARY 13
TO MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE: On how to rehearse for death and how to diminish fear. 17 June 1963 Pain is terrible, but surely you need not have fear as well? Can you not see death as the friend and deliverer? … Continue reading
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DAILY HOPE: DECEMBER 27
Celebrate Your Transformation “Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him. His name is the LORD” (Psalm 68:4 ESV). Do you want to get back to God? You first have to get fed up, … Continue reading
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